" You Belong with Me " is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift. The song is co-written by Swift and Liz Rose and is produced by Nathan Chapman with the help of Swift. The album was released on April 18, 2009 by Big Machine Records as the third single from Swift's second studio album, Fearless (2008). Swift was inspired to write "You Belong with Me" after hearing a male friend was arguing with his girlfriend over a phone call; he continues to develop the storyline afterwards. This song contains many elements of pop music and the lyrics have Swift who wants an unreached love interest.
The song won Favorite Songs at the Kids 2010 Choice Awards, and received nominations at the 2010 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Recording of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "You Belong with Me" enjoys commercial success as well; it became the top ten hit in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. In the United States, the song became Swift's highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time and has become Swift's third best-selling single. It managed to get the largest crossover radio audience since "Breathe" performed by Faith Hill in 2000. The single was certified 6ÃÆ'â € "Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song is one of the best-selling singles worldwide, with worldwide sales of over 7 million units (according to IFPI).
The music video that accompanies the song was directed by Roman White. The video features Swift describing two characters, a nerd (protagonist and narrator) and a popular girl (antagonist and girlfriend), while American actor Lucas Till plays the male lead. The video plot centers on the protagonist who secretly loves the male lead, even though he has a boyfriend. The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, but during the Swift acceptance speech, rapper Kanye West interrupted, protesting in favor of Beyoncà © ©. The incident caused a reaction in the media, with many people coming into the Swift defense. The song is played live in various places, including the 2009-10 Fearless Tour, where it is the opening number. It has been covered by various artists, including Butch Walker and Selena Gomez & amp; The scene, and parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Swift became inspired to write "You Belong with Me" after he heard a male friend talking to his girlfriend on the phone. He acted defensively when his girlfriend shouted at him, and said to him, "No, honey... I have to turn off the phone very quickly... I tried to call you back... Of course I love you. More than anything!. "Out of the sympathy he felt about him in that situation, Swift developed the concept for a song. In a writing session with co-author Liz Rose, Swift explains the situation along with his idea and imagines the opening phrase, "You're talking to your boyfriend/he's angry/he'll go about something you say." Together, they develop a storyline, which depicts Swift falling in love with a male friend and he has a desire to break up with his current boyfriend for her. Swift describes the concept of the song as "basically about wanting someone with a girl who does not appreciate it, basically like 'girl-next-door-itis.' You like this person who you've known all your life, and you know him better than him, but somehow, the popular girl gets him all the time. "Swift recalled," It's fun for us to write a sentence, 'He's wearing short skirts, I wear T-shirts'. " "You Belong with Me" was first released as a sole promotion of Fearless on November 4, 2008, as part of Countdown to Fearless , an exclusive campaign by the iTunes Store; the song was later released as the third single of Fearless on April 18, 2009.
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Composition
"You Belong with Me" is a Country pop song with a length of three minutes and 52 seconds. According to Kate Kiefer from the Paste magazine, it's a "straight pop song." The song is set in the same time and has a moderate tempo of 130 times per minute. It is written in the key of F ? The main and Swift vowels stretched slightly under two octaves, from F # 3 to C # 5 . Swift hinted at his country music background in the introduction of an inflected song. Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly felt Swift's light and twisty vocals while melody "wooing". This follows the F chord? -C ? -G ? -B. Instrumentation consists of banjo clucking alongside a new wave power guitar.
The lyrics for "You Belong with Me" alternated between narrative modes, where she talked about herself, a boyfriend she liked so much, and her boyfriend. Greenblatt describes the role of Swift as a storyteller, a song that becomes a narrative for music, depicting love and boys "just very difficult to grasp". Craig Rosen from The Hollywood Reporter believes the "You Belong with Me" plot is "confessional" and considers a high school themed scenario, while Swift "is the one girl whose heart breaks and takes refuge in music". Lucy Davies of the BBC noted, "Swift deal in prosaic image of high school boys". In one verse, Swift compares himself to his girlfriend and friendly country, "He wears high heels, I wear sneakers/He cheers the captain, me in the audience bench", which Davies interpreted as the protagonist of the song envying the cheerleaders, in particular, who dating his male friend. In choruses, Swift tries "to persuade some children to come to his senses and bow to the charms of his girls".
Critical reception
Sean Dooley from About.com labeled "You Belong with Me" as one of the "best songs on Fearless ", while Johnny Davis of The Observer believed some parts of the song "might English ear needle ", though he felt that it was better than a single release by pop singer Hilary Duff. Lucy Davies of the BBC was unimpressed with the theme of a song similar to other songs on Fearless or in her replicating debut album, Taylor Swift . He argues that "You Belong with Me" "lyric palette has some color [...] and it repeats". Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine said, "'You Belong with Me' is not his best song written with a long shot, but it's hard to blame his construction." Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone commented, "It's hard not to be won by the helpless".
A Times Editor's review from The St. The Petersburg Times also described it as sounding similar to another hit: "She begged for a boy who either did not love her or wanted to leave this small town." Josh Love of The Village Voice thinks "natural wisdom and inclusiveness" shines through the lyrics and themes of "You Belong with Me"; Love also mentions that it is one of the "Fearless " "great songs". The same magazine then ranks the song at number 10 on Pazz & amp; Jop critics' poll. Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly says Swift's vocals match the melody and instrumentation of the song, which he says is "slick" and "radio-friendly". Rob Sheffield of Blender recommends that readers download "You Belong with Me", and Jeniffer Webb, also from About.com, estimates that the song will reach different age groups. Webb said, "It continues the artist tradition of having little something for everyone, so it's no wonder he has a huge fan base."
Awards and nominations
At the 52nd Grammy Awards, "You Belong with Me" received nominations for three awards. The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year but lost to BeyoncÃÆ' © Knowles' "Single Ladies" (2008), for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year but lost to Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody "(2008), and for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance but lost to Knowles'" Halo "(2009). "You Belong with Me" won the Favorite Song at the Children's Award Awards 2010 and was nominated as Song of the Year at the 45th Academy of Music Awards, but lost to Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" (2009). Although "You Belong with Me" did not receive the award for the nomination received at the 52nd Grammy Awards, Swift won this year's album for Fearless , which is part of the song.
Performance chart
North America
Once released as a single promotion, in the week ending November 22, 2008, "You Belong with Me" debuted at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 due to the sale of 172,000 digital downloads, tying it up with the Jonas Brothers for twenty his top debut in 2008, a record he later defeated; the song fell off the Billboard Hot 100 the following week. After the release of the single, the song re-entered Billiards Hot 100 at number eighty-seven in the week ending May 16, 2009. "You Belong with Me" moved to number three on Billboards. Hot 100 in the week ending August 15, 2009, making Swift the highest song in the second charting effort, surpassing his previous best effort to record "Love Story", which reached number four in January 2009. Spurred on by non-state radio radio broadcasts, this became the largest crossover radio transmitter since Faith Hill's song "Breathe" (2000). The following week, peaked at number two on Billboard Hot 100, was blocked in the top spot by The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling". The song is one of thirteen songs from Fearless mapped at the top of the Billboard's Top 100 hot 100, breaking the record for the top 40 entries from one album. The single is certified platinum fourfold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments exceeding four million copies. In November 2017, "You Belong with Me" has sold 4.8 million copies in the United States.
