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Taylor gjorde en intervju med Nashville Lifestyles nyligen om hur hon tycker om att ha sin egen lägenhet, vilka hennes favoritställen i Nashville är och vilka tre saker hon praktiskt taget inte kan leva utan. Otroligt läsvärd!

NL: How does it feel to have your own place in Midtown Nashville?
TS: I love living in Midtown. In 10 minutes, I can walk to Hillsboro Village through the Vanderbilt campus, past the gorgeous old stone buildings and churches. I love being so close to Green Hills and the Gulch and Broadway. Everything is two minutes away.

 

NL: What’s your favorite thing about owning and having your own place? 
TS: My favorite thing is getting to have my friends over and cook for them. Hanging out with friends at home always turns into some piano sing-along, so I have all kinds of percussion instruments and guitars lying around. Also, living in an apartment motivates you to get out and get things done during the day. Something about living up in the sky, being able to see the whole city going about its day, makes you want to get up early and go accomplish things.

 

NL: If you had a day to be anonymous in Music City, what would you do and where would you go?
TS: I’d just probably do the same things I usually do. It would be so depressing to think I couldn’t go certain places because people know who I am now. I love going to the shops in Franklin and walking around the adorable areas in East Nashville (my fiddle player Caitlin’s neighborhood) and walking to Starbucks in the morning.

 

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Taylor Swift has been turning heads with her new, sexy wardrobe, but the 23-year-old says it's just a reflection of getting older.

 

Swift has people buzzing about her recent red carpet choices, which have included plunging necklines and shorter skirts. "As far as wardrobe, we have been operating from a different place," Swift said.

 

While her choices may be demure compared with the Kim Kardashians of the world, for Swift, a former teen sweetheart, it's raised eyebrows, and she acknowledges that it's been a bit of a shock for some people who are accustomed to seeing her wear long dresses. She recalled how her decision to wear shorts at last year's MTV Video Music Awards caused a stir.

 

"It was like, 'Gasp, Taylor wears shorts.' And I thought it was hilarious," she said, adding: "I'm not going to be like taking my clothes off or that sort of thing."

 

Swift's new look is a reflection of her overall maturation, with her latest album, "Red," selling more than 3 million copies since it was released last fall and producing two smash singles, "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," which is nominated for record of the year at next month's Grammy Awards.

 

"I'm so happy about (my) three nominations — it's so unreal," Swift said in a phone interview Monday from Paris.

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Country songwriter Mark Irwin was in Chicago on Thursday (Jan. 24), and I had a chance to ask him about the songs he co-wrote on Tim McGraw's upcoming Two Lanes of Freedom album. Irwin, who refers to himself as a "song maker-upper," talked about what a really good song picker McGraw is.

"That he thought these songs were good enough to be in the whole lexicon of songs he recorded is really exciting," Irwin said. "He's one of the few artists who hasn't started writing, himself, just to put his names on songs. He turns to writer to do their jobs. That's always worked for him and he's a really smart guy."

Irwin, who grew up going to open mic nights in and around New York City, decided to pack up and move to Nashville in the late '80s after people kept telling him he was "way too country." And now, more than two decades later, he's certainly country enough. After writing songs for Alan Jackson, Martina McBride,Jimmy Buffett, Hank Williams Jr. and many others, he's now on the verge of McGraw's album release. The album has three songs that Irwin co-wrote, including the much-anticipated duet with Taylor Swift, "Highway Don't Care."

"It was Tim who came up with the idea to put Taylor on it. It's basically about a guy leaving someone and driving around and trying to forget the person they're leaving," he said. "Then, of course, the song comes on the radio that reminds them of that person and makes them think about things even more." He described it as a mid-tempo kind of groove and very modern country. "It's just very Tim." Keith Urban has a guitar solo on the song, and when I asked Irwin about that, he said, "Tim really wanted to make this song an event." 

COCA-COLA’S ANSWER TO PEPSI’S BEYONCE? POP COUNTRY SONGSTRESS TAYLOR SWIFT

Pepsi has Beyonce and Sofia Vergara , and now Coke has Taylor Swift.

The 23-year-old singer will partner with Diet Coke on a series of branding initiatives, Ad Age has learned. It’s not clear how Diet Coke will use Ms. Swift, though it’s likely she will become a brand ambassador of sorts, with the partnership going beyond simply 30-second TV spots. However, executives close to the company noted she will not be involved in the company’s Super Bowl campaign . A Coca-Cola spokeswoman declined to comment.

