Taylor Swift

By Alison Bonaguro Maddy: Hi, Taylor. I love your music. Will you sign my jeans? Swift (whispering): Because Taylor Lautner is right behind you. Swift: Yep. He's right there. Go say hi. Maddy: OH! MY! GOD! Me: She said go say hi, so go say hi. Maddy: Hi Taylor. Can we get our picture with you?

By Alison Bonaguro Well, well, well. It looks like Kanye West is not the insensitive guy we thought he was. Turns out he was just "standing up for art," according to his pal Beyoncé Knowles. That's what she told O Magazine after the whole Kanye-bum-rushes-Taylor-Swift thing happened on the 2009 MTV Video Mus...

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By Alison Bonaguro You have to wait until next month to hear Taylor Swift on John Mayer's new song, "Half of My Heart." But to whet your appetite, you can at least hear Mayer himself grooving on it in this old practice session. He explains that that he's sharing "the end of the tune, just sort of melodically [...]

By Alison Bonaguro This was all happening about the same time she was loving country music and starting to pressure her family to move to Nashville. Her little 12-year-old plan? "I want to get signed with a record company and take it from there," she said. She did have an alternate career path mapped out, though....

By Craig Shelburne Here's a nifty, low-budget video from Jer Coons, a young singer-songwriter from Vermont. I like the tune and I have a feeling that Taylor Swift's legion of fans will embrace it, too. Coons says his favorite country artists are Brooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, Chet Atkins and N...

By Alison Bonaguro My Old Friend," Tim McGraw Friends in Low Places," Garth Brooks Take My Drunk Ass Home," Luke Bryan Down in Mississippi (And Up to No Good)," Sugarland Only Prettier,"* Miranda Lambert These Are My People," Rodney Atkins Me and My Gang," Rascal Flatts Fifteen," Taylor Swift

By Calvin Gilbert Yeah, yeah. I know. ... Irate readers have complained that CMT.com has written far too much about the Taylor Swift/Kanye West incident at the MTV Video Music Awards. But when CMT Insider put together a brief video history of West's past slams and slights against country music -- Gretchen Wilson a...

By Alison Bonaguro Decisions, decisions. Who will you ever chose to leave your outgoing voicemail message? Should it be Dierks Bentley? Taylor Swift? Luke Bryan? Eric Church? Craig Morgan? Kellie Pickler? Keith Anderson? Or, if you’re really aiming high, Garth Brooks? It is just about the coolest thing a...

By Alison Bonaguro Right before the release of Fearless, I interviewed Taylor Swift. Her mom, Andrea, sat with us on the bus. And when I asked about the song, “The Best Day,” Taylor was talking, but I wasn’t really listening. I was watching the tears pool in her mom’s eyes. Then I cried because that’s the bond of [...]

By Alison Bonaguro How can that be? How can so many people not say country music is what makes them happy? Have they not listened to Luke Bryan’s “Take My Drunk Ass Home”? Or Jeff Bates‘ “My In-Laws Are Outlaws”? Or Pat Green’s “Country Star”? Or Darius Rucker’s “All I Want”? Or Brad Paisley’s “I’m Still a Guy”?...

By Alison Bonaguro And in this six-minute video of Taylor Swift answering questions from Time magazine readers, she talks about finding her happy place despite spending most of her adolescence with a chronic broken heart and no one to sit with at the lunch table.

By Alison Bonaguro Blogger’s Note: Today is the official Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Last year, I took my oldest daughter to work with me. So this year, in the interest of equal time, it’s now my youngest daughter’s turn to blog. By Jesse Bonaguro Hi. I’m Jesse. I’m 10. When it comes to country, Garth Brooks, Taylo...

By Alison Bonaguro I certainly don’t remember what I was doing on Nov. 4, 2005, but thanks to the archival genius of MySpace, I do know what Taylor Swift was up to. She was listening to Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” and writing her very first MySpace blog. And sure, she’s made quite a few career [...]

By Annemarie Blanco I have a confession to make: Even though I’m over the age of 13, I’m still a fan of Taylor Swift. Her vibrant show at the Grand Ole Opry last night (April 14) did not stray me away. The tweens came out in full swing to the classic Nashville stage for Swift’s short, infectious performance. [...]

