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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Taylor Swift Is Up for One of the Most Prestigious Honors in Country Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: While Taylor Swift might be the current queen of pop,
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  Speaker 2: she's also kept at least one boot planted in country,
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  Speaker 2: where she got her start, and while her songwriting is involved,
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  Speaker 2: you can still hear the influence of country and her clever,
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  Speaker 2: lyrical wordplay. She might soon be honored for that skill set.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Only about a month after being inducted into the Songwriters
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, it's just been announced that Taylor is
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  Speaker 3: a finalist for the Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame, another
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  Speaker 3: organization altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Which is actually even harder to get into because there's
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  Speaker 1: at least four hundred and sixty members of the Songwriters
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, but the Nashville Hall only has two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four, and so she became eligible because
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  Speaker 1: it's been twenty years since her first charting hit.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor is one of eight nominees total. She's up for
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  Speaker 2: the Contemporary Artists category along with Miranda Lambert I see,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Stapleton, and Phil Vasser, all deserving nominees, but only
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  Speaker 2: one of the four will be voted in. The winners
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  Speaker 2: will be announced in the coming weeks.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood,