Taylor Swift – Mine – CMA Music Fest 2010

Taylor Swift – CMA Music Fest 2010 – 13 Hour Signing

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The nominees for the final five categories (the other 7 have been announced on Tuesday) of 44th annual CMA awards have been announced yesterday.
Taylor is nominated in the Female Vocalist category alongside Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, and Carrie Underwood.

The awards will be aired live on Wednesday, November 10th 2010 6/7c on ABC.

Would you consider all the songs on this record to be love songs? Or are there some that aren’t?
I would consider the songs on this record as emotions—that’s what they’re about. There are some that are about infatuation and adoration and the positive, magical feelings of love. But then there are the ones that deal with when it goes wrong, which it oftentimes does. And all the different ways that it can go wrong and all the different ways it can make you feel and all the different phases of that you go through. Then there’s just social dynamics, dealing with people and learning about the fact that life is so unpredictable. I think that’s one of the things I’ve learned—life and love are unpredictable.

So one of the other songs that’s on the album is “Sparks Fly,” which you’ve performed before and fans already love. Is it a special song?
“Sparks Fly” is a song that the fans have been talking to me about in meet-and-greet lines for the last two years. So I revisited it, and I breathed some new life into it, lyrically and from a production standpoint. I’m really excited about the way it turned out.

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From Taylor’s Official Site:

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Head to Taylor’s Official Online Store to pre-order.

Or listen to Taylor’s part only:

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Here’s a video of Taylor between takes (thanks Steve)

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Also, read an article about this event on CMT.

I also added some candids of Taylor in Maine.

And here’s the full episode of CMT Premieres.

Taylor Swift’s $100,000 donation will help rebuild a playground in Hendersonville, Tenn., where she attended high school and lived with her family prior to moving into her own condo in Nashville. Swift’s charitable fund had originally given the money for area flood relief, but her business manager later suggested the funds go toward updating the Kids Kingdom play area, as well as the city’s volleyball courts. The director of the city’s parks, Dave LeMarbre, told the Hendersonville Star-News the donation was completely unexpected. “It’s overwhelming,” he said. “We didn’t expect that. We appreciate Taylor’s donation as well as all the others who have stepped up.”
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