September 2009, New York.
Sitting a few meters from Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, her rivals to XXL celebrity, Taylor Swift settles in her chair at Radio City Music Hall, the famous room at Rockefeller Center.
Named in the category of best video by a female artist at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony, she hardly seems to believe in her chances.
How could his country music album, a genre unknown beyond the American borders, weigh against the globalized rhythms of pop and RnB?
And yet!
That evening, it was she who, with "You Belong With Me", won the coveted trophy.
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