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Tim McGraw (song)

Summary

"Tim McGraw" is the debut single by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on June 19, 2006, by Big Machine Records. Swift wrote the song with Liz Rose, and Nathan Chapman produced it for her debut studio album, Taylor Swift (2006). "Tim McGraw" is an acoustic guitar–led country ballad that incorporates the '50s progression and elements of alternative rock. The lyrics are about a summer romance that has passed: Swift's narrator pleads with her ex-boyfriend to remember her every time he hears her favorite song by the country musician Tim McGraw, the song's namesake.

"Tim McGraw"
Cover art of "Tim McGraw" featuring Swift in a sundress and cowboy boots, sitting in front of a pickup truck
Single by Taylor Swift
from the album Taylor Swift
Written2005
ReleasedJune 19, 2006
Studio
  • Quad
  • Sound Cottage (Nashville)
GenreCountry
Length3:52
LabelBig Machine
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Nathan Chapman
Taylor Swift singles chronology
"Tim McGraw"
(2006) 		"Teardrops on My Guitar"
(2007)
Music video
"Tim McGraw" on YouTube

Music critics praised Swift's songwriting on "Tim McGraw" for creating an engaging narrative with memorable details and nostalgia-inducing sentiments. Retrospective reviews have regarded the single as a blueprint for Swift's songwriting. Rolling Stone featured it on their lists "100 Greatest Debut Singles of All Time" (2020) and "200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time" (2024). In the United States, "Tim McGraw" peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on Hot Country Songs, and the Recording Industry Association of America certified the track double platinum. The track charted at number 10 on Canada Country.

Trey Fanjoy directed the song's music video, in which Swift's character and the ex-boyfriend reminisce about a past summer romance in rural Tennessee. Swift promoted "Tim McGraw" and her debut album with a six-month radio tour in 2006 and by opening for other country musicians' tours in 2006 and 2007. She performed the song at the 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards in 2007; included it in the set list of her first headlining tour, the Fearless Tour (2009–2010); and performed it on several dates of her later tours.

Background and production

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In 2004, Pennsylvania–born Taylor Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at 14 to pursue a career in country music.[1] She signed a songwriting contract with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2004—the youngest signee in its history,[2] and a recording contract with Big Machine Records in 2005.[3] Swift spent four months near the end of 2005 to record her debut album, Taylor Swift;[4] recording was wrapped by the time Swift had completed her freshman year of high school.[5]

 
Tim McGraw, the song's namesake

Swift developed the idea for "Tim McGraw" during a math class at school and wrote it within 15 minutes. While in that class, Swift thought about how her relationship with her senior boyfriend would end because he would leave for college: "I started thinking about all the things that I knew would remind him of me."[6] After finishing school, she came to the Sony/ATV office to finish the song with co-writer Liz Rose, using a piano.[7][8] According to Rose, Swift came to her with "the idea and the melody, knowing exactly what he wanted".[9] The two brainstormed ideas to polish the track, and the first thing that came to Swift was her love for Tim McGraw's music.[9] The final lyrics contain several personal references, including Swift's favorite song of McGraw: "Can't Tell Me Nothin" from his 2004 album Live Like You Were Dying.[10]

Swift titled the track "Tim McGraw", a decision that Rose initially considered "weird" but also "bold".[8] She approached the producer Nathan Chapman to record the song. Chapman had produced demos for other artists in Nashville, and his studio was a converted one-car garage at the back of the Sony/ATV offices.[11] Big Machine was skeptical of Chapman because he had not produced a commercial album, but Swift believed they had the "right chemistry".[4] He said that when Swift first played the song to him, he was astonished by the emotional engagement and thought of the song as a refreshing way to depict a romance between two people. He arranged the instruments, played both acoustic and electric guitars, and sang background vocals; other instruments recorded for "Tim McGraw" include fiddle, mandolin, bass guitar, Dobro, and drums.[11][12]

