New Myspace Video from Taylor.

For some reason I can’t embed myspace video’s, but after a few long months of no videos, Taylor has finally uploaded a new one! Check it out here!

Taylor Swift French Interview

Note: The interview is in English, with French subtitles.

Fans Camp Out For Taylor Swift

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – If you were hoping to get tickets for Taylor Swift’s concert at the North Charleston Coliseum, you will have to pay extra online because the concert is soldout.

Dave McBee traveled from Columbia to get in line yesterday, for him, nineteen hours was well worth the wait.

“I got little girls man. And this is extra credit bonus points for daddy.”

Tickets went on sale at 10am online and inline.  While parents were looking for extra credit some had other reasons for waiting it out.

“Girls, want to go see the girls” said Bobby Patton.

“I feel special man that’s awesome! I’m psyched, it’s Taylor Swift man” added John Gainey.

Not everyone was as lucky, some late comers could buy two seats but they wouldn’t be next to each other.

“It’s ten o’clock and I was here. When I walked up the lady said they were sold out. How can you be sold out when you just put the tickets up for sale” added a dejected Renee Heissenbuttle.

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Nashville Scene: Taylor Swift Likes Pizza, but not Sushi

When I talked to Taylor Swift for the Scene‘sPeople Issue, I mentioned that I had read somewhere that she and Miley Cyrus had eaten an entire pizza while rehearsing for the Grammys. “Yeah, we were talking 100 miles a minute,” she said, “and so we didn’t even realize that we were just completely eating an entire box of pizza.” (I told her there’s a Nashville band, Those Darlins, who have a song called “Whole Damn Thing,” but that song’s about a chicken, not a pizza. “I’ll have to look that up!” she said.) Teenager, pizza: Makes sense.

Then I asked Swift to name some of her favorite Nashville restaurants, and she said, “I like Bricktop’s a lot…. Bricktop’s is cool. I went to Flyte once, have you ever been there?” I said I had been there, once. “It seemed really good,” she replied. Seemed really good? But I think I know what she meant: Everything about the atmosphere of the place–the way the wait staff carry themselves and brush the crumbs off your table–makes the place seem good. But maybe that’s another post. Anyway, pop star, fancy restaurant: Again, makes sense.

But remember when our own Nicki Wood asked the question: Eaten at the Old Spaghetti Factory latey? I guess I was a little surprised when Swift ‘fessed up.

“When I’m home, I like to get to know my brother,” Swift says. “Other than that, Abigail and I”–you may remember Abigail as her friend in “Fifteen” who “gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind”–“we’ll go to, like, the Old Spaghetti Factory. We literally do that. Just go to Broadway and do touristy stuff, because it’s fun.”

Then, probably because I had talked to chef Hide Watanabe earlier in the day, I popped the question: “Do you like sushi?”

“I have tried so hard to like sushi,” she said apologetically. “I am the last person on earth who is not cool enough to be able to eat sushi. I can’t swallow it.” Then, in the same voice I might use to ask Yoda how he lifted the X-Wing out of the swamp, she asked, “How do you do that?”

“Um, I guess it’s an acquired taste,” I offered, trying to reassure her that it has nothing to do with being cool. “You’re not the last person on earth, though,” I added, not wanting to put my interview subject off, “because actually I talked to a sushi chef today who also plays banjo. He’s friends with Earl Scruggs, and Earl Scruggs won’t eat sushi, either.” And though she was in L.A. and I in Nashville, I could sense the weight begin to lift. “That’s good to know I’m in good company.”

“You are in very good company,” I said.

“I tried so hard to like it.”

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Behind the Scenes of CSI

Be sure to check out this amazing new clip of Taylor behind the scenes of CSI. Her episode airs March 5 on CBS.

Nashville Scene: The Music City Star

By Steve Haruch

Published on February 25, 2009 at 2:21pm

If our experience is the norm, reporters who talk to Taylor Swift get two interviews in the bargain. You get a professional entertainer, poised and practiced, who’s already been the music guest on SNL and a featured performer on the Grammys before her 20th birthday. And sometimes, even in the same breath, you get a guest appearance by the not-atypical Tennessee teen you probably passed on Second Avenue without a second look.

Take the oft-raised question of whether she is really country or pop. “I don’t sit down, start writing a song and freak out, and say, ‘not country enough,’ or ‘not pop enough,’ or, ‘I’m going for this demographic or that demographic,’ ” Swift says, now rehearsing for her imminent summer tour. “I just write music. And I try not to overcomplicate things with how people might perceive it.”

That’s Taylor Swift the multiplatinum hit machine, who just last night was singing her anthem “Fifteen” before the music world’s glitterati and a global audience. Then Taylor Swift the teenager adds an emoticon: “Y’know, it’s all good.”

If anyone’s been able to master life as a dual citizen—teenager/celebrity, country girl/pop star, and of course singer/songwriter—it’s Swift, perhaps country music’s brightest hope. When her second album, Fearless, was released in November 2008, the Hendersonville 19-year-old found herself in two places at once: No. 1 on the country chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200.

