Long Live (Taylor Swift song)
"Long Live" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her third studio album, Speak Now (2010). Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, "Long Live" is a heartland rock song featuring girl group harmonies and chiming rock guitars. The lyrics are about Swift's gratitude for her fans and bandmates, using high-school and royalty imagery to describe the accomplishments in the narrator's life.
Swift performing "Long Live" on the Speak Now World Tour (pictured in Pittsburgh in 2011)
Speak Now is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 25, 2010, by Big Machine Records. Swift wrote the album entirely herself within two years while touring to promote her second studio album, Fearless (2008), to reflect on her transition from adolescence into adulthood.
Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2009 MTV Awards incident with Kanye West (pictured) inspired "Innocent".
Swift on the Speak Now World Tour in 2012