The Academy of Advanced Studies
Oct 8, 2026 · 26 min · 14 segments
**AAS 002: Should've Said No** Class is officially in session. 🎓 This week at The Academy of Advanced Studies, we're going back to 2006 to investigate one of Taylor Swift's earliest lessons in…
yes Okay, so this song was on, or is, I should say, on the debut album of Taylor Swift, self-titled, and it came out in 2008.
It was the fifth and final single of that album, which I guess I didn't really realize this was a single.
And she was 16 years old at the time.
And I'm just going to start off by saying this is not one of my faves.
okay it's not of
all the songs we could have drawn out of that bucket it had to be this one of
those on this syllabus we sure do i actually cut this song is one i don't i'm not drawn to turn it off when it comes on not that there are many of taylor swift songs that i get the skippable feature on this is just like sweet tangy 16 year old Taylor.
Yeah.
This is just a little bubblegum kind of take on the world.
I agree.
It's a bop for sure.
And I'm not skipping it.
Well, okay.
If I'm listening to only Taylor, I'm skipping it.
If I am listening to other songs and it comes on, I'm not skipping.
Right.
Like if you were at a Starbucks and this came on.
Oh, yeah.
I'd be like,
oh, my God, they're playing Taylor.
They're playing Taylor.
Yeah.
Love it.
If I was on my Taylor mix in my car, next song.
That's right.
yes Okay, so this song was on, or is, I should say, on the debut album of Taylor Swift, self-titled, and it came out in 2008.
It was the fifth and final single of that album, which I guess I didn't really realize this was a single.
And she was 16 years old at the time.
And I'm just going to start off by saying this is not one of my faves.
okay it's not of
all the songs we could have drawn out of that bucket it had to be this one of
those on this syllabus we sure do i actually cut this song is one i don't i'm not drawn to turn it off when it comes on not that there are many of taylor swift songs that i get the skippable feature on this is just like sweet tangy 16 year old Taylor.
Yeah.
This is just a little bubblegum kind of take on the world.
I agree.
It's a bop for sure.
And I'm not skipping it.
Well, okay.
If I'm listening to only Taylor, I'm skipping it.
If I am listening to other songs and it comes on, I'm not skipping.
Right.
Like if you were at a Starbucks and this came on.
Oh, yeah.
I'd be like,
oh, my God, they're playing Taylor.
They're playing Taylor.
Yeah.
Love it.
If I was on my Taylor mix in my car, next song.
That's right.
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