Taylor Swift steals the spotlight at the 2011 CMA Awards held at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday night (November 9) in Nashville, Tenn.

The 21-year-old nominated songstress wore a gorgeous J. Mendel dress on the carpet. Taylor completed her red carpet look with Christian Louboutin heels and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.

Taylor shared in a statement about her noms for “Mean” (via My San Antonio), “Getting a CMA nomination for ‘Mean’ was definitely a jumping-up-and-down moment for me because this song is really close to my heart.

She added, “I’m so thrilled it was nominated for song of the year because it’s a song that I wrote on a really, really bad day, but it has produced so many happy days for me since.”

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