A Career-Defining Performance
Filed under: Taylor SwiftIn case you missed it….
You must CLICK HERE to watch Taylor Swift's performance of Should Have Said No at the 2008 American Country Music (ACM) Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday.
She really "brought it" - as they say.
In fact, she took it to the next level!
Watch all the way through the end.
Very very impressive for an 18-year-old!
Posted: May 19, 2008 at 11:30 am
it's funny that a country-pop singer singing a really lame song(with really stupid lyrics sounded like a 12 y/o would write) try to go rock while off bite.
That's was really stupid performance which had nothing to to with the actual lyrics
THAT REALLY SUCKED! SHE SOUNDS LIKE CRAP!
#31 are u Kelli Pickler?
ummm not impressed…the whole "rain" thing has been done before.country music is a big yawn.
I heart her. she is so genuine.
Better than Miley!
Girl needs to learn to keep her legs together! That just looked ridiculous with her legs that far apart! but i do like her music!
Re: already been done –
I guess you and I are the only ones who remember Britney's kick ass performance…
Taylor's sucked IMORe: uggabugga –
Obviously you have never met Taylor!
She is a major Bitch and is a spoiled ass brat!
The performance was a copy of Britney Spears' performance from her tour.
Taylor should fire whoever told her that this performance would be totally original because it wasnt it was a copy! Maybe Britney should sue the little brat then maybe Taylor would come down off her high horse and hit the ground like a bad habit!
I have met her and my niece has actually hung out with her, they have mutual friends in Nashville. Taylor is mean and hateful to everyone even people she thinks of as friends!!
OOOOOOOOOOOOkaYYYY
I hope if Taylor comes to this site she totally ignores the negative messages. She is amazing. She can sing, write her own lyrics, play the guitar, and is gorgeous and sweet. She always updates things on her myspace and is down to earth. I can't wait to see what the future holds for her
AMAZING!!!! Loved it, she puts all the other teen performers to shame especially because she is also a song writer who takes giant risks as shown in he performance!
CAN SHANIA & FAITH PLEASE SING!
COUNTRY AVRIL
Um, she kinda fucking sucks.
Re: already been done –
I guess you and I are the only ones who remember that Britney did this first! Oh and might I say Britney's was Smokin HHHHHHOOOOOOOTTTTTTTT
SHE SOUNDED HORRIBLE, SHE CAN'T SING!!!!
UMMM Perez, it wasn't that good
Didn't Kelly Clarkson already do the singing in the rain thing??
Amazing! loved the water
WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSER HATERS ON HERE WHO GO AFTER A YOUNG GIRL WHO ACTUALLY HAS BEEN WRITING HER OWN SONGS AS WELL AS SONGS FOR OTHERS FOR YEARS!! SHE RELATES TO THE YOUNG GIRLS TODAY WITH MOSTLY A POSITIVE MESSAGE, NOT ALL SEX, FUCK ME, HURT ME, DO ME SONGS!!
ALL YOU HATERS ARE ASSHOLES WHO PROBABLY DO NOT HAVE A DROP OF TALENT IN YOUR FUCKING LITTLE PINKY!!!
also, she writes her own music! so if you really didnt like her singing…the song itself is great. How many people out there do that these days???
I can't help but love Taylor Swift! She is so genuinely happy and appreciative of her fans, awards, and the success she has earned!
that was awesome! taylor swift is my new favorite
wow , everybody is sooo picky, i think for an 18 year old shes an amazing performer and for people who think country music is shitty you obviously quite naieve because different people relate to different types of music, stop being so selfish.
i don't like country music but even i was impressed!! that was a really good performance and most of the time she sounded great!! stop hating! start appreciating..
i hate country music but i LOVED that performance! that girl is a star and she actually is talented.
Seriously if you ever get a chance to see her in concert DO IT! She is an amazing performer. She opened for the concert I went to and she far outshone the headlining act. I swear she must drink like 8 red bulls before hitting the stage. A-MAZING.
Shes amaziins she writes all her own songs witch is a HELL of alot more then all the other "SINGERS" SHES A TRUE ON!!!!!!!!!!
Her voice sounded whiney, the song is so so and the water thing was bizarre and retarded.
i like her cd but she sounds NOTHING like her cd when she sings live. amazing what technology can do……it's just annoying
This performance bothers me. Shes trying to be badass now that shes dating Martin Johnson from Boys Like Girls (gay). Her "sweet, virginal, good role model for little girls" image is gonna go down the tubes real fast if she keeps up this new arrogant im so cool because im dating a "rockstar" ya'll (who is also a pig and has slept with over 100+ girls! dirty!) And from what i've heard she's not as innocent as she wants the public to believe. I think we have a country version of Britney on our hands!!!
