General Information

Release Date: October 25, 2010 (standard edition)
Recorded: 2008 – 2010
Label: Big Machine and Universal Music Group
Producers: Nathan Chapman and Taylor Swift.

Track Listing

1. Mine
2. Sparks Fly
3. Back to December
4. Speak Now
5. Dear John
6. Mean
7. The Story of Us
8. Never Grow Up
9. Enchanted
10. Better Than Revenge
11. Innocent
12. Haunted
13. Last Kiss
14. Long Live

The delux edition includes the songs above as well as:

• Ours
• If This Was a Movie
• Superman
• Back to December (Acoustic Version)
• Haunted (Acoustic Version)
• Mine (US Version)
• Back to December (US Version)
• The Story of Us (US Version)
• Mine (Music Video)

Singles

• Mine (released: August 4, 2010)
• Back to December (released: November 15, 2010)
• Mean (released: March 7, 2011)
• The Story of Us (released: April 19, 2011)
• Sparks Fly (released: July 18, 2011)

Quotes

Speaking on a live webcast on July 20, 2010, she said, “I actually wrote all the songs myself for this record. It didn’t really happen on purpose, it just sort of happened. Like, I’d get my best ideas at 3:00 AM in Arkansas, and I didn’t have a co-writer around and I would just finish it.”

Song Information

Mine

• This song is about Taylor’s tendency to “run from love”.

Back to December

• This song was a first for Taylor because she’s apologising to someone.

Mean

• According to Swift the song “is about, well, when you do what I do, which is you put yourself out there for a lot of people to say whatever they want about it, there are a million different opinions from a million different people.”

The Story of Us

• Swift says that it “is a song that I wrote about an awkward situation where, well… Let me just preface by saying that I have happened to run into exes in strange places lately. This is about one of those situations where the strange place that I ran into him was an awards show.” 

Sparks Fly

• According to Swift, the song is about “falling for someone who you maybe shouldn’t fall for, but you can’t stop yourself because there’s such a connection and chemistry. This is a song I wrote a few years ago and I have been working on it ever since. It’s been awesome to see it change over the years. The fans have heard it before in concert, but there have been some really cool changes that I am very proud of and can’t wait for them to hear.”