"Our Song" was met with great appraise from contemporary critics. Swift performing "Our Song" when opening for Rascal Flatts' Me and My Gang Tour. Dooley identified Swift's role in "Our Song" to be a narrator. Those events are described in sharp detail and include slamming screen doors to sneak out late. The young couple come to using the events in their lives in place of a regular song in the song's refrains. In the first verse, the protagonist realizes she and her boyfriend do not have a song of their own as he drives his car. The song's instrumentation relies mainly on banjo and, after the completion of the break, a violin solo arrives. It follows the chord progression D–Em7–G–A. Jody Rosen of Slant Magazine considers Swift's vocal performance to be twangful. The song is written in the key of D major and Swift's vocals span one octave, from G 3 to B 4. However, Sean Dooley of described "Our Song" as a snappy midtempo number.
It is set in compound time with eight eighth notes per bar and has a moderately fast tempo of 96 beats per minute.
"Our Song" is a country music song with a length of three minutes and twenty-two seconds. "Our Song" was introduced to countries outside of Canada and the United States in the international version of Swift's second studio album, Fearless. The song was released as a CD single on August 22, 2007. Big Machine Records executives chose "Our Song" to be the third single from Taylor Swift, which Swift was surprised yet glad about. She claimed she "knew there was something about it." She concluded, "I think there's just some sort of magic in the way the track sounds like it's bouncing." Swift said she desired for the song to be placed as the closing track on Taylor Swift due to its last lyrics repeating the phrase "Play it again", which she thought would subliminally request audiences to replay the album. When choosing tracks to record for Taylor Swift, Swift "stood by" "Our Song", repeatedly insisting album producers to record it with her. "They'd only heard it once, so I thought, 'There must be something here!'", Swift recalled. Several months after performing it at the talent show, some of her peers approached her to inform her that they enjoyed the song she played at the talent show, singing a few lines. The writing process, as with her lead single " Tim McGraw", took place in approximately twenty minutes. So I went ahead and wrote us one", she said. "I wrote it about this guy I was dating, and how we didn't have a song. She thought to herself that to be appropriate for the talent show, the song she would write needed to be upbeat and relateable to her classmates. Swift self-penned "Our Song" for the talent show of her freshman year in high school with no intentions of including it on her debut album. She also performed it as part of the Fearless Tour (2009-2010), her first headlining tour. Swift has performed the song at an abundance of venues, some while supporting as the opening act for various country artists' concert tours. The video won both nominations for "Video of the Year" and "Female Video of the Year" at the 2008 CMT Music Awards. A music video accompanying "Our Song" was directed by Trey Fanjoy and features Swift performing in various settings, including a front porch. In the United States, it became Swift's first number one single on the Hot Country Songs Chart, maintaining the position for six consecutive weeks, and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song charted within the top thirty and top twenty on the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100, respectively. "Our Song" was met with great appraise from contemporary critics, some who deemed it one of Swift's best singles, and commercial success. The uptempo track is musically driven mainly by banjo and lyrically describes a young couple who use the events in their lives in place of a regular song. It was included on Taylor Swift as she recalled its popularity with her classmates. Swift solely composed "Our Song" for the talent show of her freshman year in high school, about a boyfriend who she did not have a song with. It was released on Augby Big Machine Records as the third single and the eleventh track from Swift's eponymous debut album, Taylor Swift (2006). The song was written by Swift and produced by Nathan Chapman. " Our Song" is a country song by Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift chronology " Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" Nathan Chapman Singles chronology Previous
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