Taylor Swift attended the Brit Awards last night in a rather unflattering, silver, spangly sheath.  Shouldn’t the gal with the number one album be able to afford a stylist by now?  Or a full-length mirror?  Contact lenses?  I’ve read the reviews and I’m aware that my opinion is unpopular on this one.  Of course I also hate Oprah and Julia Roberts so it’s safe to say that I don’t think like any other human being.

Okay.  I’m done.  She’s still cute.  Clad in a shapeless Vegas showgirl, flattened disco ball thing, but cute.

Taylor Swift tells it like it is in the March issue of Self magazine.  If you don’t want to end up in unflattering lyric, don’t screw with Tay.

“If you don’t want me to write bad songs about you, then don’t do bad things,” Swift, 19, tells Self magazine in its March issue.

She lives by that simple mantra – and a commitment to writing honest songs. “I don’t think honesty is ever something you should regret,” Swift says. “I figure if I’m going to cover things up and try to hide the way I feel and try to be perfect all the time, people are going to see through that.

She continues: “And also, if you’re trying to change yourself all the time to adapt to what you think you should be, you’re going to run out of the things to be after a while.”

Still, the teen superstar says she’s a little surprised by how fervent her audience is. “What blows me away the most,” Swift says, “is that anyone actually cares what I have to say.”

But that doesn’t mean she’s unappreciative.

“If I sign an autograph for someone, I don’t put them in the category of ‘fan’ and keep them at arm’s length,” she says. “If we strike up a conversation and we like the same things and we have the same sense of humor, then they’re my friend.”

Sure, she’s all about honesty now.  Her PR team just hasn’t retooled her and knocked all of that refreshing youth out of her yet.  Soon enough she’ll be recanting and denying all over the place.

As far as making friends with autograph seekers, two words:  Rebecca Schaeffer.

Oh noes!!!

After eight weeks of being at the top spot on the charts, Taylor Swift’s Fearless finally has a challenger to be scared of.

Taylor is at the #2 spot this week.

Can you guess who beat her out?

Answer is after the jump.

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Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus are slated to sing Swift’s Fifteen at this weekend’s Grammys.  Taylor told Ryan Secrest, “We were trying to figure out different things that would be cool. We all kind of agreed, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if Miley was up there too and we’re singing together?’ And we’re excited about it.”

Miley admitted that when she was young, you know, fifteen, she thought she knew everything.  Now that she is experiencing all the wisdom that comes with sixteen, she has just taken to offending entire cultures. Way to grow, Miley!

The Jonas Brothers are also performing Sunday night.  This could be a perfect storm for drama. I love it!

She’s been #1 on the charts for eight gazillion weeks, but that’s not enough for Taylor Swift — she wants to get into fashion, just like everyone else. She’s teamed up with teen favorite L.E.I. to “design” a line of uber-affordable dresses — retailing for $14.

“I love dresses,” Taylor said in a statement. “And I have always had this dream to make an affordable sundress line.”

Of course you did, Taylor. What little girl doesn’t dream of creating a line of affordable sundresses? We want to be doctors, lawyers, fairy princesses, models, actresses and $14 dress designers.

“I was totally adamant that I wanted [the dresses] to be affordable. With my headlining tour, we are offering $20 tickets everywhere we go and I wanted to approach the sundress line in the same way,” says Taylor. “To have cute dresses under $20 is something I am really proud of.”

I guess if there’s anything you can make successfully that cheap, it’s sundresses. I mean, they’re supposed to be flowing and flimsy, so there’s a lot of leeway for crappiness in the design and fabric. Maybe this was a smart move for Taylor after all.

Thanks Christina!

Neil Patrick Harris hosted SNL last night with Taylor Swift as the musical guest.  They both did a great job in this skit, based on the material that they had to work with.

If you guessed Taylor Swift with Fearless, you’d be correct.