Taylor Swift Helps Nashville Flood Victims

Taylor Swift – music starlet whose pop video was famously inferior to that produced by Beyonce – has reportedly donated an impressive $500,000 to the Nashville Flood victims. Swift, 20, called into a telethon organized by NCC to donate the purse-trembling figure. Her donation helped the telethon raise $1.7 million.

Swift herself has seen the effects of the flood, though she would be the first to admit that she hasn’t been anywhere near as affected as those people who have lost homes – and lives – to the flood. She has a house in Hendersonville, and saw the tragedy unfolding first-hand.

Other stars that had been moved enough to donate and help the cause included Vince Gill, Keith Urban, Alison Krauss and Darius Rucker. It’s nice to see stars trying to make a difference like this. Whether the figures we are talking about here will be sufficient to make inroads in the horrific situation remains to be seen, but it’s a start at least.

Nashville, of course, is something of a metonym for the country music industry, with music clubs and honky tonk bars being found in abundance downtown and in surrounding areas. To see this historic institution of music drown in this way would be a sad day for musicians everywhere.

Taylor Swift Helps Nashville Flood Victims

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