Tied Together With A Smile - Taylor describing that the song was about a friend of hers who was a pageant queen but Taylor found out she also had an eating disorder
- “I wrote [“Tied Together with a Smile”] about one of my friends, who is this beauty queen, pageant princess — a gorgeous, popular girl in high school. Every guy wanted to be with her, every girl wanted to be her. I wrote that song the day I found out she had an eating disorder.”
https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-tied-together-with-a-smile-lyrics
- “[The song] is about a girl I knew my freshman year. She was absolutely Miss Popular, a pageant girl, and she looked perfect every day! Always had the cutest outfits, always looked the best at prom. But sometimes when you get a little closer to people who look that perfect, you realize that they don’t feel perfect. They feel like they’re ugly.”