Ms. Swift doesn’t have the superstar presence of the leotard-wearing, vigorously-dancing Beyonce, who was named the official brand ambassador of Pepsi last month. In addition to being one half of entertainment’s highest-wattage power couple along with Jay-Z, Beyonce is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show sponsored by Pepsi, performed at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, has starred in movies and will be the subject of autobiographical HBO documentary next month.

Still, Ms. Swift’s power is rising fast. According to Billboard’s list of 2012’s top 40 Money Makers, the star blew past competition like Adele and Lady Gaga to come in at No. 1, with earnings of more than $35 million last year. Her newly struck deal to rep Diet Coke follows a lucrative contract with Cover Girl, as well as work for Sony Electronics and Keds. She’s been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards and taken home six. And there’s no denying too that she’s a favorite of celebrity magazines; the paparazzi love to document her short-lived romances, which include everyone from singer John Mayer and One Direction’s Harry Styles to actor Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy Jr. 

Taylor Swift didn't win in the Best Original Song category at the 70th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night. The country pop star was nominated for her co-writing credit on "Safe and Sound" from The Hunger Games film. It was a tough category to win, and the trophy ultimately went to Adele for her superb work with the James Bond "Skyfall" theme song.

 

In an interview with VIBE for our Dec '12/Jan '13 issue Swift talked to us about taking risks. "Different people take their chances in different ways," said Swift, who wore a plum Donna Karan Atelier dress. "Some people take fashion risks, or in their lives nad what they say, or they give really edgy interviews. I leave the risks to my music. I let it speak from where my life is. I don’t take risks fashion-wise, I don’t take risks in the way I live my life. But I leave my risks to my music."

 

Although Swift seemed a little upset over the loss when cameras pulled in on her during Adele's acceptance speech, don't expect it to keep her down. "I’m a Sagittarius, which means, you know, I’m blindly optimistic, I love to travel, I’m always up for adventure but also always want something new. Sagittarians are really independent, and we like our space. We’re drawn to love but battle for that need for independence."

 

"Independence is something I’ve always needed, from when I was young," she says, "but I love the idea of romance and falling in love. I’ve never really had a long relationship. So that’s something I think about for the future. It’s an interesting part of my personality: Part of me just wants to be alone."

 

She adds,"I just know that if you’re not careful with things they can go away. I've seen people with careers that were great until they started taking them for granted. And I’m scared of that."

Kayla Kincannon was diagnosed with her first brain tumor at age 16 and her second at 17.  While this high school junior is fighting for her life, Monday she was on top of the world.

"It was by far the best day of my life," she said.

In the midst of a ferocious battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer, the smile on Kincannon's face doesn't waver.  Friends and family will tell you she's the sweetest and strongest girl they know.

"I'm not completely unafraid of this cancer.  I still have my fears and my days of doubt, but I'm living in spite of that fear and I'm living my life in spite of having this cancer," she said.

That's why they set out on a mission to make her wish come true.

Kincannon used to sing along to Taylor Swift for hours in the mirror when she was a little girl.  Now she listens to her to get through the dark times.

"To me fearless isn't the absence of fear, but living in spite of those things that scare you to death," she said.

Last week, Kincannon and her family traveled to Tennessee looking for treatment options, and what she got in return no medicine could match.  Swift's tour bus rolled up to their hotel in Memphis.

"We were in the hotel eating breakfast, and my dad's like, 'The bus is here.'  And I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm about to go on Taylor's bus."

Kincannon and her family were then whisked away to Nashville for a two hour lunch with the superstar.

"She was so humble and so real and so down to earth and like she wasn't fancy and dressed up.  She was like in jeans," she said.

What makes this story even better is how the lunch date came about.

Late last year, Kincannon's classmates at Lamphere High School launched the social media campaign "Operation Get Kayla to Meet Taylor Swift".  After hundreds of tweets, emails and Facebook posts, their persistence paid off.

"I couldn't say enough words to express my gratitude for them, and other schools that don't like my school and people at my school don't like each other, but they came together," she said.

The meeting with Swift lasted only a few hours, but the memory from Kincannon's lunch date will stay in her heart forever.  So will the love and support from a community that refused to give up on making her dream become a reality.

"I just have to say a huge thank you to Taylor and to the students at my school because they made this happen," she said.

