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 Well, Disco said her favourite britney album is In The Zone, which is a MM-less album, so.. |
Fair enough, but I think it is true to say Britney would not have made it to a 4th studio album without the success of her MM tracks on the previous 3 albums.
Same with Katy Perry, Britney owes her career to Max Martin songs giving her the breakthrough. 
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Taylor's biggest snub to date is definitely IKYWT. GF nod seems debateable, but it definitely deserved a nod for Pop Solo Performance. Also, no performance nod for any of the songs in Red is also another big upset for Taylor. This shows that Grammy voters praise her ability to write songs (because they gave song nominations) and her album, but they think that her vocals aren't good at all.
Love Story wasn't a snub. There's already You Belong With Me got the nominations that Love Story could also get. You can't get 2 nominations in a competitive category lik e General Field or Pop Field, that's why Love Story didn't get any nod
Mine and Speak Now for AOTY were snubs too, but not as big as the snub of IKYWT.
And yes, for her first album at least she could get a nomination for Our Song, if it was eligible.
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Speak Now was Taylor's greatest snub. Not even a Country Album of the Year, really? It even lost to Lady Anti-venom.
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Transcribed this from Lorde ha Rolling Stone article. Too much typing 
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A lamp or a bowl? Ella Yelich-O'Connor wants to buy a Christmas present for her manager, which is why she's standing, with a puzzled look, in a chic design store in Herne Bay, an Auckland, New Zealand, suburb that smells like affluence and the ocean. They're both great gifts, but Ella is determined to figure out which one is better. The choices: a hand-shaped brass bowl with a glowing gold wash, or a minimalist globe table lamp with no base.
"Taylor's supergood at this stuff," says Ella, who's wearing light-gray trousers and a slightly-less-gray shirt. "She's decorated her own houses for ages." So why not text photos of both gifts to her? "That's a great idea." Her friend Taylor Swift is in London, where it's almost midnight, and doesn't reply immediately, so after more furrowed deliberation, Ella chooses the bowl.
Outside, at a cafe on Jervois Road, we're interrupted approximately every six minutes bu autograph and photo requests from polite New Zealanders enjoying the summer weather. A bus of school kids in red blazers pauses at a stoplight, and when the kids spot Ella, they wave in unison delight.
In "Royals," her worldwide smash, Ella mocks the fatuousness of pop stars who brag about driving Maybachs and drinking Cristal, and she also brazenly offers to replace the idiots who dominate Top 40: "You can call me Queen Bee, and baby, I'll rule," she sings. Big talk for a teenage nobody from nowhere.
"I've always been into the idea of confidence. Like, I called my record Pure Heroine." She laughs. "Even my stage name is kind of cocky or grandiose." She mentions a lyric from Kanye West's "Dark Fantasy" ("Me found bravery in my bravado"), which gave her courage to announce her ambition in "Royals." "I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it strange or intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in my meetings: strength."
Now, at 17, she is the Queen Bee, with four Grammy nominations and well-deserved acclaim for her smart and unique album. On the day in October when "Royals" went to Number One - displacing Miley Cyrus, symbolism that's hard to miss - Ella had a photos hoot in New York. "The photographer kept saying, 'Pop your hip out. Try to look cute. Big smiles, now.' And I was like, 'I'm Number One in this country not because I flirt and wink and all that ****, but because I've done exactly what I want to do.' So, no, he did not get smiles." And then she smiles.
Her phone dings. It's a reply from Swift. "Oh, ****. She wrote, 'I love the lamp.' Noooooo!"
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When Ella was young, she stuttered. Physiologists hypothesized that her mouth couldn't move as fast as her brain. The stuttering has past, but now she has frequent insomnia. Her mom describes it best: "Ella's head is always on fire."
Fortunately, she's found a slightly older peer she can turn to for advice: Taylor Swift. When "Royals" went to Number One and Ella arrived home from America, Swift sent her a bunch of roses: "I was floored." Ella had recently told a New Zealand reporter that Swift's success wasn't "breeding anything good in young girls," because the singer was "so flawless and so unattainable." On the heels of her dig at Selena Gomez's song, the quote quickly turned into blog headlines ("Lorde slams Taylor Swift"), and Ella apologized on her tumblr, clarifying that she disliked the "importance placed on physical perfection in this industry," and not Swift personally.
Swift didn't know about any of this, until Ella thanked her for the roses and mentioned what she'd said. "She was like, 'It's fine. If all you've done is call someone perfect, it's not that bad.'" On her way home to New Zealand from the Grammy-nominations concert in L.A. last month, Ella stopped in Australia, and joined Swift for her 24th Birthday party. Their reconciliation, like their original conflict, took place in public.
It makes sense that they're friends - both are smart and driven, command their own careers, and perform with what Ella calls "real teenage voices." "There are very few of us," she continues, "There's Tavi and the Rookie group, King Krule and, to an extent, Jake Bugg. The other teenagers sing other people's songs, which is fine, but it's not an authentic teenage experience."
