Taylor Swift shot to stardom by mining her real-life heartbreaks for poppy country hits, and she's not messing with the formula on her second album. "I just wrote songs about what I like to write about, which is boys," she says. Working again with producer Nathan Chapman, Swift spent nearly eight months in Nashville studios recording 50-plus new songs, from which she picked Fearless' 13 tracks. The banjo-plucked first single, "Love Story," is a modern Romeo and Juliet tale, and the uptempo "You Belong With Me" is about watching her best friend date a snobby popular girl ("It's a terrible movie that I lived a lot in high school," she says). Colbie Caillat sings on "Breathe," and Martina McBride's kids lend finger snaps to "Hey Stephen," an upright-bass-propelled groove inspired by a quickie crush. The one track that isn't about the 18-year-old's love life is "Change," a spunky pop song inspired by her career: It begins with a frustrated star-to-be struggling to get her music out on a small label and ends with gorgeous, triumphant "hallelujah" choruses. "I finished the song after I won the CMA Horizon Award," Swift says. "I'm happy the song got to end the way it ended."

"Love Story"

The music video for "Love Story," the first single from Fearless.

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