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Fearless (Taylor Swift album)

November 12, 2023

For the 2021 re-recording, see Fearless (Taylor's Version).

Fearless is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Under Big Machine Records imprint, it was released in the U.S. and Canada on November 11, 2008, and elsewhere on March 9, 2009. Written predominantly by Swift while she was promoting her 2006 self-titled debut album in 2007–2008, Fearless features additional songwriting credits from Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. Swift wrote seven of the standard edition's 13 tracks by herself and, in her debut as a record producer, co-produced the album with Nathan Chapman.

Fearless
Standard North American cover
Studio album by
Taylor Swift
ReleasedNovember 11, 2008 (2008-11-11)
Recorded2008
Studio
  • Blackbird
  • Fool on the Hill
  • Quad
  • Sound Cottage
  • Sound Emporium
  • Starstruck (Nashville)
  • Sound Kitchen (Franklin)
GenreCountry pop
Length53:41
Label
Producer
Taylor Swift chronology
Beautiful Eyes
(2008) 		Fearless
(2008) 		Speak Now
(2010)
International edition cover
Singles from Fearless
  1. "Love Story"
    Released: September 15, 2008
  2. "White Horse"
    Released: December 8, 2008
  3. "You Belong with Me"
    Released: April 20, 2009
  4. "Fifteen"
    Released: August 31, 2009
  5. "Fearless"
    Released: January 4, 2010

Fearless is a country pop album whose composition incorporates country-associated instruments such as banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and acoustic guitars, that intertwine with dynamic electric guitars and strings. Music critics found the album to feature a crossover appeal brought by the influences of different styles of pop, folk, and rock. Inspired by Swift's teenage feelings, the lyrics explore themes of romance, heartache, and aspirations. The album's title refers to the overarching theme of all of its tracks, as they altogether depict Swift's courage to embrace the challenges of love.

After the release of Fearless, Swift embarked on the Fearless Tour, which ran from April 2009 to July 2010. The album was supported by five singles, including "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", which performed well and set records on both country and pop radio. In the U.S., Fearless spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It peaked in the top five of albums charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.K., and has sold 12 million copies worldwide.

Music critics lauded Swift's songwriting for offering radio-friendly tunes and an emotional engagement that appealed to not only teenagers but also a broad audience, although some deemed the production formulaic. The most-awarded country album of all time, Fearless won Album of the Year at both the Country Music Association Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009, and it won Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the Grammy Awards in 2010. The album featured on Rolling Stone's 2022 list of the 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time. Following the 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she released a re-recording, Fearless (Taylor's Version), on April 9, 2021.

Background edit

Taylor Swift signed a publishing contract with Sony/ATV Tree Publishing in 2004 to become a songwriter;[1] at 14 years old, she became the youngest Sony/ATV signee in its history.[2] After signing a recording contract with Nashville-based Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country music singer, Swift wrote songs with other Music Row songwriters and recorded her eponymous debut album with producer Nathan Chapman for four months near the end of 2005.[3][4] Released on October 24, 2006, it was the longest-charting album on the U.S. Billboard 200 of the 2000s decade, and established Swift as one of country music's rising stars.[5][6] Its third single, "Our Song", made Swift the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.[7] Her success was rare for a female teenage artist, as country music had been dominated by mostly middle-aged male musicians.[8][9]

To promote Taylor Swift, Swift toured as the opening act for other country musicians, including Rascal Flatts and George Strait, during 2007–2008. While on tour, she continued writing songs for her follow-up album mostly by herself on the road, "at the concert venue ... a quiet place in some room at the venue, like the locker room".[10][11] In addition to self-penned material, Swift had songwriting sessions with Liz Rose, with whom she had largely collaborated on her first album.[12] She also wrote with musician John Rich and singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat.[13]

Writing and production edit

Swift first came up with the direction for her second studio album after writing "Fearless", a song about an imaginary "best first date", while touring with Brad Paisley in mid-2007.[14] Swift's songwriting was influenced by Paisley and Sheryl Crow's approach to expressing emotions.[note 1] Continuing on the romantic themes of her first album, Swift chose to write songs about her personal feelings and observations of the world around her from the perspectives of a teenage girl, instead of the luxurious lifestyle brought by her newfound fame,[15][16] to ensure her fans could relate to her songs: "I really try to write more about what I feel and guys and love because that's what fascinates me more than anything else – love and what it does to us and how we treat people and how they treat us. So pretty much every song on the album has a face that I associate with it."[17]

Swift usually started writing by identifying a core emotion she wanted to convey through the melody on guitar. For other songs, she sometimes came up with the title first before writing the hook.[14] While some songs were inspired by Swift's personal relationships, she said that most songs were dramatized observations rather than real-life experiences: "I've gone through breakups and the core emotions behind them, but it doesn't take much to get that sort of emotion out in a song, luckily for me."[18] She explained that certain emotions on her songs such as frustration or heartbreak came easily without her actually going through emotional turmoil.[11] By July 2007, Swift had written as many as 75 songs.[14] She recorded the album within a few months after touring with George Strait.[19] Chapman, who produced Swift's debut, returned as producer,[20] and recording took place at studios in Tennessee, including six in Nashville and one in Franklin.[21]

 
Swift wrote and recorded the song "Breathe" with Colbie Caillat (pictured in 2011).

During the recording sessions, Swift emphasized the authenticity of the songs' emotional sentiments over technical rigidity: "I think it's the writer in me that's a little more obsessed with the meaning of the song than the vocal technique."[22] By March 2008, Swift had recorded six songs, including one co-written by and featuring Caillat, "Breathe";[11][23] Swift had used Caillat's 2007 song "Bubbly" as a reference point during the recording sessions, because of its simple arrangements and honest sentiments.[20] Apart from newly penned songs, Swift recorded a few that she had written for her debut album, believing there were stories that deserved to be put out.[11] Swift made her debut as a record producer, co-producing all tracks with Chapman.[24] The standard edition consists of 13 tracks, which Swift had planned because she considered 13 her lucky number.[14][25] Of the 13 tracks, Swift wrote seven by herself; the remaining were co-written with Caillat, Rose, Rich, and Hillary Lindsey.[21] Recording took place within eight months[26] and finished in October 2008, when Swift completed the track "Forever & Always" just before Fearless was mastered and published.[22][27]

Composition edit

Lyrics edit

Like Swift's debut album, Fearless's prominent themes are love and life from a high school teenage girl's perspective.[15][28] The songs in Fearless examine those themes with a more nuanced and mature observation.[29] Swift embraced country music's narrative songwriting to convey her coming of age.[30][31] She wrote the track "Fifteen" during her freshman high school year in Hendersonville, Tennessee.[32] In the narrative, Swift and another girl named Abigail—her real-life high school friend—go through teenage love and heartbreak together.[29][33] As the song concludes, Swift realizes she could accomplish more than dating high school senior boys.[34] Music critics highlighted "Fifteen" as an example of Swift's songwriting about teenage themes, both with a starry-eyed innocence and a sense of nostalgia.[35][36][37]

 
Swift wrote the lyrics to "Love Story" inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (pictured is a painting depicting a scene from the play).

Many of Fearless's songs are about starry-eyed romance and use imagery associated with fairy tales, such as princes, princesses, white horses, and kissing in the rain.[15][38] The title track "Fearless" is Swift's imagination of a perfect first date, on which she is caught in her "best dress" in the rain.[39][40] Inspired by a love interest unpopular to Swift's family and friends, "Love Story" is based on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.[32][41] In the lyrics, Swift replaced the original story's conclusion with a marriage proposal, an ending she believed the two characters deserved.[42] The optimistic "Love Story" is contradicted by "White Horse", which was inspired by the same love interest.[43][44] In "White Horse", Swift is disillusioned that the love interest is not her ideal Prince Charming who could treat her like a princess after his unfaithfulness.[45] "Hey Stephen" is about Swift's hidden feelings for Stephen Barker Liles of Love and Theft, a country-music band that had opened shows for her.[46] Heartbreak and emotional tumult are explored in songs such as "Tell Me Why", about an on-and-off relationship with an informal love interest; "You're Not Sorry", with lyrics describing an unfaithful man; and "Forever & Always", inspired by Swift's breakup with singer Joe Jonas.[47][48]

