welcome to Taylor Swift's journey to
fearless
this is a story of a little girl who
dared to dream big from her earliest
performances and we do mean early to her
first big break
that was my first huge crowd experience
then I was a bit good and the challenges
along the way
and I went through periods of time where
I didn't have friends that was tough as
a mom to hear this shunning she didn't
know it then but even as a kid Taylor
Swift was fearless hi I'm Taylor I'm 11
I want a record deal who can you call
that would be awesome we'll show you
everything that went into making
fearless happen and share with you the
inspiration behind some of your favorite
songs it was a song about a breakup that
I had to really address
come on the road with Taylor for her
first headlining tour
spend the next three nights backstage on
stage and around the world
for Taylor Swift's journey to fearless
understand you baby
you're on the phone with the girlfriend
she's upset going off about something
mad you said she does it searching about
I'm in my room it's a typical Tuesday
night of listing to account
music she doesn't like it shall never
your story
you
with me
Wow
what
my favorite songs in it tell me about
your dreams think I'll go where you go
the one who understands you been here
all along so why can't you see you mommy
No
you
I think my first memory of loving music
happened so early we would always go to
the beach in the summer and I would run
from blanket - blanket from family to
family and just sing
whoa I got my first guitar when I was
eight or nine years old I couldn't
motivate myself to learn because my
fingers were too small I always had the
guitar around and had it in the corner
and when I was about 12 this magical
twist of fate the guy who my parents had
hired to come fix my computer I'm doing
my homework and he looks over and see if
the guitar in the corner and he was like
you play guitar and I said oh no I tried
but I know he said do you want me to
teach you a few chords that's was like
yeah yes that was that I was just
relentless about wanting to play all the
time
I was so I'm writing for all of my free
time after that
I think the first full song that I ever
wrote was called lucky you and it was
about this girl who dares to be
different at that time that was sort of
you know describing herself I got teased
a lot and I got made fun of a lot and I
you know went through periods of time
where I didn't have friends because all
the other little girls were going to
sleepovers and playing soccer and and
Taylor wanted to sing on a stage and
that was a little bit different
and I stood there in the middle of the
giant basketball arena with my little
sparkly American flag shirt and my white
pants and my red headband I was very
patriotic looking I don't think I had
ever been that nervous in my life well
it's gonna Taylor Swift they would do a
write-up in the local paper causing a
not so fun day for me the next day at
school my worst time of the day was when
I went to go pick up Taylor at school
and I would know that things maybe
hadn't been so great that day at school
and so I knew I was gonna hear whatever
happened and so that was tough as a mom
to hear the ostracizing that went
through the literally the shunning that
would take place at school where she
would sit down at a table with her lunch
tray and everyone would move as a parent
there there's nothing more painful than
hearing that your child is in pain
you'll take you'll take any bullet for
them but you realize that this is also
something that they have to go through
so that's when I got it in my mind that
there was this magical place called
Nashville where dreams come true and
Faith Hill got discovered and I thought
to myself Nashville
well I've got to go there I begged my
parents for I think a solid year please
could we take a trip to Nashville just
non-stop I want to go to Nashville
relentlessly it was all she talked about
so on spring break when we went to
Nashville we don't check it out
everyone you meet in Nashville has the
same dream and a lot of them wanted to
be exactly what I wanted to be which was
an artist and want to be on the stage in
front of a lot of people Taylor would
you know say that's Mercury Records pull
over you know I would need to run my
demo CD I get out and I run up to the
door hi I'm Taylor I'm 11 I want a
record deal you could give me a call
that would be awesome
I knew that I had to figure out some way
to be different some way to get better
and have more to offer music was
something that was so necessary for me
to be happy I would play for hours and
hours until my fingers were bleeding she
never put it down she wouldn't put it
down we'd have to literally say to her
alright put the guitar down come to
dinner then you'd go right back and play
but it became a matter of forcing her to
put it down at that point I just fell in
love with it
we decided to move to Nashville when
I've actually been off for the
development deal at that point we knew
we weren't just proud parents and that
maybe we should put her in the area
where she could make the most of it I
was 13 I landed a meeting with a record
label in town RCA they gave me a
development deal which is basically like
we believe in you kind of we're gonna
watch you it's not like you're making an
album now Taylor and I would go in there
sometimes once a week with new songs
that she had written they would look at
us and say well it's getting a little
closer they weren't saying yes that's a
great song let's put it on a record at
the end of the year they had a chance to
either sign me or watch me for another
year without commitment they looked at
us and said you know what she's we're
not ready to offer a record deal I did
something that you don't usually do in
Nashville when you have an in with a
record label I walked away because I had
a feeling that I was not going to be
able to record my own music but I'd
written like they're sort of
panic-stricken like this is a major
record label you don't get that every
day are you sure you want to walk away
from this then she said absolutely
had this showcase at the Bluebird Cafe
