This was one of Taylor Swift's first big hits. As with many pop stars I find that while later songs may be more sophisticated, their initial simple and direct approach can be winning. Swift doesn't really have the best pipes but her skills are as a lyricist and here she sings a clear and simple tale of required love. This is very country in the sense of being much more story telling than most pop. There's none of the cynicism that is so much a part of Swift's more recent songs. Though the closing refrain... "We were so young when I first saw you..." may be sounding a note of caution about the future.
This is a fun little song but what really caught me was the many times repeated lyric "I know I'm not the center of the universe, but you keep spinning round me just the same." My first dance teacher would often tell the men/leaders that in many of the moves they should be trying to stay in much the same spot and their partners were the ones who truly moved. "Your partner is a moon orbiting around you." Seeing this repeated in Heavy tickled my fancy. So it's a rare song that I paid for! Songs back in the day had simple overall structures ababa or aabbaa or something, but Heavy is more of a novel with beginning middle and end. Just enough repitition to hold it together.
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