#fifteen taylor’s version
“Writing a song like Fifteen at age 18, I felt like I had a lot of insight, and like i could look back with nostalgia and wistfulness at being 15, because you know, you do learn so much from the age of 15 to 18. But I do remember at the time, there were some critics who were like, ‘Really? How much life have you really lived from 15 to 17 or 18 or whatever?’ And I get that now, because at 31, when I’m going back and singing Fifteen, it really hit me incredibly hard actually, so like a song like that, or also The Best Day, oh my god, it was so hard not to just be bawling. Like I had to stop so many times in the end of that song, just because, I don’t know, my emotions have overtaken me. I’m 31 years old, and I’m soft.”
— Taylor to country radio host Katie McNeal on which songs made her feel the most nostalgic to re-record (x)
