Taylor's First BRITS Win!

Congrats Taylor!!! She won her first BRIT Award today! She took home the award for Best International Female Solo Artist.

She walked the red carpet in the black gown with a sheer back that was wrapped in a red dragon. It was stunning. Her hair was slicked back, it almost looked like she had a cropped hair cut. She looked so perfect. She made sure to take pictures with fans on the carpet as well.

Taylor opened up the show with "Blank Space" and it was insane. She wore a simple black suit-esque outfit with shorts instead of pants. She also had on fishnet stockings and black Loubitan booties. Her dancers wore white suits and it rained glitter. What could be better than glitter rain?!

Ellie Goulding was one of the people who presented Taylor with the award when she won it. She also thanked UK Swifties and told them how much she loves them. Taylor also told Ed Sheeran that she loves him and thanked him in her speech. 

She was also spotted dancing in the audience with Kim Kardashian while Kanye West performed. 

Later in the night, Karlie Kloss was presenting and she mentioned how proud she was of Taylor. All in all, it was a good night for Queen T!

Dream Setlist for the 1989 World Tour

I am SO excited for this tour! While I was listening to the album, I found myself trying to picture what songs Taylor would actually perform and how she would do them. I realized that I actually really want to hear every song (bonus ones included) live and I'd even be ok with not hearing any of the old stuff (except for Love Story) if that would ensure that this was possible. With that in mind, I decided to make my own setlist- so Taylor if for some reason you're #taylurking and come across this post, please take notes ;)


Ok so if I could pick the setlist for the 1989 Tour it would be (in no particular order) -

1. Shake It Off
2. Welcome to New York
3. I Know Places
4. Wonderland
5. Clean
6. Blank Space
7. Wildest Dreams
8. This Love
9. Style
10. Out of the Woods
11. Bad Blood
12. New Romantics
13. All You Had to do was Stay
14. I Wish You Would
15. Sparks Fly
16. Love Story
17. You Belong With Me
18. Mean
19. 22
20. I Knew You Were Trouble

Although, 20 songs is A LOT, this would be one hell of a show- although anything she puts together for this tour will be one hell of a show and I cannot wait. I genuinely hope she does Wonderland and New Romantics even though they are bonus tracks. I could live without YBWM, but Love Story HAS to be played for this tour-it's tradition. I think Sparks Fly would fit well and so would Mean and 22. I also just think she would have a lot of fun performing IKYWT again, but I could also live without that song as well. 

What about you? What songs are you dying to hear live? Also, do you hope she does a surprise B-Stage song again?

1989 Sells Over A Million Copies Opening Week

SHE/WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! 1989 officially sold 1.287 million copies in its opening week! Why is this important/awesome you ask? Well here are your answers:

• Taylor is the ONLY musical act ever to have 3 consecutive albums have million dollar opening weeks. Speak Now, RED, and 1989 have all gone platinum in their opening weeks for 2010, 2012, and 2014. 
• 1989 is the first album to sell this many copies in its opening week since 2002. That was 12 years ago ladies and gents!
• It is the first album of 2014 to go platinum (which is funny because it was released so late in the year [this is funny for us; but not for people in other fandoms who will still ignorantly insist that Taylor is a flop.Ignore them.])
• It has been on sale for 1 week and it is the 2nd best selling album of the year. (The Frozen soundtrack is ahead of it, but to be fair it has been out A LOT longer)
• According to Billboard: "1989 is just the 19th album to sell a million copies in a week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. Of the last four million-selling weeks, which have all occurred since 2010, three of them are owned by Swift."

I don't know about you, but I would call that Slaying. 

I am so proud of Taylor and I am also incredibly proud to call myself a Swiftie. Personally, I own 6 copies of 1989 (don't tell my husband lol). Taylor is so good to us and honestly, we are so good to her- she knows this and the crazy thing is that she actually appreciates it. She is genuinely grateful for everything we do for her and as a fan, there is no better feeling. We chose a great idol who is ridiculously talented. So let the media and other [jealous] fandoms/stars throw their stones because a very wise woman once said, "people throw rocks at things that shine." ;)

Congrats Taylor. We're so proud and we love you!

Congrats Swifties. We're proud to be apart of such a BA/incredible/loving fanbase.

1989 Pre-Order Large Package Review

So my pre-order package arrived today and I could not be more excited!!! Let's go through the items.

1) I obviously got the CD which is PHENOMENAL! It seriously cannot be topped. I love it.

2) The hair ties are in such pretty colors, and they are adorable. I'm really excited to use them.

3) The guitar picks are typical guitar picks, but I love the pictures that were chosen for them.

4) Taylor's letter is adorable as always and I'm glad that she appreciates her fans pre ordering the album. She's so sweet!

