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It’s the most wonderful time of the year… Awards Season!!!

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, the 2012 Grammy nominations are in and we’ve got them for you, along with our predictions of who will be taking home the gilded gramophones!

Album Of The Year:

Adele, “21”

Foo Fighters, “Wasting Light”

Lady Gaga, “Born This Way”

Bruno Mars, “Doo-Wops and Hooligans”

Rihanna, “Loud”

GossipTeen Pick:  Adele should get the nod on this one, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Gaga will be walking away the winner of AOY.

Record Of The Year:

Adele, “Rolling in the Deep”

Bon Iver, “Holocene”

Bruno Mars, “Grenade”

Mumford & Sons, “The Cave”

Katy Perry, “Firework”

GossipTeen Pick:  SUCH a tough call.  For me, it’s a toss up between Bon Iver’s “Holocene” and Mumford & Sons’ ”The Cave”, but with “Rolling in the Deep’s” huge radio success, Adele  will most likely be the victor for ROY.

Song Of The Year:

“All Of The Lights” — Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West, songwriters. (Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie)

“The Cave” — Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston, songwriters (Mumford & Sons)

“Grenade” — Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

“Holocene” — Justin Vernon, songwriter (Bon Iver)

“Rolling In The Deep” — Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)

GossipTeen Pick: Again, a tough call here, but I think “All of the Lights” will emerge victorious.

Best New Artist:

The Band Perry

Bon Iver

J. Cole

Nicki Minaj

Skrillex

GossipTeen Pick: If we’re going on outright success, this award should go to Nicki Minaj.  The girl is everywhere and has created an incredible brand for herself.

Pop Vocal Album:

“21,” Adele

“The Lady Killer,” Cee Lo Green

“Born This Way,” Lady Gaga

“Doo-Wops & Hooligans,” Bruno Mars

“Loud,” Rihanna.

GossipTeen Pick:  Personally, I love ALL of these albums and if it were up to me, I’d give the award to Bruno Mars, just because I love, love, love his sound, BUT my prediction is that the gramophone will go to “Born This Way”.

Rock Album:

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Party Honoring Les Paul,” Jeff Beck

“Wasting Light,” Foo Fighters

“Come Around Sundown,” Kings of Leon

“I’m With You,” Red Hot Chili Peppers

“The Whole Love,” Wilco.

GossipTeen Pick:  I’m not overwhelmed by the rock category this year.  If I had to choose, which I do for the sake of this post, I’d go with Jeff Beck’s ”Rock ‘n’ Roll Party Honoring Les Paul”, just because he’s reDICULOUSLY talented – but truthfully, none of the nominees blew me away this go-around.

R&B Album:

“F.A.M.E.,” Chris Brown

“Second Chance,” El DeBarge

“Love Letter,” R. Kelly

“Pieces of Me,” Ledisi

“Kelly,” Kelly Price.

GossipTeen Pick:  All I can say, is that if Chris Brown wins, I quit life.  But seriously, the nod should go to Kelly Price for “Kelly”.

Rap Album:

“Watch the Throne,” Jay-Z and Kanye West

“Tha Carter IV,” Lil Wayne

“Lasers,” Lupe Fiasco

“Pink Friday,” Nicki Minaj

“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” Kanye West.

GossipTeen Pick: It’s either going to be “Watch the Throne” or “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”.  Either way Kanye West comes out a winner, so his ego should be about the size of mainland China by the end of the night.

Country Album:

“My Kinda Party,” Jason Aldean

“Chief,” Eric Church

“Own the Night,” Lady Antebellum

“Red River Blue,” Blake Shelton

“Here for a Good Time,” George Strait

“Speak Now,” Taylor Swift.

GossipTeen Pick:  Again, totally underwhelmed by the nominees this year for Country Album of the Year.  The safe pick would be to go with Taylor Swift, but hopefully Lady Antebellum’s “Own the Night” will walk away a winner.

The 2012 Grammy Awards air on CBS on February 12, 2012.

Country star Taylor Swift graces the cover of the upcoming issue of Glamour Magazine (November 2010). The 20 year-old talks about the song she wrote about the Kanye West incident titled “Innocent”, decorating her Nashville home and LOVE. Is Taylor Swift single?