Other songs were inspired by romantic relationships of Swift's friends.[43] Swift wrote "You Belong with Me" after overhearing one of her band members speaking to his unsympathetic girlfriend over the phone.[49] Out of sympathy, she wrote a story in which the protagonist harbors feelings for an out-of-reach love interest.[50] The lyrics feature high school iconography, describing the protagonist as an ordinary girl "on the bleachers", and the antagonistic girlfriend as a popular cheer captain.[51][52] In "The Way I Loved You", Swift sings about her passionate feelings for a complicated ex-lover, despite her current relationship with a decent boyfriend.[53][54] Apart from romance, Fearless explores friendship, family love, and life lessons from Swift's underdog perspective.[52][55] "Breathe" is about a fallout with a close friend.[55] She dedicated "The Best Day" to her mother after they went shopping together because Swift was turned down by her schoolmates.[56][57] The lyrics of "Change"—the closing track of the standard edition—detail Swift's determination to succeed despite her underdog status as a singer from a small, independent record label in Nashville.[58] She finished writing "Change" the night she won the Horizon Award at the 2007 Country Music Association Awards.[57]

Music edit

A country pop album, Fearless follows the country styling of Swift's debut album.[16] The tracks are characterized by instruments associated with country music such as fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and acoustic guitar, intertwined with dynamic electric guitar and strings in the build-up.[note 2] The production is consistent throughout: each song follows a recurring verse-chorus-bridge structure and has a dramatic bridge, a stripped-down final verse, and a dramatic final refrain.[59][61][62]

Music critics debated the album's genre.[30] Many considered Fearless more pop than country and cited the pop-friendly musical arrangements[note 3] with wide-ranging elements from teen pop and pop rock to soft rock and folk.[note 4] According to Hazel Cills of Pitchfork, the only country-music elements on Fearless are Swift's "faux-country accent" and "a few bits" of banjo and fiddle scattered throughout the songs.[52] In the British newspaper Guardian, critic Alexis Petridis said the country-music identifiers are limited to the lyrical references to God and "one-horse towns", and the production is rooted in "orthodontically perfect pop-rock" with Swift's melodies evoking "the pitiless efficiency of a Scandinavian pop factory".[37] Swift, in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer, responded to the critical debate: "[Whether] you tell stories about how you live on a farm and cherish your family and God, or whether you tell stories about being in high school and being cheated on, they're stories about your life. That's what makes me a country artist."[30] In retrospective reviews, Lindsay Zoladz from The New York Times and Chris DeVille from Stereogum viewed Fearless a record steeped in country music.[64][65]

 
"The Way I Loved You"
Music scholar James E. Perone commented the distorted electric guitars in "The Way I Loved You" were inspired by grunge, one of the many styles Fearless explores in addition to country pop.
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Many of the songs contain radio-friendly pop hooks, demonstrated through tracks such as "Fearless", "Fifteen", "Love Story", "You Belong with Me", "Tell Me Why", "The Way I Loved You", and "Change".[61][66] Music scholar James E. Perone commented that the songs contain hints of country, pop, folk, and alternative rock with their instrumental mix.[28] On "You Belong with Me", in addition to a banjo-led country pop production, the instrumental incorporates new wave-inspired electric guitar;[62] Perone noted elements of 1980s new wave rock through the track's repeated eighth notes joined by fiddle, mandolin, and guitar.[67] "Tell Me Why" opens with country fiddles and, in the mix, incorporates 1990s alternative rock and hip hop-inspired syncopated drum beats and rock-inspired guitars.[67] The dynamic "The Way I Loved You" features distorted electric guitars with textual shifts that recall 1990s grunge.[67] Other tracks with a more balladic production also feature pop hooks, such as "White Horse" and "You're Not Sorry".[44][66] The standard edition's closing track, "The Best Day", features a stripped-down country rock production with guitar strums.[59][54][68]

Release and promotion edit

Packaging edit

Swift named the album Fearless inspired by the title track: "[Being] fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."[69] All the songs on the album reflected her "fearless" attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life.[57][70] Swift was the booklet designer; Joseph Anthony Barker, Ash Newell, and Sheryl Nields were responsible for the photography; and Leen Ann Ramey designed the cover artwork.[21] The 13-track standard edition was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records.[71] An international edition, featuring three additional tracks—"Our Song", "Teardrops on My Guitar", and "Should've Said No"—was released on March 9, 2009, by Big Machine in partnership with Universal Music Group.[72]

Swift announced a reissue of Fearless, subtitled Platinum Edition, on September 10, 2009.[73] The reissue was released on October 26, 2009.[74] The Platinum Edition package includes a CD and a DVD; the CD features six additional songs—"Jump Then Fall", "Untouchable", "Forever & Always" (Piano Version), "Come in with the Rain", "SuperStar", and "The Other Side of the Door"—placed prior to the original tracks. The DVD comprises the music videos for "Change", "The Best Day", "Love Story", "White Horse", and "You Belong with Me"; behind-the-scenes footage for the latter three; behind-the-scene footage from the first concert of the Fearless Tour; and "Thug Story"—a video Swift filmed with rapper T-Pain exclusively for the 2009 CMT Music Awards.[73] "Untouchable" is a cover of rock band Luna Halo's 2007 song that had its lyrics and arrangement rewritten by Swift.[75]

Marketing edit

 
Swift rehearsing "You Belong with Me" for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards; her acceptance speech for Best Female Video was interrupted by rapper Kanye West, which prompted widespread media coverage.[76]

On June 8, 2008, Swift performed songs from Fearless on Clear Channel's Stripped; the performance was recorded and included in the Platinum Edition reissue.[21] Prior to the album's commercial release, "Change" was made available via the iTunes Store on August 8 as a promotional single.[77] It was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, a compilation of songs played during the United States' participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics.[78] A digital campaign launched through the iTunes Store, called "Countdown to Fearless", featured one song released each week during the five weeks leading to the album's release.[79] "Breathe" was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21, 2008.[80]

Swift made many television appearances to promote Fearless throughout late 2008, performing on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show,[81] Good Morning America,[71] and Late Night with David Letterman.[82] A special CMT Crossroads episode featuring Swift and rock band Def Leppard singing each other's songs was recorded on October 6 at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville,[83] and aired on CMT on November 7, 2008.[84] Her performances at awards shows that year included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards.[82]

Besides live appearances, Swift used her MySpace account to promote to a young audience, sharing snippets of songs for streaming before they were released to radio, as she had done with her debut album.[9][85] She continued to appear on televised events through 2009, hosting Saturday Night Live,[86] and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards,[87] the CMT Music Awards,[88] and the Country Music Association Awards.[89] At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, rapper-producer Kanye West interrupted Swift's acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video with "You Belong with Me"—an incident known as "Kanyegate", which prompted many internet memes and media coverage.[76][90][91]

Five songs were released as singles from Fearless. The lead single, "Love Story", was released on September 15, 2008.[92] It peaked atop the Hot Country Songs, and was the first country song to reach number one on the Mainstream Top 40, a Billboard chart monitoring pop radio in the U.S.[93] The single peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100,[94] and at number two on the UK Singles Chart,[95] and was Swift's first number-one single in Australia.[96] The four remaining singles were "White Horse" (December 8, 2008),[97] "You Belong with Me" (April 20, 2009),[98] "Fifteen" (August 31, 2009),[99] and "Fearless" (January 4, 2010).[100] All four peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "You Belong with Me" peaking at number two as the highest-charting Fearless single,[94] and within the top ten of the Hot Country Songs, with "You Belong with Me" reaching number one.[note 5] "You Belong with Me", similar to "Love Story", was a crossover success.[20][102] The song was the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart, driven mostly by non-country airplay.[103][104]

Touring edit

Main article: Fearless Tour
 
Swift performing on the Fearless Tour (pictured in 2010)

Swift announced the Fearless Tour, her first headlining tour, in January 2009. The tour started in Evansville, Indiana on April 23, and visited the U.S. and Canada over six months. Prior to the Fearless Tour, Swift headlined three U.S. music festivals: the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in February 2009, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Florida Strawberry Festival in March.[105] In October, when the first North American leg finished, Swift announced a second North American leg beginning on March 4, 2010, in Tampa, Florida.[106] Outside North America, the Fearless Tour visited Australia and Japan in February 2010.[107] The tour was met with high demand, selling out tickets within minutes.[108] Swift wrapped up the Fearless Tour at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on June 5, 2010.[109] The tour grossed over $63 million and played to over 1.1 million fans.[110]

Commercial performance edit

A commercial success in the U.S., Fearless set many chart records and catapulted Swift to mainstream prominence.[111] It spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, the longest run of the 2000s decade.[93][112] It holds the records for the most weeks at number one for a female country album[113] and the album with the most top-40 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 (13 including tracks from the Platinum Edition).[114][note 6] Five tracks peaked within the top 10: "Fearless", "Love Story", "You Belong with Me", "Change", and "Jump Then Fall"; Fearless was the first album since Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. (1984) to have five top-10 songs with none reaching number one.[115] On the Top Country Albums chart, Fearless spent 35 weeks at number one.[116] It became the female album with the second-longest weeks at number one on Top Country Albums, behind Shania Twain's Come On Over (1997, 50 weeks).[117]