Kincannon is still under her doctor's care, but she is feeling well enough to return to school on Tuesday.

The starlet, 20, counts Taylor Swift, 23, and Vanessa Hudgens, 24, among her inner circle, and she has plenty of compliments for their support along the way.

"It’s helped having Taylor and Vanessa both be older than me," she told PEOPLE at her New York City acoustic concert benefit for UNICEF, the children's rights organization for which she is a goodwill ambassador. "They’ve kind of experienced a little bit more, and at the same time we’re experiencing the exact same things together."

 

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And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, her feelings on Swift – whom she called "one of the most inspirational, positive, good-hearted people that I know" – were clear by an addition to her concert set-list: a cover of the Red singer's hit, "I Knew You Were Trouble." (Yes, she also learned a dance to her friend's tune, just before the two hit the Utah ski slopes in December with their boyfriends at the time.)

“I met [Swift] when she was 18. This is before [Swift's 2008 album] Fearless came out, and it was absolutely incredible to see someone so successful and so humble," she says. "I think she has been a big part of me kind of staying the way I am too."

‘KNEW’ MUSIC: As Taylor Swift bullets at No. 4 (with Airplay Gainer honors) on the Hot 100 with current pop single “I Knew You Were Trouble.,” she debuts another “knew” track: “The Moment I Knew” starts at No. 64. The latter song bows after being released digitally in the iTunes Store and on the U.S. Target-exclusive deluxe physical edition of parent album “Red.” It was previously available only on the set’s Canadian version. 

The new “Knew” marks Swift’s 57th Hot 100 entry, pushing her past Madonna and Dionne Warwick for the second-most appearances among women in the chart’s 54-year history. With 73, only Aretha Franklin has more. (Among all acts, the “Glee” cast leads with 205.) 

Here’s an updated ranking of the women with the most charted Hot 100 titles: 

73, Aretha Franklin 
57, Taylor Swift 
56, Madonna 
56, Dionne Warwick 
53, Connie Francis 
48, Brenda Lee 
44, Mariah Carey 
42, Nicki Minaj 
41, Barbra Streisand 
40, Mary J. Blige 
40, Diana Ross 
39, Janet Jackson 
39, Rihanna 

Notably, Swift has benefited from charting in an era in which album cuts, as opposed to only commercially-available singles (often promoted to radio), can appear on the Hot 100 (a rule change enacted the week of Dec. 5, 1998). Of her 57 Hot 100 hits, 20 have spent just one week on the chart, a majority of which arrived thanks to hefty digital sales the weeks that her albums “Fearless” (2008), “Speak Now” (2010) and “Red” (2012) debuted atop the Billboard 200 album chart. 

Still, Swift’s top 10 total - 14 - is in line with most of the other women with the highest sums of Hot 100 visits. While Madonna has tallied a Hot 100-record 38 top 10s, Franklin has collected 17 and Warwick, 12

I met her a year ago in this little cafe. She walked in and I introduced myself. I said, ‘Are you Taylor Swift? She said, ‘Yeah.’ I said ‘I’m Austin Mahone. I do music and I’m on YouTube.’ She was like, ‘Oh, that’s so cool, keep working hard.’ Now, a year later, I’m going on tour [with her] and it’s so crazy how it all came about. I wanted to do a song with her. She was like, ‘Forget the song; let’s go on tour!’ 

This never gets old. I just talked to yet another person shocked by Taylor Swift's down-to-earth nature. It was Jeff Bhasker, one of the producers from her Red album, and he told me what it was like working with Swift in his home studio in Venice, Calif.

"First, she called me on her own to ask if I'd want to make this music with her. Then she came over by herself. She didn't bring an entourage or an assistant or anything. She just came, brought her guitar, and it was like making music with a friend -- back when we'd just make music for fun when we were kids," Bhasker said. "Except she's, you know, Taylor Swift." He said she sat down on his couch and played "Holy Ground," and about four hours later, they'd finished the whole thing.

But Bhasker also worked with Swift on "The Lucky One." And he says it's the best music he made all last year. "'The Lucky One' is such a great song, and it kind of revealed a darker layer that Taylor has. Sometimes her songs are so overt, but that one has a philosophical message to it that's dealing with the fame," he said.

When I asked if his experience with Swift might lead him into more country music, he said, "The genre isn't really important to me. I care more about the quality and intention of the artist. I've been focusing on R&B and hip-hop now -- which grew out of my love for jazz -- so I just always want to make good music. Whatever that may be."

