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.
Bananarama on why they haven’t heard Taylor Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer’
nme.comBananarama have spoken about why they haven’t listened to Taylor Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer’ in a new interview.Swift’s track went to number on the Billboard chart last October – four years after it received its debut on her 2019 album, ‘Lover’.The track shares the name with a hit song by Bananarama, whose own single first appeared in 1983.
The song became the band’s first top ten hit in America after appearing on The Karate Kid soundtrack in 1984.The track was co-written by Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin and former member Siobhan Fahey with producers Steve Jolley and Tony Swain.
Lorde covered the track at Primavera festival in 2022.The band, which is now made up of co-founders Woodward and Dallin, are aware of Swift’s hit they told People in a new interview that they still haven’t heard it yet.“A great title, isn’t it?” Dallin replied when asked about the song.“I have to confess I haven’t listened to it,” Woodward added. “I’ve listened to quite a lot of her songs, but that one seems, I kept thinking, ‘I must listen and hear it.’ But I haven’t.
I must be one of the few people.”Speaking about the making of the song, Dallin said of Jolley and Swain: “We loved their work with [the group] Imaginatio.
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