Taylor Swift and Emma Stone collaborated on the track, which features Florence + The Machine

Taylor Swift and Emma Stone on Dec. 6, 2023. PHOTO: TODD WILLIAMSON/JANUARY IMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK

One of Taylor Swift’s most famous collaborators on The Tortured Poets Department has never released a single — but has won two Oscars.

For Swift’s new track “Florida!!!,” the singer tapped longtime friend and La La Land actress Emma Stone to help with the song.

” ‘Florida!!!’ is a song I wrote with Florence and the Machine, and I think I was coming up with this idea of like, what happens when your life doesn’t fit, or your choices you’ve made catch up to you,” Swift told iHeartRadio of creating the song.

The singer highlighted how at times in life “you’re surrounded by these harsh consequences and judgment, and circumstances did not lead you to where you thought you’d be and you just want to escape from everything you’ve ever known,” leading one to question “is there a place you could go?”

Swift also said she is “always watching” Dateline and noticed how “people have these crimes that they commit, where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go to Florida.”

Emma Stone and Taylor Swift on Aug. 7, 2011.

“I think when you go through a heartbreak, there’s a part of you that thinks: I want a new name, I want a new life, I don’t want anyone to know where I’ve been or know me at all,” she continued to the outlet. “So that was the jumping-off point behind where would you go to reinvent yourself and blend in? ‘Florida!!!’ ”

Aside from references to hurricanes, hot weather, swamps and even giving a particular shoutout to a “time-share down in Destin,” Florida is also significant as it served as the location for Swift’s first shows returning to The Eras Tour after she and Joe Alwyn split after six years of dating.

Swift and Stone’s friendship can be traced back to 2008 when they both attended the Young Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles. By 2010, Swift was seen supporting Stone at the premiere of her film Easy A in Los Angeles.

“It’s just so important to have people that you trust, and Emma and Selena and I, we’ve had so many things in our lives that have changed over the last couple years, but our friendship has stayed the same. So that’s really good,” Swift noted to Access in 2012 about her friendship with the actress and Selena Gomez.

9 songs you probably didn’t know were written by Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift isn’t just a singer, she’s also a songwriter

Taylor Swift wrote “Better Man” and sent it to the band Little Big Town.

Little Big Town joined Taylor Swift on her 1989 tour. Jason Merritt/LP5/Getty Images for TAS
In October 2016, country band Little Big Town released their hit single “Better Man,” the first preview for the album “Breaker.” The song went on to garner critical acclaim, even winning Song of the Year at the 2017 Country Music Awards.

But “Better Man” was originally written by Swift.

Kimberly Schlapman, one of Little Big Town’s four members, told Taste of Country in 2016, “She sent us the song … We were like, ‘Wow! Taylor sent us a song. She’s one of the best songwriters ever.'”

According to Schlapman, Swift thought the song would be great for the country group because of their four-part harmonies.

Fans today might be more aware of Swift’s credit on the song now that she rerecorded it for herself on “Red (Taylor’s Version).”

Miley Cyrus’ “You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home” was written by Swift.

Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift at the premiere of “Hannah Montana: The Movie.” Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
Swift may not have had her own show on Disney Channel, but her music served as a fan-favorite tune for “Hannah Montana: The Movie” (2009).

According to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, or ASCAP, Swift penned the song “You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home,” performed by Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana in the film.

Swift also made a cameo in the film and sang her song “Crazier.”

“Best Days of Your Life” was cowritten by Kellie Pickler and Swift.

Kellie Pickler and Taylor Swift on the red carpet. Michael Buckner/Getty Images
Swift and Kellie Pickler collaborated a few years back and cowrote the song “Best Days of Your Life.”

Pickler told The Boot, “Taylor Swift and I actually wrote this song together while we were on tour with Brad Paisley. I had went through a really bad breakup a while back, so we wrote the song about the relationship that went sour.”

