Topix — Bygones are not bygones in the music industry, and Taylor Swift wants you to know it. more info

Culture Bully — With Speak Now Taylor Swift has emphasized her role as the alternative to the modern pop star. The only question is whether or not that means she's made strides toward creative innovation or has simply recorded another wholeheartedly generic and medi... more info

Dlisted — You can spend the next 35 minutes of your life doing all sorts of things. You can spend it trying to get a first-hand account of the saying "like watching paint dry." You can watch this clip of a cat eating an apple 68 and a half times in a row.... more info

Starpulse — Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift stopped for some ice cream during their night out together in London earlier this week. The girls dined out at Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurant in Covent Garden befor... more info

Idolator — This week felt like the calm before the storm, as Taylor Swift released one last promo single ahead of her Speak Now album. But she wasn’t the only one who served up new material! M.I.A. and Pet Shop Boys premiered new tunes, while Robyn unveiled h... more info

Perez Hilton — Wow! Powerful stuff! And almost 7 minutes long! That's ballsy! Check it out (above)! more info

Idolator — Taylor Swift’s Speak Now drops on Monday, and the LP will no doubt be another gigantic success for the Glamour-ous singer. (And if Swift is really lucky, she may even sell ten million records and meet Kanye West’s standards for artistic achieveme... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Massively popular and completely uncontroversial, Swift receives very little meaningful negative media attention.Massively popular and completely uncontroversial, Swift receives very little meaningful negative media attention. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — "Mean" is a word that often comes up in my house. As the mother of a first-grader, I'm constantly acting as an interpreter of scenes only partially witnessed: playground wars and lunchtime sessions of the silent treatment, enacted between kids... more info

Unreality Music — Up to now, Taylor Swift has always struck me as a bit of a whiny teenager who can only ever seem to write songs like '‘Love Story' and 'Teardrops On My Guitar', where she's warbling on abou... more info