I wanna hate Taylor Swift, I really do… but I just can’t. She’s just too fucking nice. She can actually play an instrument and sing on key without the help of a computer. She’s from the South. She’s beautiful. In a world of puss-groping Rihannas and tit-spraying Katy Perrys, she’s a breath of fresh air. That said, if you ever mention this to anybody, I’m totally kicking your ass. I mean it. I’ll clean your clock and then kick your ass for not knowing what time it is. That’s just how I roll.

Looking all sexy and Brigitte Bardot-y:

The 2011 American Music Awards were last night, and no, I didn’t watch them, and no, I’m not gonna look up who won what. Nobody cares about the fuckin’ AMA’s. It’s the music industry’s equivalent of the Dundee Awards. What I will talk about is how fat Christina Aguilera looked in that dress (watch the performance after the jump). Oh, honey. The Daily Mail says:

Christina Aguilera’s bandage dress was somewhat challenged as she appeared onstage last night… at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles.

The Voice star bulged out of her bandage-style silver dress while performing the smash hit single Moves Like Jagger with Maroon 5.

As she was raised onto the stage mid-song on a glittery silver podium, Christina looked significantly heavier than the size four she has claimed to be.

I have never before seen a woman who so seamlessly encapsulated both Anna Nicole Smith’s‘s refined sense of style and Tonya Harding’s stately elegance. All this time, science said it couldn’t be done. At least not without six hundred boxes of irradiated powdered donuts and a cattle prod.

More of Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four, plus some of Taylor Swift looking beautiful on the AMAs red carpet:

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According to the always-disappointing Google Trends, many of you out there are supremely concerned about seeing Taylor’s Swift’s new tattoo this morning. In fact, the only thing you care more about than seeing Taylor Swift’s new tattoo are Elmo and Dead Island. It’s not my fault you’re a bunch of insufferable dorks. The Daily Mail says:

The 21-year-old was spotted at the Fairfax flea market in West Hollywood, sporting scripture running all the way down her arm.

The design, which appeared to be scribbled in felt-tip pen, reads: ‘Tell me everything I want to hear, like it was your favorite year’.

The line is a lyric which comes from Grammy-award winning Country Music Group The Dixie Chicks and their 2008 single titled, ‘Favorite Year.’

So, A) it’s not even a real tattoo; and B) it’s a fucking Dixie Chicks song lyric. How gay. I thought drawing on yourself with magic marker stopped being cool in the seventh grade. Right about the same time it stopped being cool to listen to Taylor Swift’s music.

More non-tattooed non-news in West Hollywood:

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Rapper Eminem and teenybopper puke Justin Bieber were the big winners at last night’s Billboard Music Awards, each taking homo home six different awards for their insufferable “contributions” to music. People Magazine says:

Taylor Swift was the first winner of the night at Sunday’s 2011 Billboard Music Awards, where she was named 200 Album Artist of the Year and Country Artist of the Year.

Justin Bieber was a triple winner, as Digital Artist of the Year, Top New Artist and Fan Favoritez, while Britney Spears [was awarded] Female Artist of the Year.

Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” was named Top Hot 100 Song. Lady Antebellum took Country Song of the Year, [and] the Black Eyed Peas were the Top Duo/Group.

After reading the complete list of winners, I have never been so grateful to have been a teenager during the forefront of the grunge movement. The mid-nineties were a magical time, a time when musicians actually played instruments and sang without autotune and digital masking and rappers were still black and didn’t collaborate with the likes of Katy Perry and Big Time Rush. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a musical era gone with the wind.

Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift after the jump:

Selena Gomez:

Fergie:

Kesha:

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Alexander McQueen was the designer du jour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Annual Costume Institute Gala Ball last night, with Gisele Bundchen, Salma Hayek and Sarah Jessica Parker all wearing his signature creations. There were two big themes among the patrons — Black Swan, as seen on Liv Tyler, Demi Moore and Miranda Kerr, and Princess Bride, as modeled by Naomi Campbell, Fergie and Miranda Kerr above. Kirsten Dunst, as always, had the ugliest dress there, but Ashely Olsen was a close second in a dress designed that appeared to have been designed by a nearsighted lumberjack turned Victorian hippie. But I don’t know how they get off calling it a costume ball when there wasn’t a wizard, mutant or storm trooper in the bunch. Frankly, you’d be much better off just going to Comic-Con.

More pics after the jump:

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You didn’t think I’d let this day go by without a nod to St. Valentine, did you? Actually, I was too busy writing my own love poem to my ex with cut-out letters. That restraining order against me doesn’t count if they can’t prove it’s from me! From Us Weekly,

One benefit of writing songs about unrequited crushes? Sometimes they respond.

Such was the case when Taylor Swift, 21, penned a ballad about meeting Owl City singer Adam Young for her latest CD, Speak Now.

The four-time Grammy winner — who split with latest beau Jake Gyllenhaal in December — told Yahoo! Music last year that she wrote the song “Enchanted”, “about this guy that I met in New York City, and I had talked to him on email or something before, but I had never met him. And meeting him, it was this overwhelming feeling of: I really hope that you’re not in love with somebody.”

She also added that she included the word “wonderstruck” in the lyrics because he had used it in one of his emails to her.

Luckily Young picked up the hints (including Swift’s decision to capitalize the letters A-D-A-M in the album’s lyric booklet). On Monday, the crooner, 24, used his band’s blog to write a response to the starlet, complete with his own version of “Enchanted”, The Hollywood Reporter reports.

“I’m so tremendously honored that Taylor would write such an elegant song and thereby offer a gracious nod in my direction,” Young wrote in the blog, appropriately posted on Valentine’s Day. “Needless to say, I was lost for words and utterly smitten. I couldn’t stop smiling.”

In the Owl City singer’s version of the ditty, he added a new verse: “I was never in love with someone else / I never had somebody waiting on me / ‘Cause you were all of my dreams come true / And I just wish you knew / Taylor I was so in love with you.”

And while he calls himself a “shy boy” in the post, he didn’t play coy when it came to sharing his feelings.

“Everything about you is beautiful,” he wrote. “You’re an immensely charming girl with a wonderful heart and more grace and elegance than I know how to describe. You are a true princess from a dreamy fairy tale; a modern Cinderella. I’m terribly sorry it’s taken me such a long time to reply but I figured Valentine’s Day was the perfect time to write this note to you and simply say… I was enchanted to meet you too.”

Awww. Ain’t that touching. I feel all warm and squishy inside. Either that, or I need to start wearing diapers. It’s a hard call.

Taylor at a farmer’s market in LA:

Jake Gyllenhaal has finally gone and gotten rid of that beard he’s been sporting for the last two months. Oh, and he broke up the Taylor Swift, too. I’m sure the two events are unrelated. Us Magazine says:

The previously inseparable pair called it quits just before New Year’s Eve, then rang in 2011 separately.

“He said he wasn’t feeling it anymore and was uncomfortable with all the attention they got,” says the insider of the just over two-month romance. “He also said he could feel the age difference. Taylor is really upset. We told her not to move so fast with this but she didn’t listen.”

Explains a Gyllenhaal insider, “Jake cares about her, but [the publicity] was a lot for him. He wants to keep his private life private, and that’s hard to do dating Taylor.”

“Plus, he’s gay,” the insider added, “so Taylor’s lack of balls really wasn’t working for him.” Okay, so the “Gyllenhaal insider” might not have said that exactly. He probably didn’t have to. I’m sure his Prada calfskin loafers and studded skinny jeans told Us Weekly everything they needed to know.

Taylor Swift is the new face of CoverGirl’s NatureLuxe line, and the first of her ads was released yesterday. And… well, I don’t have anything negative to say. I’m sorry. She’s just so damn wholesome and cute. The good news is they can always use her as anti-venom if you accidentally get a Lindsay Lohan bite. They’re a lot more common than you’d think.

More from the CoverGirl shoot, plus a couple of her at the AMA’s:

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The American Music Awards were last night, but I didn’t watch them because I would rather watch zombies nom on brains (Walking Dead, anyone?). Speaking of dead people, did you know that as a body decomposes, it fills with gas, often resulting in the body farting and burping? I make this point because if you stuck a kazoo up a corpse’s ass, it would probably manage to make better music than what was being celebrated last night. Case in point: Justin Bieber swept up awards last night. Says Time News Feed:

Starting with Bieber, he won entertainer of the year, breakthrough artist of the year, favorite pop/rock male and favorite pop/rock album for My World 2.0. “I come from the smallest town in the world, of like 30,000 people; I never thought this was possible,” he gushed, before paying tribute to the late King of Pop. “I want to thank Michael Jackson, because without Michael Jackson none of us would be here.”

Hee-hee-hee. No music would exist without MJ? It’s the new music Gospel they’re teaching kids these days. “In the beginning was Michael Jackson, and the music was with God, and the music was Michael Jackson. He was God in the beginning. Through him all music was made; without him no music was made that has been made.” MJ 1:1-3. I think I hear all the music greats prior to MJ collectively turning in their graves.

