Fearless
The cover artwork of Taylor Swift's 2008 album Fearless, showing Swift's side profile with blonde curly hair. An action shot, her hair appears to burst outwards.
Standard North American cover
Studio album by
Taylor Swift
ReleasedNovember 11, 2008 (2008-11-11)
Recorded2007 – 2008
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 the second studio album by the 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 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

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 the 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 the musician John Rich and the singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat.[13]

Writing and production

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]

Colbie Caillat performing
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] The track "Change" was recorded in December 2007.[28]

Composition

Lyrics

Like Swift's debut album, Fearless's prominent themes are love and life from a high school teenage girl's perspective.[15][29] The songs in Fearless examine those themes with a more nuanced and mature observation.[30] Swift embraced country music's narrative songwriting to convey her coming of age.[31][32] She wrote the track "Fifteen" during her freshman high school year in Hendersonville, Tennessee.[33] In the narrative, Swift and another girl named Abigail—her real-life high school friend—go through teenage love and heartbreak together.[30][34] As the song concludes, Swift realizes she could accomplish more than dating high school senior boys.[35] 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.[36][37][38]

A painting of Romeo and Juliet kissing on the balcony
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][39] 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.[40][41] Inspired by a love interest unpopular to Swift's family and friends, "Love Story" is based on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.[33][42] In the lyrics, Swift replaced the original story's conclusion with a marriage proposal, an ending she believed the two characters deserved.[43] The optimistic "Love Story" is contradicted by "White Horse", which was inspired by the same love interest.[44][45] 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.[46] "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.[47] 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 the singer Joe Jonas.[48][49]

Other songs were inspired by romantic relationships of Swift's friends.[44] Swift wrote "You Belong with Me" after overhearing one of her band members speaking to his unsympathetic girlfriend over the phone.[50] Out of sympathy, she wrote a story in which the protagonist harbors feelings for an out-of-reach love interest.[51] 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.[52][53] 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.[54][55] Apart from romance, Fearless explores friendship, family love, and life lessons from Swift's underdog perspective.[53][56] "Breathe" is about a fallout with a close friend.[56] She dedicated "The Best Day" to her mother after they went shopping together because Swift was turned down by her schoolmates.[57][58] 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.[59] She finished writing "Change" the night she won the Horizon Award at the 2007 Country Music Association Awards.[58]

Music

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.[60][62][63]

Music critics debated the album's genre.[31] 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.[53] In the British newspaper Guardian, Alexis Petridis said the country-music identifiers were limited to the lyrical references to God and "one-horse towns", and the production was rooted in "orthodontically perfect pop-rock" with Swift's melodies evoking "the pitiless efficiency of a Scandinavian pop factory".[38] 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."[31] In retrospective reviews, Lindsay Zoladz from The New York Times and Chris DeVille from Stereogum deemed Fearless a record steeped in country music.[65][66]

"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".[62][67] Music scholar James E. Perone commented that the songs contain hints of country, pop, folk, and alternative rock with their instrumental mix.[29] On "You Belong with Me", in addition to a banjo-led country-pop production, the instrumental incorporates new wave-inspired electric guitar;[63] Perone noted elements of 1980s new wave rock through the track's repeated eighth notes joined by fiddle, mandolin, and guitar.[68] "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.[68] The dynamic "The Way I Loved You" features distorted electric guitars with textual shifts that recall 1990s grunge.[68] Other tracks with a more balladic production also feature pop hooks, such as "White Horse" and "You're Not Sorry".[45][67] The standard edition's closing track, "The Best Day", features a stripped-down country rock production with guitar strums.[60][55][69]

Release and promotion

Packaging

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."[70] All the songs on the album reflected her "fearless" attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life.[58][71] 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.[72] 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.[73]

Swift announced a reissue of Fearless, subtitled Platinum Edition, on September 10, 2009.[74] The reissue was released on October 26, 2009.[75] 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.[74] "Untouchable" is a cover of rock band Luna Halo's 2007 song that had its lyrics and arrangement rewritten by Swift.[76]

Marketing

Taylor Swift rehearsing for the 2009 VMAs
Swift rehearsing "You Belong with Me" for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards; her acceptance speech for Best Female Video was interrupted by the rapper Kanye West, which prompted widespread media coverage.[77]

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.[78] 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.[79] 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.[80] "Breathe" was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21, 2008.[81]

Swift made many television appearances to promote Fearless throughout late 2008, performing on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show,[82] Good Morning America,[72] and Late Night with David Letterman.[83] 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,[84] and aired on CMT on November 7, 2008.[85] Her performances at awards shows that year included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards.[83]