5) The album backpack looks like it is really good quality and I can't wait to use it!

6) The album tote bag is equally adorable and looks like it is good quality as well. I personally prefer the backpack style, but I do love this bag as well.

7) My favorite item of all is the autographed lithograph. There is a mark on mine where I think Tay messed up (probably when Olivia was playing with the Sharpie) and it is so cool. I love love love the picture they chose for the framed lithograph and honestly getting Taylor's autograph was worth every penny.

Bonus: When I went to Target to get my DLX copy of 1989, I also picked up the 1989 tee shirt. I LOVE IT! It's so comfortable and cute and perfect. It was 17 dollars and I highly recommend it!

13 Fun Facts - October

Welcome to Swiftober!!!! Taylor is taking over the world this month and we couldn't be happier! Let's celebrate with this month's 13 Fun Facts:

1. 1989 was recorded in about a month

2. The art for the Incredible Things perfume box is inspired by Taylor’s look at the 2013 CMA Awards where she was honored with the Pinnacle Award

3. Taylor’s favorite things about Drew were his eyes and his smile

4. Taylor had the entire 3rd floor of her Wyomissing home to herself; she even had a large game room with a bumper pool, foosball, and a painting room.

5. Tay says the only time it’s cool to be like everyone else is in Junior High

6. She included “Our Song” on her debut album because her freshman classmates told her too

7. Taylor loves “kitchen sounds” like pots being put together and dishwashers being opened

8. She cried during the WalMart commercial where a mom drops her daughter off at college

9. She says she isn’t much of a “keeper in toucher” with her exes

10. Carly Simon actually told Taylor who “You’re So Vain” is about

11. If she could only have 1 meal for the rest of her life it would be a tomato, basil, and mozzarella sandwich from Cosi

12. She said that after she got famous, a lot of people in her hometown gave out her phone number so she got a lot of prank phone calls

13. Taylor got Abigail a locket for Christmas back in 2011



Quote of the Month:

"I think a great song says how you feel better than you could."

It's so true. Think about your favorite songs- they all express something that you want to say in a way that you wish you'd thought of. All Too Well is my favorite example of this and the first song that comes to mind.

No it's Becky.

Taylor essentially won the internet this week. I mean she's already had twitter in her pocket and Instagram as well but lately she has been completely taking over Tumblr (and it is freaking awesome). Her posts are magical and just when we were thinking it couldn't get any better or any more exciting (I mean she is replying to fans and reblogging their posts!) Taylor surprised us all and sent the entire Swiftie fandom (and the rest of the online world) into a tail spin. 

Any swiftie who is on tumblr knows about Becky. It's been an inside joke in our fandom for what seems like forever. For those who don't know- a person posted a picture on tumblr of a young girl and captioned it saying it was there friend Becky who died at a party from snorting maranjuana (yes, seriously.) Someone commented on the post saying that they wre pretty sure the girl in the picture is Taylor Swift (it's an old picture from her high school days) and the original poster commented back "no it's Becky" and that is how the legend of Becky began. 

Apparently Taylor knew of Becky, or she recently discovered her on Tumblr- I'm not quite sure, but she decided to take part in the joke. Yesterday Taylor stepped out wearing a yellow tee shirt that simply says "no its Becky" on it. The fandom has all but died since seeing it yesterday.

 

Then, as if that wasn't enough, Miss Swift took to Tumblr and posted a replica of the 1989 album cover with her Becky shirt on captioning it "I'm kind of rethinking the album cover" and now Swifties everywhere are laying on the cold hard ground laughing their asses off at how incredible, amazing, wonderful, and hilarious our idol is. 

In all reality, what other idol has ever taken part in an inside joke of their fandom? None that I can think of. But that is part of what makes Taylor so different and so special. We love you Beck- uh I mean Taylor! 

13 Fun Facts - September

1. She has a brass telescope in her human size birdcage

2. There were 3 “13”s on Tay’s piano for her performance of “All Too Well” at the Grammy’s

3. “Haunted” and “Back to December” both use full orchestras

4. She took a “textiles and apparel” class in high school

5. She read a book about Zelda Fitzgerald

6. Judd Apatow and his wife think of Taylor as their daughter

7. One of her favorite places in Australia is the Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane

8. “Begin Again” and “Fearless” are tied for Taylor’s lowest charting singles

9. One of her pet peeves is when people feel they’re entitled to success

10. She loves watching the Food Network- especially the show “Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives”

11. Her favorite Keds are the nautical knot and floral themed ones

12. Taylor met Jake Owen back in 2006 on Halloween in a bar called Duke’s

13. She cried for weeks after Denny died on Grey’s Anatomy



“No one can take someone from you if they don’t want to go."