Tim McGraw Reflects on Taylor Swift Naming Her Breakout Hit After Him

Tim McGraw is opening up about his thoughts about Taylor Swift‘s breakout hit, “Tim McGraw” and how it actually made him feel really old.

The 53-year-old singer admitted he did think it was really good, but he added that he was “a little apprehensive about it when I first heard it.”

Tim continued, “Then I thought, have I gotten to that age now to where they’re singing songs about me? Does that mean I’ve jumped the shark a bit? Is everything still cool? And then I realized that somebody had told me that she was in her 7th grade math class when she wrote the song, so it made me feel a little bit better about that because she was so young writing it. So I didn’t feel like I was that terribly old…”

He also remembered when Taylor was on tour with him and wife Faith Hill on their Soul2Soul Tour.

“It was incredible,” Tim says. “It was just her and her guitar and one other person. Just two people, her and another guy playing…I’m a big fan of Taylor’s. I think that she has just such a unique way of connecting with her audience and her songwriting ability and her intuition is just so incredible. And I just think she’s one of the greatest artists to come along in a long time.”

If you didn’t see, check out how Tim and Faith do family dinners with their three daughters.