Taylor+Swift

Taylor Alison Swift was born December 13, 1989 in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She is about 5’11”. She has long curly blonde hair and is usually found dressed with cowboy boots. Taylor has a little brother names Austin. By the age ten Taylor has been singing at several events. She sang "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Philadelphia 76ers game when she was eleven years old. She learned on the guitar when she was twelve years old and also started writing her own music. To continue her music career she often visited Nashville, Tennessee, which is the country music capital. She had a good performance at Bluebird that helped her get a contract with Scott Borchetta's big machine records. She released her first single in 2006, Tim Mcgraw and the song became a top 10 hit on the country charts. Taylor won the Horizon Award from the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music's "Female Vocalist of the Year". In 2008 Taylor was nominated for the Grammy Award, which was "The best new artist Awards" In 2009. Taylor had several award for her album "Fearless". One of the videos she won was "Love story". On September 13, 2009 she also won a movie award on MTV. During her taking her award, rapper Kanye West took the microphone during her speech because he thought Beyonce should have gotten the award. Once Beyonce got her award for "The best video of the year" she called Taylor to the stage to finish her speech. Kanye apologized to Taylor privately and made a public apology on the Jay Leno Show. (biography, Taylor) Taylor Swift's concert tickets now sell out in less than 2 minutes. She is currently ranked the 69th most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine, with more than 18$ million in earnings this year alone. Taylor made a second appearance on comedy show Saturday Night Live. She was both the host ad musical guest. She was also taped for four CMA nominations in 2009. I have explained a few in the beginning. During much of 2008 Taylor was dating Joe Jonas from the popular musical group The Jonas Brothers. Swift quoted “He’s an amazing guy, and anyone would be lucky dating him”. She said that at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. Their relationship went down the drain when her album fearless was released. The song she made “Forever and Always” was clearly about Joe. Now Taylor is romantically into actor Tayor Lautner, one of the stars of Twilight saga. They have met while Taylor was being filmed in her big screen debut “Valentines Day”. It hit theatres on 2010. (biography, Taylor) Taylor gives a lot of credit to LeAnn Rimes as her main influence into her country music career. She said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she wanted to be a country singer after attending Rimes’ concert. Her music influences include Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rime, Patsy Cline, and her grandmother, who was a professional opera singer. Taylor’s best friend Abigail Anderson was mentioned in her song Fifteen from her “Fearless” album. Taylor spent her entire summers through the age of 14 at the Jersey Shore. Her family owned a home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. (imdb) Taylor loves to watch Law & Order, SVU, and CSI. On her spare time she does baking experiments in her kitchen and writes letters to people. Taylor says she is not complicated all of her complications come out in her songs. Her ideal outfit is a sundress and cowboy boots. She loves surprises and hardwood floors. She is also very excitable and loves people who are too. She likes when people cry when they are happy. Taylor isn’t the type to need a boyfriend. They know she will write songs about them if they dated her. She wears too many bracelets and can’t concentrate on a conversation if the TV’s on. In life she learned that there comes a time when you have to let go and move on. She loves black and white photos and has them hung up everywhere. She does not have trust issues. She needs everything to be organized at all times. Taylor’s a paranoid person she is always looking up medical conditions. She loves little kids. She loves her fans. Some of Taylor’s quotes inspire me. Some examples are, “what I’ve learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you’re going to run out of new things to become”. Another one she said is “I’m not intimidated by the fear of being average”. The last quote that I liked is “Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of person to draw the line between my friends and my fans.” Behind her songs there is a meaning. I will name some of them in this paragraph. Tim Mcgraw means a lot to her. That is why it was her first track on the album. She started to think about this song in her math class. She says it was the best fifteen minutes she ever experienced, when she wrote this song. Another song is Picture to burn. This is an example of how she writes song about mean people. She is generally a nice person but when you break her heart, and hurt her feelings she will write a song about you. One of my favorites is you’re not sorry. The meaning behind this song is it’s about a boy who turned out to be who she thought he wasn’t. He hid his secrets, and she figured them out on her own one by one. Citations: [] [] []