Re: john charles –
Fuck all of you. At least she trying to make a name for herself instead of fucking her way to the top. If it turns out that she's ain't shit then you can tell me "I told you so."
that was fucking retarded and gay
It was okay—but her voice still sucks.
that was a true artist performance! kudos taylor swift!!
LINK PLEASE TO THE BRITNEY PERFORMANCE!!!!!
Sorry but her voice was terrible, very pitchy, and that trick with the water at the end….wasn't it already done by Kelly Clarkson……..
yall are just haterz!
i watched this last nite and it was the most amazing performance i've ever seen! i'm so proud of her - she did so fantastic!
I watched it again just now and got goosebumps AGAIN! I love her so much. She's different.
Hmm..the rain inside…can we say BRITNEY Las Vegas?! Enough said..not original..
that sort of sucked
The song is stupid and her voice sounded whiney and annoying the whole time. The water thing was just plain retarded. Where did that come from and why? Was it supposed to be cool or something. NEXT!
I've seen her perform live and she's just about the cutest thing ever. I think she's sweet.
Re: Nay Carter – Yes she did, not very original….
cool PERFORMANCE…if it was on mute. she shounds horrible
I think Taylor is fabulous!! I am 24 and I would totally be her best friend!!!
ACM = ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC, NOT AMERICAN COUNTRY MUSIC. GET IT RIGHT PEREZ!
I STILL don't understand why she is even famous. Her voice is worse than some American Idol contestants. sure she's cute, but really? This was career defining? LOLOL. Ive tried watching her several times thinking MAYBE it was just that once or a bad mic or bad speakers. Every single time she sings very flat very wobbly…there was nothing about her voice that really intriguied me or made me want to listen to that song.
I gotta agree with you perez that was fuckin great…i love taylor she is such a breath of fresh air durinng the age of the shit filled britney air that still seems to float around like a walmart men's restroom.
i'm so tired of hearing how "sweet and humble" she is. she looked like she thought her shit don't stink on that stage. FAIL
holy … wow, i didn't expect that! i seriously will download/or buy!? her cd now. i'm not a country fan and it takes much for a song to give me goosebumps, but the energy from this performance couldn't help but do that to me. i'm super impressed. good find, perez;-)
maybe you were being saracastic Perez because that was so shitty I couldn't sit through the entire thing.
I think she is an absolutely beautiful girl, but I don't understand her winning all these awards. Her voice is flat and off key. I thought I was the only one who thought that until I read some of these comments. I first saw her when she appeared with one of the semi finalists on America's Got Talent and the contestant sang circles around Taylor. I just don't get it.
bad singer like britney
and britney did the clothes rip off thing at the vma's..and…
she did th whole drench me while im singing on her dream within a dream tour
she wants to be britney
hahah
I'd rather listen to old Dolly Parton songs than this shit. At least Dolly's songs come from her soul. This chick is soul less. The song is kind of stupid. "It should have been me, blah blah blah blah blah". Country is a big joke now.
I love Taylor but……….
she started off looking like an emo kid, and ended looking like a wet rat.
Talentless- horrible live. Her acceptance speech, while not deserving, for top new female vocalist was cute.
that….was…terrible…
Is this a joke?! I don't get it!
She's flat the entire song.
…what are you talking about?? She was TERRIBLE.
oh my gosh that was AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!
TAYLOR SWIFT
Um…you obviously got paid to say that by her reps, either that or you're tone deaf. That was AWFUL…most of the crap american idol TRYOUTS sing better live than that.
She ROCKED IT!! I thought that was a great performance!
Re: MagicalMe –
ya exact britney copy! for anyone who wants to see the original
(rain scene)
(rip off clothes to reveal outfit scene)
yupp done and done
wow that was absolutely amazing :O lots of surprises
she can sing soooo good, love her
I thought she was good! At least she can sing live! Hey, she just turned
18 what a couple months ago??? Shit she got it going on. Better than most!
yea horrible… nice advertising though
that was GREAT!
..i must tell i dont get it, she's not a very good singer ,not pretty ,and her body is average…yet she gets alot of praise…nothing new nothing unique, and i hat the hair parted on the side…just awful
She is not 18.
