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.
Billy Strings pens song for fan wanted by police for stealing Taylor Swift poster
nme.comTaylor Swift poster while wearing Strings’ merchandise.The Tulsa Police Department posted on social media on Friday (January 12) asking for help in identifying the man who took the poster.“This person of interest and apparent fan went a little extreme to get a souvenir of his favorite performer,” they wrote.Need help identifying this "Swiftie"This person of interest and apparent fan went a little extreme to get a souvenir…Posted by Tulsa Police Department on Friday, January 12, 2024The man in question was wearing a Billy Strings hat, as shown by the CCTV footage that captured him leaving the AMC cinema with the 6×4 poster, which had been displayed in a glass frame.“While this may seem relatively juvenile and benign,” the police post continued, “it caused thousands of dollars of damage to the poster frame.
Whether you love T. Swift or not, it’s not cool to destroy other people’s things and abscond with stuff that doesn’t belong to you.”Strings has responded by penning a song about the incident, which he has posted on social media.
The lyrics include the lines: “Down in Tulsa, Oklahoma there’s a movie theatre there / They play lots of movies from Step Brothers to Con Air / And they’ve been playing concerts that old Taylor Swift had done / And some old boy walked in and ripped a poster down from one”.A post shared by Billy Strings (@billystrings)Posting a live performance of the track on Instagram, Strings also wrote: “Don’t condone stealing Taylor Swift’s stuff, even if her bass was bumping in the next room over and disturbing my precious one on one time with the great Nick Cage.
Don’t be an asshat. No pun intended.”Billy Strings won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for his fourth studio album ‘Home’ in 2021.
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