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.
Ayrshire student's film on survivors of 'lad culture' nominated for top award
dailyrecord.co.ukA powerful film made at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic by an Ayr student has been named a finalist at the prestigious British Short Film Awards.
Goodbye Joicey, filmed by Paul Chalmers for his BA Performance course at University of the West of Scotland (UWS), has been listed in the Best Scottish Short Film category.
The film tells a semi-autobiographical story, based around survivors of the so-called “lad culture” that was prevalent in the late 90s and early 2000s.Paul said: “At the core of it, Goodbye Joicey is a story about people feeling forgotten; and the state they’ve been left in after surviving that negative culture that existed back then.“It’s partly based on my own experiences, meshed in with that of people that I knew back
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