Taylor Swift on ACM Awards

Taylor Swift on ACM Awards and her North American tour: And now for one thing completely different.

Backstage after being named the Academy of Country Music’s youngest ever entertainer of the year, 21-year-old Taylor Swift mentioned she was once humbled on account of the esteem she holds for previous winners.

Name-checking such ACM entertainer of the year recipients as Tim McGraw, Keith Urban and George Strait, she mentioned that every had given her commencing slots on their excursions early in her career.

She additionally brought up '90s u . s . heavyweights Shania Twain and Garth Brooks, saying, "To be even mentioned in the same breath as them, I feel surprise and overwhelming gratitude."

Academy officials said more than 600,000 votes have been cast within the fan-voting aspect of the award, the very best quantity because the group began permitting the public to weigh in on its best honor three years ago, partly in line with the luck of "American Idol."

Swift additionally spoke in brief approximately her just-completed excursion of Asia and Europe as an enjoy as humbling as it was illuminating.

“It used to be amazing to visit such a lot of nations where they don’t talk English and hear other folks making a song all the phrases to my songs in perfect English,” she said.

And how did the overseas enjoy have an effect on what audiences will see when her 78-show, six-month tour of North American arenas and stadiums starts May 27 in Omaha? (The overwhelming majority of dates are already offered out, together with the four nights she's slated to play L.A.'s Staples Center in August.)

“It’s a completely other stage for the us tour, where we’re having a completely other tour positioned together,” she advised Pop & Hiss after scampering down the hallway out of doors the click room in a light yellow, vintage-looking embroidered Elie Saab gown.

“We’ll be rehearsing for 6 weeks for that, with the information of what works with crowds from the European and Asian tours. It’s so glorious to have that in our again pocket for putting in combination the American tour.”

"I’m so excited,” she said, adding, “and really, in point of fact hungry.”

For what? Without missing a beat, she confessed, “P.F. Chang’s.”