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Cosmo: Of all the lyrics on your new album, Red, which resonates the most with you at the moment? 
Taylor: I have a chalkboard in my house in L.A., and every week, I’ve been writing a new lyric on it from the record just to figure out which ones pop out to me, which seem most important. There’s a song that’s the first track on the record, and it says, “Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.” That’s been my whole philosophy on love this whole time anyway. 

Cosmo: What about the playing-hard-to-get game? 
Taylor: I think a lot of times when you meet someone you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that. 

Cosmo: Are there other moves you won’t tolerate? 
Taylor: I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing. If I was in that situation, if I were them, would I be doing this to me? Would I ever do this to them? If the answer is no, then they’re not treating me fairly. I just don’t ever want to end up in a relationship that isn’t fair ever again.

 

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@taylorswift13: Again With The Posture. Meredith laying around, being a cat.

Taylor Swift is joining LL Cool J as co-host of this year's Grammy nominations concert.

Country singer-songwriter Luke Bryan has also been added to the lineup for the one-hour telecast. He joins previously announced performer Maroon 5.

The Grammy nominations concert telecast will air live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 10 p.m. on CBS. Nominees in numerous categories will be unveiled during the broadcast for the 55th annual Grammy Awards, taking place Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.

This would be the fifth Grammy nominations concert. LL Cool J has hosted the telecast since it began in 2008, with Swift co-hosting its first year.

Additional performers and presenters will be announced shortly.

@taylorswift13: This is the stuff that comes with the cd if you get Red at Wal Mart. (Everything except the pumpkin bread I just made.) http://instagr.am/p/RTUjM8jvJa/

On Red, Swift worked with a lot of collaborators, and "Ronan" is officially billed as a collaborative effort, too. But in this case, it was really a solo composition, but Swift gave co-writing credit to Maya Thompson—whom she'd met only briefly, once, backstage at a show—because she borrowed many of the lines and ideas from Thompson's blog. As you may know, Thompson's online diarizing about the short life and death of her 4-year-old son, Ronan, who died of neuroblastoma in 2011, captivated much of the nation, including Swift. The singer was inspired to pen the song after reading of the boy's death, but she never told his parents she'd written the song. And when she did, they still didn't hear it until the rest of America did, the night of Sept. 7.

 

Taylor talks with Yahoo!"I think if I hadn't played it on Stand Up to Cancer, or Stand Up to Cancer hadn't happened, I would have ended up sending the song to Maya at some point," Swift tells us. "But I called her ahead of time and talked her through it and asked her if it was okay if I did this. You know, it was a really emotional experience knowing she was on the other end of the TV and that her husband and her two sons were going to be watching it. Hoping that you captured someone else's grief is a lot of pressure. But it was pressure I was happy to take on. Because she wrote it in such a beautiful and honest way that I just knew if I stuck close to what she felt and her stories that shetold, it would be something that she might appreciate as remembering her son, and as tribute."

 

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In the conclusion of Yahoo! Music's interview with Taylor Swift, we query the singer about her beguiling new single "Begin Again"—and how that contrasts with some earlier songs that were more about rough landings than sweet beginnings. Has she really gotten over her attraction to the "Treacherous" type? We'll let her explain.

 

YAHOO! MUSIC: "Begin Again" strikes me as being kind of the opposite of "The Way I Loved You," from the Fearless album.Then, you were contrasting the good guy you were with in the song with a less polite guy you were with before—and thinking about how you liked the bad guy better. "Begin Again" is looking back at the bad boy and thinking how you like the new, nice guy better.

 

SWIFT: That's an awesome, awesome observation. That's a really cool observation. I think that might be kind of growing up. When you think about the song on Fearless, "The Way I Loved You," you're reminiscing about the passion and the heated arguments and the dysfunction of a dysfunctional relationship, and you're fantasizing about it—and maybe you're seeing it with sort of a soundtrack behind it in your memory. You know, I think as you grow up, you start to realize that bad guys are really bad. They just are. They actually are! There's like a .0002% chance that you'll be the exception in changing them. I think that for "Begin Again," it was really an interesting revelation to want the good, and to know that you're moving towards something good, and to feel good about that.

 

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@taylorswift13: Starting the morning. Meredith is silently judging me. Lovingly, I hope. pic.twitter.com/7hUB4eSL

Taylor Swift is poised to become the first female artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991 to present) to have a pair of albums sell more than a million units in a single week.

 

According to industry sources, first-day sales for "Red" (Monday, Oct. 22) surpassed 500,000 units, including a record opening day sum at Target, as the mass-merchant scored exclusive rights to the album's deluxe version which includes three additional songs and three remixes. According to sources, Target shifted more than 160,000 units.

 

Though not confirmed, unit sales at the iTunes Music Store appears to have also been record-setting. The digital retailer reportedly accounted for nearly half of all units sold on "Red's" first day of availability. With that start, "Red" should break the first-week iTunes sales mark, recently set by Mumford & Sons "Babel," which moved roughly 390,000 units just three weeks ago, according to those in the know. The projected first-day sales of "Red" along with full-week estimates from industry prognosticators point to the set most likely surpassing the 1-million sales mark in its debut frame.

It’ll be a little bit country and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll on stage at next month’s American Music Awards.

 

Organizers announced Wednesday that Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj and Linkin Park will perform at the 40th annual ceremony on Nov. 18.

 

All are also up for awards.

 

Minaj is the night’s leading nominee, along with Rihanna, with four bids each. Swift is nominated for favorite female country artist and Linkin Park is in the running for alternative artist.

 

Fans can pick the winners by voting online.

 

Christina Aguilera will also perform at the ceremony at theNokia Theatre in Los Angeles, where it will be broadcast live on ABC.

 @taylorswift13: Gearing up. http://instagr.am/p/RDiNioDvII/

@taylorswift13: This is my last day of life before #RED. Midnight. Tonight.

4Music

Last week 4music.com was invited to Universal Records for a sneak preview of the brand new Taylor Swift album, Red, released on 22 October.

 

Although the LP is released in just a few days time, details have been sketchy (and top secret) as to what fans can expect from it. Now though, let us present you with EVERYTHING you need to know about Red, including some of our favourite lyrics.

 

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@TaylorSwift13: THREE DAYS TIL #RED!!!!!

@TaylorSwift13: 2 DAYS UNTIL #RED. I can't believe we're this close.

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There are a lot of pop songs on Red. But you’re known as a country artist. What drove the expansion?

For my last album, I wrote every song by myself and used the same producer I’ve always worked with. Writing by myself became a comfort zone. So with this one, I really wanted to push myself. I called the people that I’ve always wanted to work with—my production, songwriting, artist heroes—and said hey, do you want to get in the studio and work together and make something different. Track to track, there’s nothing similar about anything on this record, and that’s what makes it so exciting.

 

Do you worry how fans will respond?

Almost every time I put something out, there’s the word “too” put in front of what it is—too pop or too country or too rock. I had a song last year called “Mean”—we were lucky enough to win two Grammys with it—and I remember reading a few articles that said it was too bluegrass. So I kinda stopped worrying about it. I’d rather be too something than not enough something.

 

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"I just had a good time hanging out with my friends," giggles the singer-songwriter who, while declining to speak of Kennedy, describes the time as "the best summer ever".

"It made me realise how much I rely on my friends, how much I need them," she adds. "It's a crazy age, and most of them are still figuring out what they want to do with their lives. It was good for me to be around people who are just figuring things out - just being, you know, 22."

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@taylorswift13: Four days!!! Thanks @theellenshow! #RED pic.twitter.com/PzF60DZ0

 

 

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8:18PM EDT October 17. 2012 - NASHVILLE -- Just outside downtown, Taylor Swift is preparing for an upcoming performance, taking her band through We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together at a local rehearsal hall. With all the electric instruments running straight to the soundboard and into musicians' headphones, the only things audible are the voices of Swift and her background singers, acoustic guitar and drums.

 

Stripped down that way, devoid of all the production extras brought to the single by Swedish duo Max Martin and Shellback, Never Ever sounds more like a folky singalong than the frothy concoction that had the biggest digital sales week of any song by a woman in Nielsen SoundScan history. It still retains its essential earworm quality, though, with a hook that gets in your head and refuses to leave.

 

That's exactly what Swift had in mind.

 

Later, in a sidestage room, the ponytailed singer calls Never Ever "a definitive portrait of how I felt when I finally stopped caring what my ex thought of me." But Swift still had to exact vengeance on the guy who "made me feel like I wasn't as good or as relevant as these hipster bands he listened to."

