I’ve been working on getting caught up with all of Taylor’s recent appearances on Entertainment Tonight and Extra. I still have some more to get through, but I’ve added screencaps for a majority of them.

2009
October 12 – Extra
October 20 – Extra
November 9 – Extra
November 11 – Extra
November 25 – Extra

2010
January 2 – Entertainment Tonight
January 5 – Entertainment Tonight
January 6 – Entertainment Tonight
January 20 – Extra
January 21 – Extra
January 22 – Entertainment Tonight
January 26 – Entertainment Tonight
January 28 – Extra
January 29 – Entertainment Tonight
February 2 – Extra
February 6 – Entertainment Tonight

At twenty years old many are lucky to rub two pennies together, but that is not the case if you are pop/country superstar Taylor Swift.  The Grammy winner who is currently making her acting debut in Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day shared with In Touch Weekly her Brand New bachelorette pad.  The sprawling $2 million penthouse is located in Nashville, Tennessee, check out the pics of Taylor’s penthouse pad!

Taylor Swift is beloved by millions for her heartfelt lyrics, but even more importantly because of her down-to-earth personality.  The star spoke with In Touch Weekly about her new penthouse saying, “I’m so excited!”  Taylor went on to talk about her love for “Target and Walmart — I find the coolest things there.”  Anyone think the starlet will be house shopping at the local Tarjey?  Taylor did dish her style as being quirky and whimsical.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Taylor talked about her new digs and her ultra swank ideas for the living room.  “It’s going to be my fantasy world.  The ceiling of my living room is painted like the night sky.  There’s a pond in the living room … The pond is a moat around the fireplace and may possibly have koi fish in it.  You step on a stepping stone in the pond in order to get on a spiral staircase, which takes you up to the human-sized bird cage observatory.  They’re delivering a human-size birdcage, which I’ll put a brass telescope in.”

The 4,062-square-foot, three bedroom penthouse is located in the swanky Adelicia Condos, the eighteen story condo complex containing 197 condos.  The Adelicia Condos is located in the heart of Nashville only minutes from Downtown, Hillsboro Village, and Vanderbilt University.  Before you try to get a sneak peek of her new bachelorette pad, know the ritzy building is under twenty-hour surveillance and has tight security which is perfect protection for the rising star.

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Don’t let Naomi Judd catch you saying anything bad about Taylor Swift. The veteran country singer has jumped to Swift’s defense after she was heavily criticized for her performance at the Grammy Awards last month.

In a letter to the editor of The Tennessean, Judd, calls Swift a “dazzling performer” and lauds her for single-handedly introducing “country music to a much-welcomed younger demographic.”

She attributes Swift’s less-than-perfect Grammy duet with Stevie Nicks to having an off night. “Having sung many times at the Grammys, I can tell you that the stress and anxiety of performing in front of the world’s top artists in every genre of music is tortuous for even the most seasoned singer,” Judd writes.

The backlash against Swift began immediately after her Grammy night performance, which the New York Times called “painfully out of tune.”

Swift’s label head, Scott Borchetta, rushed to her defense last week, calling her “the voice of a generation” and blaming a technical problem as the culprit behind the pitchy performance.

Judd also praises Swift’s “smarts, manners and class” as qualities young people should admire and emulate.

“If there’s an award for being the best role model for her generation,” she writes, “I’d like to be the one to give it to Taylor Swift.”

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Taylor Swift was more than a little pitchy at the Grammys on Sunday, but the onslaught of criticism from viewers, fans and the media has ticked off the head of her record label. Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Records, went on a media offensive this week to respond to all the backlash over Swift’s multi-song performance, which included a cringe-worthy duet with Stevie Nicks, the young singer’s idol. But in defending Swift, did the label boss exacerbate the situation?

“Maybe she’s not the best technical singer,” he began in comments to The Tennessean, “but she’s probably the best emotional singer because everybody else who gets up there and is technically perfect, people don’t seem to want more of it.”
Borchetta slammed critics, which included the New York Times and the Washington Post among others, but also may have overreached in his description of the pop-country singer.

“I think (the critics) are missing the whole voice of a generation that is happening right in front of them,” he told the paper.

Voice of a generation? Borchetta used the same phrase in an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, and added that Swift “speaks directly to (her fans), and they speak directly back to her.”

“This is not ‘American Idol.’ This is not a competition of getting up and seeing who can sing the highest note. This is about a true artist and writer and communicator. It’s not about that technically perfect performance.”

Borchetta appears to be trying to lower expectations for Swift’s vocal abilities while at the same time raise her profile as the Bob Dylan or Kurt Cobain of Generation Y. (In a twisted way, it makes perfect sense: Dylan and Cobain are known more for their iconic songwriting than their actual vocals.)

Talk of Swift’s sub-par performance nearly overshadowed the fact that she beat album of the year favorites Beyonce and Lady Gaga. PopEater readers, who by and large are huge Swift-backers, agreed it wasn’t her best night. “Horrible … embarrassing” wrote one commenter about Swift’s live voice.

“It’s that classic thing that critics do of building something up and then wanting to tear it down,” Borchetta told the AP.

The label boss blamed a technical issue for throwing Swift off on Grammy night when singing ‘Rhiannon’ with Nicks, though The Recording Academy hasn’t revealed any such problem.

“We had a volume problem in the ear. So, she was concerned that she wasn’t able to hear everything in the mix,” Borchetta said. “That’s just part of live TV. … So you’re going to have difficulties on occasion. Unfortunately, on one of the biggest stages, we did have a technical issue. She couldn’t hear herself like she had in rehearsal.”

Swift’s ‘Fearless’ has sold over 5 million copies and was the top selling album of 2009. She is the youngest artist to ever win the Grammys’ top prize of album of the year. (Source)