A zombie’s smörgåsbord:

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Rumors are swirling that country music singer Taylor Swift and actor Jake Gyllenhaal might be an item after the two were seen canoodling in New York City over the weekend. And for the record, I hate typing the word “canoodling” just as much as you hate reading it. Maybe even more. People Magazine says:

First, the two attended the broadcast of Saturday Night Live in Manhattan, which was hosted by Swift’s good friend, Emma Stone.

“They showed up together,” a source [said]. “They walked around together backstage, but they were careful not to be seen too close. Everyone was shocked that she brought him.”

On Sunday, Swift, 20 and Gyllenhaal, 29, brunched with another couple at Al Di La in Brooklyn and, says an onlooker, looked “friendly.” They were also spotted together strolling around Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood.

Taylor’s last boyfriend was one of those Jonas queers, so impressing her shouldn’t take much. All Jake needs are pubes and the ability to catch a football without looking like he’s doing interpretive dance while choking on a mouthful of cock.

Taylor performing in Central Park yesterday:

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The MTV Video Music Awards were last night and I am contractually obligated to talk about it, so let’s talk about it, shall we? It was alright, I guess, for an award show sponsored by the soul-sucking corporate conglomeration responsible for the talentless and plastic being propped up by the media machines intent on capitalizing on their image. You know, as those things go.

The night kicked off with a hilariously embarrassing pre-taped Lindsay Lohan skit (see above) in which she admonishes host Chelsea Handler about her drinking. Ha ha, get it? Because Lindsay was in jail for drinking! It’s ironic, see? Us Magazine says:

VMAs host Chelsea Handler, wearing a pre-show robe, encounters Lohan backstage.

“Hello, Chelsea,” Lohan says. “Have you been drinking?”

Handler denies it, but Lohan asks: “Then why is your ankle bracelet going off?” pointing a blinking device on Handler’s leg.

The comedienne explains: “That just means my table’s ready at Cheesecake Factory.” Lohan then gets tough, grabbing Handler: “Wake up Handler! Pull it together! You’re late! [for the show]”

“You turned your life around,” Handler surmises. “Maybe I can too.”

Just because you have to piss in a cup twice a week and give it to a probation officer doesn’t mean you’ve embraced sobriety and turned your life around. The skit would have been a lot funnier if she actually had proven she was sober. But I digress. Let’s move on to Taylor Swift, who, incidentally, still hasn’t moved on from Kanye West storming the stage when she accepted her Best Female Video award last year. In fact, she’s here to sing a song about it:

And then Kanye responded to her melodious offer of forgiveness with a toast to the “douchebags, the assholes, the jerkoffs and the scumbags.” Man, this never gets old!

And then Lady Gaga won every meaningless award possible, changed dresses three times, and finally ended up wearing a frock made of (fake) meat that exposed her ass. That’s about all I remember. By that point I was too busy mourning the part of me that died inside after having to watch it. And by “mourning” I mean “drinking.” I find disgust and disillusionment go down a lot easier with a bottle of tequila.

The 2010 Country Music Awards were last night, and I’m not even gonna pretend like I watched them or even knew they were on in the first place, because I think we’re at a point in our relationship where we don’t have to put on airs for each other anymore. Not that it wouldn’t kill you to close the bathroom door once in a fucking while, but that’s a conversation for another day. I just don’t have the energy to get into that this morning.

Anyway, Carrie Underwood became the first woman to win country music Entertainer of the Year two years in a row last night blah blah blah yee-haw. MSNBC says

Underwood won the show’s top honor last year. This year, she beat out Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, the Zac Brown Band, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, George Strait and Keith Urban.

Top-selling trio Lady Antebellum were the dominant winners, grabbing five trophies, including song and single record of the year for crossover hit “Need You Now,” while also snapping Rascal Flatts’ seven-year run as best vocal group.

I bet you never noticed, but the letters in “Lady Antebellum” can be rearranged to spell “dumb anal telly” and “yell lube and ATM.” I don’t know what kind of foul butthole fetishes these so-called “country singers” are covertly promoting, but I, for one, will not stand for it. Mostly because then my anus would be exposed, and I can’t take that kind of chance again. Not after what happened at the Grammys.

Lots more pics from the red carpet after the jump.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban:

Taylor Swift:

Carrie Underwood:

Leann Rimes:

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