STARS AND SWIFT
Stars of different musical stripes belong to the Taylor Swift Fan Club. Here's what some of them had to say about her:
"[She] is so big because her pen is incredible. There is a relatability to her music, both for people within her age range and people beyond it. There's something about genuine lyrics that people cling to. The genuine lyric has no expiration date, it has no age preference. It's about the quality of the music and how sincere you are about what you're saying. That's her, epitomized."
1.Ne-Yo, the R&B star who has written No. 1 songs for Beyoncé, Rihanna and himself ("So Sick")
"She directs her music to young girls, and young girls are CD buyers and download off iTunes. She's really diverse: She's pop, she's country, she's everything. She writes about the everyday of young girls because it's her everyday life. She's only 19 years old. She's very real, and she's gone through what young girls all across the country -- all around the world -- are going through, and she's singing about it. She deserves everything. She's a really great artist, an amazing writer. She's just so commercial. There's not one thing about her that wouldn't work. It happened so fast for her, but she's taking it like a champ. She's just a great girl. I'm really proud of her."
2.Miranda Lambert, tough-chick country star
"She is the nicest, down-to-earth real person of that status I've ever met. I love her music. It's very poppy and uplifting, with just the right touch of country to it. Her lyrics are like love letters from the '40s. Having met her, I can totally see that her music comes from the heart."
3.Owl City's Adam Young, the Owatonna, Minn., phenom who met Swift when she saw his band play in New York City last month
"There's an honesty to her. She's the real deal."
4.Rob Thomas, the Matchbox Twenty frontman and solo star
