Taylor wins….again.
The Grammy-winning country cutie’s smash tracks “Love Story” and “You Belong With Me” snagged BMI’s Song of the Year Award honors this week. Swift accepted the Pop Song of the Year prizes during the 58th Annual BMI Pop Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles.
The music rights organization says the 20-year-old is the youngest songwriter ever to win Pop Song of the Year.
Grammy winner Taylor Swift, who moved to Nashville at 14, is rolling up her sleeves to help clean up her adopted hometown after floodwaters devastated parts of Nashville this week. The “You Belong With Me” star is donating a whopping $500,000 to various organizations involved in the city’s flood relief efforts, she announced after Thursday night’s Vince Gill-hosted telethon to raise money for victims of the disaster.
“Being at home during the storm, I honestly could not believe what was happening to the city and the people I love so dearly,” Swift told The Associated Press in an e-mail. “Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love. I have always been proud to be a Nashvillian, but especially now, seeing the love that runs through this city when there are people in crisis.”
Has America’s Sweetheart Taylor Swift been secretly dating Glee star Cory Monteith? Tabloid tattles say the country singer — previously romantically-linked to Jonas Brothers singer Joe Jonas, rock star John Mayer, and Twilight heartthrob Taylor Lautner — is hooking up with the Canadian singer/actor best known for his role as Finn Hudson on the popular FOX musical comedy, but is determined to keep the romance hidden from her mom Andrea.
“Taylor is actually pretending not to be interested in Cory so her mother doesn’t scare him off! The way her mom Andrea cuts through her potential boyfriends, Taylor’s figured out she better not have any serious mother-daughter conversations about her love life or the relationship will be doomed from the get-go.”
“I’ve had countless opportunities to do some really bad things….” Taylor Swift covers the April 2010 issue of Elle Magazine, and the Grammy-winning country starlet tells the style mag she doesn’t mind being a pop star and a good girl. Swift says the fear of media scrutiny helps her avoid the road of self-destruction traveled be many a young star; she simply doesn’t want the tabloids infiltrating her personal life.