ironically the place where Faith Hill
got discovered and I played my guitar
and sang a bunch of songs that I've
written there was one guy in the
audience named Scott Borchetta so he
came up to me after the show and he said
I want you on my record label and I want
you to write all your own music and I
was so excited and I get a call from him
later that week and he goes hey so good
news is I want you on my record label
bad news is that I don't actually have a
record label yet well he explained to me
that he doesn't have a building he
doesn't have a name for it he just has
this dream that he wants to do it so he
says will you just please wait for me
and for some reason I was willing to
wait for that because she believed in
the person who was gonna be running that
record label and he really believed in
her I knew that if I could be a part of
building something from the ground up of
being the first artist on a brand new
record label that would be okay with me
as long as I could do something really
adventurous and bold and new
so I sign my record deal with Scott
Borchetta and I was making an album full
of songs that I had written by myself
this little red thing
this red guy's beefy best went scream
you got so they won't hear that it's
awesome
there was no inclination that this was
gonna work out but we really believed in
it putting out my first single was just
such a cool experience cuz I just didn't
know what was gonna happen
I remembered putting the physical CD
singles into envelopes to mail out to
radio with my mom I got to go on radio
tour and then use your tour you think
tour bus no rental car Taurus me in the
back seat how's it goin how are you I'm
doing wonderful I brought you cookies
sure did look at that going from radio
station to radio station to radio
station and every time I would go into a
new radio station I would play in the
conference room for a couple of DJ's and
I would like beg them to put me on the
air and it worked my album sold 39,000
in the first week and then over time it
started to sell like this
then something really crazy started to
happen I was opening up for every single
country headliner imaginable I was
opening up for Brad Paisley George
Strait Kenny Chesney Tim McGraw like all
these people had always wanted to open
up shows for I was a nervous wreck
I'd rehearsed non-stop over and over
again but I loved it those were some of
my favorite times for this song I would
love it if you had their cell phones and
glow sticks or anything sparkly that you
might have
hold them up for me
and I would love it if you would sing
along with this song because this is the
first song that you ever heard from me
but those charges Sashi
I said gotta fly
sister boy Chevy truck Tennessee get it
holy beep
I hope you think that
oh that Gucci
hope you think of me
yeah the truth
see
you
three summers back
better speed and the
nice to believe we give thanks
Oh
my baby son
my
yes
Tim ago
I hope you thinking man
it was such a cool energy walking
through that crowd people are crying and
I love excitable people so it was it was
one of my favorite things
I just I had a lot of people over the
course of that song
I show our extra love to the little kids
that I know are there for their first
concert
it was really important for me to go out
there and actually say hi to people and
thank them for coming and be right there
next to them because I'm always gonna
want to go the extra mile for them
because I can't believe the extra
thousand miles they've gone for me
that's one of my favorite things every
single life
since there
your doorstep
isn't you think tim mcgraw a hopi pink
bow
turn you see radio
yes
this Georgia Stasi
I said that
I absolutely I just left school and I'm
so glad that I got to go to high school
all the kids were so nice
I wasn't weird for the first time they
didn't really think much of it that I
wanted to be a singer on the first day
of 9th grade walking into high school
first class that I went to i sat next to
this girl she had red hair and we became
friends immediately just because I think
we were the most cynical people in
English class we just kind of understood
each other and we were bitter about the
same things we were happy about the same
things we had the same goals and we
really hit it off she became the person
that I would play all my songs for after
I'd written them I truly truly
appreciate those moments and when she
wants to play something new for me
that's my favorite time to witness her
doing what she loves is when she's just
raw I would go over to her house like
and we'd sit in her room and I'd play it
for her she was like a huge cheerleader
a complement to her to no end and she
acts just so shocked she'll just look at
me and be like really thank you thank
you so much she's just so grateful
I wanted to write a song about what both
of us went through Abigail and I were 15
we were freshmen in high school and you
know you're just navigating this huge
world being 1516 those are those are
some of the hardest years as a girl I
mean that's when you're developing and
trying to figure out who you are and
you're the tiniest little minnow in this
huge ocean that is high school and you
learn lessons you learn a lot of them
the hard way
take a deep breath can you walk through
the doors it's the morning of your very
first day hobby your friends see them
try and stay out of everybody's away
and you're gonna be
for the next four years
senior boys for we could soon say no
haven't seen
you gave me
this is before
see
Basilica
you think they're so cool
I remember when I played Abigail the
song for the first time it was just a
guitar vocal she was just blown away I
couldn't believe it and it was very
touching and it still is to this day
thinking he's the
that's a very personal story of hers
that gets told in that song it's really
raw and real everybody asks me does that
make you uncomfortable and not in the
least because looking around in the
audience and seeing people relating to
the song that's all I ask for
day
yourself
that guru sir I was gonna
in Sunday
some bigger dreams
she had to
changed his by Weaver
I'm honored that she wouldn't want to
