These Taylor Swift photos were taken prior to her performance at the 2008 Country Music Awards. Taylor has had quite a run up the country music charts over the past year — and more recently she’s starting a climb up the pop charts. She’s cute, writes her own songs, and sounds great!

Can she be stopped?

Both Taylor and Kellie Pickler were big winners in the 2008 CMT Music Awards in Nasvhille on Monday.Taylor won the biggest award of the night while Pickler took home three trophies.

Taylor’s video for “Our Song” won both Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year, while Kellie won Tearjerker Video of the Year and Breakthrough of the Year for “I Wonder.” Kellie also won the Performance of the Year award for her live performance of that song on the Country Music Awards (CMA) broadcast on ABC.