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The Outside
Taylor Swift
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- Album
- Taylor Swift (Big Machine Radio Release Special)
- Released
- 2006
- Genres
- Country
- Length
- 3:29
- Tempo
- 113 BPM
- Label
- Taylor Swift
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About this song
Swift wrote the song when she was 12 years old. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she said it drew on her own experience of feeling like an outcast at school and never fitting in.
What it's about
The song is about loneliness and the feeling of not belonging. Swift has said she wrote it from her own pain, rather than from observing others as she did with many of her early songs about relationships.
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Fun facts
- Written by Taylor Swift.
- Produced by Robert Ellis Orrall.
- Recorded at The Tracking Room.