After the release of Taylor Swift's re-recorded album "Fearless," Swifties are able to revisit the earlier tracks of the songstress — of course, that includes "Hey Stephen." It's a refreshing song among the artist's hits since, unlike her other songs tackling full-blown relationships with Swift sharing some of her heartbreaks, "Hey Stephen" explores the details of an innocent infatuation in an upbeat guitar-driven melody.
Stephen Barker Liles revealed that he had never heard the song until it was released. Swift had told Liles she had written a song about him, so he knew the song existed. "She didn't say like, 'I wrote a nice song about you,' so I'm just thinking, 'What did I do?' Because she doesn't really write very many nice songs about guys," Liles told The Boot in 2009. But upon hearing the song, he felt a sense of relief. He added, "I was very relieved when it turned out to be a nice song, and it's actually one of the nicest things anybody's ever done for me."
As a response to Swift, Liles confessed that he penned a song about the songwriter as well. He wrote "Try to Make It Anyway" about Swift and told Taste and Country in 2011, "Me and Taylor really hit it off and became really close when we were on tour together." He added that they once shared a deep connection and talked a lot on the phone.
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