It was six years ago that taylor swift released her red album and we are celebrating that anniversary by taking a look back And remembering when we talked to taylor when she first released this album And I remember talking to her about starlight and I loved it because of what inspired the song And this is how taylor explained starlight. The song starlight is a song that I wrote about maybe a year and a half ago I saw a picture of um, ethel kennedy and robert f kennedy when they were like 17 and they were at a dance and um I didn't know the story behind it But I just kind of made up a story because I was really inspired by how carefree they looked And I ended up getting to meet ethel a few months later and play the song for her And she loved it. She was so excited So it was a really wonderful experience to get to write that song and and then play it for her