{"id":1317268,"date":"2019-12-16T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815704"},"modified":"2019-12-16T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:30:18","slug":"why-faith-hill-was-taylor-swifts-go-to-confidante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/why-faith-hill-was-taylor-swifts-go-to-confidante\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Faith Hill Was Taylor Swift\u2019s Go-To Confidante"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:686187?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n10m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s country music. And then there\u2019s the rest of the world. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my takeaway from the new <em>Billboard<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8545822\/taylor-swift-cover-story-interview-billboard-women-in-music-2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> on Taylor Swift, their woman of the decade. <\/p>\n<p>Because when Swift talks about Faith Hill being so kind to her when she was just getting her country career off the ground, I feel like I was there. In fact, we actually all were. Because they met for the first time right in the middle of Swift\u2019s 2007 ACM Awards performance of her 2006 debut, \u201cTim McGraw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi, I\u2019m Taylor. It\u2019s so nice to meet you,\u201d she\u2019d said to Hill and McGraw at the time, live on television for all the world to see.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c9oWuU4j0-E?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c9oWuU4j0-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shortly after that 2007 TV introduction, Hill and Swift must\u2019ve stayed in touch. And it sounds like Hill was Swift\u2019s consistent go-to anytime things got weird. \u201cI had so many mentors in country music. Faith Hill was wonderful,\u201d Swift told <em>Billboard<\/em>. \u201cShe would reach out to me and invite me over and take me on tour, and I knew that I could talk to her. Crossing over to pop is a completely different world. Country music is a real community, and in pop I didn\u2019t see that community as much. Now there is a bit of one between the girls in pop \u2014 we all have each other\u2019s numbers and text each other \u2014 but when I first started out in pop it was very much you versus you versus you. We didn\u2019t have a network, which is weird because we can help each other through these moments when you just feel completely isolated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Hill was one of the first to make sure Swift didn\u2019t feel isolated. If there had been an award for Supportive Artist Friend, Hill would\u2019ve been the obvious winner. <\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s ironic \u2014 or maybe fateful is the better word \u2014 that Hill was the one on Team Taylor, because she was also the one who\u2019d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1600309\/cmt-insider-interview-taylor-swift-part-1-of-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">inspired her<\/a> to even give country a shot. <\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Swift told <em>CMT Insider<\/em> what it was that initially piqued her interest in Nashville. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI first visited Nashville after I watched this TV program about Faith Hill. It said that she went to Nashville and that\u2019s how she made it in country music,\u201d she\u2019d said. At that time, around 2000, Hill was everywhere. So Swift may have seen her on VH1\u2019s <em>Behind the Music<\/em>, <em>Divas 2000<\/em>, and\/or the <em>Lifetime Intimate Portraits <\/em>series. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo ever since I saw that TV program when I was about 10, I was obsessively, obnoxiously bugging my parents every day \u2014 \u2019We\u2019ve got to go to Nashville. Can we go to Nashville? Can we go on a trip to Nashville like now? Or maybe spring break, can we go to Nashville?\u2019 Everything led to that. It was like, \u2019So how was your day at school today, Taylor?\u2019 \u2019Great. Can we go to Nashville?\u2019 I would bug them every day about it until finally we planned a trip to Nashville. It was on spring break, and I was 11 and I had this little demo CD \u2014 a karaoke CD of me singing songs by Dolly Parton and the Dixie Chicks and LeAnn Rimes. And I marched up and down Music Row with these demo CDs, and I\u2019d walk in and hand them to the receptionist while my mom and my little brother were parked outside in a rental car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the <em>Billboard<\/em> story, Swift talks about the artists she\u2019s learning from now that she\u2019s no longer a bona fide part of the country world. \u201cI\u2019m learning from everyone. I\u2019m learning when I go see Bruce Springsteen or Madonna do a theater show. And I\u2019m learning from new artists who are coming out right now,\u201d she said, \u201cjust seeing what they\u2019re doing and thinking, \u2019That\u2019s really cool.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to keep your influences broad and wide-ranging, and my favorite people who make music have always done that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Swift\u2019s come to learn in her 13 years in the music business, with plenty of high highs and low lows, is that she wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. \u201cBecause even the really tough things I\u2019ve gone through taught me things that I never would have learned any other way. I really appreciate my experience, the ups and downs,\u201d Swift said. \u201cAnd maybe that seems ridiculously Zen, but I\u2019ve got my friends, who like me for the right reasons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got my family. I\u2019ve got my boyfriend. I\u2019ve got my fans. I\u2019ve got my cats.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815704\/why-faith-hill-was-taylor-swifts-go-to-confidante\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 10m ago There\u2019s country music. And then there\u2019s the rest of the world. That\u2019s my takeaway from the new Billboard story on Taylor Swift, their woman of the decade. Because when Swift talks about Faith Hill being so kind to her when she was just getting her country career off the ground, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:51:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}