With 3.217 million copies sold in the U.S. throughout 2009, Fearless was the year's best-selling album in the country. The achievement made Swift, then 20 years old, the youngest artist and the only female country musician to have a best-selling album of a calendar year.[118] It was the only album from the 2000s decade to spend its first full year in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and spent a total of 58 weeks in the top 10—a record for a country musician.[119][120] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Fearless Diamond in December 2017 in recognition of 10 million album-equivalent units based on sales and stream.[121] All singles were certified platinum or multi-platinum; the tracks "You're Not Sorry" and "Forever & Always" were certified platinum; and "Hey Stephen", "Breathe", "The Way I Loved You", "The Best Day", "Change", and "Jump Then Fall" were certified gold.[122] By October 2020, the album had sold 7.21 million copies in the U.S.[123]

Fearless's commercial success extended beyond the U.S. and marked Swift's international breakthrough.[124] In the wider English-speaking world, Fearless peaked atop the charts of Canada and New Zealand[125][126] and within the top five of Australia (number two),[127] Scotland (number four),[128] and the U.K. (number five).[129][130] It received multi-platinum certifications in Ireland and the U.K. (double platinum),[131][132] New Zealand (triple platinum),[133] Canada (four-times platinum),[134] and Australia (seven-times platinum).[135] The album reached the top 10 on charts in Japan,[136] and top 20 in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Greece, and Sweden.[137][138][139] It was awarded sales certifications across European and Asian markets, including gold certifications in Japan,[140] Germany,[141] Austria,[142] and Norway;[143] a platinum certification in Denmark;[144] a double-platinum certification in Singapore,[145] and a nine-times-platinum certification in the Philippines.[146] As of April 2021, the album had sold 12 million copies worldwide.[147]

Critical reception edit

Contemporaneous professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[148]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[note 7]     [150]
Blender     [39]
Entertainment WeeklyB[50]
The Guardian     [37]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide)A−[151]
The Observer     [152]
Q     [153]
Rolling Stone     [61]
Slant Magazine     [66]
USA Today    [154]

Fearless received generally positive reviews from music critics in the press.[70] On Metacritic, which assigns an aggregated score out of 100 to reviews in mainstream publications, the album earned a score of 73, based on 14 reviews.[148]

Many critics lauded Swift's songwriting craftsmanship.[15] Reviews published in The Boston Globe,[59] Blender,[39] Entertainment Weekly,[50] The Village Voice,[34] and USA Today remarked that Fearless was an honest and vulnerable record contrasting with albums by other teenage singers, thanks to Swift's self-penned songs.[154] Other reviews from AllMusic,[35] Billboard,[36] and The Observer deemed the lyrics mature for her age.[152] In MSN Music, Robert Christgau found the album's romantic idealism distasteful, but he lauded Swift's songwriting skills as remarkable for a teenage artist.[151] Jonathan Keefe from Slant Magazine agreed the songs were well-written but felt they fell short of refinement.[66]

Some critics praised Fearless's crossover appeal. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine and The Boston Globe's James Reed remarked that the album straddles the perceived boundary between country and pop; the former called it "one of the best mainstream pop albums of 2008".[35][59] In Rolling Stone, Jody Rosen hailed Swift as a "songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for the verse-chorus-bridge architecture".[61] Christgau commented that the songs are effective partly because of "the musical restraint of a strain of Nashville bigpop that avoids muscle-flexing rockism".[151]

Other reviewers were divided over the production. Chris Richards of The Washington Post commended the radio-friendly tunes, but he commented that the album is repetitive overall.[62] Although Richards praised Swift's vocals for what he deemed a "chirpy cadence" that made her assign "fresh notes to almost every syllable",[62] Keefe deemed her voice weak and strained, which blemishes the album with occasional breath controls and nasal tones.[66] Petridis found the praise in the American press surprising: though he agreed Swift's songwriting was remarkable, he found the music "bland and uninventive", which occasionally left the audience "wondering if the world really needs any more music like this".[37] The British magazine Q wrote: "Her giggly peers will find she speaks their language, while grown-ups will prefer her to keep quiet."[153]

Accolades edit

Fearless featured on 2008 year-end lists by the Associated Press (7th),[155] Blender (32nd),[156] Rolling Stone (39th),[157] and The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop (58th);[158] and 2009 year-end list by The Guardian (40th).[159] Jon Caramanica in The New York Times placed the album at number four on his list of 2008's best albums and called Swift "one of pop's finest songwriters".[160] The most awarded country-music album in history, Fearless won Album of the Year at both the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards and the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards in 2009.[161][162][163] It was awarded as the Top Selling Album by the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) twice in a row, in 2009 and 2010.[164] At the American Music Awards of 2009, Fearless won Favorite Country Album and was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Album.[165][166] Its other accolades included a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Album,[167] a Sirus XM Indie Award for International Album of the Year,[168] and a Juno Award nomination for International Album of the Year.[169]

At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2010, Fearless won Album of the Year and Best Country Album.[170] The Album of the Year made Swift, then 20 years old, the youngest artist to win the award, a record she held until the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020, when Billie Eilish won Album of the Year at 18.[171] Swift is the second country-music artist to win the three highest awards for a country-music album by the ACM, the CMA, and the Grammys—after the Chicks with their 1999 album, Fly—and the first to further win the Grammy for Album of the Year for the same album.[172] "White Horse" won two Grammy Awards that year: Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.[173]

Legacy edit

See also: Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Fearless ... has endured – not so much for the banjos and mandolins Swift geared to country radio, but for its teen-pop tension between happy-ending romances and bitter reflections on youthful naïveté, neatly chiseled into Swift's terse lyrics.

–Jon Pareles, The New York Times (2021)[64]

According to Billboard, as of 2022, Fearless is one of the 15 best-performing 21st-century albums without any number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.[174] The album's critical and commercial successes established Swift as a mainstream star beyond the country-music scene.[175] Though Swift identified as a country-music artist, some critics considered Swift more of a pop artist after the crossover success of "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me"; she officially abandoned country with the release of her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014).[176][177] Perone remarked that Fearless moved Swift's status from a "singer-songwriter prodigy to singer-songwriter superstar".[178] In addition to Swift's musicianship, Perone attributed the album's commercial success to her marketing strategy: with enhanced bonus material for the CD instead of download, Fearless became "indicative of a 21st century marketing trend in CD recordings".[70] Swift's rising fame prompted media scrutiny on her public image and personal life. Despite her popularity with music critics and a teenage audience, some media took issue with Fearless's romantic themes as anti-feminist and supposedly harmful.[179]

Over time, Swift's songwriting on Fearless cemented her trademark confessional narratives.[note 8] Writing for Slate, critic Carl Wilson dubbed this technique "Swiftian".[183] In a 2019 retrospective review of the album for Pitchfork, Cills commented that Fearless was a testament to Swift's abilities of writing timeless songs, noting the album's simplicity and earnestness. Cills remarked that amidst sexualized teen idols, "there was something novel about Swift being a teenager and writing about her reality in her own terms coming into that same mainstream space, redefining what 'teen pop' could sound like in the process".[52] Other retrospective reviews attributed the album's enduring popularity to songs about universal feelings—heartbreak, frustration, first love, and aspirations.[note 9] It placed number 99 on NPR's 2017 list of the "150 Greatest Albums Made by Women"[187] and number 10 on Rolling Stone's 2022 list of the "100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time".[188] According to Billboard contributor Andrew Unterberger, the album "brought country into the bedrooms of teen girls who might've rocked out to Avril Lavigne and Michelle Branch earlier in the decade" upon release. He also believed that it winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year showed the Recording Academy saw her as "one of the most important singer-songwriters of her generation".[189]

Swift began re-recording her first six studio albums, including Fearless, in November 2020.[190] The decision came after a public dispute between her and talent manager Scooter Braun, who acquired the masters of Swift's first six studio albums—which Swift had been trying to buy for years—following her departure from Big Machine Records in November 2018.[191][192] The re-recording of Fearless, subtitled Taylor's Version, was released on April 9, 2021, through Republic Records. The Taylor's Version feature all tracks from the Platinum Edition, the Valentine's Day soundtrack single "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010), and six unreleased "From the Vault" tracks.[193] Following the release of Fearless (Taylor's Version), the original album reappeared on albums charts of several European countries and reached a new peak at number two in Austria[194] and Germany,[195] and number three in Switzerland.[196]

