Taylor Swift Made for Late Show

Taylor Swift - The 20-year-old country-pop sensation couldn't have been more composed during her first visit to Letterman's couch. Even after Dave paid her what she politely termed "the most unique compliment I've ever gotten", "You smell like expensive wood". she didn't bat an eyelash, agreeing that her upbringing on a Pennsylvania Christmas-tree farm might explain her scent. I guess after your VMAs speech has been hijacked by Kanye West, nothing throws you anymore.

Taylor Swift also deftly deflected a question about her penchant for writing songs about ex-boyfriends like John Mayer: "This is the third album I've done this, so they've had fair warning." The girl even spoke Japanese! In a word, she was saikou. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Dymtrow says he discovered Swift, signed her in April 2004, and helped build her career. He was axed a year later, right before Swift signed a deal with Big Machine Records and became a superstar.

Dymtrow claims that his deal with Swift and her parents allowed him to be paid between 5 and 10 percent commission from Taylor's music career, and that he was fired so the Swifts could avoid compensating him. "They delayed and delayed and got rid of my client and subsequently signed the deal and kept his commissions for themselves," Fernando Pinguelo, Dymtrow's attorney, told the Reporter. Dymtrow also said he introduced Swift to the agents that ended up in charge of booking her concert gigs so he's entitle to profit from forming that relationship.