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Taylor Swift is an American singer, born in Pennsylvania in 1989. She signed to RCA records in 2003 and released her self-titled album in 2006. Her hit singles include Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Love Story, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, You Belong With Me and Shake It Off

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1 Apr, 2010

Elle cover

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taylor-swift-elle-magazine-april-2010Swift appears on the cover of the April 2010 issue of Elle magazine. She talks about finding inspiration from relationships and media scrutiny.

I’ve had countless opportunities to do some really bad things. And then people start combing through everything I do trying to find the next mistake and misperception, which leads to more scrutiny. Like, if I go to a bar, even if I’m not drinking, who’s to say that a source isn’t going to say that I was doing something I shouldn’t have been doing? So it’s not only about your own moral compass, but the moral compasses of other people that you don’t know.

31 Jan, 2010

Wins Grammy

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Swift wins Grammys for Album Of The Year, Best Country Album for Fearless and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, Best Country Song for White Horse.

This is my first Grammy you guys! This is a Grammy. I live in awe of the people I was nominated against in this category.

Taylor Swift accepting her first ever GRAMMY Award for White Horse | GRAMMYs

Youngest artist to win Album of Year Grammy

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The 20 year old country music singer makes history at the 52nd Grammy Awards by  becoming the youngest artist to win the Album of the Year award. Swift walks away with four Grammys by the end of the award show.

 I just hope that you know how much this means to me … that we get to take this back to Nashville.

1 Dec, 2009

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taylor-swift-nyt-t-magazineSwift appears on the cover of the Holidays 2009 issue of New York Times Style magazine.

If I were to do karaoke, it would probably be something from Grease! I’d sing “You’re The One That I Want” — or Def Leppard. Whenever I hear Def Leppard, I just freak out.

15 Sep, 2009

Apologizes to Swift

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West calls Swift and apologizes for interrupting her speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Kanye did call me and he was very sincere in his apology. And I accepted that apology

13 Sep, 2009

Interrupts Swift during VMAs

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During the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West interrupts Swift’s speech. Swift, who wins the award for Best Female Video (You Belong With Me), is beginning her acceptance speech when West storms the stage and takes the microphone from her.

Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!

West is referring to Beyonce’s video for Single Ladies. Swift:

I was standing onstage, and I was really excited because I’d just won the award, and then I was really excited because Kanye West was onstage. And then I wasn’t excited anymore after that.

Taylor Swift: Kanye West: VMA Awards 2009 - Imma Let You Finish

1 Aug, 2009

Glamour cover

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taylor-swift-glamour-magazine-august-2009Swift appears on the cover of the August 2009 issue of Glamour magazine. She talks about maintaining who she is, using her life to inspire songs, and the logistics of having a boyfriend.

It’s always going to be long-distance, even if I date the boy who lives next door to me in Nashville. I’ll be flying to see him and flying him places to see me. It feels like it would involve more scheduling, and I already deal with a lot of scheduling in my life. Of course, if I met somebody who was worth it, I would probably stop thinking that way!

22 Jun, 2009

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Marie Claire interviews Swift about how personal her song writing is to her and her writing style.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under. When I sit down and write a song the only person that I’m thinking about in that room is the person that I’m writing the song about and what I want them to know and what I wish I could tell them to their face, but I’m going to say it in a song instead. So, for me, music is really more about a diary and a confession. I love it. I love getting to say things to people that I wouldn’t say to them if I was standing face to face with them. Music is a way of verbalizing those things that I feel that I can’t say.

Seventeen cover

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taylor-swift-seventeen-againSwift appears on the cover of the May 2009 issue of Seventeen magazine. She talks about her song about Joe Jonas, her friends, and her favorite thing to write songs about.

Right now, my favorite thing to write about is love. And breakups. And boys. And feelings. Honesty is a big part of my writing, because when I was younger and fell in love with songs I’d hear, I would always wonder who that song was about. It would have totally broken my heart to know it wasn’t about anyone and was just written so it could be on the radio.

1 Mar, 2009

Teen Vogue cover

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cosl-2009-03-coverSwift appears on the cover of the March 2009 issue of Teen Vogue magazine. She talks about having her picture taken, her style, and her love for country music.

Well, I started begging my mom to bring me here after I saw a TV special on Faith Hill she came to Nashville, and that’s how she made it. So for spring break we rented a car and drove up and down Music Row, handing my homemade demo CD to the receptionists at all the labels. I’d say, ‘Hey, I’m eleven, and I want a record deal. Call me.

1 Dec, 2008

Cosmo Girl cover

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taylor-swift-cosmogirl-december-2008Swift appears on the cover of the December 2008/January 2009 issue of Cosmo Girl magazine. She talks about love, success, and revenge. This is the last issue of Cosmo Girl.

11 Nov, 2008

Fearless

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Taylor_Swift_-_FearlessSwift releases her second studio album Fearless. The 13 track album is co-written by Swift and collaborators Liz Rose, Hillar Lindsey, Colbie Caillat and John Rich. Singles Love Story, Fifteen and Fearless are all featured songs on the record.

On this album, I deal with a lot of fairy tale themes. Sometimes they turn out good, sometimes they turn out bad. Love Story was a really happy ending — you put everything you have into love and it works out. Then in the song White Horse, you put everything you have into love and you get your heart broken. It blew my mind that such a personal song was the one people were talking the most about, because I always felt like the more personal my songs were, the more I could just relate to them. But, really, more people have been able to relate to those songs — the ones that I wrote when I was really going through something terrible.