Track listing edit

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[197]

Fearless – Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fearless"
4:01
2."Fifteen"Swift4:54
3."Love Story"Swift3:55
4."Hey Stephen"Swift4:14
5."White Horse"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:54
6."You Belong with Me"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:51
7."Breathe" (featuring Colbie Caillat)
  • Swift
  • Caillat
4:23
8."Tell Me Why"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:20
9."You're Not Sorry"Swift4:21
10."The Way I Loved You"
4:03
11."Forever & Always"Swift3:45
12."The Best Day"Swift4:05
13."Change"Swift4:40
Total length:53:41
Fearless – International edition[72]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
3."Love Story" (international mix)Swift3:55
14."Our Song" (international mix)Swift3:21
15."Teardrops on My Guitar" (international mix)
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:15
16."Should've Said No" (international mix)Swift4:08
Total length:64:25
Fearless: Platinum Edition – CD
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jump Then Fall"Swift3:56
2."Untouchable"
5:11
3."Forever & Always" (piano version)Swift4:27
4."Come In with the Rain"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:58
5."Superstar"
  • Swift
  • Rose
4:21
6."The Other Side of the Door"Swift3:57
7."Fearless"
  • Swift
  • Rose
  • Lindsey
4:01
8."Fifteen"Swift4:54
9."Love Story"Swift3:55
10."Hey Stephen"Swift4:14
11."White Horse"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:54
12."You Belong with Me"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:51
13."Breathe" (featuring Colbie Caillat)
  • Swift
  • Caillat
4:23
14."Tell Me Why"
  • Swift
  • Rose
3:20
15."You're Not Sorry"Swift4:21
16."The Way I Loved You"
  • Swift
  • Rich
4:04
17."Forever & Always"Swift3:45
18."The Best Day"Swift4:05
19."Change"Swift4:40
Total length:79:19
Fearless: Platinum Edition – DVD[73]
No.TitleDirector(s)Length
1."Change" (music video)Shawn Robbins3:47
2."The Best Day" (music video)Swift4:34
3."Love Story" (music video)Trey Fanjoy3:54
4."White Horse" (music video)Fanjoy4:03
5."You Belong with Me" (music video)Roman White4:37
6."Love Story" (behind the scenes) 22:00
7."White Horse" (behind the scenes) 22:00
8."You Belong with Me" (behind the scenes) 20:45
9."Fearless Tour 2009 Photo Gallery"  
10."Fearless Tour 2009 First Show Behind the Scenes" 10:41
11."CMT Awards Thug Story" (featuring T-Pain)Peter Zavadil1:26
Total length:97:47

Notes:

  • "Untouchable" is a reworked version of Luna Halo's "Untouchable" (2007), written by Cary Barlowe, Nathan Barlowe, and Tommy Lee James.[75]
  • The three bonus tracks on the international version ("Our Song", "Teardrops on My Guitar", and "Should've Said No") are produced by Chapman only.[72]
  • The international mix of "Teardrops on My Guitar" is an extended version of the pop mix featured on Taylor Swift with slight variances in the production.[citation needed]

Track-listing variants:

  • Upon the album's first release, a bonus DVD was released exclusively to US Target Stores featuring behind the scene recordings of "Breathe" and "Change".[198]
  • An exclusive live version of "Tell Me Why" was released as a bonus track to Napster.[199]
  • The Australian and New Zealand releases originally matched the standard edition of Fearless, they were later reissued with the international track list and album art and included the US pop mix of "Love Story" as a bonus track.[200][201]
  • Releases in European territories (excluding the United Kingdom and Ireland) include "Umbrella" and "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)", from the iTunes Live from SoHo extended play, and a three minute video interview, as Amazon MP3 bonus tracks on Fearless.[202]
  • The Japanese edition includes the standard 16-track international edition, "Beautiful Eyes", the radio edit of "Picture to Burn", "I'm Only Me When I'm with You", and "I Heart?".[203]
  • US Target exclusive versions of Fearless (Platinum Edition) consisted of two bonus performances from Swift's Clear Channel Stripped ("Untouchable" and "Fearless"),[204] while versions exclusive to US Walmart stores included V-Fest UK live performances ("Love Story" and "You Belong with Me").[205]

Personnel edit

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[21]

Charts edit

Decade-end charts edit

2000s decade-end charts for Fearless
Chart (2000–2009) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[248] 87
US Billboard 200[249] 56
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[250] 10
2010s decade-end charts for Fearless
Chart (2010–2019) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[251] 55
US Billboard 200[252] 98
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[253] 31

All-time charts edit

All-time charts for Fearless
Chart (1963–2015) Position
US Billboard 200[254] 4
US Billboard 200 (Women)[255] 2
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[256] 11

Certifications and sales edit

Certifications for Fearless, with pure sales where available
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[135] 7× Platinum 490,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[142] Gold 10,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[134] 4× Platinum 320,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[144] Platinum 20,000‡
GCC (IFPI Middle East)[257] Gold 3,000*
Germany (BVMI)[141] Gold 100,000‡
Ireland (IRMA)[131] 2× Platinum 30,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[140] Gold 100,000^
Philippines (PARI)[146] 9× Platinum 135,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[133] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[143] Gold 15,000*
Singapore (RIAS)[145] 2× Platinum 20,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[132] 2× Platinum 600,000‡
United States (RIAA)[121] Diamond 7,210,000[note 11]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Swift admired Crow for her "candidness, ... how she tells it like it is, but still is vulnerable". Speaking on Paisley, Swift said: "He can write something so touching it can make you cry, and then he can make you laugh so hard that you can't breathe."[14]
  2. ^ As described by such sources as The Boston Globe,[59] The Guardian,[37] and musicOMH[60]
  3. ^ Attributed to such sources as AllMusic[35] and the Chicago Tribune[63]
  4. ^ Attributed to such sources as The Guardian,[37] NPR,[51] and Rolling Stone[61]
  5. ^ "White Horse", "Fifteen", and "Fearless" peaked at numbers two, seven, and ten, respectively.[101]
  6. ^ "Fearless", "Fifteen", "Love Story", "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Forever & Always", "You're Not Sorry", "Change", "Jump Then Fall", "Untouchable", "Come In with the Rain", "SuperStar", and "The Other Side of the Door"[94]
  7. ^ Upon release, AllMusic gave Fearless a four stars rating.[148] The site reassessed the album with a four and a half stars rating since at least 2012,[149] and awarded the album a five stars rating in 2018.[150]
  8. ^ Attributed to such sources as Vulture,[180] The New Yorker,[181] and The Independent[182]
  9. ^ Attributed to such sources as i,[184] The Line of Best Fit,[185] and Billboard[186]
  10. ^ The chart positions listed below coincided with the release of the 2021 re-recording Fearless (Taylor's Version). In Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, the sales performance of the original Fearless was combined with that of Fearless (Taylor's Version).
  11. ^ As of October 2020[123]

