Taylor Swift is ready with ‘Speak Now’

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Taylor Swift has all of the looks, talent, success and vulnerability that seemingly would make her fair game for more then her share of ridicule by envious onlookers. So what is it that makes the 21-year old, who is once again Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan’s top-selling artist of the year, so loved by almost everyone, even those who aren’t fans of her music? The partial answer must be the vulnerability she shows about everything from her oft-broken heart to her forays into life as a single adult to her fans.

“I was sitting backstage and getting really emotional,” Swift told the studio audience at the Rachel Ray television show earlier this year after she met some of her devoted fans. “The fact that the two of you have included me so much in your life is so moving to me. Thank you so much.”

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