talk about me and in something that I've
experienced and what better than to put
in a song and share with millions of
people it was one of my favorite things
about that song is that she's so proud
that maybe her story can help other
girls to make the right decisions you
know like the song says just look before
you fall
Bitsey
okay
take your teeth
a lot of the songs of my first record
have little hints of highschool
inspiration
you have the song you belong with me
which is about you know feeling inferior
to the coolest girl in school because
she's a cheerleader and she's awesome
then you're just like okay you know I
mean for me like I think that I learned
so much from just sitting there and
feeling everything in high school and
teardrops on my guitar which is a
complete confessional that you're in
love with someone once upon a time there
was this guy and I was like talking
about this guy in school and let's just
write the name into the song
and this guy used to sit next to me in
class I started naming people in my
songs when I started to you know have
bigger crushes on people I was like you
need to walk up to him right now and
what him know how you feel who you are
okay confession I had the biggest crush
on this guy and well he didn't even know
I existed but every day just like
clockwork
this guy would come into class
and every day just like clockwork
this guy would sit down next to me and
sometimes he would even talk to me about
his girlfriend
so I never told this guy that I liked
him but I did write a song about him so
I think he knows now
with drew everybody knew that one was
about
every single we should be but she's
beautiful
back early talks about she's got I
couldn't believe it
this was the first time I've ever seen
her goat this personal with a song
he says he loved he slyly got it bye
just my guitar
seems
we can't
perfect
the most beautiful eyes and noses a
lucky guy he's the reason for that's it
my guitar
see
with drew he actually showed up in my
driveway like a year and a half later I
don't know sometimes it gets awkward
yeah that was really awkward I think she
was shocked and we were like well who
thought that was gonna happen
ah police big sound and maybe
the only ones got enough
this there
hey just
he won't see
we had cma rehearsals earlier today and
now I'm getting on a plane to go to New
York for one night and then it's all of
tomorrow
when you are releasing a new album you
just go nuts with your schedule you just
go crazy
when it was time for the fearless albums
being released we both looked at each
other and realized that she just was
living our dream
oh my god I said today was crazy like we
literally woke up at 4:45 and then got
up hair and makeup for Good Morning
America and which Good Morning America
soundcheck
did all the performances for that to be
interviewed for that
and then left and what to MTV
I did like all these news interviews and
stuff
hey Trisha I love you and I just a happy
birthday then went to WPLJ Taylor Swift
day and I'm so excited and after that we
went to David Letterman and that's the
first time I've ever played there so it
was really cool it was such a fun show
and I it was fun playing fearless
acoustic now I am on a plane and I'm
about to go home and I'm gonna go buy my
CD at midnight of my album being
released I was at Hendersonville and
there were a bunch of people there and
we all just were so excited
they were all buying the album and I was
buying the album it's just it's crazy to
think that you know have a CD out in all
these stores and and that a bunch of
people would show up and buy the album
with me it was it was a really fun
experience I won't forget it
but I love you so much thank you for
being here for me buying my second CD
first midnight I love you now I finally
am NOT and I'm not doing anything
anymore I'm on a plane this day is over
and it has been the longest day ever
when the fearless album came out it sold
five hundred ninety six thousand in the
first week and I was really happy about
that considering the first record I
would be like freaking out about selling
thirty-nine thousand in the first week
selling 596 thousand in the first week
was quite an improvement
why
and CSKA it's got a one hand
look around turn the radio down it says
baby it's something I've seen
just think in how we
seven
first date Leila didn't kiss around the
city
whose blade
I was walking up the front doorsteps
after everything that said I gonna be
trampled on
it's obvious
first day
mr. Anderson
first
play
No
I said
let's Kia
okay
shotgun with my hair and mine in the
front see that is cha
you
welcome to Taylor Swift's journey to
fearless
I could never have imagined how those 13
songs would change my life
tailors drive and determination pays off
as fearless becomes the top-selling
album to year strength Wow who thought
that was gonna happen
people will ask me like when did you
know you know that she had made it 2009
was a pretty good start
I was a good year and then one Grammy
for album of the year when I was 20
yeah watch as Taylor Swift transforms
her fearless album into her first
headlining tour this comes out during
love story and it's gonna be projected
where these look like castles welcome to
The Fearless Tour 2010 she was the
youngest person ever to win a Grammy for
album of the year building the dream as
Taylor takes us on her journey to
fearless
can help
the day was a fairy tale you are the
friends I used to be exams are any
distress to be by the head and then you
pick me up at 6:00 today was a very sad
today was fairy tale I will address you
odds are great t-shirt to be out
they
the fearless tour is inspired by lots of
different elements that I've found
fascinating in life I love costume
changes I love sparkles I love glitter
I love the element of surprise
those are all things that I wanted to
bring together and put on that stage I
have been dreaming about doing my first
headlining tour I think since I was 4
years old
the stage for the fearless tour was
something that I spent a lot of time
designing with Jonathan Smeaton my stage
designer I wanted the stage to be part
