Speak Now
Promptly following the release of "Speak Now", Swift planned to continue collaborating with Chapman for its follow-up. By October 2011, she had written around 25 songs. Executives at Swift's label at this time, Big Machine, congratulated her on having finalized the album within one year. Swift felt that she had been repeating the same songwriting process as she had for "Speak Now", which diminished her creativity. Therefore, she sought to collaborate with new producers and Chapman to venture out of her "comfort zone" of writing songs alone. While "Speak Now" was Swift's statement as a songwriter, she envisioned her fourth studio album as a statement of her "thirst for learning". She subsequently reworked the album while embarking on the Speak Now World Tour.