Taylor Swift Gets Early Birthday Gift From Grammy
Taylor Swift will turn 20 in less than two weeks. And I can't imagine a birthday gift could be any sweeter than the eight Grammy nominations she raked in on last night's (Dec. 2) Grammy Nominations Live show on CBS. Let's count them, shall we? She's up for record of the year, song of the year (don't tell Kanye West she's up against Beyoncé), album of the tear, best female pop vocal performance, best pop collaboration with vocals, best country song, best female country vocal performance and best country album. I think it's not just noteworthy that Swift is nominated so many times, it's that so many of her songs are represented: "You Belong With Me," "Breathe" and "White Horse" are all in the running. And after the year she's had, I'd say eight Grammy nominations is the perfect cap to a pretty perfect year.
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Amy says:
Congrats Taylor, this was her year. She’s owning everybody!
barb b says:
being nominated for 8 grammy does not
mean she will win them all
mel says:
Even if she doesn’t win them all or any its still an accomplishment to be nominated for 8 grammys. Good luck Taylor and happy early birthday!
flower says:
congrats to taylor what an awsome birthday gift!!!
D Trotter says:
Way to go, Taylor! Well-deserved.
S says:
Yeah, I read where she was “freaking out.” Every time she’s nominated or wins something she “freaks out.” I’ll be glad when she growns up and talks like an adult….
trink says:
She’s nineteen years old not even twenty and has eight nominations and not just any nominations they are GRAMMYS.I was freaking out for her and I’m 54.If you don’t like her to to bad for you.
D Trotter says:
Thanks for your usual positive views and really intelligent points, barb b and S — what would we do without you?
D Trotter says:
And they include the TOP 3 categories at the Grammys.
Katie says:
I’m happy for Taylor that she was nominated, and if she freaks out, I’m glad because that shows she understands what a big deal it is and isn’t treating it as if she expects to win. Plus she has already proven she can act like an adult after the Kanye thing, and she always comports herself properly when out unlike many others her age.
She might not win everything, but she deserves to be there.
And good luck to all the other country nominees, too.
Carly says:
I think the Grammys felt obligated to give her these nods since the poor, clueless young people have no idea she can’t actually carry a tune. Best selling album does not mean Good or Great Music!!!!
glo says:
CMT needs two sites one for the Carrie’s and Taylor and one for the rest of country music. Most country artists are left with the scrapes and can’t get their country news posted cause CMT devotes 99% of the homepage, the BLOGS to the Taylor’s and Carrie’s. I am fed up with CMT and their 100% focus on a few country artists and the igorning of the rest. WE NEED TO SPEAK UP.
D Trotter says:
I would love an All-Taylor site, especially if that meant her fans wouldn’t have to listen to this whining all the time.
Robin says:
Take a look to your left glo. Keith Urban is a more popular blog topic than Carrie.
trink says:
Geeez Janet we get it already you don’t like Taylor or Carrie. Don’t ever come to Taylors boards asking for votes for Tim McGraw again because we will tear you up!!!
Sigh says:
More press releases from Taylor Swift in the pen of Alison Bonaguro….
Jimmy James says:
Good for Taylor. Not a fan of her music or her singing, but I think she’s a good songwriter. She’s the flavor of the moment, so what? Let her have her time in the spotlight.
Trends come and go, so do singers, actors, etc. If you don’t like the girl, don’t listen to her music. I hope she wins at least one Grammy. Keep in mind that awards shows are popularity contests. Taylor Swift is very popular.
Live and let live.
JJ
timcun says:
You are right that most awards shows are a popularity contest. That’s why Taylor wins so many awards. I know she’s not going away any time soon but no one can force me to listen to her. I watch the awards shows to see who is with who, what they’re wearing, watch them perform, and hopefully see my favorites win. Every time Taylor sings on one of the shows we try to listen to her hoping that she has improved but usually (99.9% of the time) end up muting the TV until her song is over….
Redmaz says:
Jimmy James, to clarify….Pop Music awards are basically popularity contests based on CD’s sales, concert revenue, and radio spins, however the Grammy’s are an ALL genre awards show. There are a lot nominees and winners at the Grammys who are not “popular” at all except within the artists and fans own genre. so in that sense they are popular, but they are certainly not part of Pop Culture.
solongsowrong says:
Red, you know as well as I do, some Mainstreamers think that the Grammy’s only involve that which is shown on TV. The Grammy count is up to 109 this year, of which they show less than a dozen of…the part that is largely for the Pop culture audience. For them, a chunk of it is pretty much a popularity contest.
flower says:
taylor is so grateful for all and any nominations and or wins she gets I think it’s great that taylor gets so excited about it all at least she is not thinking she’s going to win everything like someone else (cu)!! taylor is truely so grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Foster Grant says:
when did carrie say she was going to win? taylor KNOW what she will win because daddy tells her so.
Robin says:
I love it when Flower comes along and proves my point about Taylor fans.
flower says:
robin, the facts hurt don’t they!!!!!! when cu wins anything she is not surprised or any thing at least taylor show’s that she’s happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you are just jealous and upset that your favorite’s didn’t win!!!!!!
flower says:
oh and taylor deserves all of those wins and nominations and I really do not care what anyone says!!!!
