Taylor Swift's Beverly Hills estate. - San Francisco Chronicle

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A pea gravel driveway and winding stairway greet you at the entrance of the home.

Taylor Swift's gone Hollywood. The country starlet recently dropped $3.55 million on a secluded 1.5-acre, East Coast inspired Beverly Hills estate.

The Cape Cod-style three-bedroom, 3.5-bath home was built in 1941 and originally listed as high as $4.99 million. It features wood-framed sash windows with canyon views, access to private tennis courts and a guest house. It also has a pea gravel driveway, first-floor master bedroom, a living room with fireplace, a formal dining room and a downstairs office.

?The kitchen comes with wood floors, glass-fronted cabinetry, high-gloss butcher block counter tops, a wide farmhouse-style sink, three-seat breakfast bar and a built-in housekeeping desk surrounded by open shelving.

French doors open many rooms of the home to vine-draped pergolas that shade various balconies, porches and patios. An outdoor fireplace and rolling gardens can also be found on the grounds.

?The multiple Grammy winner paid almost $2 million for a duplex penthouse in downtown Nashville, Tenn., in 2009, and reportedly bought a $1.4 million home in Nashville for her parents recently.

Listing agent: H. Blair Chang, Prudential California Realty-Beverly Hills??.

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Taylor Swift Loves Being Single - Post Chronicle

Taylor Swift Loves Being Single
by Staff

Taylor Swift doesn't need a boyfriend.

Taylor Swift, the 20-year-old country singer - who has dated 'Twilight' star Taylor Lautner and was famously dumped by Joe Jonas over the phone - loves being single and doesn't worry about finding a guy.

Speaking in an interview in the new edition of People magazine out this Friday (22.10.10), she said: "Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.' "

However, Taylor - who admits she has experienced her fair share of heartbreak - also revealed she deals with the emotions which surround a failed relationship in her music. 

She explained: "I will say everything in my music. There's been extreme joy, extreme pain, extreme curveballs. Sometimes when things impact you so intensely, it takes writing a song to get over them."

There has been some speculation that the song 'Dear John' on Taylor's new album 'Speak Now' refers to womanising singer John Mayer.

The pair worked on a track together last year and were rumoured to be secretly dating.

In the song, Taylor sings: "Don't you think I was too young to be messed with? Maybe it's you and your sick need to give love and take it away."

However, Taylor refuses to confirm that the song is directed at 33-year-old John, only saying: "A lot of times when people's relationships end, they write an email to that person and say everything that they wish they would have said. A lot of times they don't push send … This was a tough one to write, and I guess putting it on the album was pushing send." (c) BANG

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Taylor Swift Takes Aim At 'Mean' Grammy Critics In New Song - Post Chronicle

Taylor Swift Takes Aim At 'Mean' Grammy Critics In New Song
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Taylor Swift has lashed out at the "mean" critics who slammed her off-key Grammy night duet with Stevie Nicks in a candid new song from her upcoming album Speak Now.

The 20-year-old star was panned for her lackluster vocals at the awards show last January (10), which Swift's team blamed on technical issues.

And now the singer is speaking out about the controversy in a track called Mean from her new record.

She sings: "Drunken rumbling on about how I can't sing/But all you are is mean/And a liar/And pathetic/And alone in life/And mean."

Blasting bitter reviewers, she talks about overcoming harsh criticism, continuing: "You with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me/You have knocked me off my feet again, got me feeling like nothing/You with voice like nails on a chalkboard calling me out when I'm wounded/You picking on the weaker man.

"Someday I'll be living in a big old city/And all you're ever gonna be is mean/Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me/And all you're ever gonna be is mean/Why you gotta be so mean?"

Explaining the inspiration behind the song to E! News, Swift says, "When you do what I do, which is you put yourself out there for a lot of people to say whatever they want... there's a million different opinions.

"I get that, no matter what, you're going to be criticised for something. But I also get that there are different kinds of ways to criticise someone. There's constructive criticism, there's professional criticism - and then there's just being mean. And there's a line that you cross when you just start to attack everything about a person." (c) WENN

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