In 2006, Taylor Swift debuted on mainstream music charts with a self-titled country music album. Long before transitioning to pop music, the singer stood fervently active with her debut genre until at least 2014. However, even after, she took steps in the direction that would help keep the genre humming. Along these lines, it turns out that the 2017 Country Music Association Awards winner, ‘Better Man’ by the band, Little Big Town, has a story mirroring precisely the same.

An interesting backstory connects the song, the band, and the camaraderie associated with country singing to the now-billionaire pop star.

Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook comprise the country music band, Little Big Town from Alabama, and they once had a collaboration with Taylor Swift for their 2017 hit ‘Better Man’. Speaking to E! News from the 2024 edition of the CMA Awards, the group opened up on how the ‘Wildest Dreams’ singer wrote the lyrics to the song but sent them to sing it instead in hopes that they could do better justice with their four-part vocal harmonies.

Rightfully enough, Sweet stated how they “were all in” the moment they heard the song that Swift sent over. Thereafter, they included their rendition of their 2017 album ‘The Breaker’. Soon enough, ‘Better Man’ went on to win the year’s Song of the Year CMA Award, for which the band still recognizes the gesture of sending over the song as “kind of her”. Finally, in 2012, when ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)' geared up for a release, Taylor Swift re-recorded her version of ‘Better Man’ and put it in the album.

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In recent memory, as early as just a few days ago, Taylor Swift did make a comeback of sorts to country music, thanks to erroneous entries.

On March 29, Beyoncé rolled out her ‘Cowboy Carter’ album, a catalog of country music, a preview of which had already come in the form of  ‘Texas Hold 'Em’ and ‘16 Carriages’. However, an unprecedented hype train erupted when Taylor Swift found herself listed as a background vocal artist for a track called ‘Bodyguard’, only for it to come out as a false entry hours later.

The music lyrics website, Genius, allows its members to edit songs’ metadata, hence the confusion. Regardless, Taylor Swift stands set with at least four different editions of her next album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ scheduled to release on April 19, but which has already put her comfortably along the likes of Michael Jackson.

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