Unlike many songs inspired by 9/11 that preach about perseverance and resilience, a pre-teen Swift tackles the terrorist attack head-on, focusing on the devastating emotions that people of all ages experienced.

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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. The singer, who was famously born in 1989, would have been 11 years old on 9/11, so it tracks that she would have written this song soon after that day or just a few months after processing the events. 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. 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.Īccording 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. 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. But there are things even some of the most avid Swifties don’t know, including her unreleased tunes. 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.

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