Taylor Swift has been nominated for three 2012 People's Choice Awards including Favorite Female Artist, Favorite Country Artist, and Favorite Tour Headliner.
The 2012 People's Choice Awards will air live on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9/8c on CBS. Visit http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/vote/ where you can vote for Taylor as often as you like until voting officially ends on Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
Taylor Swift's thank you's when received the "Entertainer Of The Year" award
Taylor Swift was the big winner at last night’s 45th Annual CMA Awards ceremony, taking home Country music’s highest honor, the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award, for the second time. The top prize, Taylor’s sixth CMA Award, completes a Triple Crown of major award wins this year for Taylor, who is Billboard’s 2011 Woman of the Year and also the Academy of Country Music’s reigning Entertainer of the Year.
Entertainment Weekly called Taylor’s win “undeniably deserved,” saying, “when it came to singing solo, accompanying herself on guitar, Taylor Swift’s performance of ‘Ours’ achieved an effortless intimacy that reminded you all over again why she’s such a big star.”
Taylor is only the second woman in history, along with Barbara Mandrell, to twice win CMA Entertainer of the Year. And, she did it at age 21.
In addition to Taylor and Barbara Mandrell, only seven other artists in the 45-year history of the CMA Awards have won the coveted top prize more than once: Alabama, Hank Williams Jr., George Strait, Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney. Taylor was this year’s only female nominee in the Entertainer of the Year category.
“She's inspired legions of young girls to take up guitar and write their own songs, and she has spread the gospel of country music to the Far East, filling stadiums like few others can,” the Associated Press wrote of Taylor’s big repeat CMA win. “She crossed the 20 million mark in album sales and has almost no rival in the genre when it comes to bringing converts over the wall.
“She's made all that headway on the strength of her songs. She loves nothing better than the process of turning inspiration into something that makes a connection with people all over the planet.”
"All of the sudden this idea that was just yours is now everybody else's, and they sing it in their cars and sing it about their breakups or falling in love, and they incorporate it into their lives," Taylor said, talking about her songwriting in the backstage press room after the show.
Taylor has spent this year on her SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR in support of her 5+ million-selling Speak Now album, playing to capacity crowds in stadiums and arenas over 98 shows in 17 countries spanning three continents. When Taylor was first crowned CMA Entertainer of the Year in 2009, the year she launched her breakout FEARLESS headlining tour, she was the first female artist in a decade to take the trophy.
The North American leg of Taylor’s SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR wraps later this month with two sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, and the tour has been extended into 2012 with shows in Australia and New Zealand.
During the course of her tour, Taylor has been joined on stage by several surprise guest artists, and Taylor thanked each of them by name from the stage last night, acknowledging every artist who “out of the goodness of their hearts, showed up and performed for the fans at my show.” She also gave a big shout out to “all the fans who filled up those stadiums and arenas all over the world this year!”
SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR – LIVE, CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray sets of Taylor’s 2011 concert, will be available in stores and at online retailers on November 21st. Sold as a CD/DVD or CD/Blu-ray combo-pak, the set will be released on Big Machine Records.
Taylor has been chosen to receive Billboard's Woman of the Year Award at this year's Billboard Women in Music event, which takes place December 2 in New York City. At 21 years old, Taylor is the youngest artist to ever receive this honor.
Setiap orang tahu bahwa waktu tidur yang tepat untu orang dewasa adalah 7 hingga 8 jam tiap harinya. Namun, tahukah Anda ternyata wanita butuh waktu tidur lebih banyak dari pria?
Ada beberapa fakta menarik mengenai tidur yang perlu Anda ketahui, mulai dari waktu tidur, lagu untuk menenmani tidur hingga cara untuk mendapatkan tidur yang lebih baik. Berikut empat fakta tidur yang dikutip dari sheknows.
1. Wanita butuh lebih banyak waktu tidur daripada pria
Menurut sleep expert, Jim Horne, wanita membutuhkan tambahan 20 menit untuk waktu tidurnya. "wanita cenderung multi-task (melakukan lebih dari satu pekerjaan sekaligus) sehingga mereka lebih banyak menggunakan otak daripada pria. Karena itu mereka butuh waktu tidur lebih banyak," ujar Horne.
