Taylor Swift Wins BMI Top Song Award for Second Year in a Row

Taylor Swift, of "Kanye West incident" fame and "Saturday Night Live" fame – and, by the way, award winning country singer fame – won the BMI Country Awards Song of the Year award for a second straight year Tuesday. The young singer, who has been on a roll of late, won the award this year for her song "Love Story" and then, as if that wasn’t quite enough, won the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award last night.

It seems that the 19-year-old pop star is quite popular these days, having crossed over out of the realm of country and firmly into the world of the pop – the only way, by the way, that any country singer gets noticed these days is to stop singing country music and start singing "pop with a twang" (some have even eschewed the twang and don’t even pretend anymore). Said Swift, "I just want to say to every songwriter and every love one of a songwriter, thank you, because you are the reason I wanted to try Nashville. You are all my heroes."

Despite all the attention that Swift garnered on Monday, it was Kris Kristofferson, the 73-year-old country songwriter turned actor, who took the spotlight. Kristofferson was being honored for his role as a songwriter in the genre. Kristofferson, best known for writing such songs as "Sunday Mornin’ Come Down" and "Me and Bobby McGee", was honored by such country luminaries as Willie Nelson, Patty Griffin and Vince Gill. Said Nelson, "There’s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson. Everything he writes is a standard and we’re all just going to have to live with that."