A couple of tweets from legend Gene Simmons on Twitter. Along with a whole host of celebrities and people from the world of music gene was at taylors 3rd LA gig on 27/08

@genesimmons Gene Simmons
Saw @taylorswift13 at Staples w/ Nick, @SophieTSimmons, @shannonleetweed & friends. Great tunes, great show. Very cordial & sweet backstage.


@genesimmons Gene Simmons
Check out Taylor pulling a big KISS prank on Keith Urban on YouTube. http://youtu.be/t-QBbAhNukY

Thanks for the tweets, always cool seeing comments like that. The Staples Center shows sound like a right blast. Didnt like the fact Bieber turned up though, doesn't do much for Taylor's repuration.

What's your hunch re next year? Shows in the UK again in February/april?? I think there is a big chance of maybe a couple along the lines of MEN and O2

Yes the bieber thing she needs to drop, friends/liking his dross music is fine but having him appear on stage and writing songs for him is taking it to far. I very rarely criticise T but on this occasion she really needs to start acting her almost 22 years of age and drop this sort of thing. Two years back she was appearing with Def leppard, now its Bieber, not right.
Heard she may do some more shows in the UK but the call for her all over the world is deafening, The far East want her back for more shows and places she has not toured like,South America, South Africa, India eastern Eurpoe and places like that are crying out for her to put on shows. She will be making decisions on next year in the months ahead, as it stands its just OZ and New Zealand for 2012 thats confimed.

So Taylor played her last (4-th) Staples center concert last night. Lots of stars in the audience- Taylor Lautner, Lil Wayne, Ellen, Colbie Caillat, Ashley Greene, Joe Jonas. Her guest star for the night was Nicki Minaj, with whom she performed "Super Bass".

Nicki better work...because it was promo by Taylor and Selena, what got this song so big, that it won the VMA last night.

In another news....Taylor has added 3-rd show in Auckland NZ, because her first 2 shows sold out very fast.

Taylor giving some hugs to a few stars at last nights show during you belong to me. Trying to find out who they are were, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor launter were two of them, the second person she hugged recognise but dont know his name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr8bd...ature=youtu.be

She also had ellen degeneres on stage with her during the start of our song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwHK...ature=youtu.be

I suppose going to see taylor was far more exciting then the VMA's being shown over the road from where she was performing.

She has also had to almost double her shows in Australia as the first batch sold out instantly, everyone just loves this girl.

Haters dead and buried,tbh. Incredible cover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixamgVMWsI

Lovely Colbie Caillat thought so too, from twitter.

@ColbieCaillat Colbie Caillat
What an amazing night at Staples Center watching @taylorswift13! She was gorgeous & wonderful. & sang my song "Realize" so beautifully! ♥

I'm an Oasis fan and I don't know if Taylor Swift fans will care but I found this preview clip funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfyF7muiACc

Never seen that vid before thanks for that, Liam just re-iterated what many rock stars said about that night, some of the biggst names in the business wanted to take Wests head off. West is an extremly disliked artist, but thats his history now, he made it himself. The Taylor incident is the first thing about him that most people outside his fanbase remember when they here his name.

BTW i am also a big oasis fan

It's a shame how his last album got a much higher metacritic rating than any of Taylor's albums

I doubt many people take much notice of metacritc's. Some of the scores on that site are laughable for some artists especially some of the low ratings.

Audios not great but here is Taylor Swift covering Green Days time of your life last night at San Jose CA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0dhMfFpoJg

Taylor up for 5 nominations at the CMA's

Entertainer of the Year
Female Vocalist
Album for Speak Now
Music Video for “Mean”
Song of the Year for “Mean”

My timing is a tiny bit off bit I was listening to this alot yesterday. Taylor will never write better lyrics than these:-

Didn't They yrics

"She walks to school
With her arms crossed
It’s just another day
At 10 o clock she hears this screaming
Then finally she sees them
It’s scary how things change
And I saw the story on the news
I saw the footage from the roof
I sat down and cried

Didn’t she call you
Didn’t she need you bad enough
Was there some reason
Another way up
Did you not write it down
Just one more thing to do
Where were you
And didn’t she pray to

He kissed his wife good bye
And took the earliest flight
So he could be home that night
To put his kids to sleep
Down the aisle
Three men walked and said
We’re here to die for our God
He stood up and said that’s funny
Cause my God died for me
I put the magazine down
I read his words out loud
I sat down and cried

Didn’t he call you
Didn’t he need you bad enough
Was there some reason
Another way up
Did you not write it down
Just one more thing to do
Where were you
And didn’t he pray to

The taxis were full up
On the very day of
They rode 100 floors up
Just to come back down
They never thought they’d see the day
That the towered be up in flames
There was nothing left to say
When it all came down

And didn’t they call you
Didn’t they need you bad enough
Was there some reason
Another way up
Did you not write it down
Just one more thing to do
Where were you
Where were you
And didn’t they pray to oh

I walk to school
And I wear a cross
I’m counting
Every day"

Haunting but beautiful, always throw that in the face of any of the haters that says she can't write mature songs or in general is a rubbish songwriter.

She should win all of those

Fingers crossed! ironically though I think she might only win Entertainer of the Year

Many of the lyrics taylor writes are mature on many of her songs and the comments some make that she is a rubbish songwriter are just null and void.

Here's that song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZwpZy483OM

Taylor doing a great cover of the legendary bryan adams summer of 69 at her vancouver concert last night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URttL...layer_embedded

The gorgous Haley Williams of Paramore guest stared at Taylors Nashville concert last night and they put on a rockin performance of Paramore's classic Thats what you get

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4nz_UpKCQE

The talented one accepting the Jim Reeves International Award at the ACM honors, what a beautiful speach she made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_io-5...layer_embedded

Taylor playing a rather smallish venue tomorrow evening.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2008/0730/arrowhead_580.jpg

Another one about to be ticked off....

Yeah another 70,000 stadium bites the dust to this awesome talent.

Love Grant's recent tweet on twitter

@GrantMickelson Grant Mickelson
The next 8 hours need to go by FAST! I gotta fever & the only prescription is 70,000 of our Kansas City fans, I can't friggin' wait!

Great acoustic cover of sparks fly, this guy has got a great voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjW42...layer_embedded