of the picture and part of the visual
not just something we were standing on
my stage was built in a warehouse in
Nashville and pulling up to see it for
the first time it felt kind of like
being dropped off on the first day of
school I was a nervous wreck
I have always wanted to put together a
show that incorporated theater and
storytelling and the songwriting and
what I saw in my head when I was writing
these songs locked inside glorious
when Taylor first laid eyes on that
stage for the first time it was like
opening a present Christmas morning the
biggest present she's ever had
you guys it was this pristine sparkling
white stage with staircases and all
these different shapes and you could
project different visuals onto the stage
this comes out during love story and
it's gonna be projected where these look
like castles right and so we've been
able to turn this whole thing into a
story I don't think that I ever expected
I would be on a big stage like this what
I've started out
pretty dryer I could fall off with this
and die which is us
now I would like to take you back in
time
I wanted to the dancers on this tour
because not because I really wanted too
much choreography or because I wanted
this to be like a dance show I wanted
this to be a show where I could tell a
story using other people
I'm really excited today we auditioned
the dancers
we decided that we wanted to make the
audition and an open call for anyone
than anybody could audition we were both
young the first time I close my eyes and
the flashback starts with the guys over
here there were three days of auditions
for the dancers first thing we're doing
is the choreography from love story the
music video that'll be the first thing
we do really think about that there's no
country artists this is huge this is
really big that she's bringing dancers
on on on tour Taylor's pushing the
envelope here like big time pushing the
envelope and I think that's amazing
you're going to check across from each
other touching each other's wrists yeah
triple step walk walk triple step
throughout this whole dance both to
Breezy that's the time quick quick slow
quick quick slow quick quick slow
yes I won 23 and 27 cool every step to
that side auditioning the dancers we all
just kind of had a vibe about a few of
them right off the bat we're gonna just
kind of welcome them onto the tour for
the summer I'm excited
yeah you know one second why I want to
talk to you
I just need to say hi I'm Taylor I'm
taking your son on tour this summer
I will see you guys with the dancers
ready it was time for the fearless tour
rehearsals to begin
rehearsing for the fearless tour took
about a month Percel is really important
because you're working on blocking
wardrobe audio it's kind of like tore
boot camp white confetti from the
ceiling like the treatments of this song
is like during rehearsal you really get
a chance to iron out all the kinks like
for example the smoke machine sort of a
volcanic eruption up here and I messed
up the piano in a gorgeous heinous way
there's nothing better than watching
hard work pay off
it was time for the fearless tour to hit
the road
putting together a tour you're providing
jobs for about 150 people you've got
those people touring with you
setting up catering driving trucks
driving buses the band the dancers the
crew everybody who builds that stage
puts it together the carpenters wardrobe
you know people in the production office
people who work with the promotion's
company it's a big contraption
and finally the moment we were all
waiting for stepping on stage in front
of all of you my amazing fans before the
opening night in Evansville Indiana we
were just all so nervous the band I kept
running through every single cue every
single lighting to you every single drum
hit in my head just trying to make sure
that I could remember everything it's a
two-hour production so making sure that
you remember everything is key
you were you
yeah
and I said we are
but
No
every night we do a cross arena trek I
wish that I had some sort of encounter
on my feet that could tell me how many
miles we have walked all for the purpose
of surprising the audience
and popping up in the back of the arena
there are like a lot of superfans who
know that we do it they don't know where
we're gonna end up but they're like
scouring the entire concourse for us we
make the walk every night through the
back tunnels and passageways of the
arena of elevators up staircases into
Suites we hide in snack bars and it's
really funny because like a lot of times
there would be like a group of people
waiting for us
kind of bring the show right there to
that like six inches for them so it's
really a fun moment when we pop out it's
really really cool the reaction is just
utter surprise and there's a moment
where like I'll walk out and one person
will notice it screams and screams
ignite everywhere and it's really cool
Stephen analyst to meet us beaten by a
girl
let's peel off with the things I want
ladies and gentlemen please give it up
for al Wilson on the drums and in this
hour on the bass
and then I hand off my guitar to Devin
and I walk down the aisles and I just
really like to hug people I think going
out into the crowd for Taylor is what
she needs to do during a show to feel
that connection with her audience it's
it's hard for her to just stay on the
stage
it's just really fun because like there
are all these little kids and there's
all these cute guys and there are all
these girls that are just like me and I
don't know I love those people so much
and getting to go out there and tell
them that like look him in the eye and
tell him that or I'll give him my
bracelets and stuff it's just really fun
that's my favorite part of the night I
think that she looks at them and sees
these looks on their faces and she has
to get closer
a lot of guys that look like football
players who would not necessarily have
bought fearless but they know all the
words and it makes me so happy listening
to them like sing like she wears short
skirts I wear t-shirts like I love that
there's a B stage at the end of the
arena so part of the show the best seat
