Taylor receives 6 CMA Awards Nominations.

This morning in New York, Sheryl Crow and Florida Georgia Line announced the nominations for the 47th Annual CMA Awards. Taylor tied Kacey Musgraves to top the list of nominees with 6 nominations including Entertainer of the Year; Female Vocalist of the Year; Album of the Year for RED; and three nominations for "Highway Don't Care" with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban for Single, Musical Event, and Music Video of the Year. Taylor now has 21 CMA Awards nominations and seven wins including her first in 2007 for the Horizon Award (now New Artist of the Year) and two for Entertainer of the Year (2009, 2011), which ties her with Barbara Mandrell for wins in that category by a female artist.

22

It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipters
And make fun ofour exes, uh uh uh uh
It feels like a perfect night for breakfast at midnight
To fall in love with strangers, uh uh uh uh

Yeaaaah

We’re happy free confused and lonely at the same time
It’s miserable and magical oh yeahhh
Tonight’s the night when we forget about the deadlines
It’s time uh uh

I don’t know about you but im feeling twenty-two
Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you
You don’t know about me but I bet you want to
Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re
twenty-two, twenty-two

It seems like one of those nights
This place is too crowded too many cool kids
It seems like one of those nights
We ditch the whole scene and end up dreaming instead of sleeping

Yeaaaah

We’re happy free confused and lonely in the best way
It’s miserable and magical oh yeah
Tonight’s the night when we forget about the heartbreaks
It’s time uh uh

I don’t know about you but im feeling twenty-two
Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you
You don’t know about me but I bet you want to
Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re
twenty-two twenty-two

(I don’t know about you)
twenty-two twenty-two

It feels like one of those nights
We ditch the whole scene
It feels like one of those nights
We won’t be sleeping
It feels like one of those nights
You look like bad news I gotta have you
I gotta have you(you you)

Ahh, ahh ahh ahh ahhh

I don’t know about you but im feeling twenty-two
Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you
You don’t know about me but I bet you want to
Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re
twenty-two twenty-two

Dancing like twenty-two, yeah, twenty-two, yeah yeah

It feels like one of those nights
We ditch the whole scene
It feels like one of those nights
We won’t be sleeping
It feels like one of those nights
You look like bad news I gotta have you, I gotta have yo

Influences

One of Swift's earliest musical memories is listening to her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, sing at church. In her youth, Finlay was a television host in Puerto Rico and performed in operas in Singapore and Thailand. As a very young child, Swift enjoyed Disney movie soundtracks: "My parents noticed that, once I had run out of words, I would just make up my own. Later, her parents exposed her to artists including James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel and Def Leppard. Swift has said she owes her confidence to her mother, who helped her prepare for class presentations as a child. She also attributes her "fascination with writing and storytelling" to her mother. Swift enjoyed both reading and writing poetry and was particularly drawn to the works of Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss. She remains interested "in any writing from a child's perspective" and has cited To Kill a Mockingbird as one of her favorite books.

Swift was introduced to country music by "the great female country artists of the '90s ...Shania, Faith, the Dixie Chicks." She was drawn to both the sound and storytelling of country music. Shania Twain, both as a songwriter and performer, was her biggest musical influence. Faith Hill was Swift's childhood role model and she tried to copy "everything she said, did, wore." Swift admired the Dixie Chicks’s defiant attitude and their ability to play their own instruments. The band's "Cowboy Take Me Away" was the first song Swift learned to play on the guitar. She then began to explore the music of older country stars, including Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton. Lynn's "Fist City" is one of Swift's favorite country songs. She believes Parton is "an amazing example to every female songwriter out there." Other mainstream country influences include Miranda Lambert, Dwight Yoakam, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley. Swift also admires alt-country artists such as Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, Lori McKenna and Bon Iver.

