Taylor & LL Cool J’s commercial for the Grammys. (spot 3)
Taylor & LL Cool J’s commercial for the Grammys. (spot 2)
Taylor & LL Cool J’s commercial for the Grammys.
Taylor shopping for chocolate
On Tuesday my friend Emma and I were in London hoping to meet Taylor, we had no idea where she’d gone but Emma and I both said listening to our hearts/ following our gut instinct Taylor had gone to Portobello road. We had no reason to think this was where she was we just had a feeling. On the complete off chance we were right we went there and we were walking down the street, which was so quiet when suddenly we spotted a load of paparazzi, we walked towards them and then saw Taylor’s security guard who we had spoken to the night before. This was outside a shop that was closed for Taylor. We spoke to him for a while, I gave him something to give Taylor and we asked if Taylor would be able to stop on her way out because there were so many paparazzi- like 20! He said he’d go inside and speak to her about it and he’d do thumbs up if she’d be able to stop and thumbs down for no. We were freaking out because we could see Taylor right there in the shop, then her security guard came over to the door and told us to come inside.
Taylor ran straight over to us with her arms wide open and hugged us, she said ‘Hey! How are you?’ and we replied and asked her how she was. Then we said ‘We love your hair!’ and she was like ‘Really? Thank you!’ and we were like ‘it was for Vogue right?’ (we obviously knew but yeah J) she was like ‘YES! They wanted to do bangs so I was like ‘you know what you can just cut my hair’’ We spoke about vogue and said how the pictures were gorgeous and she was so genuinely surprised that we’d said that. We said we really wanted the magazine and she was like ‘Ahh it was the USA vogue so I don’t know if they’ll have it here’ and we said we’d search like mad! We talked about New York fashion week because Emma had been there whilst Taylor was. We spoke about the paparazzi because she was like ‘You made it through the sea of cameras then?’ and I said how crazy it must be and I can’t understand how she can deal with it. She said ‘I just put my headphones in and look down and let them do their thing but it is weird’. We asked her what she’d done whilst she’d been in London and she said ‘I’ve just been in business meetings’ and then she said ‘I was only meant to be here for meetings but I decided to for a few days, I’m so happy I did or I wouldn’t have seen you guys’ (EEEEEEK!) then she said ‘This morning I went to this chocolate shop, Charbonnel et Walker… wow I totally butchered that pronunciation!’ we talked about what she’d bought and stuff and she said ‘I ordered some chocolates from there for my birthday but when I got them they’d been frozen, I was trying to eat them and they were so hard, I was like… (and re-enacted it)… it was so embarrassing!’. We spoke about Nashville because Emma is going there in the summer and I went there last summer, we were talking about all the places Emma should visit and then we started talking about all the history relating to the civil war. I said to Taylor ‘I saw you in Knoxville and you were amazing!’ and she said ‘Really? Wow, thank you! Wait Knoxville wasn’t that when I was sick?’ and I said ‘Yeah it was the last show you did before you were sick’ and she said ‘Oh my gosh, I completely murdered that show… and not in a good way, my voice was like…’ (and acted that out) I was like ‘No way! I didn’t even realise you were sick until you were speaking to the audience towards the end, when you were singing I had no idea!’ and she said ‘Seriously? I felt terrible, I felt like people had just wasted their money’ and I said ‘It was honestly worth every penny’ and she was so genuinely surprised again! I asked Taylor if she remembered me because I met her with my friends in Manchester on her tour and we were dressed as Peter Pan (as in Never Grow Up :’)) she was like ‘Oh my gosh, of course I do! I’m going to remember that for the rest of my life! that was the most insane costume’. Taylor said ‘I love your coat!’ to me and I was like ‘Thank you!’ and she grabbed one of the toggle things on it and said ‘I love these so much, they make you feel like you’re a kid again don’t they?’ and I was like ‘Yeah actually they really do! You have a coat like this don’t you? It’s from Topshop’ and she was like ‘Yes I do actually! I have it in maroon I think, great minds think alike!’ and I kind of died and we both laughed. Her security guy came over to me and handed me the bag I’d given to him to pass on to Taylor and he said ‘Here, give it to her yourself’ (it was a pair of panda gloves) and I handed it to her, she went ‘PANDA GLOVES! Thank you!’ and I said ‘I saw them and thought of you’ and laughed. One of my best friends really wanted to travel down to London to try and see Taylor but she couldn’t so I asked Taylor if she’d be able to just say hi to her on the phone and she was like ‘Totally!’ So I phoned my friend and said ‘Somebody wants to speak to you’ and passed my phone to Taylor and she goes ‘Hi it’s Taylor’ and my friend didn’t believe her and Taylor was like ‘No it really is!’ and then turned to me and said ‘she’s like screaming’. She spoke to her for ages, she asked her what she was up to, and said ‘I heard you live like 5 hours away, is it raining there? Because it’s pouring here. We’re in Portobello Road’ and she said some other stuff and then she said ‘it’s really good to hear your voice, we’ll send you the pictures picture from today’ And then she spoke to us some more, Emma and I were telling Taylor how much she’s inspired us and how we always think ‘What would Taylor do in situations’ Taylor again seemed just genuinely surprised and she was just saying ‘Oh my gosh, awh! No way!’ I said ‘Thank you so much for today! This has made my life’ and she said ‘No way’ and laughed, I said ‘No I’m being serious, I promise you that this will be the best moment of my life for the rest of my life, I promise you!’ and she was like ‘Woah!’ and just seemed so shocked. We said that whenever anything went wrong we’d remember this and Taylor just looked at us like ‘Awhh’. Then Taylor said ‘Hey we should get a picture!’ and the guy who was working in the shop asked if we’d like him to take it and Taylor was like ‘Yes please!’ so we got a picture. Taylor asked Emma how she gets her bangs to go to the side, she was like ‘mine just go down all the time’ and then she started playing around with her bangs.Taylor’s security said they had to get going, Taylor said ‘It’s time for the headphones to go in then’ and put them in and as we were walking towards the door she was like ‘Hey are you guys ready for your photo opportunity, see what it’s like! (referring to our conversation we had earlier about how we couldn’t imagine how it must be with the paparazzi) let’s pretend to be best friends!’ and she linked our arms and walked down the pavement with us, it was so crazy there were like 20 paparazzi with all their cameras flashing a few times per second, I was like standing back because I didn’t want to block Taylor and I was pretty scared but then we all just started laughing about something. Taylor was like ‘Wait… where’s the car?’and then we were directed to it and when we got to it she said ‘So how was that for you?’ and I said ‘Scary!’ We thanked her loads and she said again ‘I’m so happy I decided to stay here or I wouldn’t have seen you guys. You have made my day’
I obviously missed out bits and the order of everything probably isn’t quite perfect. We were in the shop talking to Taylor for a good fifteen minutes, she was so lovely and we weren’t at all rushed in our conversation with her. She honestly treated us like her friends. I can’t believe that happened to me, I don’t think it’ll ever feel real. I know how nice Taylor is because I’ve met her before but meeting her like that just made me realize she’s even nicer than I thought she was which I didn’t think was possible.
- Entertainer of the Year
- Female Vocalist of the Year
- Video of the Year - “Mean”
The ACM Awards air on April 1st on CBS at 8 PM ET
New TV Spot for The Lorax.
Taylor Swift at the Ronald McDonald House