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Taylor wrote White Horse with Liz Rose. She talked about the song with IHeartRadio:
"And it was just about comparing the fairytale imagery we are taught as kids, comparing it to what can really happen in young love and young heartbreak, and how you just expect a happily ever after type thing. (…) . But I’ve always been so proud of this one. And every time I sing it still, I get so emotional, cause it’s really that emotion that’s just on the surface. Every time I hear this song, it’s like, ‘It’s too late for you and your white horse to catch me now.’ It’s like that coming of age where you realize you’re stronger than wanting that happily ever after, you want something better for yourself. (…)"
Funny enough, White Horse could’ve been a “from the vault” song, since it wasn’t going to be in the original album. Taylor said in 2010:
"I actually wasn’t going to put this song on the album. I was going to wait for the third album because I really felt like we had the “sadness” represented on this record. Then my agency out in LA set up a meeting with executive producers Betsy Beers and Shonda Rhimes at Grey’s Anatomy because that’s my favorite show. (…) I played them “White Horse.” It was just me and my guitar and they freaked out. They loved it. (…) we didn’t know if we were going to put it on the record because if it wasn’t going to be on the show, then we weren’t going to put it on the album. Then they called and said they were very interested in the song. We recorded it right away, sent it off to them, and they put it in!"
A sneak peak of the song was shared by Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray on Instagram.
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