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PREVIEW: Taylor Swift – Begin Again
In case you missed it this morning, Taylor Swift previewed a brand new track off of her upcoming album “RED”. One morning each week on ABC’s Good Morning America, for the next four weeks leading up to the record’s release, she’ll premiere a new track in a 30 second preview. At midnight the song will be available for purchase on iTunes exclusively.
Today she premiered “Begin Again,” a more country sounding song than her current single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” It’s a song, that Taylor describes, as a song about recovering after a horrible break-up and going out a first date in a new relationship. Listen to it below:
What do you think? Do you think she still has some country chart hits on her new album, or are you worried it will be too pop? “Begin Again” will be on iTunes tonight at midnight.
Taylor Swift Kicking Up Red Promo
Taylor Swift will be bringing a lot of attention towards her new album “Red” out on October 22nd. She’ll be revealing one song a week for fans for the next four weeks leading up to the release of her record, beginning on September 24th. Each Monday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America will air a 30-second clip with an introduction from Taylor. At midnight, leading into Tuesday, that particular song will be available for purchase on iTunes for fans.
Two days after “Red” will finally hit stores, Taylor will be part of a classroom live chat event on October 24th. The live web chat is expected to have an audience of nearly 2 million students across the United States. The 30-minute chat is sponsored by Scholastic and will discuss Taylor’s inspiration for her song writing, her favorite tracks from her album, and perform a song off of the record.
Teachers can submit their classes’ questions for Taylor right now by visiting this link. What’s the one question you would ask her if you had the chance?
Taylor Swift Gets Five European MTV Nominations
Congratulations to Taylor Swift! She’s nominated for five European MTV awards for their upcoming EMAs! She’s been nominated for Best Female, Best Pop, Best Live, Best Look, and Best World Stage at the award show. She’s one of the most nominated artists going into the EMAs, next to Rihanna’s six nominations.
American fans will be able to watch the European award show on November 11th at 11 pm EST on MTV2 live from Germany. It’s a fan-voted award show, and voting began on September 17th. Fans can vote until November 9th at 11:49 CST European time at MTVEMA.com or on their mobile site m.mtvema.com.
Check out the full list of nominees below. How many awards do you think Taylor will take home in November?
VIDEO: Taylor Swift – Ronan
Taylor Swift premiered an emotionally charged version of her new song “Ronan” last night on Stand Up 2 Cancer. The song tells the true story of a 4 year old boy named Ronan who lost his fight with cancer, and after coming across his mother’s blog Taylor ended up writing a song about Ronan with her. Proceeds from the song’s sale on iTunes will benefit different cancer-related charities.
Watch the tearful performance below and let us know what you think:
Taylor Swift One of 2012′s Most Dangerous Celebrities
Taylor Swift has officially been named one of the “Most Dangerous Celebrities” of 2012. Well… on an anti-virus list, anyway. For the sixth year in a row, McAfee researched celebrities in pop culture to find out who are the riskiest to search on the internet and results in bad links and viruses made to steal passwords and personal information. Actress Emma Watson takes the first spot, while Taylor is the only country artist on the list and places at number fifteen.
Following Emma, Jessica Biel takes the number two spot and Eva Mendes sits at number three. Latina women, including Salma Hayek and Sofia Vergara, also heat up the top 10 at numbers 9 and 10, respectively.
Some of the highlights of this year’s study include:
- Latina women are on fire: Eva Mendes (No. 3), Selena Gomez (No. 4), Shakira (No. 7), Salma Hayek (No. 9) and Sofia Vergara (No. 10) spice up the top 10
- Comedian Jimmy Kimmel(No. 13) is the only male in the top 20 this year
- Supermodels are risky: Elle Macpherson (No. 16), Bar Refaeli (No. 17) and Kate Upton (No. 20) pose in the top 20
- Musicians are not safe: Selena Gomez (No. 4), Shakira (No. 7), and Taylor Swift (No. 15) all sang their ways to the top 20
Want to stay safe? McAfee shares a few tips on how to protect yourself and your computer:
Beware of content that prompts you to download anything before providing you with content. You may want to opt to watch streaming videos or download content from an established site, such as Hulu, Netflix, NBC, or ABCtv. Free downloads are significantly the highest virus-prone search terms. Anyone searching for videos or files to download should be careful as not to unleash malware on their computer.
