When your fourth album becomes the third of your records to reach No.1 in the US - and the second to sell more than one million in a single week - and then repeats its chart-topping action around the world, you know you are a star.
When you made nearly $60million last year and your romantic travails, real or imagined by the tabloids, become widely understood jokes even at film and TV awards shows, you know you've made it into the zeitgeist.
But when you find yourself being compared to Madonna, not because you've shocked a pope or donned an inappropriate leotard - not even for adopting an English accent and an African child almost simultaneously - but because you are the first female artist to be popular enough to fill stadiums in Australia since Ms Ciccone did it 20 years ago, then even the most cloth-eared among us must know something special is happening here.
Taylor Swift's coming tour of Australia and New Zealand will be in territory reserved for the likes of the Rolling Stones, U2 and Bon Jovi.
While Beyonce and One Direction (featuring one former boyfriend) fill arenas and John Mayer (another) is just stepping up to that level, Swift is leaving them behind in a great rush.
Imagine dropping RED to $0.99.
I went to target today, and the deluxe is $15.99.. With a dropped price sign.
And the regular edition is on the Best of 2013 shelf, meanwhile gaga, katy, bruno, and jt are nowhere to be found on it.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4F7H1r0Y1w
This video has a better quality version of her singing love story and longer if anyone is interested! It starts about a 50 seconds in
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4F7H1r0Y1w
This video has a better quality version of her singing love story and longer if anyone is interested! It starts about a 50 seconds in
She sounds so good during Love Story, better than any of her recent performance of this hymn
