On December 5, 2006, just eight days before her seventeenth birthday, Taylor Swift performed a special acoustic set at CMT’s Studio 330 to promote her newly released self-titled debut album. Joined by her small two-piece band, she played several songs, closing with “The Outside.” Before performing it, Taylor shared the heartfelt story behind the song, explaining how she wrote it about feeling like an outsider during her early school years and how songwriting became her way to cope and connect. |