What got her there, says her frequent writing partner Liz Rose, is an ability to talk to her peers in their own voice without faking it. Even in writing sessions. “For about two minutes she’s just…high school,” says Rose, who co-wrote four songs on Fearless, including the single “You Belong With Me.” “She’ll be like, ‘Give me some chocolate!’ Then we’ll close the door, and she’ll say, ‘OK, here’s my idea.’ ”

Those ideas tend to be good—like the time she told Rose she wanted to write a song about Tim McGraw. The result, her first single “Tim McGraw,” reached No. 6 on the country chart. Thus far, Swift has managed to flesh out her ideas without play-acting or patronizing. When she sings, “She wears short skirts / I wear T-shirts / She’s cheer captain and / I’m in the bleachers” (in “You Belong With Me”), she’s easy to imagine in either role. Asked the same question about Swift’s genre identity, country or pop, Rose says it’s immaterial.

“Taylor’s heart is country,” Rose says. “The fact that we ran off our younger demographic a long time ago—people should be thanking Taylor. She’s brought back a lot of fans we lost that went to pop and Disney.” As for Swift’s crossover appeal, she says simply, “Taylor didn’t ask for pop. Pop asked for Taylor.”

And pop keeps asking. Swift sold more than 4 million albums in 2008. If success has given her what Koreans call kongju-byeong (“princess syndrome”), she’s hiding it in a way every overnight country-pop-whatever superstar should study.

“When I’m home, I like to get to know my brother,” Swift says. “Other than that, Abigail and I”—you may remember Abigail as her friend in “Fifteen” who “gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind”—”we’ll go to, like, the Old Spaghetti Factory. We literally do that. Just go to Broadway and do touristy stuff, because it’s fun.”

As for success, she says, “Every day feels like a bonus day for me, because I never thought I was gonna get to do this…. I’ve always approached it like, ‘You probably won’t get this, but if you’re lucky, you might.’ And that goes for everything.”

Maybe “lucky” isn’t quite the right word. Like many teenagers, Swift is big into social networking—she just happens to have, quite literally, a million friends on MySpace. She owes at least some of her success to utilizing online networks better than anyone else in country music, because it came naturally. “I love my MySpace,” she says. “I’m on there all the time.”

Last year, Swift spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200—the first female country artist ever to do so—and became the first artist in SoundScan history to land two albums in the year-end Top 10. What can she possibly do for an encore? Her first headlining tour, of course.

“You have to come out and see it!” she exclaims. If anything, she sounds like she might consider stapling flyers on Elliston Place the week before the show. “Putting together a tour,” she says, “I think to myself, y’know, ‘What if nobody shows up?’ ” That won’t be a problem. The first show that went on sale for the Fearless Tour—at L.A.’s Staples Center—sold out in two minutes. “[That] really blew my mind,” she says.

Aside from the tour, which stretches from March to October, Swift is “always writing” for an eventual third album. With one boot atop the country world and a stiletto at the top of the pops, Swift now seems as indomitable as she is unclassifiable. But she’s not getting ahead of herself.

“You have to realize that you know nothing compared to what you’re going to know two weeks from now,” she says. “And that’s just how I live my life.”

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Maybe you can see Taylor Swift at Plant City Strawberry Festival

Maybe you can see Taylor Swift

So you think you can’t get into the Taylor Swift show Sunday because it’s sold out? Think again. Reserved tickets are gone, but there are still about 3,000 free (with gate admission) bleacher seats that are available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Paul Davis, general manager of the Florida Strawberry Festival, says that Swift’s concert was “probably the quickest sellout we’ve ever had.” So, Davis said, it will probably be important to line up for her 7:30 p.m. show at least by the start of the Rodney Atkins show, which begins at the GTE FCU Soundstage at 3:30 p.m. Everyone will be cleared out after the Atkins concert — so don’t think you can just stay there and wait for the Swift concert to begin. Still, some people likely will be turned away.

Sherry Robinson, Times staff writer

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Note: If you are going to this, or any other Taylor show, PLEASE send in a review or any media you might have. You will, of course, be credited and Taylor fans everywhere will be appreciative!

MTV: Taylor Swift Notches 10th Week At #1

02.25.09

Taylor Swift is making this look way, way too easy. The country superstar will notch her 10th time at #1 on theBillboard album tally next week, when her unstoppableFearless dominates once again. With sales of 62,300 according to Nielsen SoundScan, Swift easily coasts for yet another week as the disc steams toward the 2.7 million sold mark.

 

Debuting not far behind in the #2 slot, at 58,100, is a solo album from former Gap member Charlie Wilson, Uncle Charlie, which features production from T-Pain, Stargate and the Underdogs, and cameos from Snoop Dogg, Pain and Jamie Foxx. Beyoncé‘s I Am … Sasha Fierce stormed back into the top 10 after a week on the fringes, landing at #5 with sales of 40,500. Disco-stick-riding dancing queen Lady Gaga will finally make it to the big leagues, landing at #10 after selling nearly 32,100 copies of Fame, marking the highest chart position yet for the trippy club album.