"You Belong With Me" became Swift's first song to reach the top of Radio Songs with 117 million viewers of all formats. It also became the first single crossover to organize Radio Songs since Billboard began incorporating data monitored by Nielsen BDS in 1990. It remained at number one for two consecutive weeks. On Billboard Hot Country Songs, the single debuted at number thirty-two. On the weekend of June 13, 2009, it jumped from number thirteen to ten on the chart, scoring eight successive Swift tops. "You Belong With Me" became Swift's number one song on Hot Country's Billboard song after peaking at the end of the week of 22 August 2009. It remained on top for two weeks and fell at number six afterwards. The single is mapped on the Billboard Hot Country Song for a total of twenty weeks. On Billboard Pop Songs, debuted at number forty. It jumped at number twenty-six the next week and in the fifth week, on the weekend of July 25, 2009, it entered the top ten at number ten. It reached its peak in the number two weeks ended September 5, 2009 and was held from the top spot by Black Eyed Peas, I Gotta Feeling for five weeks. It also reached the top spot in Adult Contemporary for fourteen weeks when it reached number two on Adult Pop Songs.
In Canada, "You Belong with Me" comes in at number eighty-four. It jumped in the top ten at number nine and peaked at number three for three consecutive weeks. It was mapped in Canada for forty-five weeks. It also reached number one on the Canadian Country Radio after just eleven weeks on the radio. It was also certified double platinum by Music Canada for sales of 160,000 digital downloads.
Europe and Oceania
"You Belong with Me" debuted at number ninety-nine in the week ending July 18, 2009 in the UK. It reached its peak in Britain at number thirty in the week ending September 26, 2009. In Ireland, it peaked at number twelve and spent a total of six weeks on the chart. On the European mainland, "You Belong with Me" peaked at number sixty-one on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles Chart, number eleven in Belgium (Flanders), and number thirty-two in Denmark. "You Belong with Me" experienced similar commercial results across Europe; it became a forty-big hit in Belgium (Wallonia) and the top fifty hits in Sweden.
"You Belong with Me" success in Australia and New Zealand. In the week ending May 24, 2009, the song entered in Australia at number fifty. In the week ending July 5, 2009, the song peaked at number five, the position was maintained for three consecutive weeks. "You Belong with Me" was placed at number eighty-eight on the Austrian Singles Chart of the decade. It was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for shipments exceeding 140,000 copies. In the week ending May 25, 2009, "You Belong with Me" debuted at number twenty-eight in New Zealand and, after two weeks of rising positions, it peaked at number five. The single is certified platinum by the New Zealand Recording Industry Association for shipments exceeding 15,000 copies.
Music video
The music video "You Belong with Me" was directed by Roman White. In the video, Swift plays the protagonist and antagonist, whom he describes as "the nerd, who misses a man he can not have" and "a popular girl." Swift described the popular female persona as "horrible and scary and intimidating and perfect". Her love interest is portrayed by American actor Lucas Till; Swift met Until acting Hannah Montana: The Movie in April 2008. She then asked her to act in the video, because she was interested in her "cool looks", realizing "people's dreams". With regard to his acting on video, Swift said, "He's absolutely perfect for that part and really fun to be around as well." According to him, the video plot is "captivating"; he also said that, "the whole video, I just sat there languishing, wishing I could be in his position." In connection with the video's conclusion, White explains that Swift "becomes who he really is", while Swift thinks it's a happy ending. Swift commented, "One of my favorite things about this video is that there is no standard show scene.This video is pretty much the storyline and I told it at the time, basically telling it while all this is happening around me."
The video was recorded in two days in Gallatin and Hendersonville, Tennessee. On the first day of filming, Swift uses a double body so Swift, as the protagonist and antagonist, appears in one shot. In a scene where he appears dancing, White replaces Swift's routine with a person who has no rhythm; She remembered, "It was the most fun I had in a long time, just panicking and doing the most foolish movement." On the second day, they first filmed the prom scene and, lastly, a football game, both filmed at Pope John Paul II High School. The school provides many students in addition, including soccer players, band members, cheerleaders and students. The final prom scene uses the school decoration for the real prom the next night. When shooting for touchdown, Until can not catch the ball, advance the long shot. "You put a lot of strong effort in it and it looks good", Swift stated about filming.
