Hearty congratulations to Taylor Swift! Not because she won four trophies at last night’s CMAs, though.

Or because she’s the youngest-ever CMA Entertainer Of The Year. No, congratulations should go to Taylor Swift because she managed to get through all of her acceptance speeches without being interrupted by a hieroglyphic-haired berk with a weird compulsion to unfavourably compare her to Beyonce – the first time this has ever happened.

But then how could Kanye West possibly unfavourably compare anyone at a country music awards show? “Imma let you finish, but Darius Rucker is one of the most derivative, tedious and inbred-looking singers of all time. OF ALL TIME!”? Hardly.

Right now Taylor Swift has got everything she ever wanted. The Kanye West thing made her a household name. She’s hosted Saturday Night Live. She’s got a boyfriend who doesn’t understand how clothes work.

And, most importantly, she deals with a genre of music that’s so uniformly generic and terrible that she comes across as a bravely innovative pioneer just because she isn’t a toothless 90-year-old man who plays the banjo, whistles when he tries to pronounce any word with the letter S in it and routinely gets cautioned by police for firing shotguns at children who stray too close to his porch.

And that’s why Taylor Swift cleaned up at last night’s Country Music Awards. We’ll get straight to the details, courtesy of Reuters:

Taylor Swift claimed a piece of music history on Wednesday when she became the youngest artist ever to win the coveted title of Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Awards. Swift, 19, also claimed awards for Female Vocalist of the Year, Music Video of the Year and Album of the Year. “I’ll never forget this moment because at this moment everything that I ever wanted has just happened to me,” a tearful Swift said.

More than that, though, Taylor Swift must be relieved that nobody staged a Kanye-style speech interruption during any of her wins. Because this is country music we’re dealing with – if people don’t like you, they won’t simply imply that another singer deserved to win ahead of you, they’ll either strangle you or marry you and then molest some children or, if the interrupter is Billy Joe Shaver, simply shoot you in the face because you looked at him funny.

Still, you know who we feel sorry for here? Kenny Chesney. Up until now he’d won the CMA Entertainer Of The Year award four times in five years – possibly only because he likes to wear unusually large hats sometimes – and so he must have thought that he’d be a shoo-in for this year’s title, too. But, no, Taylor Swift has gone and spoilt all of that, the cow.

However, Kenny Chesney didn’t get where he is by not moving with the times, and that’s why next year we’re sure we’ll be seeing him copy some of Taylor Swift’s tricks. He’ll ask to present Saturday Night Live, for starters, and if we don’t see him out and about on the arm of a topless 17-year-old boy by Christmas we’ll be stunned. Because, you know, we heard those rumours too.

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