Swift has been influenced by many artists outside the country genre. As a pre-teen, she enjoyed bubblegum pop acts including Hanson and Britney Spears; she still has "unwavering devotion" for Spears. In her high school years, Swift listened to emo bands such as Dashboard Confessional, Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects and Jimmy Eat World. She was also a fan of contemporary female singer-songwriters including Michelle Branch, Pink, Alanis Morissette, Ashlee Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Fefe Dobson and Avril Lavigne. Swift closely followed the musical supervision on the television dramas The O.C. andGrey's Anatomy, downloading "every" song featured. She was a fan of hip hop music, particularly the rhyming patterns used by artists such as Eminem: "Pride [in a lifestyle] is something that both country and hip-hop share." Swift also drew inspiration from the catalogues of veteran artists. She describes Stevie Nicks as a "hero" who "has inspired me in so many ways." Tom Petty, she has said, "is on a pedestal for me." She is "obsessed" with Sixties acts like The Shirelles, Doris Troy and The Beach Boys. Influence also came from older female pop rocksingers including Pat Benatar, Melissa Etheridge, Sarah McLachlan, Shawn Colvin and Linda Ronstadt.

Swift lists Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson and Carly Simon as her career role models: "They've taken chances, but they've also been the same artist for their entire careers." McCartney, both as a Beatle and a solo artist, makes Swift feel "as if I've been let into his heart and his mind": "Any musician could only dream of a legacy like that." She admires Springsteen because he is "so musically relevant after such a long period of time." She aspires to be like Harris as she grows older: "It’s not about fame for her, it’s about music." Swift says of Kristofferson: "He shines in songwriting ... He's just one of those people who have been in this business for years but you can tell it hasn't chewed him up and spat him out." She admires Simon's "songwriting and honesty": "She's known as an emotional person but a strong person."

You Belong With Me

You're on the phone
With your girlfriend
She's upset
She's going off about
Something that you said
She dosen't get your humor
Like I do

I'm in my room
It's a typical tuesday night
I'm listening to the kind of music
She doesn't like
She'll never know your story
Like I do

But she wears short skirts
I wear T-shirts
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day
When you wake up and find
That what you're looking for
Has been here the whole time

If you could see
That I'm the one
Who understands you
Been here all along
So why can't you see
You belong with me

Walking the streets
With you and your worn out jeans
I can't help thinking
This is how it ought to be
Laughing on a park bench
Thinking to myself
Hey, Isn't this easy?

And you've got a smile
That could light up this whole town
I haven't seen it in awhile
Since she brought you down
You say you're fine
I know you bettert han that
Hey what are you doing
With a girl like that

She wears high heels
I wear sneakers
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day
When you wake up and find
That what you're looking for
Has been here the whole time

If you could see
That I'm the one
Who understands you
Been here all along
So why can't you see
You belong with me

Standing by and
Waiting at your backdoor
All this time
How could you not know
Baby
You belong with me
You belong with me

Oh, I remember
You driving to my house
In the middle of the night
I'm the one who makes you laugh
When you know you're about to cry
And I know your favorite songs
And you tell me about your dreams
Think I know where you belong
Think I know it's with me

Can't you see
That I'm the one
Who understands you
Been here all along
So why can't you see
You belong with me

Standing by and
Waiting at your backdoor
All this time
How could you not know
Baby
You belong with me
You belong with me

You belong with me
 Have you ever thought
Just maybe
You belong with me

We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together

I remember whern we broke up the first time
Saying, "This  is it, I've had enough," 'cause like
We hddn't seen each other in a month
When you said you needed space. (What?)
Then you come around again and say
"Baby, I miss you and I swear I'm ganna change, trust me."
Remember how that lasted for a day?
I say, "I hate you," we breakup, you call me, "I love you."

Oooh we called it off again last night
But oooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you

We are never ever ever getting back together
We are never ever ever getting back together
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me
But we are never ever ever getting back together

Like, ever...

I'm really gonna miss you picking fights
And me, falling for it screaming that I'm right
And you, would hide away and find your peace of mind
With some indie record that's much cooler than mine

Oooh, you called me up again tonight
But oooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you

We are never ever ever getting back together
We are never ever ever getting back together
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me (talk to me)
But we are never ever ever getting back together

Oooh yeah, oooh yeah, oooh yeah
Oh oh oh

I used to think that we were forever ever
And I used to say, "Never say never..."
Huh, so he calls me up and he's like, "I still love you,"
And I'm like... "I just... I mean this is exhausting, you know, like,
We are never getting back together. Like, ever"

No!

We are never ever ever getting back together
We are never ever ever getting back together
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me
But we are never ever ever getting back together

We are not getting back together,
We oh, not getting back together

You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me (talk to me)
But we are never ever ever getting back together