Her voice is totally flat. Not a good performance at all. Still love you lots Perez.
Well it's called entertainment, and I was surely entertained. Not my type of music, but it was a fun performance. Nice one!
Love her, love her, love her. Saw her in concert in October 07 and it was even better I think. No lip synching here, she's so talented, and has an awesome stage presence. She'll be the next Faith Hill… she's really destined to be a star on a huge level!
Wow. That were crap.
Well I admit the effects were good and she is talented for being young, BUT Jesus someone tell her she looks ridiculous when she dances and picks up her feet! Choreograph that shit PLEASE
WOW! What an amazing performance, and I barely even like country! She really rocks and has a ton of stage presence!
uh i love taylor but her performance wasn't great… plus Kelly already did the rain on me type performance…
i can't wait til Britney gets back.. she'll show all these bitches what a TRUE performance is!
=jr
Only if "Career-Defining" means Defining that you SUCK! I mean, you do what you gotta do, Perez to make your paper, I understand. But Taylor Swift is is a joke and you know it. She can't sing, she clearly can't dance (all she does is stomp around like Godzilla!) And at the age of 18 she's resorting to SLUTTY tactics life stripping off clothes and pouring water all over herself, I give her two years, she'll be a has-been in two years…. OH, and if you're going to argue that at heart she's a songwriter, then listen again. The song is one of the most shiteous songs I've ever heard, and I actually like some country…. The fact that every part of this performance sucked: the song, the singing, the stomping around in water…. and Perez STILL promoted it. NOW WE ALL KNOW YOU'RE GETTING PAID, PEREZ!!!
yeppers i thought she was o-so-fantastic. Seriously though she was pretty good. the begginning part was especially golden
It was AWFUL at the beginning! Because she was singing live.
But the end half was good because she started lip syncing.
I love Taylor tho. I just think she sucks live.
well i say fuck all you jackasses who said she was bad. she was pretty dam good. i would love to see you all do better than she did!!! i would love to see you all fall on your asses and fail!!!!
TO ALL OF YOU MEAN, RUDE HATERS OUT THERE, APPARENTLY YOU DID NOT WATCH THE FIRST HALF OF THE SHOW WHEN SHE WON HER AWARD FOR FAVORITE NEWCOMER. SHE WENT ON TO THANK HER MOTHER. WITH TEARS IN HER EYES, AND SAID HOW MUCH SHE APPRECIATED HER MOTHER FOR SACRAFICING EVERYTHING FOR HER SO SHE COULD GET HER CAREER STARTED! SHE WAS VERY SWEET UNLIKE MOST PEOPLE ON HERE!!!
Re: Common Sense –
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!
I thought I was the only one who noticed it switched to a tape when she went into the rain.
I thought it sounded VERY pitchy. Not that great SOUNDING but the performance we great.
THATS A REAL TALENT AND SUPERSTAR!!! WHAT A GREAT ROLEMODEL!!! COMPARE HER AND MILEY, AND U WILL NOTICE WHO IS THE REAL TALENT AND WHO IS THE BAD ROLEMODEL AND WHORE….
Amazing. I'm very impressed.
she comes across like a country-singing-Avril-doing country-hip-hop gestures!
She's cute
I would hit it
really now if you don't like country music you are biased so shut your mouth. shes a great performer, her record sales speak for themself. she writes most of if not all of her songs. that was a great performance, so put that in your pipe and smoke it!
GIVE THE GIRL HER PROPS! She is only a few months older than David A on American Idol, and she shows what a true performing artist is. I don't even like her music much, but she deserves credit where credit is due. She definitely showed AI how week their artist development program is, and she doesn't even have a stage dad working behind the scenes to get her out front.
Career defining? Definition: Insipid, bubble gum, souless. Me thinks Perez needs to hop into his time machine, go back about 35 years and find out what real music is.
Cute show but her vocals were horrible.
Wouldn't it have been that much more amazing if she could actually sing?
She was horrible. And why can't you here the rain on her mic?… if you're going to lip sync, at least make it sound good.
CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taylor Swift killed it last night! She didn't lipsink and she sang in the rain… thats something Ive always wanted to do lol give her an A++ chow
Awesome performance, but um.. her voice sucks.
copy cat— the rain –tokio hotel did it at the europen music awards live-all over you tube ….monsoon—-like the song taylor— but kina stank that ur a copy cat