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Byline: HANNAH MORRILL
When Taylor Swift was 11, she delivered a tape of herself singing karaoke to every office on Nashville's Music Row, hoping for a record deal. It didn't work. However, the 18-year-old has turned each snub, ex-boyfriend, and crush into a careerher debut album sold more than three million copies, and her latest CD, Fearless, came out last month. Swift may have missed her senior prom, but she's not complaining: "My life has gotten awesome."
Lots of your songs are about high school. What will you sing about now that you've graduated? Well, rejection never stops, and that's my favorite thing to write about. Guys being complicated and sending mixed signals? That never stops.
Your phone is kind of breaking up. I'm on the tour bus. I had one day back home, but I'm on the road again.
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