The video begins with Until arguing with his girlfriend through a phone call. As soon as Swift, as the protagonist, notices, they start communicating by holding signs through their next room window. Up close the curtains, and Swift holds a sign saying, "I love you". As the chorus of the song approached, Swift began to sing and dance in front of the mirror, changing different clothes several times. After that, Swift sat on the bench while reading a book. Up until and both talks. Then, Swift, as an antagonist, arrives at a red convertible car and Till goes into it; Swift, the antagonist, kisses it and gives a hostile look to the protagonist. Suddenly, the Swift antagonist looks cheerleading in a soccer match while the other Swift persona on the bench, performing in a school band. After scoring the winning goal, Until it moves towards his girlfriend and finds him teasing with his teammate, producing a hot argument that results in their separation. Meanwhile, Swift the protagonist stares in amazement. Looking back at each other through their bedroom window, Till and Swift re-communicate through the signs. Until asked Swift protagonist if he attended the prom and he replied, "no, learn". However, Swift, notice Until it has a sad expression as she goes, and she changes her mind. Shortly after, Swift was seen entering the prom with a white dress, no longer looking like a nerd, while all his colleagues stared in amazement. When Upon her place, she walks towards him and Swift antagonist, in a red dress, tries to stop her, but she ignores it. End the video, Until and Swift reveal the folded signs saying "I love you" and kiss. To date, the video has over 840 million views on YouTube, making it the most watched country music video on the site.
Video reception
This video was aired on May 2, 2009, at CMT. Chris Ryan from MTV commented, "'You Belong With Me' is a teen rom-com wrapped in a music video, where Taylor plays two roles.See Dooley of About.com believes Swift works" very hard ", plays two roles A Times Editor's review from The St. Petersburg Times compared Swift sunglasses that Swift used for Clark Kent Michael Deacon from The Daily Telegraph felt the video fit the song, € because they are both whiny and boring ".
At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video. During the Swift acceptance speech, rapper Kanye West cut him off, grabbed his microphone and stated, "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you and I'll let you finish, but Beyoncà ©  © [Knowles] has one of the best videos of all time" regarding the Knowles video for "Single Ladies". According to Jayson RodrÃueguez of MTV News, Knowles "saw from the crowd, dumbfounded". Later in the evening, during his acceptance speech to win the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, Knowles told of his first experience winning his first Music Video Award with Destiny's Child and how much it meant to him. He then calls Swift from backstage to finish his acceptance speech. Many critics, celebrities and fans criticize Western acts, including US President Barack Obama, who called West a "jackass". Initially, the West did not attempt to contact Swift, but he later issued an apology, which Swift accepted. The video was nominated for this Year's Video at the 45th National Music Academy Awards. At the 2010 CMT Music Awards, the video received nominations for "Video of the Year" and "Women's Video of the Year", but lost to Carrie Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova" and Miranda Lambert's "White Liar". At the MuchMusic Video Awards 2010, the video was nominated for MuchMusic Video Award for Best Best Video Artist and MuchMusic Video Award for People's Choice: Favorite International Video, but lost to Miley Cyrus's video for "Party in the US." and Adam Lambert's video for "Whataya Want From Me", respectively.
Accolades
Live show
Swift's first television show "You Belong with Me" was at a free outdoor concert on May 29th, 2009, broadcasted by The Today Show . Following the promotion for the song, he performed it on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Studio 330 Session, at the 2009 CMA Music Festival, at the 2009 CMT Music Awards, and at Festival V 2009, in summer 2009. Swift featured "You Belong with Me" at the MTV Video Music Awards 2009 on September 13, 2009, the same day Kanye West interrupted his acceptance speech. He starts the show at the subway station, wearing a brown trench coat and black beanie, and continues on the subway, removing a trench coat and revealing a red cocktail dress. After the train stops at the stop, Swift completes the show on a yellow cab. Swift then performs songs on The View and Saturday Night Live . In fall 2009 and winter 2009 to 2010, Swift started promotions for "You Belong with Me" countries outside the United States; he performed songs on the UK's GMTV channel, the Sydney Sound Relief charity concert, and the Japanese Sukkiri Morning Show .
