Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home TV

Stephen Barker Liles Revisits Taylor Swift’s Song About Him

rmtsa by rmtsa
October 11, 2023
in TV
0
Stephen Barker Liles Revisits Taylor Swift’s Song About Him
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


You might also like

Chrissy Metz Talks Potential Return of The Hunting Wives Season 2

RHONJ’s Luis Ruelas Supports Todd Nepola After His Rant Against RHOM Producers

Jerry Adler, The Sopranos and The Good Fight Actor, Dead at 96

Love and Theft s Stephen Barker Liles Revisits Taylor Swift s Song Hey Stephen — Written About Him 290

Stephen Barker, Taylor Swift.
Getty Images (2)

Stephen Barker Liles is living proof that not all of Taylor Swift’s songs are about heartbreak. 

The Love and Theft singer, 39, took a trip down memory lane during the latest episode of “The Bobby Bones Show” podcast, opening up about Swift, 33, writing the track “Hey Stephen” about the pair after they got close while touring together in 2008. 

“[Taylor put us on the first tour we ever did,” Liles said after being asked if the song was actually about him. “It was like, she was just about to release the Fearless album so we went on our first tour and [she] wrote a song about me. We got close and it was cool.”

The song was rereleased in April 2021 when Swift dropped Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in an effort to reclaim her masters after they were bought and sold by Scooter Braun in June 2019. Fearless marked her first rerecording followed by Red (Taylor’s Version) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) in October 2021 and July 2023, respectively. Her fifth studio album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), is set to drop later this month. 

While Swift has had to fight against the narrative that all her songs are venomous tunes about ex-boyfriends since her career began, “Hey Stephen” — with lyrics like “I can’t help it if you look like an angel” and “I can’t help if I want to kiss you in the rain slow” — prove that Swift’s discography is filled with a full range of emotions when it comes to matters of the heart. 

“It’s a nice song,” Liles said of the track. “It’s like the nicest song you could write about somebody, so that was cool.” 

Swift has a history of never naming the subjects of her music — but her first five albums included secret liner notes that provided a glimpse into her inspiration. When Fearless was released, eagle-eyed fans quickly discovered that “Hey Stephen’s” code spelled out “Love and Theft.” 

In a 2008 interview with CMT Radio Live, Swift played coy about the track but revealed that she wrote “Hey Stephen” as a way to express her admiration for “Stephen,” saying, “It’s just like a little musical wink to the guy that I thought was cute … I think that guy’s really cute.”

Liles later confirmed the song was penned about him — and that he heard the track before the Fearless release. 

“Me and Taylor really hit it off and became really close when we were on tour together,” Liles told Taste of Country in 2011. “We had a real emotional relationship. We talked on the phone a lot. She was really cool. One day she called me up and was like, ‘Hey, I wrote a song about you.’” 

The musician recalled finding the news “funny” because he had written a song about Swift the week prior. 

“She was like, ‘Really!’ She asked how it went and I told her about some of the lines,” he recalled. “I didn’t tell her too much, but I told her about the main tag of the song. She was like, ‘I want to hear it!’”

Thank You!

You have successfully subscribed.

Harry Styles Plays Coy About Having Same Song Title Ex Taylor Swift

Related: Taylor Swift’s Exes Most Candid Quotes About Her Songwriting

Writing what she knows! Taylor Swift is notorious for penning personal tunes about her high-profile relationships, but how do her exes feel about being her muses? The Grammy winner has been using her love life as inspiration since her self-titled debut dropped in 2006, featuring hits “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on My Guitar.” More than […]

Love and Theft’s hectic tour schedule kept Liles from recording and sending the song to Swift at the time — “I never really did anything with it,” he told Taste of Country — but the band laid down a raw version of the song, titled “Try to Make It Anyway,” while writing their self-titled fourth album in 2011.

“This is actually one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever written,” Liles shared at the time. “[Taylor] is awesome. I really dig Taylor. I dig what her and her family have done with her career, and I dig the person she is. I hope she’s flattered by it. As far as I know, none of the other dudes she’s been hanging out with have written a song about her.” 



Source link

Tags: BarkerLilesrevisitsSongStephenSwiftsTaylor
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

Chrissy Metz Talks Potential Return of The Hunting Wives Season 2

by rmtsa
August 25, 2025
0
Chrissy Metz Talks Potential Return of The Hunting Wives Season 2

Chrissy Metz isn’t ruling out a possible season 2 of The Hunting Wives. When asked whether the show is “open” to a return, Metz, 44, replied on the...

Read more

RHONJ’s Luis Ruelas Supports Todd Nepola After His Rant Against RHOM Producers

by rmtsa
August 25, 2025
0
RHONJ’s Luis Ruelas Supports Todd Nepola After His Rant Against RHOM Producers

248 Credit: Instagram Luis Ruelas has offered his support to Todd Nepola after watching the rant he went on against the Real Housewives of Miami producers last Friday. After...

Read more

Jerry Adler, The Sopranos and The Good Fight Actor, Dead at 96

by rmtsa
August 25, 2025
0
Jerry Adler, The Sopranos and The Good Fight Actor, Dead at 96

Jerry Adler, The Sopranos and The Good Fight Actor, Dead at 96 ad Source link

Read more

Travis Kelce and Parents Donna and Ed Attend The Kingdom Premiere

by rmtsa
August 25, 2025
0
Travis Kelce and Parents Donna and Ed Attend The Kingdom Premiere

Donna Kelce and Ed Kelce stepped out in support of a new docuseries featuring their son Travis Kelce. Attending the Sunday, August 24, Kansas City red carpet premiere...

Read more

Tamra Judge Shades Shannon’s ‘Ridiculous’ Outbursts Towards Katie, Talks Teddi’s Health and How RHOC Producers Reacted to Her Exit

by rmtsa
August 25, 2025
0
Tamra Judge Shades Shannon’s ‘Ridiculous’ Outbursts Towards Katie, Talks Teddi’s Health and How RHOC Producers Reacted to Her Exit

40 Credit: Charles Sykes/Bravo Katie Ginella has been one of the most significant topics on season 19 of The Real Housewives of Orange County. This is mostly thanks...

Read more
Next Post
SCOTUS case about Republican bleaching South Carolina

SCOTUS case about Republican bleaching South Carolina

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • Are these the AI music industry jobs of the future? – National
  • Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman in Wedded War
  • Tina Knowles Unveils Cécred’s New ‘Protection Collection’

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In