In late 2011, Swift contributed two original songs-" Safe & Sound", featuring duo The Civil Wars, and " Eyes Open"-to The Hunger Games soundtrack album. The album expands on the country pop style of her previous work and touches on themes of love, romance, and heartbreak.
Swift wrote every track of her Speak Now (2010) album without any co-writers. She contributed two songs, " Today Was a Fairytale" and "Jump Then Fall", to the Valentine's Day soundtrack, and recorded a cover of Better Than Ezra's "Breathless" for the Hope for Haiti Now album. Seeing as collaborators were not available on the road, Swift self-penned eight of her second album's tracks while the rest were co-written with Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. Swift wrote most of her songs from her second album, Fearless (2008) while she promoted her debut album as opening act for country artists.
In 2007, she released her first extended play (EP), Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, which includes two original self-written tracks: "Christmases When You Were Mine" and "Christmas Must Be Something More".īeautiful Eyes, Swift's second EP, was released in 2008 and features alternate takes of songs from her debut album, as well as two new tracks the title track and "I Heart ?". The remaining eight were co-written with Liz Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia. She wrote three of the album's tracks: " Our Song", " Should've Said No", and "The Outside" alone. Swift released her eponymous debut album in 2006. Louis, Missouri, in 2013.Īmerican singer-songwriter Taylor Swift signed a record deal with the then-independent label Big Machine Records in 2005 and, with the exception of several cover performances and two guest features, has subsequently written or co-written every song she has released and has also contributed as a writer to songs released by other artists. Taylor Swift performing at the Red Tour in St.