in the house are what you used to think
were the worst seats in the house ha
switcheroo
hey Steven I could give you 50 reasons
why I should
all this other girls well the beautiful
I can't help myself
when I was making my way to the back of
the arena I wanted there to be something
for the crowd to wash so that they
wouldn't be just like sitting there in
silence I wanted there to be some sort
of funny little video tonight we examine
a crime unlike any I've seen in my
entire career
and so we created this video called
crimes of passion that's a crime show a
spoof crime show about all of the guys
I've written songs about complaining
about how their lives have been changed
by me writing songs about them you know
I walk down the street I hear people say
spy on me I try to start up a
conversation with someone to talk to you
see what I'm saying some of the people
were actually the actual guys who
inspired the songs yeah you know people
forget that that I was actually the very
first victim of a Taylor Swift song now
everywhere I go it's like everybody
knows my name it's sort of like I've
been plucked from obscurity and I was
really proud of that piece happy
birthday Taylor thank you it's a toaster
yeah look there's something I've never
asked you before that's not how do you
spell meal is it with an A or with an i
it's an e al great
you know what's really cool what how
many words rhyme with Neal every night
the crowd gives me so much and I wanted
to give them something back this tour
was put together because of what the
fans have done for me in the last couple
of years so I wanted a lot of the fun
things that we did and new concepts that
we came up with to benefit those fans
and one of my favorite things about this
tour is that we had a reward for the
craziest fans if they were just insane
and crazy and had like costumes on and
signs and if they were just having a
great time and dancing and like freaking
out throughout the entire show it's the
possibility that they could get randomly
picked for the Tea Party the Tea Party
is the gorgeous Moroccan tent magical
enchanted looking living room that we
have backstage I'm just so in love with
you Houston during the show we would
have a team of people that would go out
there and look for the most over-the-top
taylor fans and then tell them that
they're coming to the tea party after
the show to meet Taylor and that is
usually when you hear a shriek in the
audience did you ever hear that
high-pitched scream when you're at
peerless concert most likely somebody
has just gotten tea party passes
I wanted them to have a place to sit
down eat feel comfortable have something
to drink play ping pong watch TV do
whatever they wanted to do because
they've made a lot of this possible for
me so that's why you'll see lots and
lots of fans with signs to say bring me
to the Tea Party and tea party please
that's what goes down after the show
every single night it's it's really fun
because nobody who goes to the tea party
is this expecting that they're going to
get picked
the Tea Party is away from me to get
some meat people after the show who I
fell in love with during the concert who
were just who I just felt so grateful to
have on my side the tea party room gives
me an opportunity to say that to them
can you give him a hug and it really
feels cool that we've done that every
single night
I was never good at sports or anything
that had a team element to it until this
my band had been with me for about three
years now which is just something I'm
very proud of because in the music
industry you have people just switching
out players every two seconds but we
have a family the band they're my best
friends let's see al Wilson is an
absolute loving and marvelous individual
Paul Sidoti
is the jukebox that guy knows everything
there is to know about music
grant Michaelson is the supermodel he
pulls off looks and clothes that no one
else in a world that I know and Mike
Meadows is the pillar that keeps us all
steady Liz Hewitt is the goofy little
sister with the voice of an angel
Katelyn Evanson is an absolute rock star
a relentless stream of energy on stage
and then there's me I'm pretty cool
this is a group of people who I'm gonna
know for the rest of my life and I want
to know their kids and I want to go to
their weddings and to see them live
their lives for the past three or four
years that I've known them has just been
unbelievable I just I couldn't live
without him they're my favorite people
in the world I just always wanted to
make everybody feel like they were part
of the family she goes out of her way to
make you feel a part of her life
we're a pretty cohesive unit
and it's it's inspiring to be around to
be on stage with you there's no nerves
you know it's a family you know it's a
great place to be and I'm more nervous
walking around during the day than I am
right before I go on stage with them I
had no idea that I was gonna become part
of such a wonderful loving family it
creates this band of a bunch of
different people who are all unique in a
special way and that's you know we're
all best friends it's a family and
that's what magic is that you feel when
raw up on stage in the night she loves
her fans she loves her best friends
we're our family and I think she kind of
sums up love in her life by this
they all know that I love doing this and
I do this in a lot of pictures and I do
this on stage we pick someone to give a
speech before we go onstage and then
afterward we put our hands in and we say
now let's go out there and be fearless
sharing this experience with them
unforgettable
inside
ooh
you
do you have the
don't know you tell me there too and cut
me down
sissie
take a step back let it go
No
you
you look beautiful today Miss Taylor
you're very welcome
I'm five years old it's getting colder
I hear your life
one of the most unique things about my
journey to fearless is that I got to
share this wonderful crazy experience
with my family on the fearless tour
backstage they referred to me as mama
Swift I don't mean to be I really I'm
not trying to be a prude here but if I'm
the mom of a 10 year old girl in the
