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“I began singing when I was 10 years old. I’ve always had a deep love for music, but initially, I wanted to pursue a career in football. However, my mom encouraged me to focus on my music, and today, I’m incredibly grateful for her guidance and for where it has led me.”
Swifties have investigated Taylor Swift so much, decoding literally every cryptic Easter egg she’s hidden for them throughout her acclaimed music career, that they could likely help professionals solve mysteries. But there are things even some of the most avid
Swifties don’t know, including her unreleased tunes. Swift apparently wrote a song titled “Didn’t They” about the tragic events of 9/11 when she was still an aspiring country singer-songwriter. A final version of the song is nowhere to be found on her nine studio albums, but a recording of “Didn’t
They” eventually made its way onto the internet in 2013, and some hardcore Swifties have been crying to it ever since.According to fanlore (a folklore-ian term for fan speculation on Reddit and YouTube comments), Swift wrote “Didn’t They” at the mere age of 11 or 12, at some point after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed 2,996 people when planes crashed into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
tracks that she would have written this song soon after that day or just a few months after processing the events.
Swift has not acknowledged the existence of “Didn’t They” (listen below), so fans don’t know much about the song or how she feels about the song today. Bustle reached out to Swift’s rep for comment, and we’ll update this post with more details if we get a response.