She wasn't hanging out with us but she said she would call... we're still waiting.
On Saturday Taylor Swift was at the Mall of America in Minnesota, where she judged the Holiday Holla competition in which teenagers wrote lyrics about driving issues set to familiar Christmas tunes.
Taylor told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that she felt well qualified for the assignment for All-State's Keep the Drive campaign — and not because of all her recent career accolades, including last week's Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. She revealed that she has been in a few fender benders herself.
"I've been in three wrecks, each of which were not my fault," she said. "They were because people weren't paying attention and hit my car."
The latest accident occurred two weeks ago when she was stopped at a light and got rear-ended. "It was a car full of teenagers who were texting while driving," she said. "When I got out of the car, they started freaking out because they had my CD in their car. It really kind of drove it home for me that you really need to pay attention while you're driving, especially when teens have got so much technology that we can be focused on things other than driving. You need to have the self-control to not pay attention to that."
The Holiday Holla event culminated with Taylor presenting winners Danny Luebke and Carl Turner with the $15,000 grand prize, followed by the lighting of the Holiday Holla tree, an 11-foot tall tree strung with 6,000 lights to symbolize the 6,000 teen lives that Keep the Drive hopes to save in 2008. After the lighting ceremony, Taylor performed five songs, including the holiday favorite "Santa Baby."