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][86] She continued to appear on televised events through 2009, hosting Saturday Night Live,[87] and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards,[88] the CMT Music Awards,[89] and the Country Music Association Awards.[90] At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the 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.[77][91][92]

Five songs were released as singles from Fearless. The lead single, "Love Story", was released on September 15, 2008.[93] 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.[94] The single peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100,[95] and at number two on the UK Singles Chart,[96] and was Swift's first number-one single in Australia.[97] The four remaining singles were "White Horse" (December 8, 2008),[98] "You Belong with Me" (April 20, 2009),[99] "Fifteen" (August 31, 2009),[100] and "Fearless" (January 4, 2010).[101] 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,[95] 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][103] The song was the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart, driven mostly by non-country airplay.[104][105]

Touring

Main article: Fearless Tour
Taylor Swift on the 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.[106] In October, when the first North American leg finished, Swift announced a second North American leg beginning on March 4, 2010, in Tampa, Florida.[107] Outside North America, the Fearless Tour visited Australia and Japan in February 2010.[108] The tour was met with high demand, selling out tickets within minutes.[109] Swift wrapped up the Fearless Tour at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on June 5, 2010.[110] The tour grossed over $63 million and played to over 1.1 million fans.[111]

Commercial performance

A commercial success in the U.S., Fearless set many chart records and catapulted Swift to mainstream prominence.[112] It spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, the longest run of the 2000s decade.[94][113] It holds the records for the most weeks at number one for a female country album[114] and the album with the most top-40 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 (13 including tracks from the Platinum Edition).[115][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.[116] On the Top Country Albums chart, Fearless spent 35 weeks at number one.[117] 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).[118]

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.[119] 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.[120][121] In December 2017, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Fearless Diamond in recognition of 10 million album-equivalent units based on sales and streams.[122] 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.[123] By January 2024, Fearless had sold 7.285 million copies in the U.S.[124]

Fearless's commercial success extended beyond the U.S. and marked Swift's international breakthrough.[125] In the wider English-speaking world, Fearless peaked atop the charts of Canada and New Zealand[126][127] and within the top five of Australia (number two),[128] Scotland (number four),[129] and the U.K. (number five).[130][131] It received multi-platinum certifications in Ireland and the U.K. (double platinum),[132][133] New Zealand (triple platinum),[134] Canada (four-times platinum),[135] and Australia (eight-times platinum).[136] The album reached the top 10 on charts in Japan,[137] and top 20 in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Greece, and Sweden.[138][139][140] It was awarded sales certifications across European and Asian markets, including gold certifications in Japan,[141] Germany,[142] Austria,[143] and Norway;[144] a platinum certification in Denmark;[145] a double-platinum certification in Singapore,[146] and a nine-times-platinum certification in the Philippines.[147] As of April 2021, the album had sold 12 million copies worldwide.[148]

Critical reception

Contemporaneous professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[149]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[note 7][151]
Blender[40]
Entertainment WeeklyB[51]
The Guardian[38]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide)A−[152]
The Observer[153]
Q[154]
Rolling Stone[62]
Slant Magazine[67]
USA Today[155]

Fearless received generally positive reviews from music critics in the press.[71] 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.[149]

Many critics lauded Swift's songwriting craftsmanship.[15] Reviews published in The Boston Globe,[60] Blender,[40] Entertainment Weekly,[51] The Village Voice,[35] 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.[155] Other reviews from AllMusic,[36] Billboard,[37] and The Observer deemed the lyrics mature for her age.[153] 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.[152] Jonathan Keefe from Slant Magazine agreed the songs were well-written but felt they fell short of refinement.[67]

Some critics praised Fearless's crossover appeal. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine and The Boston Globe's James Reed remarked that the album straddled the perceived boundary between country and pop; the former called it "one of the best mainstream pop albums of 2008".[36][60] In Rolling Stone, Jody Rosen hailed Swift as a "songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for the verse-chorus-bridge architecture".[62] Christgau commented that the songs were effective partly because of "the musical restraint of a strain of Nashville bigpop that avoids muscle-flexing rockism".[152]

Other reviewers were divided over the production. Chris Richards of The Washington Post commended the radio-friendly tunes, but he commented that the album was repetitive overall.[63] Although Richards praised Swift's vocals for what he deemed a "chirpy cadence" that made her assign "fresh notes to almost every syllable",[63] Keefe deemed her voice weak and strained, which blemished the album with occasional breath controls and nasal tones.[67] 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".[38] The British magazine Q wrote: "Her giggly peers will find she speaks their language, while grown-ups will prefer her to keep quiet."[154]