She honestly couldn’t be a sweeter person. She’s genuinely nice and extremely talented, and she deserves everything she has.

“How did I kidnap him?,” she responds, referencing reports that she “kidnapped” him by flying him to Nashville. “You can’t kidnap a grown man! These are serious accusations, now! It’s an interesting way to spin something into a story. See, this is why I don’t read stuff.”

Anyone who thinks Taylor Swift isn’t good for the girl cause has to be crazy, because any woman who’s dominating the charts, the creative director of her own empire, and made whatever millions of dollars last year is only lifting us up. Killing it. And she’s super-creative, an amazing role model, beautiful…..And I think it’s fake intellectuals who don’t have an interest in her. I think real intellectuals would be interested in what she’s doing and understand that she represents something really cool and like a great cultural shift. Anyone who tries to debate Taylor Swift with me, I’m like, “You are an uninformed consumer, and you will be shut down. You’re not doing this.

I dramaserien Nashville följder vi den prisbelönta countrystjärnan Rayna James (Connie Britton), som har dominerat hitlistorna i åratal. Nu kämpar hon med sjunkande popularitet, halvtomma spelningar och dalande skivförsäljning. Rayners chef försöker att rädda sin klients karriär genom att bjuda med sig den sexiga och lovande, men oärliga och manipulerande, artisten Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) på nästa turné. Den falnande stjärnan Rayna är mycket motvillig till detta eftersom hon avskyr Juliettes tuggummipop, och häftig rivalitet uppstår snart mellan de två divorna.

“I’ve never really met acts like her], ” he adds. “You meet people like Elton [John] who have been in the game for 30-40 years who are wise and old and been it for a long time — and Taylor’s been in it for six years and she’s 22. And you hear horror stories about younger musicians who kind of go a bit off the rails, but she’s so together and so kind of professional and knows what she wants, but at the same isn’t too harsh — she’s just a really sweet gentle person — so yeah, that’s what surprised me, is that she was sound.”

Another rule of thumb is that if it doesn’t feel like love - if you’re sad more than you’re happy - that’s a huge indicator that you need to walk. You need to know when to let go.

For now, I have absolutely no love plans for thirty. No deadlines. Just vague, blurry, pretty, daydreams. You never know what’s going to happen. I do hope that marriage and children are in my future. I think it would be unbelievable someday to be chasing around a couple of crazy little kids who have tangled hair and mismatched clothing because we let them dress themselves. One would be in a princess costume, and the other kid would walk around in a Spider-Man suit because he wanted to, and we wouldn’t bother arguing with him.

She’s a great entertainer. You judge who’s entertaining by your audience and the response of your fans, and … they’re all great entertainers but I was just thrilled to death that she got it. She represents herself so well for the youth of today. I just wish so many more of the young people would follow her lead in that respect. There’s not a thing that kid can’t do: she’s beautiful, smart and talented. I really admire that; I was proud for her.

Hi everyone, I am so sorry to announce this devastating news, but Kevin was admitted to the hospital last night, and is unable to attend the Academy of Country Music Awards with Taylor Swift. As we should all live by the moto “ live for today” a cancer patient feels the impact of these words far to hard. We appreciate everything you have done for us, and we know you are all hurt from this too. Please continue to pray for Kevin and his health, because that is the most important thing. As for Taylor, she is just as depressed as all of us to miss out on this date, and we are so thankful for the opportunity she has given us.

"And I think [Swift is] just an exemplary young lady," she added. "It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple of times; we live near each other in Nashville."

"Things sometimes don't happen and it happens all the time, that things don't come together," she said. "But the thing about my life is that everybody seems to know all these different versions of stories that may or may not be true."

That girl with the curly hair who wears her heart on her sleeve is going to be very important to you in life. She’ll teach you that you can love people, have emotions, be vulnerable, get hurt, and still be an amazingly strong and successful woman. You’ll spend hours on the phone talking about boys and life. When you get to be in the same city for a day all you two will want to do is watch Law & Order marathons and eat Chinese food. No matter where she is or how busy she may be, she’ll always answer the phone when you need to talk. She’ll give the best advice and when you don’t follow it because you are too stubborn, she’ll be right back for round 2 advice without so much as batting an eye. She is special. Her words are inspiring. Hold on to her.