audience we're just a couple of loser
that I would be like now you're right my
mom has come out on the road with us and
she's always around
I feel very lucky to be out on the
fearless tour because I have a 20 year
old daughter and a lot of 20 year olds
don't necessarily want to hang with
their moms all the time although I'm
pretty lucky because mine apparently
does we learned early on in the whole
touring experience when I was 15 and
started doing radio tour we learned how
to deal with each other on the road her
mom is all in charge of just basically
greeting people and making people feel
welcome she would find a group of like
25 to 30 people and take them on a
backstage tour and give them sort of the
Mamma Swift version of the way the tour
works all right well you were promised a
backstage tour this is about as
backstage as again
is Taylor stage and you are back you're
not scared
firstly we're gonna look at are these
big big massive trucks mama Swift's
backstage tour that covers our trucks
buses down I you know I don't even begin
to understand how this happened but I do
love it and we have 72 costume changes
also other jobs that she has out here
very important she draws the 13 on my
hand every night 13 is my lucky number
so my mom has always been very logical
very practical and I think that's why
I've always been that way
my dad's the one who's like I had this
crazy idea or you know he's the
daydreamer he's the one who's always
like walking around the shows with a bag
of Taylor Swift guitar picks in his
pocket hands them out to fans this is
what I do I give away pics to people my
parents I just lucked out I'm gonna go
sneak up on my dad in a store you know
to have to people who really believed in
me it's just I'm so lucky to have
parents that actually took that trip
with me took that incredible impossible
journey this is a backstage pass from
2007 it's really my mom and I have
always been best friends and that's
really helped because we really don't
fight like you would imagine a teenage
girl going on the road with her mom all
the time
we have little disagreements every once
in a while but most of the time we just
we get along really really well
Taylor and her mom have an incredible
bond and I think it is awesome that
Taylor has someone around her at all
times that she can confide in and get
advice from or just talk to and hang out
to be herself with and she never has to
question that she sits this on board
every night and watches the show it's
really cool to know that someone from
your family is always gonna be there
watching and make sure that everything's
okay I see a this massive audience that
is so connected with her and I see that
that relationship going on but you know
before my very eyes and I just I fall in
love with that audience because of what
they're getting her
the few I played the song the best day
on Mother's Day as a surprise for my mom
that's the song that I wrote about her
she was sitting there at the soundboard
and I surprised her with it and she
cried cried and cried and it was really
really fun to sing that song to her I do
allow myself little little microseconds
of stepping back and looking at it from
the outside in and and that is when I
lose it completely talking to me there
are times when I look at this young
woman and everything she's accomplished
and where she is and yet I still see
that little girl in the car seat with
those big blue eyes in my rear view
mirror say that's my baby and I'm around
you
welcome to Taylor Swift's journey to
fearless Square Garden in one minute one
join Taylor she travels the globe with
her sold-out fearless tour the fearless
tour has been one of the most incredible
experiences of my life
and guess who she found on one of her
stops join Justin Bieber and thousands
of fans as Taylor nation takes over the
fearless grand finale that arena sold
out in two minutes
what
the excitement builds for Taylor Swift's
journey to fearless
I was so happy that we waited for the
right time in my country where we could
put together this tour that was visual
and we had costumes and dancers and
people acting out parts and it just
incorporated such a theatrical element
to that tour and it had so much heart
and that's what I'm the most proud of it
I was hoping that the tour would be
successful but I had no idea that the
fans response would be so amazing
the fearless tour turned out to be so
much bigger than I ever could have
imagined it completely rewarding and
just overwhelming really a wonderful
thing to know that every night that we
walked onstage this work it's sold out
like that's the coolest thing in the
world
this is the feeling that a dream of
having makes everything worthwhile makes
every early-morning worthwhile it makes
everything just make sense that's just a
dream come true
that's just something fantasize and
dream about that's not something that
really happens is it
I read a lot of songs about love and I
think that's because to me love seems
like this huge complicated thing but it
seems like everyone snow outs who people
get it figured out - people get it right
the rest of us we walk around
daydreaming about what that might be
like to find out one great love where
all of a sudden everything that used to
seem so complicated became simple and
everything
wrong all of a sudden seems right
because you are with the person who made
you feel fearless
and by the way this street looks when
it's just rain there's a girl are fifty
men walking to a car engine
for Java down below
not to get cut
sure it's so cool
absolutely
a job slow we run out around this
one-horse town I wanna see right
when you write a song about something
that you went through and you put
details in a song like the person's name
who it's about or or when it happened or
exactly how you saw it and how you
experienced it putting those songs out
is sort of a risk I think she is this
lyrical and expressive person who has to
translate all of her life experiences
into rhyme and into music the way to
keep her happiest was to sit her down
give her a pen and then journal and she
was happy to go out on tour and put
those songs to life and and take the
