- A Nashville mural features Taylor Swift alongside country music stars, each paired with lyrics containing the word "horizon."
- Swift is depicted with lyrics from LeAnn Rimes' "One Way Ticket," not one of her own songs.
- Swift covered "One Way Ticket" as a child and has acknowledged Rimes' influence on her career.
NASHVILLE — A mural in the Trinity Hills area — starring Taylor Swift — has passersby puzzled. The Eras Tour singer is the only artist painted next to lyrics that aren't hers.
The lot located at 407 W. Trinity Lane appears to be a newly built residence complex encased behind a perimeter of chain-link fences. Headshots of country stars — in blue, black and white — adorn the wall visible from the road.
There's Lainey Wilson by the words from "Bright Side": "Drivin', keep ridin' / All you need's four wheels, gas, and the horizon."
And George Strait with "West Texas Town" lyrics: "Friday comes, it's time to roll, time for me to hit the road / I've got my eyes on the horizon.
In the bottom right corner is Jelly Roll's tune "Fall in the Fall": "I feel the good times over the horizon / I can feel 'em comin' with the sun shinin.'"
Above him are two lines from "Set This Circus Down" by Tim McGraw: "Sometimes I lie awake, just thinking / Of all the horizons we have seen.
But smack dab in the middle is a painting of Taylor Swift wearing her plaid VMAs dress next to lyrics from LeAnn Rimes' song "One Way Ticket": "There's a new horizon and the promise of favorable wind."
The common thread connecting each song is the word "horizon," which makes sense considering the property records show O.I.C. Horizon Nashville as the owner. Those records only listed an address, no other contact information. The Tennessean reached out to Avenue Construction LLC, the construction company overseeing the project, but hasn't heard back. An artist's signature was not visible on the mural.
Swift has written more than 250 songs. Surprisingly, the term "horizon" cannot be found in her vast discography.
Did Swift ever cover 'One Way Ticket'?
Swift told Rolling Stone Magazine she discovered Rimes' "Blue" record at 6 years old. At 11, she recorded numerous songs on a CD demo singing along to a karaoke machine. One of the tracks was "One Way Ticket".
Writer Rob Sheffield included Swift's idolization of Rimes in his book "Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music." He explains how at 8 years old, Swift held up a huge banner in the front row of a Rimes concert and asked the country music singer if she got Swift's letters. Rimes said, "I sure did, Taylor."
"LeAnn Rimes created a goddamn monster," Sheffield writes. "She warped this child into being the best to ever do what LeAnn did. For Taylor, that was the primal scene of instruction. ... That moment of LeAnn Rimes remembering Taylor’s name had a massive impact on the world we live in now — it formed Taylor’s idea of how a pop star rolls, raising the standard so high that it’s now just part of any rookie pop star’s job. We owe LeAnn so much."
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