“Enchanted” details Taylor’s infatuation with Owl City’s Adam Young, who Taylor corresponded with via email for quite some time. When she finally met him in New York City, she was “wonderstruck” but worried she would never see him again and worried he was in love with another girl.

Peek Chris Willman’s Yahoo article on the song’s background

The song, lyrically and melodically, exemplifies almost perfectly the “fairytale” theme apparent throughout Swift’s earlier discography of the Speak Now and Fearless albums. From the story-like narration, to the romantic and magical adjectives used, to the absolutely whimsical melody – this song is the fairytale era personified.

Owl City makes its own cover of this song as an “answer” to this song, you can listen here:

Interestingly, this track was originally planned to lend its title to the album, too, until Taylor’s record label CEO Scott Borchetta recommended she title it something more mature.

We were at lunch, and she had played me a bunch of the new songs. I looked at her and I’m like, ‘Taylor, this record isn’t about fairy tales and high school anymore. That’s not where you’re at. I don’t think the record should be called ‘Enchanted.’