Taylor Swift was a big winner from the world of country music on Wednesday night’s People’s Choice awards.
Swift took home Favorite Country Artist beating out stiff competition from Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum and Rascal Flatts. Her award was not televised and she was not in attendance.
Swift was beaten out by Katy Perry in the Favorite Female Artist category and again in the Favorite Tour Headliner category.
The surprise of the night came from Demi Lovato who beat out Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Rihanna for the Favorite Pop Artist Award.
The big upset came moments after Lovato performed her hit single, “Give Your Heart a Break.” She was the only nominee from the Favorite Pop Artist in attendance.
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Wearing a sunny yellow dress and pearls, Taylor Swift joined the Civil Wars on stage during their sold-out performance at the Ryman in Nashville to perform, for first time, their “Hunger Games” soundtrack song, “Safe & Sound.”
After some witty banter about the packed-to-capacity crowd and how she almost wore the band’s T-shirt on stage to perform with them, the trio launched into the ballad about trying to hold on to good in the face of lots and lots of terrible events (well that certainly does fit the themes of Suzanne Collins’s novel).
Post-performance, the twosome of the Civil Wars took to Twitter to thank the singer for hitting the stage with them. “An unforgettable night @TheRyman. Thanks to @taylorswift13 for debuting ‘Safe & Sound’ with us,” they gushed. “And thanks to all of YOU for being there.”
The T-Bone Burnett and Danny Elfman-curated soundtrack will also feature Arcade Fire, The Decemberists and even some vocals from its female lead, Jennifer Lawrence.
The film opens March 23, and if you haven’t heard (how’s life under that rock?), Oscar nominee Lawrence will be joined by heartthrob and Miley Cyrus beau Liam Hemsworth as well as Josh Hutcherson. If you missed the performance from Thursday night, Taylor is next tapped to take the stage at the Grammy Awards next month. No word on what song she’ll perform, but here’s hoping she breaks our heart one more time with this track.
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TSO is finally being re-opened, and on Taylor’s 22nd birthday as well! There are all new themes and images added to the site, as well as an updated icon archive and finished lyrics archive! I am so psyched to be owning the site again, I realized how much I really loved Taylor and TSO!
We have a brand new main theme by Elda, a new gallery theme by Ashley (thanks to our old owner Nicole) a new icon archive by Rossi and a new lyrics center designed by me! I hope you enjoy the new themes, and thanks for stopping at the site!
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Creating your own fragrance is so much fun, even for celebrities. Country songbird Taylor Swift recently shared the adventures of creating her first fragrance Wonderstruck and we have the video(check it out below). Here is what she said in the video clip.
Wonderstruck smells like the warm, spicy tones of perfumes. I really like things that smell like vanilla, and um like caramel notes, I really love that. In making this perfume, it was such an amazing process in picking the things that I liked that I, you know (like) more berries, berries smell nice, lets put more of those in there. So you know I never made notes like that before. I think you can tell a story in song, you can tell a story through movies, you can tell a story through writing. You can kind of tell a story that connects memories together when you create a perfume that people are going to wear in their day to day lives.
Taylor Swift‘s Wondersruck fragrance for women won’t be available in retail stores until later this fall and something tells me that this is going to be a hot item for the holiday season for 2011! Are you looking forward to the release of her fragrance?
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Taylor has named her first fragrance “Wonderstruck,” drawing upon a lyric from one of her songs, “Enchanted.” The fragrance will be available in prestige department stores in October.
Swift partnered with the beauty company Elizabeth Arden to launch the fragrance, which she created with Olivier Gillotin of Givaudan. The scent is described in press materials as “a gourmand floral … a charming and sparkling surprise of vibrant fruits, kissed by a bouquet of soft petals and a touch of sweet indulgence.” There are hints of vanilla, peach, raspberry, freesia, sandalwood, honeysuckle, white hibiscus, golden amber and apple blossom.
The fragrance will be available as a perfume spray, rollerball, scented body lotion and scented bath gel.
“I share personal life experiences through my music, and my fragrance will allow me to share these experiences with my fans in a completely different and new way,” Swift told Women’s Wear Daily. “Falling in love is a moment every girl daydreams about, and Wonderstruck represents that magical feeling of promise and hope and intrigue. It was fascinating to learn that you could layer so many different scents to create a beautiful end result.”
Meanwhile, the Wonderstruck oval bottle is deep purple with iridescence and decorated with three gold charms — a birdcage, a dove and the Moravian star. The package will feature a patchwork style in homage to the fabrics Swift has collected on her travels, along with a gold-embossed “13,” Swift’s lucky number.
“Wearing perfume is such a unique way to create memories. Like songs, a scent can take you back and allow you to relive a moment in time,” Swift said.
“I wrote the lyric, ‘I’m wonderstruck, blushing all the way home,’ for the song ‘Enchanted’ about the first time you meet someone. A fragrance can help shape someone’s first impression and memory of you. It’s exciting to think that Wonderstruck will play a role in creating some of those memories.”
Taylor Swift flies up the Social 50, rising 21-14 following buzz generated by the news of her latest single, “Sparks Fly.” Swift took to Facebook on July 5 to make the announcement. Currently, the song has 19,000 Facebook plays and 12,300 MySpace plays.
One day later, news came that Swift would be postponing several tour dates, having come down with bronchitis. In turn, fans showed their support, leaving her 9,200 comments and 22,400 status Likes.
Her fanbase also grew across Facebook (a growth of 269,000 fans) and Twitter (73,000 new followers) — up 20% week-to-week. Elsewhere, Swift closed the tracking week with 6 million VEVO video plays.
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Taylor Swift predicted she would suffer “some sort of tragedy” just days before she fell sick and cancelled a series of summer (11) shows.
The Love Story hitmaker made the first cancellation of her career last week (02Jul11) when she scrapped a show in Kentucky on Saturday night (02Jul11) after she was struck down with bronchitis.
She had planned to resume her Speak Now tour with concerts in North Carolina and Georgia this weekend (08-10Jul11), but they were also axed on doctors’ orders.
It has now emerged Swift predicted something “really awful” would happen just days before she became ill.
The singer posted a blog on her website last Thursday (30Jun11) about a concert she played in Foxboro, Massachusetts the previous weekend (25-26Jun10), revealing she was convinced she would be struck by some bad luck because the gig went so well.
She writes, “The other night, we were playing our first of two shows at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts… It turned into an absolute downpour… To my surprise, the strangest thing happened. No one left. Instead, this ocean of people in front of us just started dancing even more, screaming even louder…I’ll never forget it…
“Sometimes I get scared that there’s got to be some balance to the way things work in the universe – like you pay for good days by then having bad days, you pay for joy with pain… Like if you have the most perfect week ever, watch out! It’s about to get really awful! Some sort of minor or major tragedy is bound to strike! I hope that’s not the way it all goes down. I really hope not. Because this has been a really beautiful summer so far.”