lyrics and portray them on a stage
that's really a very personal thing to
do I think the reason that people
connect to Taylor is because she is
unafraid to put her life out there and I
think people resonate to that kind of
bravery and I loved your song last night
it was so cool she has a really unique
gift of songwriting she sings about
everyday things so well and she uses it
in such a positive way I really really
admire that I'm pretty sure everybody
could just relate to one Taylor Swift
song in their life everybody has the
same stories and most people just want
to be heard and she does a really good
job at being heard and sharing stories
I know that you're supposed to be afraid
of being vulnerable and you're supposed
to be afraid of giving out personal
information and details and your songs
but I just don't see how that's bad
forever and always is a song about a
breakup that I had to really address I
don't know I was asked about it in like
every interview and and so at the at the
time that I was putting together the
tour I was really sick of getting that
question if you are naming the guys who
did in your songs why do you think any
guys gonna want to date you so I wanted
to base the way that the song was
approached on stage from the angle of
having to talk about your personal life
in an interview well I guess in that
situation I just figured that if guys
don't want me to write bad songs about
them then they shouldn't do bad things
time
I loved me weak you just kidding cuz it
seems to me this thing is breaking down
but you almost never see I don't baby
what happened please tell me cuz the
sack me live is perfect now your
half-wit
well I'm sure that everything down
he's dead ever
it mean Authority there are a few things
that I really just love doing on stage
halfway through the song that I start to
sort of lose my mind and throw a
gigantic temper tantrum and like go
insane and it ends up scaring the
interviewer off she runs off stage
I stand up hit a high note and then
throw the interviewers chair off of the
giant platform on the stage you know
throwing a chair every night is sort of
like anger management
every day
I was
as the song goes on you see in the
natural progression of emotion after
anger comes see sadness
in the part where I get really sad one
of the nights speaking of the tour I
ended up putting my hand out and this
girl grabbed my hand and then all of a
sudden I started feeling all of these
girls grabbing my hand in and it was
just this moment of they were kind of
comforting me and it's a really
vulnerable and emotional part of the
song and I I feel it every time I sing
it so for them to be holding my hands
was really nice we would throw the
butter and so I just started putting my
hand out every night and there's like
there's something really really cool for
me in that connection like holding
somebody's hand is such a personal thing
and I really like that part of the show
with every breakup there's that there's
that initial jolt of anger where you
want to throw a chair but then the
reality underneath all that is that can
really move sad and you always end up
kind of kneeling on the floor
realizing that you just wish that you
could back up the whole scenario and
just make it in differently
life on the road is sort of like summer
camp
Amos yeah okay are you wearing my
headband again I'm wearing our in bed we
agreed we'd share the fearless tour went
all over the United States of America
went to Canada he also toured in Japan
and Australia went to UK tour has been
going on for 15 months and that's a long
tour the band I find many ways to
entertain ourselves when we're out on
the road we just get into all kinds of
trouble
they have shrimp on the barbie we just
decided to keep on keep on looping
around the world on this tour try to
read that word in halts there's AI that
was perfect it means table of contents
that's a really fun fact of the day and
I'm so glad we did I have my two best
friends out on the road with me Caitlin
and Liz we are absolutely obsessed with
each other did you know that dogs can
smell fear oh and the human head weighs
even though we can be a little silly on
the road the girls and I could be a
little domestic whiz Katelyn and I found
a kitchen in the arena
sometimes the girls and I spend a little
too much time at the kitchen goofing
around and have to race to hair and
makeup
it's almost eight minutes I got to start
doing my hair right now let me just
start this braid out I got it again a
lot of people have hair and makeup
people on the road with them but no I've
done this way we don't really know any
different
we've become like sisters we share a
dressing room and every night we get
ready in a row all three of us and we
put on our makeup and we do our hair and
we talk about boys and life you said
that your Curly's mine I didn't say that
you said I just said that you're a
copier we know each other so well okay
so I accidentally burned Taylor's arm
with my curling hair accident it was an
accident my elbows still smoking where's
just where's the owie wait till now he
there's nothing what's so funny Liz what
what's got a girl with him
no she's driving this truck Kimmy
you drive the truck I'm over it this
picture to burn
I didn't realize you loved yourself with
me
I'm crazy
Oh
there's no time for tears just sitting
here planning my revenge there's nothing
stopping me from going out with
daddy's gonna show you how sorry you be
watch me
so much
is the last night of to work and we are
here at mine
ah Stadium
knowing that Gillette Stadium was the
last night of the tour it was such a
mixture of emotions because I loved this
tour so much and I put everything into
it this is certainly a nice place in the
tour I think this will do this makes me
really excited
it's gonna be really sad when we wrap
this up because it's so fun and it's
it's been like the past year of our life
every day that's a big giant me
y-you remember walking out into the
Gillette Stadium soundcheck and it was
empty and I kind of lost it I was just
just dancing and running around
frolicking I was so happy that I
couldn't control it and I just kind of