 

"So I made a song that I knew would absolutely drive him crazy when he heard it on the radio. Not only would it hopefully be played a lot, so that he'd have to hear it, but it's the opposite of the kind of music that he was trying to make me feel inferior to."

 

And why would Swift want to create a single specifically designed to torment someone?

 

"Because that's fun."

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The country superstar kisses and semi-tells during an intimate nine-song set at California’s Harvey Mudd College.

 

Taylor Swift has made a career for herself as a kiss-and-tell kind of girl — or kiss and semi-tell, since she usually refuses to name names in her confessional songwriting. So the idea of her taping a VH1 Storytellers raised some intrigue among fans, in case the format would lead her to reveal more about the subjects of her songs, who, in her adult dating life, have tended to be fellow celebrities.

 

But she was at her most circumspect Monday night in Claremont, Calif. talking about her tunes in front of an audience of almost 2,500 at Harvey Mudd College students. Any tabloid reporters who snuck in would have found the evening a wash. That’s not to say the co-eds themselves had any reason to feel cheated: Swift has a knack for seemingly being utterly intimate, guileless, and disarming in exploring the general details of turning her personal life into hit parade fodder, even when she’s being necessarily withholding. She didn’t have to name names to gain the confidence of a couple thousand new BFFs.

 

The nine-song set was taped for broadcast on Nov. 11, ostensibly to promote her fourth studio album, Red, which comes out next Monday and will likely generate the year’s biggest first-week numbers. Anyone in the live audience hoping she’d debut unheard music from the CD had to be content with three of the four singles she’d already released from the album through iTunes, which have collectively sold a whopping 3.5 million units in advance of the full album’s release. She’s not any more likely to allow a new tune to be YouTubed before its time than she is to allow the word “Kennedy” to accidentally escape her lips on stage.

 

But regardless of how many fresh revelations there were, the evening was still a pleasure for anyone who realized that Swift was covering the middle performance ground she skipped in her career — that is, playing a headliner set without huge production values. Like a savant who skips several grades, Swift proceeded in her late teens directly from being LeAnn Rimes’ or Brad Paisley’s opening act to putting on Madonna-scale arena spectacles. Seeing her chat spontaneously and sing and play guitar (and banjo) on a stage without trap doors — while wearing the same knee-length white dress all evening — proved she’d still stand as the Best People Person Since Bill Clinton even if she never had mastered the arts of the quick costume change and flying over a Staples Center crowd.

 

After opening with “You Belong With Me,” Swift introduced “Red” as a song about thinking of a relationship as “the worst thing ever and the best thing ever at the same time.” (In other words, it’s her “My Favorite Mistake.”) If you study timelines, you might suppose that that fiery tune was written about the bad boy she fell in love (or lust) with prior to meeting the good guy who is the subject of the far more tender “Begin Again.”

 

Of the latter song, Swift said, “I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship and you don’t recognize yourself, because you changed a lot about yourself to make that person like you. Which I never would do,” she said, tentatively, before adding the kicker: “Always do. And… I wrote this song about the idea that you could kind of remember who you used to be by meeting someone new who… celebrates the things about you that the other person used to criticize you endlessly for. That was an interesting thing for me to write about, the idea of actually moving on and there being hope after the crash-and-burn that always happens. Not always — I believe in love! But I think that this was an important song for me to write personally.”

 

The closest Swift came to alluding to the recent tabloid attention she’s received came when she was introducing “Ours,” the mesmerizingly sweet final single off her previous album.

“It’s a song I wrote about someone that I really liked at the time,” she explained. “What kind of happens with my life, which has been interesting, is there are a lot of opinions about who you fall in love with. Which happens in everybody’s life — you know, you fall in love with someone and all of a sudden your friends start chiming in. (But) in my case, it’s like, people I don’t know just make comments on it. The last thing that you want to hear when you fall in love is ‘They don’t look cute together.’ ‘He’s got tattoos.’… ‘He’s too short for her.’ ‘He’s too young for her.’ ‘He’s too old for her.’ Because I think that when people fall in love, it should just be about those two people. And when I was dating someone that people didn’t think I should have been — because I shouldn’t have been dating him! — anyway, back to the story… I wrote this song to let him know I didn’t care what anyone else thought.”

