New Details about the upcoming Country Music Awards (Wednesday) have surfaced and we’ve learned that Taylor will be performing not once but twice:
NASHVILLE, Nov. 9 (UPI) — Taylor Swift has signed on to deliver the opening performance at the 43rd annual CMA Awards presentation in Nashville, ABC announced Monday.
She is also expected to give a second, acoustic performance later in Wednesday’s show at the Sommet Center. It is to be broadcast live on ABC with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood serving as hosts for the event. They will perform on the show, as well, the network said.
Don’t forget to watch Taylor host Saturday Night Live tonight! She’ll be doing double duty, hosting and performing. SNL starts at 11:30 pm on NBC. Click Here to join our SNL discussion on the forum!
Taylor talks about hosting SNL tonight, why she thinks Fearless did so well and her favorite song on the platinum edition:
Taylor Swift will be adding to her list of accomplishments this weekend on Saturday Night Live. She previously performed on the show, but Saturday (Nov. 7), she’ll serve as host — and musical guest.
Although she has enjoyed working with all of the cast members, Swift singles out Kristen Wiig as one of her favorites. In particular, she’s fond of Wiig’s character, Penelope, who seems to have a divine talent for one-upmanship.
“I think my favorite things I see on SNL are the things that Kristen does, where she’s being these incredible characters that you’ve kind of seen a little bit in real life. Like, everybody’s kind of been at that party with the Penelope character.”
I’m so excited! The full version of John Mayer and Taylor Swift’s duet has been released! The song is titled “Half of My Heart” and John had some interesting things to say about Taylor as well as the song:
“She is on the record,” he told MTV News, adding that the collaboration, which appeared online Friday, originally came together after he tweeted that he wanted to work with the singer. “You know what — it’s like the tweet version of the secret, no better way to put it out into the universe than to tweet it.”
Swift also openly expressed a desire to work with Mayer in interviews, but the details of how it actually came to be are a bit fuzzy to Mayer. “Well, you know, tweeting it is more just sort of the exposition of my idea,” he explained. “But then it’s not like she reads the tweet and goes, ‘I’m in,’ although she may have. I don’t remember.”
The idea for the song came to Mayer in a dream. “I woke up with the song in my head called ‘Half Of My Heart,’ ” he recalled. “And the idea is that it’s this real sort of updated — not that it needs to be updated — sort of Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks thing.”
On the track, Mayer sings lead with Swift lending back-up vocals. “I thought, ‘Well, if this is going to be my love letter to that style of music, who’s going to be the Stevie Nicks in this equation?’ ” he recalled. “And I thought, ‘This Taylor Swift girl is going to be around for a long time.’
Taylor had some interesting things to say about her untitled third album, check it out:
“I actually have [started work on a new album]. I’m constantly writing about what I go through as it happens to me,” she told MTV News. “I try not to get too backlogged and have to go back. I record all the time, so I’ve got a lot of songs.”
Although she wouldn’t divulge too much about what (and who) she’s writing about for the album, she did say that it will certainly be a reflection of the very big events of the last couple of years. “When I put out an album I’d like to think that when people listen to that album it’s like a diary of what I’ve been through in the last two years,” she said. “So it’s a really fun way to express how I feel and what I’m going through.”
“I always try and bring in new influences, and you know I’ve been writing [many of] these new songs for the record by myself so I can kind of take it anywhere,” she explained. “And it’s really fun to play with different inspirational things, but you never know … when I write songs, sometimes it surprises me how they sound different from my other stuff. Hopefully I just continue to grow and evolve and change, but not freak people out.”
Band Hero is offering all Taylor fans the chance to meet her! All you have to do is buy the game “Band Hero”, then visit this website, enter the code from the back of your game’s manual, and follow further instructions. It’s that easy! The contest ends November 30th, so you have until then to enter, good luck!
An SNL promo video was released earlier today! It shows Taylor Swift along with SNL regular Bill Hader making fun at the whole MTV Video Music Awards Kanye West incident. Take a look below:
Don’t forget to watch Taylor Swift on SNL this Saturday night on NBC =)
