Hey, i'm taylor swift and you're listening to big machine radio and i'm becca and we are celebrating the Anniversaries of the release of taylor swift's albums because you know She always tends to release her albums in october or november That means there are a lot of milestones to celebrate around this time of year In fact, it was 12 years ago that we were first introduced to taylor through her self-titled debut album You know when you think about it It's hard to believe it's already been 12 years and in some ways it's hard to believe it's only been 12 years But it happened october 24th 2006 that's when the world was introduced to taylor swift and all of her incredible songs like tim mcgraw Teardrops on my guitar picture to burn and all of those songs that laid the foundation for what has become an Incredible career for taylor swift and during this special we're going to revisit every single one of those songs off of taylor swift's debut album We're also going to be hearing from taylor We have dug back into our archives and found taylor talking about this album and where she was at in her life back at that Time not surprising She says tim mcgraw is a song that she wrote based on one of her true personal life stories And in fact, she didn't actually think that it would be as significant in her career as it was I wrote it about this guy that I was dating who was about to go off to college and I knew we were going to break Up, so I started thinking about all the things I knew would remind him of me And um, you know, one of the first things that came to mind was tim mcgraw and this song really I didn't think anything of it When I wrote it Certainly didn't think it would be a single certainly didn't think it would be a hit single And you know when I played it for my record label, they were just like well That's your first single for a lot of people. This was their introduction to taylor swift when this song came on the radio It's tim mcgraw on big machine radio