Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
“A Screenwriter Is A Creator Of History”: Ukrainian Writers Guild Backs WGA “Unconditionally”
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The fledgling Guild of Screenwriters of Ukraine (GSU) has backed its WGA counterparts “unconditionally,” stating that a “screenwriter is a creator of history and this should be evaluated appropriately.” In a statement shared with Deadline, the 41-strong GSU’s President Andriy Babik urged U.S.
writers to “be brave, like Ukraine” and said his outfit “absolutely and unconditionally supports the strike of our American colleagues.” “We are always happy, if there is such an opportunity, to provide them with some real help, in addition to psychological help,” said the statement. “Ukrainian screenwriters definitely support the strike of their American colleagues and fully share their philosophy, which is based on a clear and understandable definition: a screenwriter is a creator of history, and this should be evaluated appropriately.” The GSU was formed last year “during an air raid when city transport stopped in Kyiv,” according to Babik, a writer on popular Ukrainian drama The Sniffer, which was picked up by Netflix.
The first Ukrainian creative trade union representing domestic film and TV has since accrued nearly four-dozen members and has requested admission to the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe.
The GSU’s statement stressed that the nation that brought the likes of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People to the world lags far behind the U.S.
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