One of “Speak Now’s” standout tracks, “Enchanted,” tells the story of Taylor Swift feeling infatuated with someone she met for the first time. “I started writing that in the hotel room when I got back, because it was just this positive, wistful feeling of ‘I hope you understand just how much I loved meeting you,'” she told Yahoo! Music (via MTV). “Using the word ‘wonderstruck’ [in the lyrics] was done on purpose, because that’s a word which that person used one time in an e-mail … so I purposely wrote it in the song, so he would know.”
And the person did know, especially since Swift had put an easter egg in the booklet of the album, leaving it for fans to decode. She had capitalized the letters A-D-A-M in it to clarify who the song was really about. Luckily, Adam Young is a big Swiftie himself and wrote in his blog that the song already felt “personal” at first listen and that he couldn’t wrap around the fact that Swift had written a track about him when he finally put two and two together.
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“Why was it ringing a bell? Perhaps it was merely the word ‘wonderstruck’ that indeed struck a sweet chord, but before the second chorus hit, I’d already added up the letters: A-D-A. And then it hit me like a freight train,” he penned. “I didn’t even need to find that last letter “M.” A colorful swirl of memories flashed before my eyes as it all added up. My jaw hit the floor.”
