This Sunday at 7pm EST, 60 Minutes will feature country-pop artist Taylor Swift. Last Wednesday, Taylor was named Entertainer of the Year at the CMAs. This week, her current single "Sparks Fly" became her first #1 on the country charts since "You Belong With Me" in 2009. Taylor also has 5 songs in the Hot 100- "If This Was A Movie (#10), Ours (#13), Superman (#26), Sparks Fly and Haunted (#98). Her multiplatinum album Speak Now just celebrated it's one year release and is currently #51 on the Billboard 200, with her 2007 Holiday Collection (#99) climbing the charts in anticipation of the coming holiday season.
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Swift says she is reminded of her status as role model every day. "I definitely think about a million people when I am getting dressed in the morning," she tells Stahl. "That's just part of my life now. I think it's my responsibility to know it and to be conscious of it."
She eschews the notion that stars aren't responsible for other people's children. "It would be really easy to say...I'm 21 now. I do what I want. You raise your kids. But...that's not the truth of it. The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count," says Swift.
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Swift practices that mission with songs like "Mean," an attack on cruelty that she originally wrote in response to a painful episode in her own life, but then broadened into an attack on bullying of all types. It's a message her fans embrace while living or remembering the difficult period of adolescence. It's become an anti-meanness anthem.
Swift sings songs like that from experience. She wasn't always the willowy, pretty girl she grew up to be. At one point in her life, she tells Stahl, she wasn't as slim as she wanted to be, nor had hair as straight as she would have liked. She also wore glasses.
There is still some of that awkward child in the woman who now sells millions of records and enthralls thousands in packed venues. "Criticism still hurts. I don't have thick skin. I hate reading criticisms," she says. "You never really, like, get past things hurting you."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_16...esponsibility/
Immediately following the 60 Minutes episode, Taylor will perform at the AMAs, where she is nominated for Aritst of the Year, Female Country Vocalist of the Year and Favorite Country Album.
Deciding everything in her career. That is one hell of a powerful woman. I would really love to hear from some of her employees what is she like as a boss. :P