By now the whole world knows that 2014 has been a pretty spectacular year for Taylor Swift.

The 24-year-old made a firm transition from a country artist to a pop star with her new album "1989" and had the biggest first week sales of any album since 2002. Now the "Shake It Off" songstress has officially been named Billboard's "Woman Of The Year."

"Thanks Billboard. Also thanks, YOU. (Does dorky celebratory dance then trips over a cat toy)," Swift wrote on Instagram.

Unfortunately, Swift didn't post a video of that dorky dance. (It probably would've gone viral.)

In the issue of Billboard magazine that Taylor covers, which hit newsstands today (Dec. 5), Swift discusses breaking the news to her record label about her musical shift as well as her philosophy on songwriting.

According to Swift, when she told Scott Borchetta, the head of her label Big Machine Records, that she had recorded 1989 as a pop album, he had somewhat of a freak out.

"He went into a state of semi-panic," explained Swift, adding that Borchetta asked her to infuse at least some country into her album.

The exec apparently asked questions like "Can you give me three country songs?" and "Can we put a fiddle on 'Shake it Off'?"

"All my answers were a very firm 'no,' because it felt disingenuous to try to exploit two genres when your album falls in only one," said Swift.

The "Blank Space" hitmaker, who is known for penning her own lyrics, also revealed why she only wants to record songs that she writes herself.

"I'm not going to be one of those artists who walks in [to a room with songwriters] and says, 'I don't know, what do you want to write about?' or one of those things where they say, 'So what's going on in your life?,' and I tell them and then they have to write a song about it. I wouldn't be a singer if I weren't a songwriter. I have no interest in singing someone else's words," said Swift.

The 24-year-old also talked about the criticism she received for "Welcome to New York," a song on "1989" that some feel falls short in terms of representing New York City.

"When you write a song, you're writing about a momentary emotion," Swift told Billboard. "To take a song and try to apply it to every situation everyone is going through -- economically, politically, in an entire metropolitan area -- is asking a little much of a piece of a music."