Thanks to her record breaking year, Entertainment Weekly has named Taylor Swift as their Entertainer of the Year. At only twenty years old, she is the youngest performer ever to be so honored. In the past extraordinary year the multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter headlined a triumphant concert tour, won four Grammy awards, and launched ‘Speak Now’, her third studio album, which went platinum within a week of its release Hot News.
Much like Taylor’s earlier two albums, ‘Speak Now’ received great reviews, partly due to her sincere lyrics that honor trustworthy, loyal friends, high school crushes, and ex-boyfriends. ‘Back to December’ and ‘Mine’, her first two singles, were also touching tributes to former relationships. Her songs sound autobiographical and have caused a great deal of speculation, gossip and rumor published as fact. Taylor is amused by it all and keeps the mystery alive by declining to identify the allusions in her songs Hot News.
Last year Taylor became the subject of countless headlines when she was infamously interrupted during her acceptance of her MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video, by rapper Kanye West. She gave no public response for a year and was reluctant to attend or perform on the 2010 MTV Awards show. Then she woke up one night and decided to sing ‘Innocent’, which she wrote in the aftermath of the 2009 fiasco Hot News.
Taylor will be taking the holidays off to rest up for her 2011 ‘Speak Now’ World Tour which will kick off in Singapore, on February 9. Her opening act will be ‘NeedtoBreathe’, a Christian rock group and she’ll be touring six stadiums in nineteen countries, and playing eighty seven dates Hot News.