 

The Swift who doesn’t give a hoot about anyone else’s take seems slightly more credible than Taylor The Insecure, but she took pains to assure the collegians that the latter persona is a part of her. There was an extended riff on her overcoming a phobia of a certain “critic” (or blogger) with “Mean,” which unwittingly became an anti-bullying anthem, even though she says she only meant it as a personal catharsis.

 

And, answering a student’s question about whether she doubts herself, she answered, “I doubt myself 400,000 times per 10-minute interval. I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything — diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.”

 

That last fear is more stuff for her shrink than SoundScan prognosticators, judging from the response to the contest that led to the location for this particular Storytellers. Although the show is almost always taped on a soundstage, Swift held a contest in which collegians could garner support for having the show hosted at their school. Two students from Harvey Mudd College led the charge and succeeded in drawing Swift to sing at Pomona College’s gorgeous 1931 Bridges Auditorium before an audience drawn from all the Claremont campuses.

 

An anti-Swift contingent led a campaign to make a school for the deaf the contest winner, but everyone won, as the singer donated a healthy amount to the school that was inadvertently drawn into the prank. Another lesson for haters everywhere: Even trying to be “mean” to Swift only leads to greater positive vibrations in the collective karma.

 

Set List:

You Belong With Me
Red
Ours
Eyes Open
Mean
Begin Again
Our Song
Love Song
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

If Taylor Swift pops up all over on Canadian TV screens on October 22, it won’t only be because she’s heavily promoting the release of her fourth studio album Red that day.

 

The American singer-songwriter also appears in Corus Entertainment’s newly-commissioned One 2 One celebrity interview specials, to air on its portfolio of youth-skewing channels, including YTV, ABC Spark and CMT.

 

Corus is joining the celebrity interview genre that has become staple of Canadian TV stations looking for eyeballs, and which was long pioneered in Canada by MuchMusic, more recently with its Live@Much series.

 

YTV’s Carlos Bustamante and CMT’s Paul McGuire will host One 2 One, with the star interviews pre-taped in front of a live studio-audience at Corus Quay in Toronto.

 

The upcoming One 2 One series includes a sit-down with Victoria Justice of the Victorious TV show to air on October 22, and the Taylor Swift interview bowing on October 22 on CMT, repeated a day later on YTV and then on November 8 on ABC Spark.

 

Rival MuchMusic will also air on October 22 its own taped interview with Taylor Swift, entitled NML Presents: Taylor Swift Revealed.

Om du vill se världens största artister live lyssna på NRJ!

 

One Direction, Swedish House Mafia, Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Trey Songz, Pink, Chris Brown och Taylor Swift m.fl.

Två månader med två i rad för att se värdens största artister - NRJ Live Party 2012

 

En av USA´s största artister kommer snart ut med sin nya skiva ”RED” och nu ger vi dig chansen att åka iväg på en exklusiv konsertresa.

 

Du tar med din kompis och vi flyger er till en hemlig destination för att uppleva henne LIVE. Lyssna efter 2 I RAD med Taylor Swift och bli samtal 21 på 0200-21 51 51. DU får en plats i finalen samt Taylors Swifts nya skiva ”RED”.

 

Fredag den 19 oktober är det final hos Jazon. Resa och boende ingår.

 

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There’s a reason why Taylor Swift has graced so many covers of DOLLY over the years - she’s one of the most down-to-earth celebs we know! From schoolyard bullies to boys who broke her heart,Taylor’s talked about it all, both in song and in her ever-candid interviews. Now, as she readies for the release of her fourth studio album, Red, Taylor shares her latest lessons in love and life.

 

What inspired the album, Red?
“The inspiration came mostly from the relationships in my life. Most of them were fat-paced and out of control, resulting in a lot of good and bad feelings. In my mind, that intensity looked ‘red.’”

 

Do you have a ritual when it comes to songwriting?

“I don’t have any specific rituals and I’ve never written two songs the same way. An idea could hit you in the middle of the night, or you might say something in a conversation that would make a great lyric. I’ve written songs in airports, tour buses, hotel rooms and on my bedroom floor. Writing songs is my way of dealing with love, feelings and relationships.

 

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt since the last album?
“I’ve learnt so many lessons in the past few years. I’ve experienced great joy and great pain, and had to learn how to balance the two. I’ve learnt that love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect. Mostly, I’m just proud that this is the diary of my life. And I figure that if I rite songs and my life and my life is always changing, my music will be too.”

 

How have you stayed grounded through all the success?
“I’ve always just figured that life will be much more enjoyable if I stick to what I love. I love music. I love my family. I love my friends. I love my fans. I love dresses and winter and cooking. I don’t necessarily love going out into noisy bars, so I don’t do it.”

 

So what do you get up to when you’re just hanging out?
“My friends and I like to talk, vent and laugh about everything from life, to love, to relationships, to work. And we love coming up with activities like face painting, cooking something new, or playing games. My friends love to be spontaneous, loud and fun. That’s why I love them.”

 

What’s your number one rule when it comes to friendships?
“I think it’s important to keep friends around you who are brutally honest. It’s easy to gravitate towards the people in your life who tell you exactly what you want to hear, but that’s not always the best thing for you. If one of your friends has the nerve to tell you, ‘No, I don’t think you did the right thing,’ it can be a good thing for your character. I also don’t get caught up in trying to trying to be cool. The coolest people I know don’t care about being popular or trendy.”

 

So what makes Selena Gomez the ultimate BFF?
“Selena and I are like sisters. We tell each other everything and laugh for hours about stupid inside jokes we’ve had to years. She knows my quirks and I know here, na dit’s so great to have a friend who know your storyline.”

 

So many girls get super nervous around guys. What’s your advice for staying boy-confident?
“My advice about boys has to do with how you prioritize them. They can be a part of your life, but never let a boy BE your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world. Knowing who you are and being independent and strong on our own will be attractive to the right guy; one of my goals is to always be OK with who I am, aside from love and boys. I love for someone who has passions that I respect and his own career. Someone who loves what they do is really attractive to me.”

 

What’s the best way to deal with a broken heart?
“When someone has affected me emotionally, the only way for my to get past i or make sense of it is to write a song. And time is a big healer too.”

 

What’s your advice for someone having a touch time as school?
“I’d tell them they’re not the only one who feels out of place. Everyone does. Also remember that the friendships you should focus on are the real ones, and that high school isn’t everything!”

 

How would you describe your style?
“I would define my fashion style as feminine, retro and classic. I have so many dresses ad skirts in my closest. My favourite thing to wear is a dress. It’s my immediate go-to-piece.”

 

What’s your latest DIY project?
“My last DIY project was blackberry jam. Everyone loved it! I made labels that said things like ‘I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly’ and ‘jam session.’ And then laughed, by myself, in my kitchen.”

 

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1. State of Grace

2. Red

3. Treacherous

4. I Knew You Were Trouble

5. All Too Well

6. 22

7. I Almost Do

8. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

9. Stay Stay Stay

10. The Last Time

11. Holy Ground

12. Sad Beautiful Tragic

13. The Lucky One

14. Everything Has Changed

15. Starlight

16. Begin Again

     

Target Deluxe Bonus Tracks

1. The Moment I Knew

2. Come Back... Be Here

3. Girl At Home

4. Treacherous (Original Demo Recording)

5. Red (Original Demo Recording)

6. State of Grace (Acoustic Version)

Taylor Swift’s 1 to 1 with CMT! Oct 22!

Premieres Monday, October 22 at 11pm ET/8PT

Catch the super talented, Taylor Swift, open up about life and music in an exclusive one on one interview.  Don’t miss Taylor talk about her hot new album RED and her new single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”.

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Allt du behöver göra är att förhandsboka ditt ex av TAYLOR SWIFTS kommande platta "RED" och svara på frågan nedan.

 

Tävlingen gäller endast i Sverige och pågår fram t.o.m den 30 oktober.

 

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ESQ: This was your first time topping the Billboard Hot 100, right?

 

TS: Yeah, to have that happen was a serious jumping-up-and-down-screaming moment for me. I didn't want to peak at 18.

 

ESQ: Are you worried about peaking at 22?

 

TS: I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders. Right now, I'm worried about that.

 

ESQ: Do you worry what you'll do when you run out of breakups to write about?

 

TS: This is breaking news, but there are a few happy songs on this album. I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

 

ESQ: I'm not your typical fan, but I do like this first song. It's catchy.

 

TS: Yay! We brainwashed you!

 

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