Since most people use a variety of devices to search for celebrities, be sure you have up to date, comprehensive security for all of your devices. It’s important to have protection, such as McAfee® All Access, on all Internet-enabled devices, including PCs, Macs, smartphones, tablets and netbooks.
Recap of the Canadian Country Music Association Awards
The Canadian Country Music Association Awards was definitely enough to remind Canadians of the amazing talent that represents us in the country music industry. Tonight (09/09), we saw some of the best of the best rock the stage in Saskatoon and accept awards that they were most deserving of.
Dean Brody opened the show with his hit “Canadian Girls,” kicking off a show that would see him win two awards: Best Male Artist and Album of the Year.
Other country faves taking home hardware at this year’s show included Carolyn Dawn Johnson, who won Female Artist of the Year and Hey Romeo, this year’s Group or Duo of the Year. Ottawa’s sweetest and brightest new talent, Kira Isabella, took home the Rising Star award. The Stellas, who have been out on the road with Johnny Reid, took home the award for CMT Video of the Year for their song “In This House.” Johnny, who had a whopping eight nominations tonight, was the recipient of the Fans’ Choice award.
VIDEO: Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Country music superstar Taylor Swift released her brand new music video for her single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” yesterday on MTV and CMT. She once again teamed up with video director Declan Whitebloom, who also worked with Taylor on “Ours” and “Mine.” The video for “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” was shot in one single take with one camera and no edits. It’s also the world’s first ever 4K music video, appearing on high-definition picture on television.
Taylor will be heading out to L.A. for the world’s first live performance of her new single on the MTV Music Video Awards on September 6th. The award show airs live on MTV at 8 pm EST.
Check out the official music video here on MTV’s site. Unfortunately it’s not available yet for Canadian fans.
Taylor Swift Could Perform At YOUR School
Country music superstar Taylor Swift is partnering up with VH1′s “Storytellers” for a pretty cool contest for fans. One lucky fan will win a private Taylor concert at your school with VH1 this fall. The contest started yesterday and runs through to September 23rd. Only students accredited at high schools or colleges in the 48 continental states are able to enter.
The top five schools will each win $10,000 grants for the music programs from Taylor and Chegg’s philanthropic program. The school with the most entries from its students will win a private, acoustic performance by Taylor and see it aired on VH1 on November 11th at 6 and 11 pm EST. Pretty cool, right?
“Taylor Swift is not only a talented musician, but is also an amazing role model for our nation’s students,” said Chegg President and CEO Dan Rosensweig. “Chegg’s mission is to deliver value to students so we’re thrilled to partner with Taylor to bring a unique and intimate concert to her fans at one lucky school as well as provide music grants to five deserving schools through our ‘Chegg For Good” program.”
Students can vote for their favorite schools right now at taylorswiftoncampus.com. Make sure to get your classmates to get their votes in before its too late!
In other Taylor news, her brand new single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” has broken a record for the best digital sales for a single by a woman in Soundscan history. She sold over 623,000 paid downloads of the single a week – so it will already be an RIAA certified gold digital single (just no official word yet). Her single had a number one debut on the Billboard Digital Sales Chart, and her sales broke the previous record set by Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” in 2009.
Crocs CoFounder Blames Taylor Swift For DUI
Our friends at 100.3 KILT might have the weirdest story of the week on their hands. The radio station is reporting that Crocs footwear co-founder is blaming Taylor Swift for his recent DUI arrest on the weekend. 51-year old George Brian Boedecker, JR. was found asleep at the wheel of his Porsche in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday night. His car was parked partially on the sidewalk and still running when police found him. He became uncooperative and said he would go “medieval” on the officers and that he had gotten into a fight with his “famous girlfriend”… who he said was none other than Taylor.
He told the officers that they were now his “enemy for life” and that Taylor was the one driving, not him. He claimed she left for Nashville after they had gotten into an argument.
He’s now free on $500 bond. In case you need to know… there was never another driver, or Taylor, found.
VIDEO: Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Taylor Swift released her brand new single to her fans on yesterday’s live video chat. We have the official lyric video for her new single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” right here, and it’s generating a little bit of controversy over its sound.
It’s the lead off single off of her new studio album “Red” due out October 22nd on Big Machine Records. There will be a “country” version of her song going to country radio on August 20th, but this is the version Taylor debuted on her web-chat last night. Take a listen below and let us know if you like the very pop sound Taylor is putting together, or if you think the song will fit in fine on country radio:
