May 1, 2008
Taylor Swift arrives at the 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards at the Avalon on April 27th, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
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Imagine a secret laboratory in Nashville, where Hayden Panettiere's DNA is spliced with Dolly Parton's. The resulting creature, a faster, blonder, longer-legged Carrie Underwood, would be a lot like Taylor Swift. Her debut, Taylor Swift, has sold almost 3 million copies — and she rules MySpace, with 40 million page views. The eighteen-year-old country-pop sensation — a one-time Abercrombie and Fitch model raised on a Christmas-tree farm in rural Pennsylvania — is equally appealing to tween girls (who can relate to TRL-dominating songs like "Teardrops on My Guitar") and grown men (those legs). "I don't care how people look at me," says Swift. "As long as they look at me."
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