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fearless, taylor, swift, album, 2021, recording, fearless, taylor, version, fearless, second, studio, album, american, singer, songwriter, taylor, swift, under, machine, records, imprint, released, canada, november, 2008, elsewhere, march, 2009, written, predo. For the 2021 re recording see Fearless Taylor s Version Fearless is the second studio album by American singer songwriter Taylor Swift Under Big Machine Records imprint it was released in the U S and Canada on November 11 2008 and elsewhere on March 9 2009 Written predominantly by Swift while she was promoting her 2006 self titled debut album in 2007 2008 Fearless features additional songwriting credits from Liz Rose Hillary Lindsey Colbie Caillat and John Rich Swift wrote seven of the standard edition s 13 tracks by herself and in her debut as a record producer co produced the album with Nathan Chapman FearlessStandard North American coverStudio album by Taylor SwiftReleasedNovember 11 2008 2008 11 11 Recorded2008StudioBlackbird Fool on the Hill Quad Sound Cottage Sound Emporium Starstruck Nashville Sound Kitchen Franklin GenreCountry popLength53 41LabelBig MachineProducerNathan Chapman Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift chronologyBeautiful Eyes 2008 Fearless 2008 Speak Now 2010 International edition coverSingles from Fearless Love Story Released September 15 2008 White Horse Released December 8 2008 You Belong with Me Released April 20 2009 Fifteen Released August 31 2009 Fearless Released January 4 2010Fearless is a country pop album whose composition incorporates country associated instruments such as banjos fiddles mandolins and acoustic guitars that intertwine with dynamic electric guitars and strings Music critics found the album to feature a crossover appeal brought by the influences of different styles of pop folk and rock Inspired by Swift s teenage feelings the lyrics explore themes of romance heartache and aspirations The album s title refers to the overarching theme of all of its tracks as they altogether depict Swift s courage to embrace the challenges of love After the release of Fearless Swift embarked on the Fearless Tour which ran from April 2009 to July 2010 The album was supported by five singles including Love Story and You Belong with Me which performed well and set records on both country and pop radio In the U S Fearless spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA It peaked in the top five of albums charts and received multi platinum certifications in Australia Canada New Zealand and the U K and has sold 12 million copies worldwide Music critics lauded Swift s songwriting for offering radio friendly tunes and an emotional engagement that appealed to not only teenagers but also a broad audience although some deemed the production formulaic The most awarded country album of all time Fearless won Album of the Year at both the Country Music Association Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009 and it won Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the Grammy Awards in 2010 The album featured on Rolling Stone s 2022 list of the 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time Following the 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift s back catalog she released a re recording Fearless Taylor s Version on April 9 2021 Contents 1 Background 2 Writing and production 3 Composition 3 1 Lyrics 3 2 Music 4 Release and promotion 4 1 Packaging 4 2 Marketing 4 3 Touring 5 Commercial performance 6 Critical reception 7 Accolades 8 Legacy 9 Track listing 10 Personnel 11 Charts 11 1 Weekly charts 11 2 Year end charts 11 3 Decade end charts 11 4 All time charts 12 Certifications and sales 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 15 1 Citations 15 2 Print sources 16 External linksBackground editTaylor Swift signed a publishing contract with Sony ATV Tree Publishing in 2004 to become a songwriter 1 at 14 years old she became the youngest Sony ATV signee in its history 2 After signing a recording contract with Nashville based Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country music singer Swift wrote songs with other Music Row songwriters and recorded her eponymous debut album with producer Nathan Chapman for four months near the end of 2005 3 4 Released on October 24 2006 it was the longest charting album on the U S Billboard 200 of the 2000s decade and established Swift as one of country music s rising stars 5 6 Its third single Our Song made Swift the youngest person to single handedly write and sing a number one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart 7 Her success was rare for a female teenage artist as country music had been dominated by mostly middle aged male musicians 8 9 To promote Taylor Swift Swift toured as the opening act for other country musicians including Rascal Flatts and George Strait during 2007 2008 While on tour she continued writing songs for her follow up album mostly by herself on the road at the concert venue a quiet place in some room at the venue like the locker room 10 11 In addition to self penned material Swift had songwriting sessions with Liz Rose with whom she had largely collaborated on her first album 12 She also wrote with musician John Rich and singer songwriter Colbie Caillat 13 Writing and production editSwift first came up with the direction for her second studio album after writing Fearless a song about an imaginary best first date while touring with Brad Paisley in mid 2007 14 Swift s songwriting was influenced by Paisley and Sheryl Crow s approach to expressing emotions note 1 Continuing on the romantic themes of her first album Swift chose to write songs about her personal feelings and observations of the world around her from the perspectives of a teenage girl instead of the luxurious lifestyle brought by her newfound fame 15 16 to ensure her fans could relate to her songs I really try to write more about what I feel and guys and love because that s what fascinates me more than anything else love and what it does to us and how we treat people and how they treat us So pretty much every song on the album has a face that I associate with it 17 Swift usually started writing by identifying a core emotion she wanted to convey through the melody on guitar For other songs she sometimes came up with the title first before writing the hook 14 While some songs were inspired by Swift s personal relationships she said that most songs were dramatized observations rather than real life experiences I ve gone through breakups and the core emotions behind them but it doesn t take much to get that sort of emotion out in a song luckily for me 18 She explained that certain emotions on her songs such as frustration or heartbreak came easily without her actually going through emotional turmoil 11 By July 2007 Swift had written as many as 75 songs 14 She recorded the album within a few months after touring with George Strait 19 Chapman who produced Swift s debut returned as producer 20 and recording took place at studios in Tennessee including six in Nashville and one in Franklin 21 nbsp Swift wrote and recorded the song Breathe with Colbie Caillat pictured in 2011 During the recording sessions Swift emphasized the authenticity of the songs emotional sentiments over technical rigidity I think it s the writer in me that s a little more obsessed with the meaning of the song than the vocal technique 22 By March 2008 Swift had recorded six songs including one co written by and featuring Caillat Breathe 11 23 Swift had used Caillat s 2007 song Bubbly as a reference point during the recording sessions because of its simple arrangements and honest sentiments 20 Apart from newly penned songs Swift recorded a few that she had written for her debut album believing there were stories that deserved to be put out 11 Swift made her debut as a record producer co producing all tracks with Chapman 24 The standard edition consists of 13 tracks which Swift had planned because she considered 13 her lucky number 14 25 Of the 13 tracks Swift wrote seven by herself the remaining were co written with Caillat Rose Rich and Hillary Lindsey 21 Recording took place within eight months 26 and finished in October 2008 when Swift completed the track Forever amp Always just before Fearless was mastered and published 22 27 Composition editLyrics edit Like Swift s debut album Fearless s prominent themes are love and life from a high school teenage girl s perspective 15 28 The songs in Fearless examine those themes with a more nuanced and mature observation 29 Swift embraced country music s narrative songwriting to convey her coming of age 30 31 She wrote the track Fifteen during her freshman high school year in Hendersonville Tennessee 32 In the narrative Swift and another girl named Abigail her real life high school friend go through teenage love and heartbreak together 29 33 As the song concludes Swift realizes she could accomplish more than dating high school senior boys 34 Music critics highlighted Fifteen as an example of Swift s songwriting about teenage themes both with a starry eyed innocence and a sense of nostalgia 35 36 37 nbsp Swift wrote the lyrics to Love Story inspired by Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet pictured is a painting depicting a scene from the play Many of Fearless s songs are about starry eyed romance and use imagery associated with fairy tales such as princes princesses white horses and kissing in the rain 15 38 The title track Fearless is Swift s imagination of a perfect first date on which she is caught in her best dress in the rain 39 40 Inspired by a love interest unpopular to Swift s family and friends Love Story is based on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 32 41 In the lyrics Swift replaced the original story s conclusion with a marriage proposal an ending she believed the two characters deserved 42 The optimistic Love Story is contradicted by White Horse which was inspired by the same love interest 43 44 In White Horse Swift is disillusioned that the love interest is not her ideal Prince Charming who could treat her like a princess after his unfaithfulness 45 Hey Stephen is about Swift s hidden feelings for Stephen Barker Liles of Love and Theft a country music band that had opened shows for her 46 Heartbreak and emotional tumult are explored in songs such as Tell Me Why about an on and off relationship with an informal love interest You re Not Sorry with lyrics describing an unfaithful man and Forever amp Always inspired by Swift s breakup with singer Joe Jonas 47 48 Other songs were inspired by romantic relationships of Swift s friends 43 Swift wrote You Belong with Me after overhearing one of her band members speaking to his unsympathetic girlfriend over the phone 49 Out of sympathy she wrote a story in which the protagonist harbors feelings for an out of reach love interest 50 The lyrics feature high school iconography describing the protagonist as an ordinary girl on the bleachers and the antagonistic girlfriend as a popular cheer captain 51 52 In The Way I Loved You Swift sings about her passionate feelings for a complicated ex lover despite her current relationship with a decent boyfriend 53 54 Apart from romance Fearless explores friendship family love and life lessons from Swift s underdog perspective 52 55 Breathe is about a fallout with a close friend 55 She dedicated The Best Day to her mother after they went shopping together because Swift was turned down by her schoolmates 56 57 The lyrics of Change the closing track of the standard edition detail Swift s determination to succeed despite her underdog status as a singer from a small independent record label in Nashville 58 She finished writing Change the night she won the Horizon Award at the 2007 Country Music Association Awards 57 Music edit A country pop album Fearless follows the country styling of Swift s debut album 16 The tracks are characterized by instruments associated with country music such as fiddle banjo mandolin and acoustic guitar intertwined with dynamic electric guitar and strings in the build up note 2 The production is consistent throughout each song follows a recurring verse chorus bridge structure and has a dramatic bridge a stripped down final verse and a dramatic final refrain 59 61 62 Music critics debated the album s genre 30 Many considered Fearless more pop than country and cited the pop friendly musical arrangements note 3 with wide ranging elements from teen pop and pop rock to soft rock and folk note 4 According to Hazel Cills of Pitchfork the only country music elements on Fearless are Swift s faux country accent and a few bits of banjo and fiddle scattered throughout the songs 52 In the British newspaper Guardian critic Alexis Petridis said the country music identifiers are limited to the lyrical references to God and one horse towns and the production is rooted in orthodontically perfect pop rock with Swift s melodies evoking the pitiless efficiency of a Scandinavian pop factory 37 Swift in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer responded to the critical debate Whether you tell stories about how you live on a farm and cherish your family and God or whether you tell stories about being in high school and being cheated on they re stories about your life That s what makes me a country artist 30 In retrospective reviews Lindsay Zoladz from The New York Times and Chris DeVille from Stereogum viewed Fearless a record steeped in country music 64 65 nbsp The Way I Loved You source source track Music scholar James E Perone commented the distorted electric guitars in The Way I Loved You were inspired by grunge one of the many styles Fearless explores in addition to country pop Problems playing this file See media help Many of the songs contain radio friendly pop hooks demonstrated through tracks such as Fearless Fifteen Love Story You Belong with Me Tell Me Why The Way I Loved You and Change 61 66 Music scholar James E Perone commented that the songs contain hints of country pop folk and alternative rock with their instrumental mix 28 On You Belong with Me in addition to a banjo led country pop production the instrumental incorporates new wave inspired electric guitar 62 Perone noted elements of 1980s new wave rock through the track s repeated eighth notes joined by fiddle mandolin and guitar 67 Tell Me Why opens with country fiddles and in the mix incorporates 1990s alternative rock and hip hop inspired syncopated drum beats and rock inspired guitars 67 The dynamic The Way I Loved You features distorted electric guitars with textual shifts that recall 1990s grunge 67 Other tracks with a more balladic production also feature pop hooks such as White Horse and You re Not Sorry 44 66 The standard edition s closing track The Best Day features a stripped down country rock production with guitar strums 59 54 68 Release and promotion editPackaging edit Swift named the album Fearless inspired by the title track Being fearless doesn t mean you re completely unafraid and it doesn t mean that you re bulletproof It means that you have a lot of fears but you jump anyway 69 All the songs on the album reflected her fearless attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life 57 70 Swift was the booklet designer Joseph Anthony Barker Ash Newell and Sheryl Nields were responsible for the photography and Leen Ann Ramey designed the cover artwork 21 The 13 track standard edition was released on November 11 2008 by Big Machine Records 71 An international edition featuring three additional tracks Our Song Teardrops on My Guitar and Should ve Said No was released on March 9 2009 by Big Machine in partnership with Universal Music Group 72 Swift announced a reissue of Fearless subtitled Platinum Edition on September 10 2009 73 The reissue was released on October 26 2009 74 The Platinum Edition package includes a CD and a DVD the CD features six additional songs Jump Then Fall Untouchable Forever amp Always Piano Version Come in with the Rain SuperStar and The Other Side of the Door placed prior to the original tracks The DVD comprises the music videos for Change The Best Day Love Story White Horse and You Belong with Me behind the scenes footage for the latter three behind the scene footage from the first concert of the Fearless Tour and Thug Story a video Swift filmed with rapper T Pain exclusively for the 2009 CMT Music Awards 73 Untouchable is a cover of rock band Luna Halo s 2007 song that had its lyrics and arrangement rewritten by Swift 75 Marketing edit nbsp Swift rehearsing You Belong with Me for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards her acceptance speech for Best Female Video was interrupted by rapper Kanye West which prompted widespread media coverage 76 On June 8 2008 Swift performed songs from Fearless on Clear Channel s Stripped the performance was recorded and included in the Platinum Edition reissue 21 Prior to the album s commercial release Change was made available via the iTunes Store on August 8 as a promotional single 77 It was included on the AT amp T Team USA Soundtrack a compilation of songs played during the United States participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics 78 A digital campaign launched through the iTunes Store called Countdown to Fearless featured one song released each week during the five weeks leading to the album s release 79 Breathe was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21 2008 80 Swift made many television appearances to promote Fearless throughout late 2008 performing on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show 81 Good Morning America 71 and Late Night with David Letterman 82 A special CMT Crossroads episode featuring Swift and rock band Def Leppard singing each other s songs was recorded on October 6 at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville 83 and aired on CMT on November 7 2008 84 Her performances at awards shows that year included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards 82 Besides live appearances Swift used her MySpace account to promote to a young audience sharing snippets of songs for streaming before they were released to radio as she had done with her debut album 9 85 She continued to appear on televised events through 2009 hosting Saturday Night Live 86 and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards 87 the CMT Music Awards 88 and the Country Music Association Awards 89 At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards rapper producer Kanye West interrupted Swift s acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video with You Belong with Me an incident known as Kanyegate which prompted many internet memes and media coverage 76 90 91 Five songs were released as singles from Fearless The lead single Love Story was released on September 15 2008 92 It peaked atop the Hot Country Songs and was the first country song to reach number one on the Mainstream Top 40 a Billboard chart monitoring pop radio in the U S 93 The single peaked at number four on the U S Billboard Hot 100 94 and at number two on the UK Singles Chart 95 and was Swift s first number one single in Australia 96 The four remaining singles were White Horse December 8 2008 97 You Belong with Me April 20 2009 98 Fifteen August 31 2009 99 and Fearless January 4 2010 100 All four peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 with You Belong with Me peaking at number two as the highest charting Fearless single 94 and within the top ten of the Hot Country Songs with You Belong with Me reaching number one note 5 You Belong with Me similar to Love Story was a crossover success 20 102 The song was the first country song to top the all genre Radio Songs chart driven mostly by non country airplay 103 104 Touring edit Main article Fearless Tour nbsp Swift performing on the Fearless Tour pictured in 2010 Swift announced the Fearless Tour her first headlining tour in January 2009 The tour started in Evansville Indiana on April 23 and visited the U S and Canada over six months Prior to the Fearless Tour Swift headlined three U S music festivals the San Antonio Stock Show amp Rodeo in February 2009 and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Florida Strawberry Festival in March 105 In October when the first North American leg finished Swift announced a second North American leg beginning on March 4 2010 in Tampa Florida 106 Outside North America the Fearless Tour visited Australia and Japan in February 2010 107 The tour was met with high demand selling out tickets within minutes 108 Swift wrapped up the Fearless Tour at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough Massachusetts on June 5 2010 109 The tour grossed over 63 million and played to over 1 1 million fans 110 Commercial performance editA commercial success in the U S Fearless set many chart records and catapulted Swift to mainstream prominence 111 It spent 11 non consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 the longest run of the 2000s decade 93 112 It holds the records for the most weeks at number one for a female country album 113 and the album with the most top 40 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 13 including tracks from the Platinum Edition 114 note 6 Five tracks peaked within the top 10 Fearless Love Story You Belong with Me Change and Jump Then Fall Fearless was the first album since Bruce Springsteen s Born in the U S A 1984 to have five top 10 songs with none reaching number one 115 On the Top Country Albums chart Fearless spent 35 weeks at number one 116 It became the female album with the second longest weeks at number one on Top Country Albums behind Shania Twain s Come On Over 1997 50 weeks 117 With 3 217 million copies sold in the U S throughout 2009 Fearless was the year s best selling album in the country The achievement made Swift then 20 years old the youngest artist and the only female country musician to have a best selling album of a calendar year 118 It was the only album from the 2000s decade to spend its first full year in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and spent a total of 58 weeks in the top 10 a record for a country musician 119 120 The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA certified Fearless Diamond in December 2017 in recognition of 10 million album equivalent units based on sales and stream 121 All singles were certified platinum or multi platinum the tracks You re Not Sorry and Forever amp Always were certified platinum and Hey Stephen Breathe The Way I Loved You The Best Day Change and Jump Then Fall were certified gold 122 By October 2020 the album had sold 7 21 million copies in the U S 123 Fearless s commercial success extended beyond the U S and marked Swift s international breakthrough 124 In the wider English speaking world Fearless peaked atop the charts of Canada and New Zealand 125 126 and within the top five of Australia number two 127 Scotland number four 128 and the U K number five 129 130 It received multi platinum certifications in Ireland and the U K double platinum 131 132 New Zealand triple platinum 133 Canada four times platinum 134 and Australia seven times platinum 135 The album reached the top 10 on charts in Japan 136 and top 20 in Austria Brazil Germany Greece and Sweden 137 138 139 It was awarded sales certifications across European and Asian markets including gold certifications in Japan 140 Germany 141 Austria 142 and Norway 143 a platinum certification in Denmark 144 a double platinum certification in Singapore 145 and a nine times platinum certification in the Philippines 146 As of April 2021 the album had sold 12 million copies worldwide 147 Critical reception editContemporaneous professional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic73 100 148 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic note 7 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 150 Blender nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 39 Entertainment WeeklyB 50 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 37 MSN Music Consumer Guide A 151 The Observer nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 152 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 153 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 61 Slant Magazine nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 66 USA Today nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 154 Fearless received generally positive reviews from music critics in the press 70 On Metacritic which assigns an aggregated score out of 100 to reviews in mainstream publications the album earned a score of 73 based on 14 reviews 148 Many critics lauded Swift s songwriting craftsmanship 15 Reviews published in The Boston Globe 59 Blender 39 Entertainment Weekly 50 The Village Voice 34 and USA Today remarked that Fearless was an honest and vulnerable record contrasting with albums by other teenage singers thanks to Swift s self penned songs 154 Other reviews from AllMusic 35 Billboard 36 and The Observer deemed the lyrics mature for her age 152 In MSN Music Robert Christgau found the album s romantic idealism distasteful but he lauded Swift s songwriting skills as remarkable for a teenage artist 151 Jonathan Keefe from Slant Magazine agreed the songs were well written but felt they fell short of refinement 66 Some critics praised Fearless s crossover appeal AllMusic s Stephen Thomas Erlewine and The Boston Globe s James Reed remarked that the album straddles the perceived boundary between country and pop the former called it one of the best mainstream pop albums of 2008 35 59 In Rolling Stone Jody Rosen hailed Swift as a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for the verse chorus bridge architecture 61 Christgau commented that the songs are effective partly because of the musical restraint of a strain of Nashville bigpop that avoids muscle flexing rockism 151 Other reviewers were divided over the production Chris Richards of The Washington Post commended the radio friendly tunes but he commented that the album is repetitive overall 62 Although Richards praised Swift s vocals for what he deemed a chirpy cadence that made her assign fresh notes to almost every syllable 62 Keefe deemed her voice weak and strained which blemishes the album with occasional breath controls and nasal tones 66 Petridis found the praise in the American press surprising though he agreed Swift s songwriting was remarkable he found the music bland and uninventive which occasionally left the audience wondering if the world really needs any more music like this 37 The British magazine Q wrote Her giggly peers will find she speaks their language while grown ups will prefer her to keep quiet 153 Accolades editFearless featured on 2008 year end lists by the Associated Press 7th 155 Blender 32nd 156 Rolling Stone 39th 157 and The Village Voice s Pazz amp Jop 58th 158 and 2009 year end list by The Guardian 40th 159 Jon Caramanica in The New York Times placed the album at number four on his list of 2008 s best albums and called Swift one of pop s finest songwriters 160 The most awarded country music album in history Fearless won Album of the Year at both the Country Music Association CMA Awards and the Academy of Country Music ACM Awards in 2009 161 162 163 It was awarded as the Top Selling Album by the Canadian Country Music Association CCMA twice in a row in 2009 and 2010 164 At the American Music Awards of 2009 Fearless won Favorite Country Album and was nominated for Favorite Pop Rock Album 165 166 Its other accolades included a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Album 167 a Sirus XM Indie Award for International Album of the Year 168 and a Juno Award nomination for International Album of the Year 169 At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2010 Fearless won Album of the Year and Best Country Album 170 The Album of the Year made Swift then 20 years old the youngest artist to win the award a record she held until the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020 when Billie Eilish won Album of the Year at 18 171 Swift is the second country music artist to win the three highest awards for a country music album by the ACM the CMA and the Grammys after the Chicks with their 1999 album Fly and the first to further win the Grammy for Album of the Year for the same album 172 White Horse won two Grammy Awards that year Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song 173 Legacy editSee also Fearless Taylor s Version Fearless has endured not so much for the banjos and mandolins Swift geared to country radio but for its teen pop tension between happy ending romances and bitter reflections on youthful naivete neatly chiseled into Swift s terse lyrics Jon Pareles The New York Times 2021 64 According to Billboard as of 2022 Fearless is one of the 15 best performing 21st century albums without any number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 174 The album s critical and commercial successes established Swift as a mainstream star beyond the country music scene 175 Though Swift identified as a country music artist some critics considered Swift more of a pop artist after the crossover success of Love Story and You Belong with Me she officially abandoned country with the release of her fifth studio album 1989 2014 176 177 Perone remarked that Fearless moved Swift s status from a singer songwriter prodigy to singer songwriter superstar 178 In addition to Swift s musicianship Perone attributed the album s commercial success to her marketing strategy with enhanced bonus material for the CD instead of download Fearless became indicative of a 21st century marketing trend in CD recordings 70 Swift s rising fame prompted media scrutiny on her public image and personal life Despite her popularity with music critics and a teenage audience some media took issue with Fearless s romantic themes as anti feminist and supposedly harmful 179 Over time Swift s songwriting on Fearless cemented her trademark confessional narratives note 8 Writing for Slate critic Carl Wilson dubbed this technique Swiftian 183 In a 2019 retrospective review of the album for Pitchfork Cills commented that Fearless was a testament to Swift s abilities of writing timeless songs noting the album s simplicity and earnestness Cills remarked that amidst sexualized teen idols there was something novel about Swift being a teenager and writing about her reality in her own terms coming into that same mainstream space redefining what teen pop could sound like in the process 52 Other retrospective reviews attributed the album s enduring popularity to songs about universal feelings heartbreak frustration first love and aspirations note 9 It placed number 99 on NPR s 2017 list of the 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women 187 and number 10 on Rolling Stone s 2022 list of the 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time 188 According to Billboard contributor Andrew Unterberger the album brought country into the bedrooms of teen girls who might ve rocked out to Avril Lavigne and Michelle Branch earlier in the decade upon release He also believed that it winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year showed the Recording Academy saw her as one of the most important singer songwriters of her generation 189 Swift began re recording her first six studio albums including Fearless in November 2020 190 The decision came after a public dispute between her and talent manager Scooter Braun who acquired the masters of Swift s first six studio albums which Swift had been trying to buy for years following her departure from Big Machine Records in November 2018 191 192 The re recording of Fearless subtitled Taylor s Version was released on April 9 2021 through Republic Records The Taylor s Version feature all tracks from the Platinum Edition the Valentine s Day soundtrack single Today Was a Fairytale 2010 and six unreleased From the Vault tracks 193 Following the release of Fearless Taylor s Version the original album reappeared on albums charts of several European countries and reached a new peak at number two in Austria 194 and Germany 195 and number three in Switzerland 196 Track listing editCredits are adapted from the album s liner notes 197 Fearless Standard editionNo TitleWriter s Length1 Fearless Taylor SwiftLiz RoseHillary Lindsey4 012 Fifteen Swift4 543 Love Story Swift3 554 Hey Stephen Swift4 145 White Horse SwiftRose3 546 You Belong with Me SwiftRose3 517 Breathe featuring Colbie Caillat SwiftCaillat4 238 Tell Me Why SwiftRose3 209 You re Not Sorry Swift4 2110 The Way I Loved You SwiftJohn Rich4 0311 Forever amp Always Swift3 4512 The Best Day Swift4 0513 Change Swift4 40Total length 53 41 Fearless International edition 72 No TitleWriter s Length3 Love Story international mix Swift3 5514 Our Song international mix Swift3 2115 Teardrops on My Guitar international mix SwiftRose3 1516 Should ve Said No international mix Swift4 08Total length 64 25 Fearless Platinum Edition CDNo TitleWriter s Length1 Jump Then Fall Swift3 562 Untouchable SwiftCary BarloweNathan