They Say It’s Your Birthday: Taylor Swift

They Say It's Your Birthday: Taylor Swift

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Dec 132011

They Say It’s Your Birthday celebrates an artist’s special day with other people singing his or her songs. Let others do the work for a while. Happy birthday!

It’s hard to believe all that the now 22-year-old Taylor Swift has accomplished since the age of 16, when she released her very first single, “Tim McGraw” off her debut self-titled album. Fearless became the most honored country music album in history, and Swift the youngest musician ever to win a Grammy for album of the year. This past year, she was ranked #7 on Forbes Magazine‘s Celebrity 100 List. She even holds a title in the Guinness Book of World Records for 2012: ”Fastest Selling Digital Album by a Female Artist” for her most recent release, Speak Now. Continue reading »

Taylor Swift Strips Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” of All Grit and Meaning

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Aug 042011

We hate to admit it, but Taylor Swift performs surprisingly solid. Her Coldplay cover was pretty good; her Mumford & Sons cover was excellent. Her latest cover is a little more off-the-cuff, but worth watching for the unexpected source material: Eminem. Continue reading »

Plug In Stereo Acoustifies Lil Wayne, Taylor Swift, Tracy Chapman on New Mixtape

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Jul 272011

Seventeen-year old pop-punk upstart Plug in Stereo (aka Trevor Dahl) has a voice so sweet, it may make your teeth hurt. He showcases this sweetness on a new cover of Lil Wayne‘s most recent hit “How to Love.” While we recently heard an excellent Lil Wayne cover from Karmin, Dahl, who has toured with fellow pop-punk superstars Never Shout Never and Dashboard Confessional, makes you forget what the original Weezy track even sounded like. Continue reading »

Taylor Swift Hops Aboard the Mumford and Sons Bandwagon with “White Blank Page” Cover

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Apr 052011

Last we heard from Taylor Swift, she was about two years too late with her “Viva La Vida” cover. For her latest genre-crossing endeavor though, she’s right on the cusp of a band’s transition to mainstream success. Perhaps having spotted them on their knockout Grammy performance last month, Swift covered Mumford and Sons during her latest BBC appearance. Continue reading »

Taylor Swift Gives the World Its 7048th “Viva La Vida”

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Oct 212010

Historians, take note: Kanye-victimazation goodwill lasts one year. West’s infamous VMA interruption of Taylor Swift’s Best Female Video in favor of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (which somehow still won “Best Video”) occurred in September 2009. Last month another Video Music Awards came and went with less incident. Now West is back with new tunes and an unbeatable Twitter account. Swift, though, after enjoying the world’s slightly patronizing sympathies, is on her own. So she covers Coldplay‘s “Viva La Vida.”

Bad start. Continue reading »