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'''Elisabeth Wagner''' (born September 6, 1957), known professionally as '''Liz Rose''', is an American [[country music]] songwriter, best known for her work with [[Taylor Swift]]. She has co-written seventeen17 of Swift's officially released songs, including "[[You Belong with Me]]", which was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year]],; "[[Teardrops on My Guitar]]",; "[[White Horse (Taylor Swift song)|White Horse]]", which won both Swift and her a [[Grammy Award for Best Country Song]] in 2010; and "[[All Too Well#Re-recorded versions|All Too Well (Taylor's Version)]]", which reached number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in 2021 and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2023. She works regularly alongside songwriters [[Lori McKenna]] and [[Hillary Lindsey]], collectively calling themselves The Love Junkies and notably writing songs for [[Little Big Town]] and [[Carrie Underwood]], among others.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grand Ole Opry |title=Lori McKenna & The Love Junkies |url=https://www.opry.com/artist/lori-mckenna-love-junkies |website=Opry.com}}</ref>

RoseElisabeth Wagner was born in [[Dallas, Texas]], and raised in [[Irving, Texas]].<ref name="backward">{{cite web |url=http://www.larrywayneclark.com/lizrose.html |title=Taking the "Backward" Approach with LIZ ROSE |work=Larry Wayne Clark |access-date=February 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918101703/http://www.larrywayneclark.com/lizrose.html |archive-date=September 18, 2009 }}</ref> Rose moved to [[Nashville, Tennessee]], with her then-husband, Johnny Rose, and began writing songs through the suggestion of a friend. One of her first cuts was "Elisabeth," which was recorded by [[Billy Gilman]].<ref name="backward" /> In 2003, [[Gary Allan]] took Rose's "[[Songs About Rain]]" (co-written with [[Pat McLaughlin]]) into the country's top 20.<ref name="backward" /> Rose spoke in the podcast Broken Record about being married 4 times.

Rose began writing songs with [[Taylor Swift]] on Swift's 2006 [[Taylor Swift (album)|self-titled debut album]], on which Rose has seven co-writer's credits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2003541546_taylor26.html |title=For teen country star Taylor Swift, the time was just right |author=Joe Edwards |date=January 26, 2007 |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=February 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807150218/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2003541546_taylor26.html |archive-date=August 7, 2010 }}</ref> Among those cuts were the album's first two [[single (music)|singles]], "[[Tim McGraw (song)|Tim McGraw]]" and "[[Teardrops on My Guitar]]", which helped Rose win a Songwriter of the Year award from [[SESAC]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1573609/tim-mcgraw-composer-liz-rose-is-sesacs-songwriter-of-the-year.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528195330/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1573609/tim-mcgraw-composer-liz-rose-is-sesacs-songwriter-of-the-year.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 28, 2008|title="Tim McGraw" Composer Liz Rose Is SESAC's Songwriter of the Year |author=Edward Morris |date=November 6, 2007 |work=[[Country Music Television|CMT]] |access-date=February 11, 2010}}</ref> Rose continued to collaborate with Swift on her second album, 2008's ''[[Fearless (Taylor Swift album)|Fearless]]''. Swift and Rose co-wrote the singles, "[[White Horse (Taylor Swift song)|White Horse]]" and "[[You Belong with Me]]"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1622604/sesac-honors-songwriter-liz-rose-for-you-belong-with-me.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002194246/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1622604/sesac-honors-songwriter-liz-rose-for-you-belong-with-me.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 2, 2009 |title=SESAC Honors Songwriter Liz Rose for Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" |author=Edward Morris |date=September 29, 2009 |work=CMT |access-date=February 11, 2010}}</ref> as well as the [[Fearless (Taylor Swift song)|title track]]. "White Horse" won both of them the [[Grammy Award for Best Country Song]] in 2010,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aolradioblog.com/2010/01/31/white-horse-wins-best-country-song-grammys-2010/ |title='White Horse' wins best country song — Grammys 2010 |author=Sara D. Anderson |date=January 31, 2010 |work=AOL Radio Blog |access-date=February 11, 2010}}</ref> and "You Belong with Me" was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees |title=2010 Nominees |work=Grammy.com |access-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201232857/http://www.grammy.com/nominees |archive-date=December 1, 2011 }}</ref> On Swift's fourth album, 2012's ''[[Red (Taylor Swift album)|Red]]'', Rose co-wrote one song, entitled "[[All Too Well]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Red |url=http://taylorswift.com/releases/red |work=Music |publisher=Taylor Swift.com |access-date=October 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017152800/http://taylorswift.com/releases/red |archive-date=October 17, 2012 }}</ref>

With regular collaborators, Lori McKenna and Hillary Lindsay as part of The Love Junkies, she co-wrote the song "[[Girl Crush]]" performed by [[Little Big Town]]. For the song, she won the 2015 [[Country Music Association Awards|CMA Song of the Year]] and was nominated at the 2016 Grammy Awards for [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of Thethe Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Country Song|Best Country Song]], winning the latter.

Liz Rose first began her career as a songwriter at the age of 37.<ref>[Hight, J. (2009). Writer's hit parade: Liz rose. The Performing Songwriter, 16, 70.]</ref>

! Artist !! Album !! Song !! Co-written with !! NotesCharts and Awards

|'''#No. 1''' on US [[Hot Country Songs]], '''#No. 1''' on Year End Hot Country Songs, 2× Platinum

|'''#No. 1''' US Hot Country Songs, 2× Platinum

|'''#No. 1''' Country Digital Songs

| rowspan="76" |Taylor Swift

|#No. 3 on US Hot Country Songs, 2× Platinum

|#No. 2 on US Hot Country Songs, 3× Platinum

|#No. 2 on US Hot Country Songs, 2× Platinum, won [[Grammy Award for Best Country Song]] with Swift

|#No. 2 on [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], '''#No. 1''' on US [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]], '''#No. 1''' on US, Hot Country Songs, 7× Platinum, nominated [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year]] with Swift

|"We Were Happy (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]"

|"Bye Bye Baby (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]"

|"[[All Too Well#Re-recorded versions|All Too Well (Taylor's Version)]]"

| rowspan="2"| '''#No. 1''' on [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] {{NoteTag|name=a|Chart performances of both the five-minute and ten-minute versions were combined by most national charts. The songs constitute a single chart entry, which is credited with either one of the song titles—"All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" or "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)".}}

| "[[All Too Well#Re-recorded versions|All Too Well (10 Minute Version) [From(Taylor's the VaultVersion)]]"

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