Furthermore it achieved platinum status in the United States and also in Australia. It really caught on up north, where it topped the Canadian Hot 100. And it was also a big hit stateside, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
This love song was originally released as the second single from the aforementioned soundtrack on 19 January 2010.
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And “Today Was a Fairytale” is actually the first track on the playlist of said soundtrack.Īnd despite the fact it wasn’t featured on the original “Fearless”, which was Taylor Swift’s second album, the track still made it onto the re-recorded re-release of that project, entitled “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)”, in 2021. Thus there is also a “Today Was a Fairytale (Taylor’s Version)” which came out that same year, i.e. Another page was written in Taylor Swifts own personal fairytale when it was announced that this song broke the record for best first-week download sales by a female artist moving 325,000 digital sales on the first February chart of 2010. This track is from the soundtrack of a film Taylor Swift co-starred in entitled “Valentine’s Day” (2010). Music-wise this film was backed by her label at the time, Big Machine Records. So in addition to Swift, other artists from the label can also be found on the soundtrack. So plainly put, “Today Was a Fairytale” is a love song. It’s not the type being relayed from, say, one spouse to another. The implication is that this relationship is just now getting started. And as such, it is still in what some may refer to as the euphoric stage. And yes, we can conclude on that note, as in when a person likens a romance they are in to a fairytale, then it is indeed akin to a state of euphoria that they are experiencing. So it’s like a fantastical situation for the both of them. Or let’s say that it is truly the emotion between them, not anything else, that has the vocalist feeling this way, as if she is living a fantasy, like a fairytale, when she is with him. That’s why she uses similes like being ‘taken to another planet’ when he smiles.Īlso as expressed, she feels as if “time slows down” when they are together. And the “magic”, as she refers to their chemistry, is really felt when the two of them kiss. For instance, even though she “looked like a mess” on the featured date, the addressee still told her that she is “pretty” in his eyes. A Real FairytaleĪnd despite basing the lyrics on such a metaphor, Taylor is actually very realistic about the whole thing. having no fitting lover in her life, a role which the addressee has now apparently filled. So of course, she is not in any type of actual distress or danger. Or let’s say that if anything, what she needs to be saved from is loneliness, i.e. the girl who needs to be saved by the prince in the fairytale. But the bottom line is that he is still someone whom she personally deems as a perfect suitor. To her, whether he’s rich or attractive is ultimately beside the point. Rather the reason she is comparing him to a “prince” is because she deems him as being a model partner.Īnd then that would make her the “damsel in distress”, i.e. They are simply put, the ideal romantic interest from many young ladies’ perspectives.Īnd no, the guy we’re dealing with today doesn’t seem to be literally rich based on the way he’s described as being dressed. Nor may he be particularly attractive to anyone beside the singer.
So for example, the singer refers to the addressee, her beloved, as “the prince”. In a fairytale such characters are young, single and rich. at a stage in her life where we can say many ladies still believe in the general ideals upon which fairytales are based. And while fairytales tend to have their villains and what have you, likening a romance to one (especially as far as youth are concerned) is another way of saying that the person relaying such a sentiment considers the relationship to be perfect.
!function(e,t,n,s,u,a)),Ĭontents: _items.And to get that overall point across, Taylor has based the lyrics on a fairytale motif. Indeed she was still a teenager when she wrote the song, i.e.