Here are some highlights from Taylor Swift’s Glamour interview:

On the Kanye West song: “Everything that happens to me gets put into a song. For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. There, I don’t hold back: names, dates, times, expressions on people’s faces, exactly where we were and how it felt, what I wish I would have said to them in the moment. So I’m not only excited about sharing the songs with fans; I’m also pretty interested to hear the response from the guys I’ve written about on this record.”

On who decorated her new Nashville home: “I did. It was a blast. The two guest rooms are inspired by my two best friends in Nashville: One is Caitlin, my fiddle player; she’s very earthy. So “her” room has a quilt on the bed. Liz, my other best friend, is very trendy and kind of princess-y, so in her room, there’s a French Victorian-looking silver bed. I had so much fun with it. The condo is at the top of a building and very modern, but it feels like a pirate ship: There’s a spiral staircase going up to a tree house birdcage thing, and a pond with lily pads in the middle of the living room. I want to get fishies! Everything is mismatched: the pillows, the fabrics, the paintings, the dishes. That takes the pressure off me—it means I don’t have to match.”

On what she’s learned about love: “I’ve learned that you can’t predict it or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.”

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Taylor Swift has a little down time in Los Angeles before MTV’s VMAs on Sunday night and spent it having lunch with pals and shopping. Perfect!

The very popular star is rumored to have a new song to debut at the awards ceremony tonight. Swift is ready to address the Kanye West incident (you know – the one where West infamously interrupted Swift as she was accepting an award… read it here if you need refreshing.)

What do you think? Are you looking forward to that or should the two just move on, already. Let’s hear what you think.

Check out lots more pics of cool-as-cucumber Taylor Swift below.

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Contrary to the rumors floating on the internet this past week, Taylor Swift will not duet with Kanye West on the re-recording of ‘We Are The World.’ The new version of the song is taking place on Monday, February 1st – the day after the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California and while Kanye may be there, Swift is headed down under to begin her Australian tour.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the song, the proceeds of this recording – which may include Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber - will go to Haiti relief funds.

Taylor Swift won Favorite Female Artist at The People’s Choice Awards held in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Swift certainly had a much nicer time with this acceptance speech as LL Cool J escorted her up the stairs instead of Kanye West interrupting and giving her a hard time.

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Twilight star Taylor Lautner became one of the ten youngest “Saturday Night Live” hosts when he took over the stage last night (December 12). In his opening monologue, Taylor explained how exactly he wanted to defend his girl Taylor Swift, who also recently hosted SNL (Swift’s monologue video), during the whole Kanye West interruption at the 2009 MTV VMA’s.

It was super funny! Taylor also had the opportunity to show his amazing karate skills. He did look a bit nervous when he started but he completely owned that stage by the end of that segment. We loved it! (Watch all skits below!)

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Taylor Swift was both host and musical guest for Saturday Night Live this past weekend. The country superstar really showed her sense of humor in her SNL opening song. She did briefly mention Kanye West and the VMA’s, Taylor Lautner and Joe Jonas! Funny stuff from the teen.

Taylor Swift, SNL guest host, and Bill Hader star in a promotional video for the show, where they poke fun at the Kanye West VMAs incident. Bill tells Taylor, “Whoops, Kanye West just called. He thinks Beyoncé should host instead.” Then he adds, “Funny, huh?” Taylor just stands there and rolls her eyes. Bill then awkwardly says, “Good times,” and walks off the set whispering to himself, “Hader.”

Country teen sensation Taylor Swift will host the legendary ‘Saturday Night Live’ on November 7. Taylor confessed she has been thinking about skit ideas so beware Kanye West because revenge is best served cold and on SNL!

“I’ve been thinking about skit ideas for a long time,” she told The Associated Press. “There are definitely some hilarious things that have happened to me over the past couple of months that I think will be pretty substantial skits.”

Taylor performed on the show back in January and now she comes back to host it. She described the experience as “mind-blowing”. We know Taylor will do a fantastic job!

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Taylor Swift is used to the single life but don’t pity her – she doesn’t feel sorry for herself. The teen star says:

“I wasn’t really popular at high school. I’ve never really been sought-after by guys, but I don’t wallow in it. It’s my comfort zone, being single.” An optimistic Swift adds: “I feel that a lot happens to you when you’re not looking for it so I’m not actively looking for a boyfriend.”

She is bright, talented, young and beautiful. Many guys dream about her. It’s only a matter of time before she’s off the market again.