Release

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In a meeting that Swift had with Big Machine's head Scott Borchetta to discuss which songs would be featured on her debut album, she performed "Tim McGraw" for Borchetta on ukulele. As soon as Swift finished singing it, Borchetta decided that it would be her first single.[9] Swift initially did not believe that "Tim McGraw" was an appropriate choice for a single, but she retrospectively reflected that it was a right decision.[13] Big Machine released "Tim McGraw" to country radio in the United States on June 19, 2006.[14] It is first on the track listing of Taylor Swift, released on October 24, 2006.[7][12] After the 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's albums that Big Machine had released, "Tim McGraw" was reissued on 7-inch vinyl by Big Machine on August 16, 2019.[15]

To promote the single, Swift spent the early summer of 2006 sending promotional copies of "Tim McGraw" to country radio stations across the United States: "With every envelope that I would seal I would look at the address and the station on there and think, 'Please, please just listen to this one time.'"[16] She also encouraged her fans via Myspace to request their local radio stations to play the song.[17] Swift said that when the subject of "Tim McGraw" learned about the song, he thought it was "cool" and kept his friendship with her despite their breakup.[18] In a 2021 interview with Apple Music, McGraw said that he initially had some reservations about the song ("Have I gotten to that age now to where they're singing songs about me? Does that mean I've jumped the shark a bit?"), but he ultimately enjoyed it and became friends with Swift.[19]

Music

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"Tim McGraw" (2006)
"Tim McGraw" is a mid-tempo country ballad, driven by acoustic guitar. It follows the '50s progression and incorporates elements of alternative rock.
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The album version of "Tim McGraw" is 3 minutes and 52 seconds long.[20] It is a mid-tempo country ballad[21][22] that is driven by a twelve-string guitar[22][23] and incorporates fiddle, Dobro, and banjo.[10] Swift sings in the low range of her soprano.[24] Critics described the production of "Tim McGraw" as understated and simple.[22][25]

Written in the key of G major, "Tim McGraw" uses the '50s progression (I—vi—IV—V; G—Em—C—D).[26] The minor vi chord adds a sense of melancholy and wistfulness to the sound.[27] According to the musicologist James E. Perone, this chord progression is associated with late-1950s and early-1960s doo-wop and rock and roll songs. By using the '50s progression, "Tim McGraw" evokes classic hits such as Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" (1974), the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" (1961), or Hoagy Carmichael's "Heart and Soul" (1938)[28] and thus has a timeless feel to it.[26]

The refrain, as described by Perone, is "motivically based"—each one of the melodic motif is built within a small pitch range. According to Perone, this, as well as that the refrain is built on repetitions of the initial short motif, gives the song a catchy tune that makes the audience want to sing along to.[29] Additionally, the refrain—and to a certain extent, the verses—uses syncopation at the sixteenth-note level, which lends the song a production reminiscent to non-country genres such as alternative rock and hip-hop.[29]

Lyrics and interpretations

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"Tim McGraw" is about a summer romance that has past and leaves behind fleeting memories.[22][29] In the opening lines, Swift's narrator recalls how her ex-boyfriend deemed her eyes superior to "Georgia stars at night", a compliment that she deems exaggerated.[10][30] In the refrains, the narrator pleads with him to remember her every time he hears a song by Tim McGraw that they once danced to at night.[22][25] She mentions several other items and moments that she hopes will make him reminisce about their love, including her little black dress, her faded blue jeans, the beautiful nature surrounding them the night they danced to the song, and the moment she laid her head on his chest.[31] In the final verse, the narrator confesses that she has written him a letter detailing her hopes that he will remember her fondly.[10] The cultural studies academic Shaun Cullen wrote that the lyrical details of "Tim McGraw", which evoke a Southern United States rural life ("backroads", "blue jeans", "Chevy truck", "Georgia stars"), were instrumental to creating Swift's early image as a country musician, overcoming her "outsider" status because she had lived in the South for a few years before she became popular.[32]

Because Swift wrote "Tim McGraw" envisioning the end of her relationship before it actually ended, its narrative incorporates motifs of memory and passage of time, which evoke a sense of nostalgia;[33] Maura Johnston of Pitchfork dubbed the song "saudade-drenched".[24] Although Swift's narrator wishes her ex-boyfriend to remember her, she knows she cannot control that and thus expresses her desire through repetitions of the phrase "I hope": "I hope it takes you back to that place", "I hope you think of me."[34] The final refrain depicts how time has passed and the relationship has ended: "Someday you'll turn your radio on/ I hope it takes you back to that place."[35] According to the musicologist Nate Sloan, Swift's technique of structuring how a song progresses and tells a story with a timeline of events, including a reinterpretation of the storyline in the final refrain, is rooted in country-music tradition dated back to the 1980s. Dubbed the "Time-Shift paradigm" by the music theorist Jocelyn Neal, this practice invokes sentiments of nostalgia, loss, and distance from a seemingly familiar experience, which creates an emotional engagement with the listener.[35]

Critical reception

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Music critics generally praised "Tim McGraw" as a solid debut single. Jon Bream of the Star Tribune hailed it as "an ingenious way of mixing a clever hook with believable sentiment"[36] and included the song in his list of the "12 singles that made me turn up the radio".[37] Rob Sheffield of Blender wrote that the song "hit [...] hard",[38] and Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine highlighted its "massive pop hooks".[39] Multiple critics praised Swift's vocals;[40][21] Jeff Tamarkin of AllMusic considered them both girlish and mature,[20] and Keith Groller of The Morning Call deemed Swift's voice youthful but also a "good fit" for the melancholy and reflective sentiments of the subject matter.[41]

Tamarkin selected "Tim McGraw" as Taylor Swift's main highlight for its homage to Tim McGraw, commenting, "It's a device that's been used countless times in as many ways [...], yet it works as a hook here and manages to come off as an original idea." Roger Holland of PopMatters praised the song, commenting it was "good enough to recall some of the best country singles of recent years". He complimented Swift's vocal abilities on the song, saying it was executed "quite perfectly", something she was unable to carry throughout the album Taylor Swift. However, Holland was repugnant of the song's title.[21]

Rolling Stone featured "Tim McGraw" in two of its all-time rankings: "100 Greatest Debut Singles of All Time" (2020), on which "Tim McGraw" is ranked at number 11,[42] and "200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time" (2024), on which the song is ranked at number 124.[43]

Chart performance

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On the week ending September 23, 2006, "Tim McGraw" debuted at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100.[44] After 17 weeks of ascending and descending the chart, on the week ending January 13, 2007, the song reached its peak at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for two non-consecutive weeks.[45] On the week ending February 3, 2007, the song spent its last week on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 43, after a total of 20 weeks on the chart.[46] In 2007, "Tim McGraw" was one of the Award-Winning Songs at the BMI Country Awards, which honored the most-played country songs on United States television and airplay throughout the year.[47] As of November 2017, "Tim McGraw" has sold 1.6 million digital copies in the United States.[48] The single was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in March 2020, for surpassing two million units based on sales and streaming.[49]

Prior to charting on the United States' main chart, "Tim McGraw" charted on Billboard Hot Country Songs. On the week ending July 1, 2006, "Tim McGraw" debuted at number 60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs.[50] After spending 25 weeks upon Billboard Hot Country Songs, the song reached the top 10 with its new peak of number 10 on the week ending December 16, 2006.[51] In the proceeding six weeks, the song managed to remain in the top 10 until finding its peak at number six on the week ending January 27, 2007.[45] "Tim McGraw" spent a total of 35 weeks upon the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.[45]

Music video

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The accompanying music video for "Tim McGraw" was directed by Trey Fanjoy. It was filmed at the former home of Johnny & June Carter-Cash, which burned down the next year. The letter which the boyfriend receives is addressed to "Johnny" for this purpose.[52] In regards to the video's concept, Swift stated, "It deals with the haunting power of music and how hearing a song years after it was first popular can have such an emotional appeal."[53] Clayton Collins portrayed Swift's love interest in the music video. He was cast because of his physical resemblance to the real subject of the song, in that they were both tall with dark hair.[54]

The video begins with Swift, dressed in a white sundress, as she lies on the grass of a lake-bed and holds a transistor radio. Suddenly, the setting is switched to Collins as he drives a white and orange 1970 Chevrolet CST-10. He then turns his radio on and ceases driving, coming to a complete stop on a road. As Collins facial expressions become more serious, he flashbacks to memories with Swift. Swift and Collins are seen frolicking in a field, lying beside one another on the back of Collins' CST-10, staring at the stars together, holding hands as they walk, and slow dancing. When the song is in its final chorus, Collins arrives at a wooden cabin in his pick-up truck. He runs up the staircase to discover an enveloped letter next to the door. He then sits on the staircase, opens the envelope, and reads the letter. The video transcends towards Swift playing an acoustic guitar as she leans against the wooden cabin. Cut-scenes feature Swift lying on the lake-bed and performing with a guitar next to the wooden cabin. The video concludes with Swift, once again, lying on the initial setting.

