Although it may seem that Taylor Swift is an overnight success story, there have been a few bumps along the road to super stardom. She told Glamour that she had a record deal that fell through and that it was devastating to her. She had a meeting with RCA Records when she was 13. The record label had told her they want to sign her to a development deal. After about a year, the decision was made to shelve the project. Swift had to make a decision of staying in development with RCA, but she reasoned that if they didn’t believe in her then, they were probably never going to believe in her. Taylor made the tough decision to strike out on her own.

True, there were other singers who went home with hardware from the Country Music TV Awards, but the show seemed to mostly be a factory dream that came true for Taylor Swift, country music’s teen queen. Swift, a superstar at only nineteen years old, made her debut with T-Pain as T-Swizzle in a rap clip for “Thug Story,” then sang one of her singles “You Belong With Me,” and closed the show, joining Def Leppard, a favorite band of hers, on the classic anthem “Pour Sugar on Me.”

It’s pretty clear that John Mayer has a high opinion of himself. However it turns out that he thinks highly of Taylor Swift, the teen icon as well. In March, Mayer while on Twitter, revealed that he had just finished the song “Half of My Heart,” and he was hoping it would be a duet he would sing with Swift. He likened it to Swift making a killer Stevie Nicks to his Tom Petty type of song. This was very high praise coming from Mayer.

After seeing the huge response that Taylor Swift received as the opening act at U.S. Bank Arena, you may be wondering whether it should have been her instead of Keith Urban as the headliner for the show. Swift, a nineteen year old country singer who has engineered the fast rise of her career through her autobiographical teen romance songs, had the fans screaming throughout her entire high energy, hour-long performance.

Taylor Swift, the rising country as well as crossover star, has confirmed the venues for a majority of the cities slated for her upcoming debut headlining tour. A list of the January trek’s destinations have been released by the nineteen year old songwriter and singer. Most of the specific venues still have not been determined. In addition to specifying a majority of the amphitheaters and arenas on the tour, which will kick off officially in Evansville, IN on April 23, Swift firmed her traveling schedule up as well with Keith Urban. On June 5 the first pairing of Urban and Swift will take place in Cincinnati. The duo will be making a total of nine appearances together.

Like Jesse McCartney, Ludacris and Diddy before her, Taylor Swift on Thursday night joined the rather illustrious list of musicians making cameo appearances in crime dramas. Swift was able to live out a dream of hers of playing a dead girl in the crime show C.S.I. The episode tells the story mainly in the form of flashbacks to the year prior to Haley, Swift’s character, being found dead outside of the hotel run by her parents. The episode had all expected twists and turns from the detective show.

Tomorrow Swift passes a major career milestone as newsstands all over the country will feature her as the latest cover girl for Rolling Stone magazine.

Listening to Taylor Swift, it appears she had some very bad luck when it comes to boys. They do not see her shy looks from far away. They don’t apologize to her when they take her for granted. At times when they are too perfect, she is bored. This all happened before she was 19 years old.

During her concert Friday night in Cedar Rapids, IA at the U.S. Cellular Center, Taylor Swift announced that she planned to donate $100,000 for local flood victims. Two months ago, Cedar Rapids suffered flood damages costing millions of dollars after Cedar River submerged and engulfed the town. Reportedly Swift was set to cancel her concert. However the mayor of Cedar Rapids asked her not to, acccording to a source close to Swift.