She wrote "Our Song" for a high school talent show during ninth grade and included it in the album after it became popular among her classmates. The lyrics are about a young couple using regular events in their lives to create their own song. Produced by Nathan Chapman , "Our Song" is an uptempo banjo —driven country track incorporating fiddles and drums.
Music critics lauded Swift's songwriting on "Our Song" for incorporating conversational lyrics and a memorable hook. It featured on Rolling Stone 's list of the best country songs by female artists since Peaking atop Hot Country Songs for six weeks, the single made the then year-old Swift the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a number-one single on Hot Country Songs. It peaked at number 30 on the Canadian Hot and was certified platinum by Music Canada.
Swift performed the song on televised programs and during many festivals, and included it in the set lists of the Fearless Tour — and the Speak Now World Tour — In , Pennsylvania —born Taylor Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at fourteen to pursue a career in country music. So I went ahead and wrote us one. Months after the talent show, her classmates came up to her and recited the melody and lyrics, which made her think, "There must be something here!
Swift's debut album was released on October 24, , through Big Machine Records. In the refrain, the boyfriend responds that their song consists of sounds drawing from their daily lives that he associates with their relationship.
In the refrain's final lines, she asks God "if he could play it again" when she gets home. Whereas Swift's narrator initially assumes a passive role in a heteronormative relationship "ridin' shotgun" in her boyfriend's car, pondering how "we don't have a song" , she ends up writing one, assuming an active role as an artist.