She added, “It’s so funny, because Taylor always says that she has the ‘Picture [to Burn]’ song, and Carrie Underwood has ‘Before He Cheats’ … and now ‘Best Days of Your Life’ — that’s my kiss-off song!”

Swift also helped to write the song “Babe” for Sugarland.

Taylor Swift performing with Sugarland at the 2009 Country Music Awards. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
Swift worked with Train’s Pat Monahan to cowrite the song “Babe” for the country band Sugarland.

Sugarland band member Jennifer Nettles told Billboard in 2018, “[Taylor] reached out. We [have] obviously known each other for many years. When she was first getting started we had just had our first little EP out, called ‘Premium Quality Tunes.'”

Swift is also featured on the track and in the song’s music video.

“Babe” is another track that Swift has since rerecorded for her own album, “Red (Taylor’s Version).”

Swift collaborated with her then-boyfriend Calvin Harris to write “This Is What You Came For.”

Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift dated in 2015 and broke up in 2016. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Swift hasn’t just written country music — she also contributed to the hit single “This Is What You Came For,” performed by Calvin Harris and featuring Rihanna.

At first, fans were unsure whether or not Swift had actually written the song.

In July 2017, TMZ reported that Harris and Swift “both knew the song would be a hit, but Taylor wrote it for Calvin and both agreed it was a bad idea to let the world know they collaborated as a couple … it would overshadow the song.”

Eventually, a representative for Swift confirmed with People that Swift wrote the song, stating, “Taylor Swift wrote ‘This Is What You Came For’ under the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg.”

She cowrote and performed on “Both of Us” with B.o.B.

Taylor Swift and B.o.B. performed together at Jingle Ball in 2012. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
In 2012, Swift pushed even more genre boundaries and collaborated with rapper B.o.B. to release “Both of Us.”

Per Hip Hop DX, B.o.B. told B96’s Julian On The Radio that his collaboration with Swift “happened naturally.”

He continued, “It wasn’t like the label was like, ‘We need to get a Taylor Swift feature.’ It was really like she hit me up and invited me to come on her set, and I couldn’t make it because I wasn’t in Atlanta at the time, but she actually arranged for me to come to Dallas and she brought me out and I played her the song, she liked it and it naturally happened.”

Swift helped to write Boys Like Girls’ hit song “Two Is Better Than One.”

Martin Johnson and Taylor Swift performing at Jingle Ball in 2009. Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Clear Channel Radio New York
Rock band Boys Like Girls got the chance to collaborate with Swift for their 2009 release “Two Is Better Than One.” And she was prominently featured on the track.

According to Billboard, the song helped to boost the band’s already-successful summer and to display their “softer side.”

Swift cowrote “Safe and Sound” with The Civil Wars for “The Hunger Games” soundtrack.

The song won a Grammy Award in 2013. John Shearer/Invision/AP
Some fans might be familiar with Swift’s contributions to “The Hunger Games” soundtrack, but if you’re not also a fan of the franchise, they might have slipped past you.

Swift cowrote “Safe and Sound” with The Civil Wars, and she told MTV in 2012 that the song “just ended up so organically coming together.”

She continued, “We wrote this song and recorded it one day. When we got the track back, I was so surprised by the restraint. He created this ethereal sound without making it this big battle anthem.”

The group ended up winning a Grammy in 2013 for “Safe and Sound.”

Swift’s song “Eyes Open” was also featured on the movie’s soundtrack.

Swift starred in the movie adaptation of “Cats” (2019), but she also cowrote the film’s original song with Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Francesca Hayward sang the song in the film. Universal Pictures
Swift played Bombalurina in the 2019 film adaptation of the musical “Cats,” but she also got to collaborate with legendary musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on the original song “Beautiful Ghosts.”

Francesca Hayward sings the song in the film, but Swift also recorded a studio version of it.

“There was an ambition and an aspiration to have an original song in the movie,” Swift said in an interview with Universal Pictures. “It was just this beautiful haunting melody.”

This story was originally published in May 2018, and most recently updated on December 13, 2023.