Swift did a medley, which included "You Belong with Me" at the 52nd Grammy Awards. Wearing a casual white blouse and black skinny jeans, Swift displays "Today Was a Fairytale" and then announces, "This is a fair story and the honor to share the stage with Stevie Nicks". After that, they did a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon" (1976). Swift then grabs his acoustic guitar for the third and final part of his medley, jumping into an ambiguous version of "You Belong with Me". Nicks stood up, tapped his tambourine and nodded, every time he stepped into the microphone to sing with Swift. Eric Ditzian of MTV News disappointed at the harmony of Swift and Nicks, but said the two were "made for an interesting twosome". The show was followed by many reactions in key singing from Swift, which caused Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Records, to issue a statement defending the show.
"You Belong with Me" performed as an opening number on all 2009 and 2010 dates from the first headlining tour of Swift, the No Flame Tour. Before Swift or the dancers enter the stage, the video plays on the overhead screen; it shows a variety of celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Iman Hill, Lucas Till and Swift themselves, sharing their definition of the word "fearless". After the video is over, the band and backup dancers appear, wearing yellow cheerleading uniforms. Swift, wearing a white marching band uniform, then emerged from the bottom of the stage and started singing. Swift roam around the singing stage and the backup dancers perform a cheerleader routine while cheerleader projections are displayed on stage. The show was underway, the backup dancers uniformed the Swift marching band to unveil a sparkling cocktail dress; he then handed over the rhineston-style acoustic guitar and finished the show. Craig Rosen from The Hollywood Reporter believes Swift's performance of "You Belong with Me", coupled with the performance of "Should've Said No", on May 22, 2009, a concert in Los Angeles at the Staples Center made the show success. The song is also performed on the World Tour of Speak Now and The Red Tour. "You Belong with Me" was also performed on The World Tour 1989 at several places in "You Are in Love". During Reputation Stadium Tour, this song is performed after Style and Love Story.
Coverage and media usage
In November 2009, American rock singer Butch Walker covered "You Belong with Me" for the release of a digital single. James Christopher Monger of Allmusic said the cover was included "with the same joy of karaoke that triggered the previous installment". Bill Lamb of About.com describes this composition as "almost tonal-tonk sound" and "a bit more country than the original Taylor Swift". According to Mikael Wood of Billboards, this cover instrumentation was triggered by the banjo; he claims it is "an online success". Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine described the cover arrangement as "fantastic" and, for him, it "emphasizes the melody and the great structure that is the real selling value of the song". Upon hearing the cover of Walker, Swift posted via his official Twitter account, "I lost my listening MIND! Hero Band for the "You Belong with Me" feature console as one of sixty-five songs from the "mainstream act".
A parody titled "TMZ" is included in the studio album "Weird Al" Yankovic Alpocalypse (2011). A music video for the parody, directed by Bill Plympton, was filmed in October 2010, and included in the DVD album. The music video was released in Vevo "Weird Al" on June 24, 2011.
Track list
Diagram
Chart of procession and succession
Certification
Since May 2013, the RIAA certification for digital singles includes streaming audio and/or on-demand video tracks in addition to downloads.
See also
- List of bestselling singles in the United States
- List of bestselling singles
- List of contemporary adult number # 2009 (US)
- List of country numbers in 2009 (US)
- List of Hot Country songs with numbers in 2009
References
External links
- "You Belong with Me" music video on YouTube
- The music video of "You Belong with Me" in CMT
- Lyrics on Taylor Swift's official site
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
- Lyrics "Weird Al" Yankovic's TMZ on MetroLyrics
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