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.
Charles Finch Says Luxury Brands Are “Naturally Evolving” Toward Making Feature Movies
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Luxury labels are “naturally evolving” toward producing and making their own indie feature films, says Charles Finch, founder and chief executive of Finch and Partners, the consulting firm that has been the prime mover in enabling “a synergy of content” between the entertainment sector and the crème de la crème of brands.
For 25 years, Finch tells Deadline, “we have either represented studios in helping to promote their programming or we have brought enormous luxury deals to artists, and we continue to do those deals. …But, of course, what we hope is that sooner or later one of these super-brands will actually commit to making feature film programming.” He adds, ”Not only are they dressing them, but they’re supporting their causes, and I’m trying to push luxury groups into stepping one step closer” to go beyond, for instance, the short films Prada’s creative director Miuccia Prada has championed at the label.
A variety of brands have worked with top directors to shoot content for commercials and advertisements. Finch says he remembers the three-minute No 5 the Film short Baz Luhrmann shot for Chanel nearly two decades ago. “That was a game-changer.
The features are next,” says Finch. “That’s the future of it, and that’s what they’re naturally evolving towards,” Finch believes.
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