Foster Grant says:
flower, you might want to rerun the ACMs and watch Carries reaction to winnng. She doesn’t turn around and say “omg, me?” She’s sincere, not phony. Like Robin said, you prove this with every thing yo say.
Robin says:
flower - my point about Taylor fans that you always help prove is the personal attacks on CARRIE. You must be jealous if you have to attack someone personally.
Like I said before. I had no favorite TO win. I didn’t think Martina was going to win because she hadn’t done much this year, but she’s an outstanding vocalist. I thought either Carrie or Reba would win, but thought maybe the darkhorse Miranda might take it. I never imagined that the CMA’s would turn in their reputation and give a vocalist award to a person that sings of key in every televised performance she has EVER had (including her murdering the national anthem at the Phillies game).
So, my favorites are everyone other than Taylor? Your logic is not logical.
While I state my opinion about not liking her music her music/songs or her inability to stay in tune, I do not attack her personally like you continously do to Carrie. Carrie is just one of my many favorites. Unlike the crazed Taylor fans, there is more to music than just one artist for me.
Even if you thought “Carrie” was my only favorite, why would Taylor make me jealous for Carrie? Carrie has five Grammy WINS, she has three years in a row FVOY at the ACM’s and CMA’s (people didn’t just one day start thinking she sang well because she sold a bunch of albums). She is the ACM EOY. Carrie has ten #1 country songs, she has the best selling debut album of any female country artist in soundscan history (1991). So, my point is, while Taylor has many achievements so does Carrie. There’s definitely no reason for someone that likes Carrie to feel she has been cheated out of awards.
I love Miranda Lambert and she’s barely been recognized. While I’d love for her to be more recognized, I’m happy that she’s creating good music and singing it well for me to keep purchasing. I love Reba and she too has won every imaginable award and is the highest selling female in country music (in the US). So, I love artists that are all over the place when it comes to recognition. So, your theory holds no water. Again, unlike the crazed Swift fans, I like more than one artist and they are not all going to be recognized the same.
D Trotter says:
So, Robin, you describe Taylor, the AMA FVOTY, as having an “inability to stay in tune”, and you don’t feel that’s negative. Just you speaking your truth, as usual, right?
And you base this statement on what facts? Since you always maintain how fair and honest you are, and since your statement is worded as an ABSOLUTE — she can NEVER stay in tune –I’m assuming you’ve seen Taylor in every live performance she’s ever given, correct?
Redmaz says:
Yes solo, I’m well aware of the limits of mainstreamers like dtrotter, robin, barb, s, flower timcun etc.
Joshua says:
Taylor you rock!
flower says:
taylor is entertainer of the artits of the year cd of the year female vocalists of the year video of the year and up for 8 grammy’s ya Iam the one who’s got it wrong I don’t think so if i did taylor would not be up for and winning all of these awards if the voters (academy) didn’t think she was worthy, so get it taylor is a super star and the best entertainer out there today!!!!!!
D Trotter says:
Redmaz, you’re beginning to sound more and more elitist. To what limitations might you be referring, specifically?
Do you actually think you and Solo are the only people who know about the entire list of Grammy nominations, including the numerous of Americana categories? Personally, I think you need to watch out your beloved folk culture doesn’t become tainted by the overwhelmingly pop-dominated culture that is the Grammys.
Not so long ago the Grammys had NO creditability. They were safer than than skim milk, and they treated even cutting-edge POPULAR artists like they were plague. Now they have at least acknowledged such artists, and if it took sales and popularity to do it, more power to pop music. At least, that’s how I feel, you may well differ.
But if suddenly a few Americana Grammy winners catch the public’s attention, a little “scene” develops, who knows what happens to the sanctity of the music when the almighty dollars start calling?
Robin says:
D Trotter - you say - “So, Robin, you describe Taylor, the AMA FVOTY, as having an “inability to stay in tune”, and you don’t feel that’s negative. Just you speaking your truth, as usual, right?”
I’m guessing you mean the AMA FAOTY not FVOTY (they don’t claim she’s a vocalist, they claim she’s the “favorite” artist). Female vocalist of the year imply’s she the “best” female vocalist (with some level of achievement) of the year. “Favorite” Artist of the Year only says she’s the “favorite” (most popular) artist of the year and does not imply anything about her ability to sing.
Yes, I have negative opinion of her MUSIC. People aren’t always going to have a positive point of view of someone’s artistry. That’s the part that Taylor’s (or anyone else that can’t deal with negative opinions of their favorite artist) fans are going to have to learn to live with. You shouldn’t have to live with personal unfounded attacks of her, but I and others have a VERY negative opinion of her as an artist. Some people only have a slightly negative opinion so when they state it it doesn’t sound “so negative”. And, some people like you have a positive one.
You also say - “And you base this statement on what facts? Since you always maintain how fair and honest you are, and since your statement is worded as an ABSOLUTE — she can NEVER stay in tune –I’m assuming you’ve seen Taylor in every live performance she’s ever given, correct?”