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Taylor's biggest snub to date is definitely IKYWT. GF nod seems debateable, but it definitely deserved a nod for Pop Solo Performance. Also, no performance nod for any of the songs in Red is also another big upset for Taylor. This shows that Grammy voters praise her ability to write songs (because they gave song nominations) and her album, but they think that her vocals aren't good at all.
Love Story wasn't a snub. There's already You Belong With Me got the nominations that Love Story could also get. You can't get 2 nominations in a competitive category lik e General Field or Pop Field, that's why Love Story didn't get any nod
Mine and Speak Now for AOTY were snubs too, but not as big as the snub of IKYWT.
And yes, for her first album at least she could get a nomination for Our Song, if it was eligible.
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Love Story was not eligible for nomination at 2010 Grammys but it was eligible for 2009 Grammys that why we think that it was snubbed
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You can't consider losing an award as a snub, they at least nominated Speak Now for something. And as you can see in the most undeserving AOTY thread, people even think that Red's nomination is undeserving, under that conditinons Speak Now's snub from AOTY doesn't seem so big to me.
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Does anybody have a list of the highest-grossing country music tours of 2013?
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Love Story was not eligible for nomination at 2010 Grammys but it was eligible for 2009 Grammys that why we think that it was snubbed
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OK, i see it now, but still it's not a big snub too, it had released at September 12, very late date for a song to get a nomination. It could only get a nomination if it went to the top of the charts as soon as it's released (e.g. Royals) but Love Story wasn't that big at that date, it peaked in January 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_St...rt_performance
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Thanks for transcribing this! Can I send it to some people?
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Does anybody have a list of the highest-grossing country music tours of 2013?
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Taylor Swift— 112.7 million
Kenny Chesney— 90.9
Jason Aldean— 51
Luke Bryan— 44.4
Zac Brown Band— 43.1
George Strait— 40.9
Miranda Lambert— 34.2
Rascal Flatts— 29.8
Tim McGraw— 27.2
Carrie Underwood— 26.3
Brad Paisley— 25.3
Keith Urban— 20.4
Blake Shelton— 19.5
Willie Nelson— 14.2
Toby Keith—12.9
Florida Georgia Line— 8.3
Alabama— 6.5
Eric Church— 6.1
Brantley Gilbert— 5.3
Darius Rucker— 5.2
Reba— 4.9
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http://www.musicrow.com/2014/01/tour...oomed-in-2013/
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Do you know how much yime Taylor have to win AOTY and be the younguest to have two of them?
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Her phone dings. It's a reply from Swift. "Oh, ****. She wrote, 'I love the lamp.' Noooooo!"
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Potty mouth Lord 
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I think Speak Now is her biggest snub
many ppl already predicted it.
and album like Loud could make the nom list. Joke!
same with Back To December in general field. Its production are stunning.
about Trouble. That song is more stunning than Roar, but maybe Grammy doesnt really like Max Martin, so they dont embrace him with 2 consecutive years getting nom in big categories in Gramny. It's a big snub too, but I think Speak Now is still bigger snub
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Originally posted by anticore
OK, i see it now, but still it's not a big snub too, it had released at September 12, very late date for a song to get a nomination. It could only get a nomination if it went to the top of the charts as soon as it's released (e.g. Royals) but Love Story wasn't that big at that date, it peaked in January 2009
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You are right I guess
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Do you know how much yime Taylor have to win AOTY and be the younguest to have two of them?
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The youngest 2 time AOTY winner Stevie Wonder won the second AOTY at 24 years and 9 months and if Taylor wins she will be 24 years and 1 month so she will beat that record by 8 months
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Do you know how much yime Taylor have to win AOTY and be the younguest to have two of them?
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Stevie Wonder was 24 when he won his second AOTY Grammy. So Taylor can only be the youngest 2-time winner if Red wins next week.
This is only Taylor's 4th Album though. Stevie Wonder won his 2nd AOTY with his 17th album!
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Guys, we should hold a prayer circle for The Lord a day before the Grammys. Imagine the headlines if The Lord wins Her 2nd Album of the Year.
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Originally posted by Safe&Sound
I think Speak Now is her biggest snub
many ppl already predicted it.
and album like Loud could make the nom list. Joke!
same with Back To December in general field. Its production are stunning.
about Trouble. That song is more stunning than Roar, but maybe Grammy doesnt really like Max Martin, so they dont embrace him with 2 consecutive years getting nom in big categories in Gramny. It's a big snub too, but I think Speak Now is still bigger snub
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Roar is also a Max Martin song, too..
IKYWT was #1 at pop charts for 7 weeks, 2nd biggest pop hit of 2013. Ir was so huge to be sunbbed 
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Stevie Wonder was 24 when he won his second AOTY Grammy. So Taylor can only be the youngest 2-time winner if Red wins next week.
This is only Taylor's 4th Album though. Stevie Wonder won his 2nd AOTY with his 17th album!
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17 albums  How was he able to make so many albums so early 
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No, it is Lorde who swears because Taylor recommended the lamp, but Lorde had just bought the bowl! 
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Stevie Wonder is a legend, and he's performing with Daft Punk. I think you can all guess who'll win the AOTY.
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