Taylor Swift Became ‘Obnoxiously’ Obsessed With Moving to Nashville Because of 1 Singer

Taylor Swift and her family moved to Nashville when she was a teenager to support her music career. The move allowed her to release her first album at just 16 years old. She knew she wanted to live in the city long before her family made the move, though. After learning one of her favorite artists got her start in the city, Swift knew she had to live there.

Taylor Swift’s love of a country singer made her want to move to Nashville

Swift loved country music from a young age. She grew up listening to artists like Dolly Parton and LeAnn Rimes, and decided she wanted to change her life based on a program about Faith Hill.

“I first visited Nashville after I watched this TV program about Faith Hill,” she told CMT. “It said that she went to Nashville and that’s how she made it in country music. So ever since I saw that TV program when I was about 10, I was obsessively, obnoxiously bugging my parents every day — ‘We’ve got to go to Nashville. Can we go to Nashville? Can we go on a trip to Nashville like now? Or maybe spring break, can we go to Nashville?’”

After a while, her family members weren’t able to speak to her without her bringing up Nashville.

“Everything led to that,” she said. “It was like, ‘So how was your day at school today, Taylor?’ ‘Great. Can we go to Nashville?’ I would bug them every day about it until finally we planned a trip to Nashville.”

Her family eventually moved to the city, where Hill would later became a mentor to Swift.