Taylor Swift Dominates CMA Nominations

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The 2011 Country Music Awards have been announced, y’all. And of course, Taylor Swift has nabbed herself a ton of nominations.

Swift has been nominated for Entertainer of the Year, where she’ll compete against all men—Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban. She’s also been nominated for Best Female Vocalist along with Sara Evans, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and Carrie Underwood.

Considering Taylor Swift is the reason most of us even listen to country, I can see her sweeping when the winners are announced live on air, November 9th. She’s also nominated for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Music Video of the Year.

Back in the day, the most popular country singers had lyrics about their dogs dying and their wives leaving them. These days, the best country songs are about Joe Jonas being a jerk. Swift is infamous for using her songs to vent her relationship frustrations—is it her fault they become huge hits?

In 2008, Swift sang about her breakup with the JoBro in her song, Forever & Always. On the track, Taylor croons: And I stare at the phone and he still hasn’t called/And then you feel so low, you can’t feel nothin’ at all/And you flashback to when he said forever and always.

Jonas reportedly broke up with Swift over the phone, and she admitted the song was about him. “With this situation, I feel like I owed it to my fans to be like, 'Look, it happened, you weren't crazy,' and address it," she told MTV News. "And I addressed it, and, you know, that's a chapter in my life that's closed now."

Taylor’s breakout hit, Teardrops on My Guitar referenced some dude named Drew, and while he wasn’t famous, he did confront Swift about her song:

“He showed up in my driveway this Christmas, and it was awkward because it was three years after I wrote the song," Swift said. "He was like, 'Hey.' It was definitely weird. I was going to a hockey game with my friends, and it was the most drama you could have when you have to go pick up your friends. I got over it. I wrote the song. It's a venting process."

After Kanye West bum rushed the stage on Swift in 2009, she presumably sang about it at the 2010 VMAs. Swift said her 2010 album, Speak Now, was about things that happened to her and people she encountered in the past few years:

“For me, I write everything that I live, so you've got to give yourself a little bit of time to live a lot of things so you can write about a lot of things. And my only option is to write about what I've been through and what I've lived. So thankfully, in the past two years, I've experienced a lot of things that I've been dying to write about and a lot of things that I wanted to say in the moment that I didn't.”