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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#1)
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RED is up to 25 on iTunes! 
160. Everything Has Slayed
211. Red
Keep rising, red. 
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The genocide that the Lord is about to unleash on the charts is just too much
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Begin Again was the highlight of the show.
She was glowing while singing the song, and I didn't get that same feeling from any other performance... It was truly amazing.
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Begin Again was the highlight of the show.
She was glowing while singing the song, and I didn't get that same feeling from any other performance... It was truly amazing.
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She was extra feeling the song perhaps? Looks like she is beginning again...
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A fan meeting Taylor last night:
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So, my sister just bolts for the door after the picture (she hates meeting famous people), and I stay behind because I HAD to ask Taylor about her B-Stage. I said, "Have you picked a song for B-Stage yet?" She says, "Actually, I just told someone I would play Our Song." Now, in my head I'm thinking, Who would request Our Song? She has sung it for ALL of her tours, it's one of her most popular songs...that's just stupid. I guess this must have been translating on my face because Taylor says, "Is that okay?" And I was so nervous and I felt awkward so I ended up saying, "Yeah...that's okay....." Taylor: "You don't seem to excited." According to my sister I then did an "ehhhhhhhh," but I cannot remember this. I remember saying, "It's okay, for now." It was at this moment that Taylor gave me this kind-of-annoyed look and she made a scoffing noise and said, "Well I'm trying here." At this moment I started freaking out because I felt like I just blew it with Taylor. I asked her for a hug before I left, and that was about it. At some point she thanked me for the letter and said that it was really sweet of me to do that for her.
So I left the meet & greet feeling completely bummed because I felt like I had just offended her. I dunno, it ended on a really weird note.
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Taylor gave me this kind-of-annoyed look and she made a scoffing noise and said, "Well Im trying here."
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I'm cackling. The Lord snapping at her fans. Queen.
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Differences between Chesney & the Lord's Heinz Field concerts:
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Some of Chesney's fans arrived at 6:30 a.m. June 22 for a daylong drinkfest preceding the concert and left large amounts of garbage.
Swift's fans, much more sedate, began trickling in to parking lots early Saturday afternoon for the 7 p.m. show.
By 8 p.m., Pittsburgh police had reported no problems at the Swift concert.
Disorderly conduct and arrests at the Chesney concerts have become a concern. Police arrested or cited 73 people inside and outside of Heinz Field in connection with the event. Medics reported treating 150 people, and paramedics transported 45 people to hospitals. Police responded to at least 10 large fights. Cleaning crews said some Chesney concert-goers made makeshift toilets at tailgate sites in parking lots. Crews hauled off 45,000 to 60,000 pounds of garbage, not counting recyclables — five times the amount of garbage left after a Steelers game.
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http://triblive.com/news/editorspick...#axzz2YOnJmNDQ
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A fan meeting Taylor last night:
Imagine meeting your idol and it ending weird like this |
Poor girl, she must feel awful!
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No, I wasn't in the pit, but I really liked me seats.. I was first level up off of the field and almost exactly in the middle, so I could see everything.
This group of drunk girls was sitting right next to us and they were dancing with us the whole night and we were getting our life.
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I'm sitting there too! First level above the field, middle, but almost in the last row of my section  Close to the B stage, I reckon?
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The Lord about to kick Rhenna out of the Top 5
Obama is the next one
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Pop vs. Country
By Kellie B. Gormly
Published: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 9:00 p.m.
Updated: Wednesday, July 3, 2013
In an era of blurring boundaries among genres of music, perhaps labels should be limited to soup cans — especially if you're talking about artists like Taylor Swift, who straddle the worlds of country and pop music.
Many people call Swift, once considered a country cutie, a pop princess. But that begs the question: Is the native of the Reading area in Berks County still a country singer at all, or has she completely crossed over to mainstream pop with her latest album, “Red?”
Some country fans argue that Swift, who performs at Heinz Field on July 6 with two non-country openers, Ed Sheeran and Austin Mahone, was only marginally country to begin with, and now is even less so, if at all. But some people on both pop and country sides say Swift, who was just 17 when her eponymous debut album came out in 2006, will never lose her country roots, even if she is diversifying her music as she gets older.
Leah Klocko, the DJ who broadcasts on Froggy (WOGI-FM 104.3) mostly weekday evenings, says Swift is a little bit of both pop and country and hasn't lost her country fan base.
“The country fans still absolutely love her,” says Klocko, whose on-air moniker is Leapin' Leah. “Yes, a lot of the music on ‘Red' kind of went toward pop, but we still get tons of requests for her.
“I think she really has loyal fans because they've sort of grown up with her,” Klocko says. “In my opinion, at least she stayed real whether she sings pop or ... country. Whatever you want to categorize her as, she's been real.”
Unlike Shania Twain, who earned fan backlash when she became a crossover artist in the '90s, Swift's country fans don't seem to be angry or disappointed, Klocko says. If it's a new CD from Swift, her fans want to hear it.
“I haven't had listeners call up and say, ‘Oh, she's pop now,' ” Klocko says. The station is now frequently playing Tim McGraw's hit “Highway Don't Care,” a duet with Swift. Froggy didn't play Swift's No. 1 hit “I Knew You Were Trouble,” which is clearly a pop song.
Swift still has a leg in country music, for sure, even though her music continues to broaden, Klocko says.
“I think she always will because country was her first love,” she says. “Her first song was called ‘Tim McGraw.' ”
The key to Swift's claim to country lies in her songwriting, say Klocko and Chip DiMonick, the singer of a Pittsburgh-area, self-titled rock band.
Interestingly, songwriters Shellback and Max Martin wrote the album's big pop hits — “22,” “I Knew You Were Trouble” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Swift's self-penned songs, DiMonick says, sound dramatically different than these songs and include Swift's classic acoustic guitar, banjo and mandolin.
“Most people think of who Taylor Swift is and define Taylor Swift by the three songs they heard on the radio this year,” he says.
“When you think about Taylor Swift, you have to ... really look at who she is,” says DiMonick of Moon. “The feeling that I have determining whether (Swift's music) is country or pop or both ... really just requires looking at her body of work and what she's writing and comparing that to what others write for.”
Klocko says that Swift's songwriting retains the hallmark of country songs: stories about real, everyday people and real, everyday feelings and situations.
“It seems like ... when she writes things, it's not like she's writing about what she's going through from the view of the star,” Klocko says. “It's more about what everyone can relate to.”
In previous albums, Swift offered two versions of some songs — one country, and one more poplike. But she didn't do that on “Red,” which partially explains the less-country feel, Klocko says.
DiMonick says that Swift's crossover is undeniable, but that she hasn't lost her roots.
“There's almost two sides of Taylor Swift: She's both a pure pop artist as well as a crossover pop country artist,” he says.
“In terms of how she's marketed — she's marketed as a pop princess,” he says. “She's pretty much who has filled the void for Miley Cyrus” since Cyrus' Hannah Montana days ended. (X)
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Interesting read. 
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The Kardashians are such stans!
And Kylie is so 
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Taylor Swift and the Seven Grammys
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One of the top comments in the sacRED video
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If Carrie Underwood made a concert video the concert would only be 1 /2 full 
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Taylor Swift and the Seven Grammys
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@MaseratiSwift The person told me that Asia and Europe are CONFIRMED world tour dates for next year and that's all they were allowed to tell me.
She attended yesterday's concert.
EDIT: Kacey Musgraves apparently inspired me to change my sig.
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A fan meeting Taylor last night:
Imagine meeting your idol and it ending weird like this |
Poor girl. Wasn't there another incident similar to this? 
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