Accolades

Fearless featured on 2008 year-end lists by the Associated Press (7th),[156] Blender (32nd),[157] Rolling Stone (39th),[158] and The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop (58th);[159] and 2009 year-end list by The Guardian (40th).[160] 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".[161] 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.[162][163][164] It was awarded as the Top Selling Album by the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) twice in a row, in 2009 and 2010.[165] At the American Music Awards of 2009, Fearless won Favorite Country Album and was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Album.[166][167] Its other accolades included a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Album,[168] a Sirus XM Indie Award for International Album of the Year,[169] and a Juno Award nomination for International Album of the Year.[170]

At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2010, Fearless won Album of the Year and Best Country Album.[171] 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.[172] 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.[173] "White Horse" won two Grammy Awards that year: Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.[174]

Legacy

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)[65]

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.[175] The album's critical and commercial successes established Swift as a mainstream star beyond the country-music scene.[176] 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).[177][178] Perone remarked that Fearless moved Swift's status from a "singer-songwriter prodigy to singer-songwriter superstar".[179] 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".[71] 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 themes as somewhat antifeminist and supposedly harmful to teenage girls.[180]

Swift's songwriting on Fearless cemented her trademark confessional narratives.[note 8] Writing for Slate, Carl Wilson dubbed this technique "Swiftian".[184] 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".[53] Other retrospective reviews attributed the album's enduring popularity to songs about universal feelings—heartbreak, frustration, first love, and aspirations.[note 9] It placed at number 99 on NPR's 2017 list of the "150 Greatest Albums Made by Women"[188] and number 10 on Rolling Stone's 2022 list of the "100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time".[189] According to Billboard's Andrew Unterberger, the album expanded country music's audience to teenage girls and its Grammy win for Album of the Year was a testament for Swift being "one of the most important singer-songwriters of her generation".[190]

Swift began re-recording her first six studio albums, including Fearless, in November 2020.[191] The decision came after a public dispute between her and the music executive 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.[192][193] The re-recording of Fearless, subtitled Taylor's Version, was released on April 9, 2021, through Republic Records. The Taylor's Version features all tracks from the Platinum Edition, the Valentine's Day soundtrack single "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010), and six unreleased "From the Vault" tracks.[194] 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[195] and Germany,[196] and number three in Switzerland.[197]

Track listing

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[198]

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[73]
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[74]
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:

Track-listing variants:

Personnel

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

Charts

Decade-end charts

2000s decade-end charts for Fearless
Chart (2000–2009) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[247] 87
US Billboard 200[248] 56
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[249] 10
2010s decade-end charts for Fearless
Chart (2010–2019) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[250] 55
US Billboard 200[251] 98
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[252] 31

All-time charts

All-time charts for Fearless
Chart (1963–2015) Position
US Billboard 200[253] 4
US Billboard 200 (Women)[254] 2
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[255] 11

Certifications and sales

Certifications for Fearless, with pure sales where available
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[136] 8× Platinum 560,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria)[143] Gold 10,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[135] 4× Platinum 320,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[145] Platinum 20,000‡
GCC (IFPI Middle East)[256] Gold 3,000*
Germany (BVMI)[142] Gold 100,000‡
Ireland (IRMA)[132] 2× Platinum 30,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[141] Gold 115,000[note 11]
Philippines (PARI)[147] 9× Platinum 135,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[134] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[144] Gold 15,000*
Singapore (RIAS)[146] 2× Platinum 20,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[133] 2× Platinum 600,000‡
United States (RIAA)[122] Diamond 7,285,000[note 12]

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

See also

Notes

  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,[60] The Guardian,[38] and musicOMH[61]
  3. ^ Attributed to such sources as AllMusic[36] and the Chicago Tribune[64]
  4. ^ Attributed to such sources as The Guardian,[38] NPR,[52] and Rolling Stone[62]
  5. ^ "White Horse", "Fifteen", and "Fearless" peaked at numbers two, seven, and ten, respectively.[102]
  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"[95]
  7. ^ Upon release, AllMusic gave Fearless a four stars rating.[149] The site reassessed the album with a four and a half stars rating since at least 2012,[150] and awarded the album a five stars rating in 2018.[151]
  8. ^ Attributed to such sources as Vulture,[181] The New Yorker,[182] and The Independent[183]
  9. ^ Attributed to such sources as i,[185] The Line of Best Fit,[186] and Billboard[187]
  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 September 2010[257]
  12. ^ As of January 2024[124]

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