2. Dengarkan lagu beraliran rock agar cepat tidur
Sebuah survei dari Travelodge yang melibatkan 6.000 orang Inggris dewasa menemukan bahwa lagu beraliran rock malah cenderung membuat mereka tertidur. Selain lagu-lagu beraliran rock, lagu RnB dan country pop seperti Alicia Keys dan Taylor Swift juga bisa menjadi pilihan untuk menemani tidur Anda.
3. Cium bunga untuk tidur yang lebih baik
Seperti yang tertulis pada Science journal yang melaporkan bahwa mencium aroma bunga mawar saat belajar dan sebelum tidur akan meningkatkan memori seseorang. Oleh karena itu, tidak ada salahnya untuk mencium aroma bunga mawar atau lavender untuk membuat tidur Anda lebih nyaman.
Four-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift has awed critics and fans around the globe this year with the Broadway-inspired extravaganza that is her SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR performance, and today she announced that CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray sets of the show will be available in stores and at online retailers on November 21 st, the day before the US tour wraps with the second of two sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden.
Sold as a CD/DVD or CD/Blu-ray combo-pak, the SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR - LIVE set will be released on Big Machine Records.
Taylor made the announcement this morning with a special video greeting to fans, watch here:
Taylor is both the Academy of Country Music’s and Entertainment Weekly’s reigning Entertainer of the Year, and currently holds an Entertainer of the Year nomination among her five 2011 CMA nods.
This year, Taylor’s tour will have played to capacity crowds in stadiums and arenas over 98 shows in 17 countries spanning three continents, and the SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR has been extended into 2012 with shows in Australia and New Zealand. For fans who weren’t able to land a coveted ticket to see Taylor’s Speak Now Tour, as well as for everybody who’s ready to see the show again and again, the SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR - LIVE set is the best seat in the house.
SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR - LIVE is Big Machine’s first release of live music from Taylor. The DVD / Blu-ray will give fans the complete Taylor Swift Speak Now concert experience, showcasing performances of all 17 songs from Taylor’s Speak Now show (“Sparks Fly,” “Mine,” “Story of Us,” “Our Song,” “Mean,” Back To December,” “Better Than Revenge,” “Speak Now,” “Fearless,” “Last Kiss,” “You Belong With Me,” “Dear John,” Enchanted,” “Haunted, “Long Live,” “Fifteen,” and “Love Story”), plus additional bonus content. The CD will contain over 75 minutes of music, including live versions of favorites from the Speak Now album.
Taylor’s SPEAK NOW performance is a theatrical presentation reminiscent of a Broadway experience. The show features elaborate costumes, dancers, aerialists, changing sets, and innovative choreography and instrumentation showcased on a multi-level stage. Taylor plays five different guitars in the show, including electric, acoustic, and 12-string. She also plays two banjos, the ukulele and the piano, and changes costumes nine times over the course of the evening. She moves around the venue and uses different stages, giving every audience member a great seat.
Here is what some of the top critics from around the globe had to say after seeing Taylor’s Speak Now Tour:
“Swift’s two-hour production was an overwhelming experience. There's an enormous amount of detail that worked to make the Speak Now Tour a sort of next step in country concert presentation….it blended the pacing, the music and the artist's personality in a way that transfixed.” -- Billboard
“Right from the start Taylor’s voice was as enchanting and lovely as on her album. Taylor Swift live is even more impressive than on her albums -- her wonderful personality, sweet voice, and most of all her amazing songs gave Forest the time of its life.” -- CJP, Belgium
“Taylor Swift charms Korea in style, radiant...with pitch-perfect and sincere vocals. The dedication of the fans present was boundless, the cheers of the crowd were sometimes louder than the music itself.” --Korea Focus Times
“[‘Speak Now’] went off, as did every number, with clockwork professionalism and thousands of voices singing along and screaming between the lines. Ms. Swift, 21, is their superstar....her songs are taut, tuneful narratives.” -- The New York Times
With sales of over 5 million copies worldwide, Taylor’sSpeak Now album is the #1-selling album in all genres of music over the past 12 months, and the disc has thus far spawned three consecutive #1 singles. Taylor’s worldwide record sales exceed 20 million albums and 40 million song downloads.