By Alison Bonaguro According to her MySpace blog today (April 13), Taylor Swift is currently listening to Keith Urban’s new album, Defying Gravity. Two great country artists, together in a cyber kind of way. I like that. But beyond just telling fans what she’s listening to, she sums up the way she feels about he...

By Alison Bonaguro Paul Sidoti has a new guitar. So what, you ask? Well, Sidoti’s guitar is one of the handful of instruments that brings Taylor Swift’s music to life these days. So now that he has a new, custom-made Kramer Pacer from Gibson, anything can happen. In fact, he says, “This guitar wails.” And he praise...

By Chet Flippo Dean Brody is a Canadian artist who first moved to Nashville in 2004 and got a publishing contract. That, along with his U.S. work permit, expired after two years, and he returned to Canada. Now, he’s back in Nashville with an album deal. This is his first video: a tribute to men and women in unifor...

By Alison Bonaguro My love/hate relationship with ticket scalpers is a never-ending one. I love them when I want good seats and hate them when I can’t afford them. But it really gets me when artists like Taylor Swift and Keith Urban specifically set aside cheap tickets, and they are quickly snatched up by the so...

By Alison Bonaguro Everybody knows Taylor Swift just got back from a slew of shows overseas. But in this chat with Chicago’s country radio station, Swift has even more good news to share: “I got a call yesterday from my label and they said that ‘Love Story’ was No. 1 in the UK this week,” she said. That’s [...]

By Alison Bonaguro Finally, someone is hiring in this god-awful recession — and it’s Taylor Swift. She’s looking for a few good dancers for her upcoming Fearless tour. You must be fluent in hip-hop, jazz and partner dancing. And you may want to pad your resume with singing, acting and violin playing. But not just...

By Alison Bonaguro Just when I blog about stealing her style, a super cool fashion and beauty magazine — Allure — says Taylor Swift’s style has evolved. As for me, I was so not ready to evolve. Must I put away the sundress and cowboy boots? Not yet. When asked to choose her fave looks from over the years, Swift chose o...

God love stars who blog, so we bloggers can blog about their blogging. Like this one from Taylor Swift on her MySpace page, that confirms that she is indeed going to be the musical guest on this weekend's Saturday Night Live. That makes Swift, 19, the youngest country star to ...

By Craig Shelburne When Barack Obama won the Presidential nomination earlier this month, it may have signaled the best thing that’s ever happened to country music. That’s according to a story in the New Republic by David Browne, who is also a contributor to Rolling Stone. He talks about how GOP presidents hav...

By Alison Bonaguro Taylor Swift was 15 when she had her first kiss. “I was, like, the oldest one out of all of my friends to ever kiss a boy. Isn’t that weird? But I ended up dating him for almost a year. It was after I moved. Tennessee. Freshman year. First boyfriend,” Swift told me during an interview last month.

By Alison Bonaguro I’m starting to think that Scott Borchetta should’ve run for president. He clearly has some kind of massive allure. Because first he signed the then-unknown Taylor Swift to her first major-label record deal. And now he’s signed Reba.

By Chris Parton Taylor Swift’s sophomore album, Fearless, was released Tuesday (Nov.12), so now we can hear how her songwriting has progressed since her debut in 2006. There was no need to wait to see how she had been keeping busy between releases, though, since she is one of the first major artists to truly...

By Craig Shelburne Carrie Underwood, “Just a Dream” I’ll be working in the CMA Awards pressroom tomorrow night, so I’ve been brushing up on the nominations this afternoon. I am reluctant to make predictions, but I will say that I hope Trace Adkins wins for “You’re Gonna Miss This,” and I’m never disappointed...

By Alison Bonaguro I know that 2008 was pretty much my “I-heart-Sugarland” year. I can honestly say that their Love on the Inside CD spent more time in my minivan’s car stereo than any other. But after that, I am having trouble narrowing it down. I think because the music this year was all just too good. Also causing...

By Whitney Self Their collaboration on CMT Crossroads premieres Friday at 9 p.m. ET/PT, but you’ll have to wait until Taylor Swift: Insider Special Edition premieres on Nov. 27 to hear Taylor talk in greater detail about her love of the British band. But here’s an interesting tidbit from the show: Her fav...

Where Have All the Dog Songs Gone?  TN - May 15, 2008 Taylor Swift has her mini-pinscher in her arms every chance she gets. LeAnn Rimes adores her Pomeranian (or is it Pomeranians?). Tim McGraw and Gretchen ...