Taylor Swift on the CMA Awards Red Carpet at "The 42nd Annual CMA Awards," on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, broadcast live from the Sommet Center in Nashville on the ABC Television Network. Photo courtesy of the Country Music Association.
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Nov. 18, 2008 — The Grammy nominations will be announced during a concert TV special for the first time this year, and Taylor Swift has been tabbed to help co-host the event Dec. 3 from Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.
Taylor joins Mariah Carey and LL Cool J as emcees for the evening, which also celebrates the grand opening of the Grammy Museum in Santa Monica. Performers on the show will include B.B. King, John Mayer, Foo Fighters and Celine Dion.
The announcement of Taylor’s involvement comes as she’s expected to debut at No. 1 on the country album chart — and likely on the all-genre Billboard 200 — with her latest CD, Fearless. Taylor performed the lead single, "Love Story," on last week’s 42nd Annual CMA Awards. The song continues to display her fascination with male-female relationships, both the successful ones and the failures.
"It’s just what I like to write songs about," Taylor told the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. "It’s my favorite thing to write about. It’s not the only thing I write about, but it’s mostly the thing I write about. And I think there are 15 million angles to a relationship. There’s, you know, when you’re getting into it, and then when it starts to go bad, and then when the breakup happens. Omigosh, there are so many feelings involved there, so many feelings, and then if you write ‘em all down, you’ve got four albums worth of material."
The Grammys and the CMAs are not the only awards-related appearances involving Taylor these days. She’s slated to appear Sunday on the American Music Awards and she’s also nominated in the People’s Choice Awards, slated for Jan. 7.
Taylor is GAC’s Artist of the Month for November.
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