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.
British Sea Power change name to avoid any confusion with nationalism
completemusicupdate.comBritish Sea Power are now simply Sea Power. Which means that sentence should technically have read “Sea Power are no longer called British Sea Power”.
The band have changed their name alongside the announcement of a new album, explaining that they have become concerned that – when seen in isolation – their former name could be “misapprehended” as being somehow linked to the most recent rise in nationalistic politics, in the UK and elsewhere.Explaining the original reasons for choosing British Sea Power as their name, the band write in a post on their website that there were two motivations behind the moniker.“There was, literally, sea power – the elementary power of the oceans”, they say. “Alongside this was the historical idea of ‘British.
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