acted like I was six I remember looking
out at this stadium and thinking I can't
believe we're playing they're like I
can't believe we're playing there and
people are gonna fill that whole place
up
I can't believe we're playing there and
it sold out and we're playing there like
it's just it's so crazy to me that we
were able to end the tour I'm such a
huge huge show the reality is we started
out in a place of Knoebels Grove and
Taylor was 11 years old and she would
start singing and there was no one in
the audience and by the time she was
finished there'd be five hundred people
applauding her you know so when you
think about where it started and how
much she loved singing how much she
loves the fans and everything else what
a weight and they here this is it
fearless rapping on this
amazing this has been the most wonderful
group of people I've ever worked with
I miss everybody already 15 months it's
been an incredible journey the most
rewarding experience it's just been
awesome I still though
unbelievable and honestly when you have
that many shows ahead of you you think
will be it's never gonna end we live in
the magic world and I honestly felt like
this day would I just don't think
there's a better way to go out than a
big bang in the north and honestly sad
to know that our time is up but it it
holds memories and places and people in
my heart that I'll that I'll never
forget I had no clue
I had no clue this is amazing 55,000
people you can't beat that oh it's gonna
be emotional is gonna be intense it's
gonna be a little dramatic oh no man
it's bittersweet it really has the tour
coming to a close it's like impending
graduation I never had that I never had
the countdown to when I was gonna go and
hear my name called and throw my cap in
the air so I guess this is that for me
at the last show in the Tea Party room
we got everybody together and gave
everybody these yearbooks we had
designed
I think the yearbook took everyone by
surprise it's great it really caught me
off guard
and in a very happy way just gave him
one more thing on that last day to be
elated about
I never actually bought of your book in
high school
actually the priest in had a good time
doing I'm so glad I have this to look
back awesome really cool and I'll never
forget it amazing it's over I'm glad
that we did that because now everybody
has this beautiful book of memories of
what we had all undergone together
hey guys Justin I just want to say it's
an honor to be Taylor
amazing experience she's a great person
she's really funny great to hang out
with and yeah I'm just really honored to
be here so thank you so much we'll see
you guys soon
at the last huddle before we went on
stage I just told them how much I love
them and how I was so happy to have gone
through this with them and if that group
of people will be with me forever
emotions are running high and where we
feel million different things per minute
because this is the last time that we're
going to stand here in a circle like
this Trust is not something that comes
easily by me but I want you to know that
trust you that's something that because
we've shared this experience together
will always be true we've done this as
this band of brothers this band of teens
who somehow got a chance to stand on the
biggest stages in front of the biggest
crowd you sold out that stadium we did
that and I will always love you and I
will always trust you this isn't love
and this is the one true love that I've
ever had in mind
I think that Taylor's journey has been
one of complete surprises surprised that
it worked
surprised that people could relate to
such personal songs that people would
wrap their arms around her and just be
the most incredible fans that they could
be
every single night I get to go out there
and sing songs that I've written these
two girls who are just like me and
they're singing the words right back and
seeing that emotion come from them
seeing people crying and people having
the time of their lives is really so
incredible to me
this is song that I wrote about a guy
who made the choice to cheat on me and
probably shouldn't have because I write
songs
she said No
trained to think the songs we used to
sing to smile hours yesterday I found
out about you
wrong
I've been crying
Oh
what she
what you did
give my face
no baby
we display the most exhilarating show to
crowd like it was
I can't believe happen and I can't
believe we get to end the tour on that
note
and I can't stop crying everybody's
emotional as I've gathered this
beautiful amazing arrow and I'm so happy
that tonight went down the way tonight
went down this tour ending is very
symbolic of more than just a tour ending
it's sort of like the entire fearless
era of my life is ending which is
interesting because it's been a long
time being on this particular project I
started writing it when I was 16 and
then you know was touring on the first
record at the same time put the album
out when I was 18 really started to pick
up
when I was 19 so it's been a beautiful
beautiful time with the word fearless
being at the forefront of my life in my
career that project in that album has
really gone further than I ever imagined
it could
when I finished the tour right back to
Nashville and was in the studio 24/7
basically the next album speak now is
about my life from eighteen to twenty
and a lot happened from eighteen to
twenty she has truly put blood sweat and
tears into this album her music grows
with her she's kind of like a timeline
you're really gonna be able to just get
to know Taylor on a more personal level
you may have thought that's impossible
but considering everything she shared
with us so far but he gets better she is
happier than I've ever seen her she's
happy with who she is and the music that
she's written and most importantly she's
just happy with her life
I'm really excited about the next thing
because the next thing is something I'm
really proud of already
I can't wait to create those lyrics on
the stage and I can't wait to turn those
songs into music videos I can't wait to
see those lyrics painting on people's
faces it's gonna be really really fun
you