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Are you excited for Taylor Swift's new album, "Speak Now"? I am. And not (just) because the record is sure to be packed with poppy, endlessly-loopable jams. (Although of course it is.) The album is also supposed to be "the most savage of her career, and also the most musically diverse," as well as "possibly her best," according to a recent feature on the young singer in the New York Times. 

Oh, things get so dramatic around the VMAs! It looks like Taylor Swift will be performing tonight; what was supposed to be a "top secret performance" was (obv) leaked to the press so that all of Taylor Swift's billions of fans would be sure to watch tonight's VMAs. (Won't they be watching anyway?) But there's also a rumor going around that Kanye wrote Swift a song -- but that she wants nothing to do with it. (My question is, if Kanye wrote Swifty a song, shouldn't he sing it himself?) And now it turns out that the song she's singing tonight is about the whole VMA fiasco from last year. This is getting to be too much for me. Anyway, we're going to leave you with the video of "Mine" to get you through the long hours until the VMAs. 

Taylor Swift is out with her latest video, Mine, which pays homage to the country star's favorite kind of old-fashioned, fairytale-ending love story. As Toby Hemingway, Swift's love interest in the video, said, "it's [an] evolving family story," about a young couple struggling to make it work over time. Swift said the story was inspired by her "tendency to run from love," and "finding the exception to that." Mine debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs Chart and No. 3 on Billboard's Hot 100. Check out the video here and let us know what you think!

Speaking of Taylors! Taylor Swift, the more innocent of the two blond singers, has released the details of her next album, Speak Now, which will be released on October 25. There are high hopes for the album, of course: Swift's latest is perhaps the most hotly-anticipated of the year, and record execs are predicting massive sales for it. 

Summit films has confirmed that Twilight: Breaking Dawn will be released in two parts, as blogger JustJared.com has reported. The first of the two installations will be released in theatres on November 18, 2011, and Dreamgirls director Bill Condon will helm both. 

Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Carrie Underwood are just three country stars to have recently signed on for the Nashville Rising benefit concert for flood recovery in the storm-ridden region. The show, which will take place at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on June 22, was organized by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, and the proceeds will go to the Community Foundation, which services the Middle Tennessee region. This comes after last week, when Swift donated $500,000 to the cause.

This week's issue of TIME Magazine reveals the publication's annual list of their pick for the hundred most influential people. Taylor Swift made the cut with room to spare, and had the honor of getting profiled by the one and only Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks, in case you are not familiar with her, is one of the most iconic women in the history of rock music. Totally no bias there! Except for that she is maybe my favorite person of all time. Her work with Fleetwood Mac is rivaled only by her solo work, and no one to this day can rock a tambourine the way she did. And of course, she had nice things to say about Taylor: