Taylor is hitting the road
on her very first headlining tour with the
FEARLESS TOUR 2009,
and she can’t wait to come to a city near you!
The tour will feature special guest Kellie Pickler.
Be sure to check out the tour page at TaylorSwift.com
for more details about tickets and show times.

Show times will be posted at a later date

Taylor Swift is still having a difficult time getting over Joe Jonas, and that could spell future problems for the Disney music star.

After all, Taylor’s soothed the sorrow of a broken heart in the past by writing songs about her exes. Sometimes they’ve ended up as hits, and she’s been known to insert the guys’ names into the lyrics or find ways to point the finger at them in the liner notes on her albums. It appears that Taylor is once again getting over a guy by putting it all down on paper, which could mean there’s a hit somewhere in Joe’s now-famous 27-second phone call.

“I feel it’s best for me right now to be alone and write about what I’ve gone through,” Taylor told People magazine. “That’s how I deal with it. I would hate to jump into something so quickly and have it not be the right thing, because I don’t think I could take that right now.”

In fact, she admitted, she’s been on a roller coaster as she moves on.

“I have good days, and I have bad days,” she said. “I’m trying to limit those days where I wake up and all I think about is that.”

 Taylor’s got some good things to think about this week. Her current single, “White Horse,” was the most-added song at country radio last week, based on early returns, and she’ll be a co-host Wednesday on the CBS special “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live: Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night.”

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But she is not, as many experts are predicting, leading a massive shift in country music to very young audiences. She is her own massive shift.

People forget that Swift created her audience where none existed before: She invented the audience of teenage female country music fans. Why have they flocked to her in such numbers? Because she is one of them. She knows what they’re thinking, what they like and dislike, what they’re passionate about. She writes their songs for them. No adult songwriters working in the tune factories in Nashville could have written such music credibly, nor could the major country labels have found a way to deliver it credibly to teenage audiences. Of course, it never occurred to anyone in the adult music world that such a thing was possible. An indie label, Big Machine, did help her deliver her music in the CD and digital worlds after she had already amassed a huge online audience.

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Taylor’s new album
F E A R L E S S
comes out tomorrow!

She wrote or co-wrote every song in the package, and she’s concerned with every detail, both sonically and visually.

“I’ve got so much control over how the next album is gonna look,” she told Dial-Global. “I sit down and I have all these pictures that I’ve gotten online that I wanna use as references… just the moods and the themes for each photo set up… I want there to be a definite mood for each photo set up. And I think that giving people something to really look at that tells a story inside the album booklet is something that I’m really trying to do, and I can’t even wait.”

The wait won’t be too long. Just a little over six weeks from now, Fearless will be released on Nov. 11, the day before the 42nd annual Country Music Association Awards. Taylor’s in the running that day for Female Vocalist of the Year.

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