I maintain that I am giving my opinion of her MUSIC and NOT attacking her personally. Yes, that is honest. Fair, I supposed is a point of view. It is fair to critique an artist on their artistry. It is not fair to call them fat, skinny, ugly, etc. You will never see me say she is ungrateful for her awards. While sometimes she may come off as ungrateful, it doesn’t mean she is ungrateful. Some times people misread people just because they react to things differently than they would. So, I don’t presume to think she is ungrateful for anything. To me she appears grateful anyway - but even if she didn’t, I wouldn’t assume I knew her well enough to know that and give her the benefit of the doubt. I certainly don’t call her horrid names as I’ve seen some of Taylors fans (whom you never chastize I might add) calling Carrie vulgor names. I even find her very charming in interviews and thinks she’s a very likeable girl.
And, yes, I’ve seen all of her “televised” (like I said) live performances. If you’d like to bring up the Grammy nomination show from last year we can. I think Sunny Sweeney is a terrible singer singing terrible songs too, but there’s rarely any blogs about her so nothing to post on. So, since country music as a whole and the pop country industry in particular is a passion and past time of mine, I will comment on those things that influence it the most as often as I hear about them.
Lily White says:
Yawn. Why don’t you two get a room or something.
Robin says:
If your bored Lily, you are not required to participate.
D Trotter says:
I’m with Lily, that was boring, Robin. The simple answer to my question is: You’ve seen her “live” on television, that’s the basis for your absolute opinion.
Oh, and thanks for correcting my error. The AMA is for “Favorite Artist”, not “Vocalist”. My bad! Semantics aside, I meant to cite the award YOU mentioned before, the CMA Favorite Vocalist.
Lily White says:
I came here to read about the Grammy nominations, not to read about some ones negative opinions about vocal quality. If you can’t stay on topic, maybe you need to be the one not participating.
Now that I know what you’re about, I probably won’t be reading anymore of your posts. Pity to be so obsessed about someone’s music you don’t even like. By the way, I’m not a big Swift fan either, but I don’t see a need to be negative about it. Too much other music to concern myself with.
Robin says:
D Trotter - The CMA award is the Female Vocalist. You were mixing the two. While it is semantics to some degree (just an award name), it is an important distinction. Winning a fan voted “Favorite” vocalist/entertainer etc. is expected to be about who is popular so no big deal. Winning an industry award for “Vocalist”, should be about talent in that particular field. If it’s a song award about the song writing then that should be the prevailing factor. While I think her songwriting is juvenile, it is still good for what it is so no one would be complaining.
After Swifts two performance’s at the CMA’s her “Female Vocalist” award was an embarassment to country music. When she won all those fan voted awards at the AMA’s there was no embarassment. She’s clearly probably the most popular (if not the most, then one of the most) artists out there right now. That is not an disagreement over semantics.
Robin says:
Lily - That’s the way to do it. Don’t read posts you don’t want to read.
My posts came about because a particular poster brought the conversation about Taylor to Carrie (as always) and accused me of calling the poster on it because my favorite didn’t win something. So, while you appearantly read radomly and bottom up, some people read all the posts and respond accordingly.
But, you are quit free to read them the way you want to.
Lily White says:
I figured you’d respond, so I was waiting to answer. While maybe the conversation was brought around to a different subject, you and Trotter are the ones here beating a dead horse. It’s boring.
Since I see you assume how I read posts, and assume wrongly I might add, I can only guess you are wrong about other things as well. Like Swift being an embarrassment to Country music. She isn’t an embarrassment to the Country music I primarily listen to. She isn’t even recognized by it.
As I said before, pity for you about being so negative about some ones music. Whatever will you have to gross about when she’s no longer the top dog?
At least we can agree I can read what I want. And I guess you can gross about what you want. Even if it is boring.
Robin says:
Lily - I love beating dead horses until I’m finished. One thing I don’t do well is not beating dead horses when someone tells me to.
I can only ASSUME how you read posts since you make it appear as those posts don’t exists. In other words - pull one post out of context.
Lily White says:
Sorry, I’ve been doing a lot of reading today…. you seem to have MANY posts that are saying the same thing. You also seem to be running around in a maze, contradicting yourself, and arguing against your own statements. Especially when talking pop versus roots. Pretzel logic, I think I remember someone calling your opinions. But then I also remember reading in an article way back, that you only deal in opinions, not facts. For that statement alone, I can’t give you much credibility.
I’ve been reading this blog site for sometime now, but only recently started posting. I’ve noticed you rank up near the top as one of the biggest horse beaters here.
Beat away though. Maybe some people like that sort of thing.
Robin says:
Lily - it’s not hard to tell the difference between fact and opinion. I have opinions that are “based” on facts. The opinions aren’t the facts, the opinions are developed out of the “facts”. People do not come to the same conclusions with the exact same facts. So, while I only deal with facts when it comes to facts, a drawn conclusion from those facts cannot also be called a fact. I don’t base opinion on random non facts like so many others here.
I know that’s alot of words put together but you should be able to figure it out.
Lily White says:
Move a little to the left. There’s a spot there you haven’t beat on enough yet.