Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:43AM - By Travis Woods
It’s a big day for country music today—the 47th American Country Music Award nominations were announced. That’s right, the news you’ve been waiting for all month has finally arrived. Which sleeveless T-shirt/Wrangler enthusiast was nominated for Entertainer of the Year? Which album you’ve never, ever heard of was nominated for Album of the Year? How many nominations did Taylor Swift get for cowriting songs about celebrity ex-boyfriends? Discover all the answers after the jump!
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Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:01PM - By Travis Woods
The People’s Choice Awards of 2012 were held last night in Los Angeles, and, in addition to actually handing an award out to Kim Kardashian for “Best Celebrity” (seriously), the awards ceremony further pointed out its obsolescence and pointlessness by doling out best music awards to such illustrious musicians as Maroon 5, Demi Lovato, and, of course, Katy Perry.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:08PM - By Candace Butler
The country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was named Billboard’s Woman of the Year today. At 21 years old, Swift is the youngest artist to receive the honor. That’s right, Taylor, keep bringing the diary entries set to music because “Woman of the Year” and 2 listings in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records (Fastest Selling Digital Album by a Female Artist and Most Simultaneous U.S. Hot 100 Hits by a Female Artist) proves something must be working.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:01PM - By Travis Woods
Look, I know that I say a lot of stuff on here is a preamble to the apocalypse, and I turn out to be wrong each time… but if this isn’t the beginning of the end, I don’t know what is—Taylor Swift sells more concert tickets than a Beatle.
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Friday, June 10, 2011 12:24PM - By Travis Woods
Sometimes, the universe throws something out there that just forces you to believe in a greater good. And by “throws something out there,” I mean dropping a big-ass thunderstorm on top of Central Park last in New York to prevent an outdoor concert featuring Black Eyed Peas and Taylor Swift.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:23PM - By Joseph Oliveto
Taylor Swift may have skyrocketed to stardom, but at least she’s grounded enough to know that she has the people who raised her to thank for the massive success she’s experienced over the last couple of years. According to Yahoo!, the country pop star recently dug into her ever-expanding bank account and bought her parents a house in Nashville for the hefty sum of $1.4 million.
See parents, you gotta teach your kids a talent when they are young.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011 10:33AM - By Joseph Oliveto
While Taylor Swift may be winning the hearts of all the American girls who used to insist that they’d listen to “any kind of music except country,” music icon and occasional failedsitcom star (well, in our opinion, the show was at least an “artistic failure”) Reba McEntire is jokingly calling out the rising star for writing so many songs about ex-boyfriends. Continue Reading
Friday, February 4, 2011 9:51AM - By Joseph Oliveto
Taylor Swift may be a talented country-pop musician, but we were all fairly sure that rap wasn’t her thing. Well, Swift surprised us–don’t worry, she’s not doing a “hey, we’re tottally friends now” collaboration with Kanye–by putting her own personal twist on some Nicki Minaj rhymes during a radio interview.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011 9:28AM - By Joseph Oliveto
Last night was the annual People’s Choice Awards, one of the few awards shows that decides who brings home a trophy by asking the general public to vote. (And by “general public,” we mean teenage girls. How else do you explain Grown Ups winning Best Comedy?)
According to MTV, it was a good show this year, with plenty of big names in the pop music world accepting awards and performing for the audience.
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