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.
Approved: Legss
completemusicupdate.comLegss return with their first new music since 2021, with sprawling, drama-filled single ‘The Landlord’, which mixes art-rock and the more abrasive end of late 90s Deep Elm Records emo.Discordant guitar lines and wired drum patterns flow underneath frontman Ned Green’s angst ridden vocals.
His lyrics grapple with creative idealism and the desire to make something that will leave a mark on the world.“It’s a product of privilege to presume you’re owed some sort of legacy”, says Green. “The balancing act of careerism and creativity leads you to this realisation, and that whatever you’re trying to achieve creatively is probably not going to have the lasting legacy you imagined for it”.“The structure of the song is representative of this, and that sense of fading idealism”, he goes on. “I imagine it could be a maddening song to listen to, in that it offers up elements of potential song structures that could be quite enjoyable if isolated and extended.
But this is how it feels: unsettled, fluid, scatty, disquieting”.“Landlords seem to be emblematic of this internal power struggle for ownership over your own life and creations”, he concludes. “It’s also the name of a drink we all like, which is a good antidote to these sorts of realisations”.You can catch the band live when they headline The Lexington in London on 19 May.
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