VMAs 2013

Last night was the VMAs and boy was it eventful and slightly disappointing. Tay didn’t win Video of the Year but she did win Best Female Video. She wanted a moonman and we got her one, so pat yourselves on the back swifties.

Let’s start with the first shot of Taylor all night. She was being interviewed on the red carpet and I think every swiftie had a complete freak out when they saw her hair. THE CURLS WERE BACK! She looked insanely stunning. Words cannot describe how flawless she looked last night. She truly was a 60s queen.

The show started with Lady Gaga doing a very creepy and odd performance and then 1D presented Best Pop Video. The world has thrown Taylor under the bus for supposedly saying “Shut the f up” to Selena (of course about Harry Styles being on stage), HOWEVER if anyone were to actually watch the raw footage and not a GIF of her lips moving it is clear she is talking about her arm (which she then moves because it was on Selena). If I am wrong and she wasn’t talking about her arm and she did in fact curse, who the hell cares. She is 23 years old people; I think she is old enough to say curse words. BUT once again I think it is highly unlikely because she has spent like 7 years trying to build and protect her good image.

She and Selena also danced to Miley Cyrus’ hot mess of a performance where she was pretty much impregnated by Robin Thicke on stage for all of America to see. All I could think during her performance is “what would MaMaw say?” I used to be a Smiler, but I just can’t justify her behavior anymore. Selena was a Disney star to and she has grown up but she did it in a classy way. No one thinks of her as Alex Russo because she doesn’t run around acting crazy and kind of slutty.

When 1D won for Song of the Summer, I personally found it very amusing that they were booed. Take that Directioners. HOWEVER did Taylor boo? Did Taylor roll her eyes and look away from the stage? Did Taylor storm the stage and say they didn’t deserve it? No. She applauded them and listened to their speech. When they were booed, she looked outraged. That’s right. Outraged. Don’t believe me? Look for yourself.

When Taylor won Best Female Video, Harry clapped for her (I think that was very gentlemanly)but Louis didn’t. To that I say, “Louis she didn’t date you-she dated Harry. If he can be a gentleman, maybe you should grow up and be one too.” I loved Taylor’s acceptance speech. She is always so generous with thanking her fans and we appreciate it. I mean I know a lot of people who spent A LOT of time voting for her. I also think its sweet she mentioned the video’s director and her costar Reeve whom she brought as her date (that was sweet too). Then Taylor got all sassy on us and thanked the person who inspired IKYWT for her new award. You go girl! (And for the record Taylor and Harry were together before she and Conor were together and with her comment at the BRIT awards it could suggest that Harry was the inspiration, HOWEVER John Mayer is an ass and that is inspiration enough for IKYWT).

Highlights of the night:

• Taylena dancing all night long (especially to Justin Timberlake!)
• Taylor going wild when Selena won her first moonman (so sweet)
• Taylor winning Best Female Video
• Taylor’s face when N’SYNC came on stage
• Taylor talking with Drake
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• Taylor, Ed, and Harry taking a picture together
• Taylor and Harry talking with each other
• The guy interviewing Tay before the show said how good she smelled (she was wearing Taylor duh!)
• Katy Perry’s performance (girl power!)
• All of the camera pans to Taylor and Selena (seriously like every other minute-thank you MTV cameraman!)
  
• Taylor’s acceptance speech
• Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performing “Same Love” and Jennifer Hudson joined them on stage
• Justin Timberlake and N’SYNC
• Ariana Grande’s preshow performance
• Taylor looked STUNNING
• Selena looked amazing 
  
•  Taylor and JT
  

Disappointments from the night:

• No Sweeran moment (Bruno won Best Male Video and not Ed-Tay presented it)
• Lady Gaga’s performance
• Austin Mahone not thanking or mentioning Taylor or the RED Tour (didn’t know who he was until the RED Tour…just saying)
• Miley Cyrus.
• Taylor didn’t win Video of the Year
• Robin Thicke’s suit
• Miley Cyrus dance moves
• The show was drug out for 2 and a half hours.
• MILEY CYRUS.

13 Fun Facts - August

Happy Swift Day!!! Who’s ready for this month’s 13 Fun Facts?! Here we go….*drum roll*


1) Taylor has a picture from the “Thug Story” video in her kitchen


2) The song “Mean” is speculated to be about music critic Bob Lefsetz who said, “…now everybody knows that Taylor Swift can’t sing.”


3) Taylor was supposedly offered a contract with Disney sometime between 2002 and 2004


4) When she was just starting out, she used to beg radio DJs to play her music and she would even bake them cookies


5) The music video for “Tim McGraw” was shot at Johnny Cash’s cabin, so they named the boy in the video Johnny


6) Hockey is one of Taylor’s favorite sports and she was even a spokesperson for the Nashville Predators at one point


7) Taylor went with Dianna Agron to see The Hunger Games at an LA movie theater


8) Her Twitter name has 13 characters (@taylorswift13)


9) Taylor has written over 250 songs


10) Her favorite movie is “Love Actually” but she says, “It’s so sad, I can only watch it once a year.”


11) She started the Speak Now World Tour in Singapore because her maternal grandmother is from that country


12) Taylor wrote “Ours” just before turning 20


13) Her measurements are 32-23-35

The quote of the month is: “I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.”


That is something that I truly love and admire about Taylor. All of the other celebrities complain about the paparazzi following them and all of the media attention they get, but Taylor just takes it. She waves to the paparazzi and smiles at them or she’ll just look down and try not to give her emotions away. She knows that they come with her job and because she is living her dream, and she realizes that she is fortunate enough to do so, she accepts them. I think a lot of other celebrities, young and old, could learn a lesson from Miss Swift about that.