00:01okay get ready for your mind to be blown okay taylor swift now eligible for the country music
00:08hall of fame whoa yeah so that is crazy has a prerequisite um an artist has to have achieved
00:14national relevance for over 20 years her first album came out in 2006 but does she deserve
00:23consideration so vince gill one of the ogs yeah in nashville was on an awesome podcast that we know
00:33and love called rolling stones nashville now and here's what he said i think they'll put her in
00:38there i would imagine you know why wouldn't you yeah she's also you know a lot of people don't
00:42realize she arguably the biggest donor yeah that's ever been to the country music hall of fame i'm
00:48crazy about her wow yeah i mean and she's still doing so many great things she continues to make
00:53massive donations to the country music hall of fame and museum and i think vince gill makes a
00:58good point here right like her work alone yeah definitely deserves to be put in right she
01:05deserves to be put in but then when you see her supporting the institutions right thus still
01:10supporting country music right that yeah i think that's also it's not about oh how much did she
01:14pay last year but it's like doing both in tandem is huge so she's young right so this this is
01:20what
01:21people think are strikes against her she's young taylor's only 36 years old she largely left
01:26country music behind to pursue pop stardom right after four albums but during those four albums
01:33okay she got 12 country music association awards eight academy of country music awards including
01:40two-time cma entertainer of the year and two-time acm entertainer of the year uh she got six grammys
01:46in
01:47the country music categories seven country number one hits 18 top tens by the way in country and her
01:53first four albums those country albums went eight times platinum 11 times platinum six times platinum
02:00and again eight times platinum and you're right this is the country music hall of fame and you just
02:05listed off all of her country music award that's it leaving everything else out which obviously non-country
02:11music but nonetheless that alone if you took any artist and deleted the name and said let me just
02:16read this right you say they're in without a doubt now andy i have a question for you okay so
02:21you've
02:21been working in country music 25 plus years okay and so when taylor swift came on the scene yeah and
02:28when
02:28she truly started to make a splash did you see in a positive way the format change so to speak
02:34i will
02:34say the first time i met taylor was when i had only ever heard the song tim mcgraw her very
02:39first single
02:40right and i thought oh this girl she is 16 years old she's got that long blonde hair she's tall
02:47and
02:47pretty and this is going to be she's going to be ridiculous and she knocked my socks off yeah she
02:53is
02:53one of those people that at 16 had more maturity and wisdom than most people have their whole lives
03:00right taylor is the real deal she is running her show and she she is who she is because of
03:06herself
03:07which is remarkable right the decisions that she makes and all the things um and absolutely
03:12she changed country music yeah i think absolutely um you know she brought in a whole new a whole new
03:20group of people to listen right i mean think about that she was battling bro country
03:25oh yeah which is all about big time objectifying women right and here's taylor swift who was you
03:34know humble and sweet and writing songs about teenage love and all the things and it just brought all
03:41the girls in so bravo taylor
03:44you
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