BarloweTommy Lee James5 113 Forever amp Always piano version Swift4 274 Come In with the Rain SwiftRose3 585 Superstar SwiftRose4 216 The Other Side of the Door Swift3 577 Fearless SwiftRoseLindsey4 018 Fifteen Swift4 549 Love Story Swift3 5510 Hey Stephen Swift4 1411 White Horse SwiftRose3 5412 You Belong with Me SwiftRose3 5113 Breathe featuring Colbie Caillat SwiftCaillat4 2314 Tell Me Why SwiftRose3 2015 You re Not Sorry Swift4 2116 The Way I Loved You SwiftRich4 0417 Forever amp Always Swift3 4518 The Best Day Swift4 0519 Change Swift4 40Total length 79 19 Fearless Platinum Edition DVD 73 No TitleDirector s Length1 Change music video Shawn Robbins3 472 The Best Day music video Swift4 343 Love Story music video Trey Fanjoy3 544 White Horse music video Fanjoy4 035 You Belong with Me music video Roman White4 376 Love Story behind the scenes 22 007 White Horse behind the scenes 22 008 You Belong with Me behind the scenes 20 459 Fearless Tour 2009 Photo Gallery 10 Fearless Tour 2009 First Show Behind the Scenes 10 4111 CMT Awards Thug Story featuring T Pain Peter Zavadil1 26Total length 97 47 Notes Untouchable is a reworked version of Luna Halo s Untouchable 2007 written by Cary Barlowe Nathan Barlowe and Tommy Lee James 75 The three bonus tracks on the international version Our Song Teardrops on My Guitar and Should ve Said No are produced by Chapman only 72 The international mix of Teardrops on My Guitar is an extended version of the pop mix featured on Taylor Swift with slight variances in the production citation needed Track listing variants Upon the album s first release a bonus DVD was released exclusively to US Target Stores featuring behind the scene recordings of Breathe and Change 198 An exclusive live version of Tell Me Why was released as a bonus track to Napster 199 The Australian and New Zealand releases originally matched the standard edition of Fearless they were later reissued with the international track list and album art and included the US pop mix of Love Story as a bonus track 200 201 Releases in European territories excluding the United Kingdom and Ireland include Umbrella and Mary s Song Oh My My My from the iTunes Live from SoHo extended play and a three minute video interview as Amazon MP3 bonus tracks on Fearless 202 The Japanese edition includes the standard 16 track international edition Beautiful Eyes the radio edit of Picture to Burn I m Only Me When I m with You and I Heart 203 US Target exclusive versions of Fearless Platinum Edition consisted of two bonus performances from Swift s Clear Channel Stripped Untouchable and Fearless 204 while versions exclusive to US Walmart stores included V Fest UK live performances Love Story and You Belong with Me 205 Personnel editCredits are adapted from the album s liner notes 21 Taylor Swift lead vocals producer songwriter vocal harmony acoustic guitar booklet design Nathan Chapman producer acoustic guitar bass guitar electric guitar keyboard Hammond organ mandolin mixing percussion piano programming steel guitar vocal harmony Scott Borchetta executive producer Sammie Allan backing vocals Joseph Anthony Baker photography Steve Blackmon mixing assistant Drew Bollman mixing assistant Andrew Bowers finger snapping Nicholas Brown finger snapping Nick Buda drums Kenzie Butler assistant engineer engineer Colbie Caillat finger snapping guest appearance Jason Campbell production coordinator Chad Carlson engineer mixing sound recording Joseph Cassell wardrobe stylist Todd Cassetty enhanced recording Carolyn Cooper finger snapping Burrus Cox finger snapping Eric Darken percussion vibraphone Shawn Daughtry mixing assistant Dan Dugmore steel guitar Lauren Elcanv finger snapping Caitlin Evanson vocal harmony Kyle Ford assistant engineer engineer Kyle Ginther assistant engineer engineer Kenny Greenberg electric guitar Jed Hackett engineer Rob Hajacos fiddle Tony Harrell Hammond organ keyboard piano Amos Heller bass guitar Claire Indie cello John Keefe drums Tim Lauer Hammond organ keyboard piano Matt Legge assistant engineer engineer Tim Marks bass guitar Delaney McBride finger snapping Emma McBride finger snapping Justin McIntosh graphic design Grant Mickelson electric guitar Ash Newell photography Justin Niebank mixing Sheryl Nields photography Mark Petaccia assistant engineer engineer LeeAnn Ramey cover art graphic design Sandi Spika hair stylist make up artist wardrobe stylist Bryan Sutton acoustic guitar mandolin Whitney Sutton copy coordinator Todd Tidwell assistant engineer engineer mixing assistant Ilya Toshinsky banjo Lorrie Turk make up artist Brady Wardlaw hair stylist Hank Williams mastering Brian David Willis engineer Al Wilson percussion Jonathan Yudkin cello string arrangements stringsCharts editWeekly charts edit 2008 2009 weekly chart performance for Fearless Chart 2008 2009 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 127 2Australian Country Albums ARIA 206 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 207 14Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 208 52Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 209 68Brazilian Albums APBD 137 18Canadian Albums Billboard 125 1Danish Albums Hitlisten 210 23Dutch Albums Album Top 100 211 43European Top 100 Albums Billboard 212 13French Albums SNEP 213 26German Albums Offizielle Top 100 214 12Irish Albums IRMA 215 7Japanese Albums Oricon 136 8Mexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 216 37New Zealand Albums RMNZ 126 1Norwegian Albums VG lista 129 5Scottish Albums OCC 128 4Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 217 28Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 139 12Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 218 35UK Albums OCC 130 5UK Country Albums OCC 219 1US Billboard 200 220 1US Top Country Albums Billboard 221 12019 2022 weekly chart performance for Fearless Chart 2019 2022 note 10 PeakpositionAustrian Albums O3 Austria 194 2German Albums Offizielle Top 100 195 2Greek Albums IFPI 138 1Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 196 3US Independent Albums Billboard 222 10 Year end charts edit 2008 year end charts for Fearless Chart 2008 PositionUS Billboard 200 223 66US Top Country Albums Billboard 224 132009 year end charts for Fearless Chart 2009 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 225 4Canadian Albums Billboard 226 2European Albums Billboard 227 89New Zealand Albums RMNZ 228 2UK Albums OCC 229 46US Billboard 200 230 1US Top Country Albums Billboard 231 12010 year end charts for Fearless Chart 2010 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 232 17Canadian Albums Billboard 233 14Japanese Albums Oricon 234 75New Zealand Albums RMNZ 228 31UK Albums OCC 235 122US Billboard 200 236 7US Top Country Albums Billboard 237 22011 year end charts for Fearless Chart 2011 PositionUS Billboard 200 238 88US Top Country Albums Billboard 239 422012 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2012 PositionUS Billboard 200 240 1262013 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2013 PositionUS Top Pop Catalog Albums Billboard 241 392017 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2017 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 242 652018 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2018 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 243 422019 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2019 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 244 462020 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2020 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 245 472021 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2021 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 246 442022 year end chart for Fearless Chart 2022 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 247 67 Decade end charts edit 2000s decade end charts for Fearless Chart 2000 2009 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 248 87US Billboard 200 249 56US Top Country Albums Billboard 250 102010s decade end charts for Fearless Chart 2010 2019 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 251 55US Billboard 200 252 98US Top Country Albums Billboard 253 31All time charts edit All time charts for Fearless Chart 1963 2015 PositionUS Billboard 200 254 4US Billboard 200 Women 255 2US Top Country Albums Billboard 256 11Certifications and sales editCertifications for Fearless with pure sales where available Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 135 7 Platinum 490 000 Austria IFPI Austria 142 Gold 10 000 Canada Music Canada 134 4 Platinum 320 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 144 Platinum 20 000 GCC IFPI Middle East 257 Gold 3 000 Germany BVMI 141 Gold 100 000 Ireland IRMA 131 2 Platinum 30 000 Japan RIAJ 140 Gold 100 000 Philippines PARI 146 9 Platinum 135 000 New Zealand RMNZ 133 3 Platinum 45 000 Norway IFPI Norway 143 Gold 15 000 Singapore RIAS 145 2 Platinum 20 000 United Kingdom BPI 132 2 Platinum 600 000 United States RIAA 121 Diamond 7 210 000 note 11 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone See also editGrammy Award records Youngest artists to win Album of the Year List of Billboard 200 number one albums of 2008 List of Billboard 200 number one albums of 2009 List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2008 List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2009 List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2010 List of number one albums of 2008 Canada List of number one albums from the 2000s New Zealand List of number one country albums of 2010 Australia List of best selling albums by women List of best selling albums of the 21st century List of best selling albums in the Philippines List of best selling albums in the United StatesNotes edit Swift admired Crow for her candidness how she tells it like it is but still is vulnerable Speaking on Paisley Swift said He can write something so touching it can make you cry and then he can make you laugh so hard that you can t breathe 14 As described by such sources as The Boston Globe 59 The Guardian 37 and musicOMH 60 Attributed to such sources as AllMusic 35 and the Chicago Tribune 63 Attributed to such sources as The Guardian 37 NPR 51 and Rolling Stone 61 White Horse Fifteen and Fearless peaked at numbers two seven and ten respectively 101 Fearless Fifteen Love Story White Horse You Belong with Me Forever amp Always You re Not Sorry Change Jump Then Fall Untouchable Come In with the Rain SuperStar and The Other Side of the Door 94 Upon release AllMusic gave Fearless a four stars rating 148 The site reassessed the album with a four and a half stars rating since at least 2012 149 and awarded the album a five stars rating in 2018 150 Attributed to such sources as Vulture 180 The New Yorker 181 and The Independent 182 Attributed to such sources as i 184 The Line of Best Fit 185 and Billboard 186 The chart positions listed below coincided with the release of the 2021 re recording Fearless Taylor s Version In Austria Germany and Switzerland 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