The lowdown: After Taylor and ex-boyfriend John Mayer made immense efforts to avoid each other at the 2010 CMT Music Awards, she was inspired to write this energetic recap of the awkward evening. Harder rocking than most of her work, it was sent to pop radio as the fourth release from Speak Now and became her first single not to reach the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100.
The vote: Receiving only two scores below a 7 in the first twenty votes, "The Story of Us" was actually perched inside the top ten of the countdown halfway through the balloting period. Earning only two above a 7 after that, it slid all the way to #36 by the end.
Best line: "But you held your pride like you should've held me"
"The Story of Us" is definitely a cute jam, but it's one of my least favorites from Speak Now. It just doesn't have the same emotional impact as most of her songs.