Rare Taylor Swift

The first half of an article about Taylor (published in a New Jersey newspaper) writing The Outside about being an Outsider at school and how it was included on Maybelene's Chicks with attitude sampler CD. They referred to it as the Outsider which I first thought was just a mistake but then I noticed in another article from a different newspaper (the Reading Eagle article above) from the same time (the same month actually) that they also called it that so I think that actually used to be the title. Also, they make it seem like the article was written in January of that year but I think it was actually written the year before because I remember reading in the April 2010 issue of Elle that she was on the cover of that The best day was written about that same thing (when she asked all her friends if they wanted to go to the mall and they all said they were busy but then she saw them all there together so her mom took her to a better mall like a hour away) and it said she was 13 when that happened (which she also says in the song) and I believe that it was in January too. So I think it was January 2003 that she wrote it, not January 2004 which makes sense since she always says she was 12 when she wrote it and she would've just turned 13 at the time (which is probably why she says "I'm 13 now"). The video they show from that time of her playing a new song is even dated January 2003 so I always wondered if that's what she was actually playing but I can't tell because I can't read lips. Plus it just seems like too short of a time period anyway to have written the song, recorded it, found out about the Maybellene CD, submitted it, found out it was chosen and recorded it again for the CD (the first version they recorded was acoustic according to the article) since it says on the back of the CD that it was recorded in February.

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