The video premiered on July 22, 2006, on Great American Country.[53] The video received a nomination for "Number One Streamed Video From a New Artist (Rookie of the Year Award)" at the web-hosted 2006 CMT Online Awards, but lost to Lindsey Haun's video for "Broken".[55] At the 2007 CMT Music Awards, the video won the CMT Music Award for "Breakthrough Video of the Year".[56]

Live performances

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In 2006, Swift spent six months promoting "Tim McGraw" and Taylor Swift on a radio tour[4] and performed the song during several country music festivals.[57][58] After the single was released, in July 2006, she gave an acoustic performance of several Taylor Swift tracks, including "Tim McGraw", at Billboard magazine's headquarters in New York City.[59] To further promote the album, Swift opened for other country musicians' tours through 2006–2008. She performed "Tim McGraw" during her opening sets for Rascal Flatts in 2006;[60] for George Strait,[61] Brad Paisley,[62] and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's joint tour Soul2Soul II Tour in 2007;[10] and for Rascal Flatts again in 2008.[63]

 
Swift performing "Tim McGraw" on the Fearless Tour in 2010

Swift also performed "Tim McGraw" on broadcast television shows. On October 24, 2006, the day Taylor Swift was released, she performed the track live on Good Morning America[64] and The Megan Mullally Show.[65] She sang "Tim McGraw" for her first awards show performance, at the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards, which was her first time meeting McGraw in person.[66][67] A performance at an Apple Store in SoHo, Manhattan, was recorded and released as part of an extended play exclusively via the iTunes Store on January 15, 2008.[68][69] Since completing promotion for Taylor Swift and its corresponding singles, Swift has performed "Tim McGraw" at the 2009 CMA Music Festival,[70] the 2009 V Festival,[71] and the Australian charity concert Sydney Sound Relief.[72]

Swift performed "Tim McGraw" on all venues of her first headlining concert tour, the Fearless Tour, which extended from April 2009 to June 2010. The performances of "Tim McGraw" set on a small platform located at the opposite end, parallel to the stage in the arena.[73] Swift, dressed in a pastel sundress, sat on a wooden stool while performing with wooden acoustic guitar strapped to her shoulder.[73][74] Swift then completed the performance standing and walking back to the main stage. As she worked her way back to the stage, she again hugged fans, squeezed their outstretched hands and scrawled quick autographs.[73] [74][73] Molly Trust of Billboard attended the performance at the tour's final concert on June 5, 2010, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts and conjectured that the performance's setting was formed in order to "afford a better view to fans farther back."[75]

After the Fearless Tour, "Tim McGraw" ceased to be a frequent live number in Swift's concerts, although she did perform it on several dates of her later tours.[67] Swift performed "Tim McGraw" during the first show in Toronto and the performance in Charlotte during The Red Tour, in place of "I Almost Do". Additionally, she performed a piano version of the song in Nashville, during the Reputation Stadium Tour, with special guests Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.[76] Swift again sang "Tim McGraw" as a "surprise song" on the March 17, 2023, concert at Glendale, Arizona,[77] and on March 9, 2024, concert at Singapore, which remixed with "Cowboy Like Me", and on October 18, 2024, in Miami, remixed with “Timeless” as part of her sixth headlining tour, the Eras Tour.

Personnel

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Credits adapted from the liner notes of Taylor Swift[12]

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Weekly chart performance for "Tim McGraw"
Chart (2006–2007) Peak
position
Canada Country (Billboard)[78] 10
US Billboard Hot 100[79] 40
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[80] 6
US Pop 100 (Billboard)[81] 69

Year-end chart

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2007 year-end chart for "Tim McGraw"
Chart (2007) Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[82] 59

Certifications

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Certifications for "Tim McGraw"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[83] Gold 35,000‡
United States (RIAA)[49] 2× Platinum 2,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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