Stay Beautiful

Album: Taylor Swift (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • Taylor Swift on the background to this song: "After hearing my songs, a lot of people ask me, 'How many boyfriends have you HAD?' And I always tell them that more of my songs come from observation than actual experience. In other words, you don't have to date someone to write a song about them. This is a song I wrote about a guy I never dated! Wow, right? Haha. This song is about a guy I thought was cute, and never really talked to him much. But something about him inspired this song, just watching him."
  • Taylor Swift rarely plays the song live. She performed it for the first time since 2008 during her show at the Estádio Nilton Santos stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on November 17, 2023.

Comments: 3

  • Sunshine Mawi from Yangon,myanmarThis song is really cute and makes me smile ^_^
  • Ronny from London, United KingdomThis song makes me laugh for personal reasons. :) love this song. <3x
  • Fabio from New Orleans, LaMiss Swift, if you read this, my real name is Cory, and I wanted to thank you for not only writing this song, but for teaching me how to stay beautiful. Thank you so very much.
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