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LA Times Blog: Why is Taylor Swift in Jonas Bros ‘3D Experience’: ‘She sells a lot of records’

By Elizabeth Snead

The Dish Rag talked with Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas and Joe Jonas about their new “3D Concert Experience.”

You can watch snippets of the amazing new concert and behind-the-scenes film from the lads’ recent appearance on “The David Letterman Show” above. Btw, the movie opens… Friday! Only three more days!

But we just had to ask the brothers about … girls. And Taylor Swift. And you’ll be shocked — shocked — by what Joe has to say about his old girlfriend.

So what about the ladies, boys. We wondered if they get girlfriend time?

Nick:  We try to date. 

Joe:  We’re always looking for love. 

Kevin bursts out laughing, then Nick and Joe start laughing.

Keep reading. Just trust me on this…

How do the boys cope with all the screaming female fans?

Nick: It’s not bad. 

Kevin: It’s not rough. 

Nick: We’ll be honest (laughing), it’s not horrible.  But you just take a step at a time.  It’s at times kind of (inaudible), the screaming and all that, but it’s not always like that; it’s just what they capture on camera to put it in the movie.  But it’s fun. We love what we do and we love that our fans are so supportive and so amazing. They’re the best.

Tell us about one fan who has been particularly devoted.

Kevin: You know the girls that were running in the film, chasing the vehicles –- that wasn’t staged at all. That was actually happening when we were in New York, and you saw the girls coming up to the window of the car. Those girls were actually running after the vehicles, and it kind of inspired the intro to the movie and all that.  It’s very cool. We’re going to New York tomorrow, and we’ll probably see them there. 

Taylor Swift was in the movie. Joe dated her and they reportedly broke up on the phone. We wanted to know if they were together when shooting the movie and how she ended up being in the movie.

Joe:  I think it was just… we knew her as an artist and what a great artist she was.

Kevin:  She sells a lot of records.

Joe: Yeah, she sells a lot of records. And we asked her to be in the movie, and she was up for it. She was really good. The response is amazing. You guys were there yesterday.  You can tell …

Kevin:  We all enjoyed the time with her. So it was a mutual kind of fun time on the set of the movie.

OK, that’s all Joe has to say about Taylor Swift?

Seriously? How about: “Taylor is beautiful, incredibly sweet, talented and smart.”

Or maybe: “I love the amazing song she wrote about how I broke her heart.”

What do you think he should have said?

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KAIT: Taylor Swift Ticket Scalping Soars

02.24.09

JONESBORO —  Tickets to a Jonesboro performance by teen singing sensation Taylor Swift are making for “swift” and expensive sales on the internet.  It seems the very same tickets purchased two weeks ago are now on sites like eBay for hundreds of dollars over the original price.  How is that legal since Arkansas has a law against ticket scalping?

“It’s a love story, just say yes,” sings Taylor Swift, dressed in a princess gown as she gazes into the eyes of a young man dressed the part of a prince.

The crossover artist sings of being a princess and tickets to her performance are like gold.  Seven thousand tickets to her Jonesboro performance sold out in two and a half hours. Now some of those same tickets are showing up again on the internet.

Taylor Swift tickets for the Jonesboro concert are now selling for $200, $300, $400–even $600 dollars for two tickets.

“I can assure you that every venue that has this show that’s coming up, there are tickets out there on the secondary market for sale for a price that is substantially higher than what the individuals paid for,” said Tim Dean, director of the Convocation Center. 

  So, is this considered scalping?  Ticket scalping is illegal in the state of Arkansas.

  “We take the position that selling tickets at a price above face value–except for a small handling fee–but certainly four and five hundred dollars for these tickets is in violation of Arkansas law and is a crime under Arkansas law,” said Justin Allen, Chief Deputy, Arkansas Attorney General’s Office.

Prosecuting it is a different story.  Take the Hannah Montana ticket fiasco back in December of 2007.  The Attorney General’s office launched an investigation after computer software known as “bots,” or robots bought up hundreds of tickets at once for resale–knocking the average consumer out of the opportunity on-line.  That investigation is still on-going.  It’s difficult to find out just who’s selling the tickets on the internet.

“These people are to a large extent able to hide over the internet and Ii like I said, people like eBay, Stub Hub, etc–these resale sites are very protective of their users and we’re having a difficult time getting them to share information with us that will allow us to identify for instance in the Hannah Montana situation the people who bought up large amounts of tickets and then turned around and sold them,” said Allen.

Consumers should beware when buying tickets over the internet.  The AG’s office says fraud is always a major concern.

For some people there’s no price too high to pay for what they want.  Just getting a ticket is music to their ears.

“We are selling a product and once that product leaves our hands–it’s not anything any different than if you happened to pick up an antique at an antique store at a really good buy and you go out and sell it for three times what you paid for it,” explained Dean.

If someone buys a ticket on eBay, do they have to worry about being prosecuted?  The answer is no.  The AG’s office doesn’t have the resources to go after one or two people.   What they are focusing on are those people who buy up large quantities of tickets for re-sale.  Trying to make money that way is a direct violation of Arkansas civil law–of what’s called the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

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