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.
Charlie Kaufman Slams Industry Suits At WGA Awards: “They Cannot Do Anything Of Value Without Us”
deadline.comThe Oscar winning scribe of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind delivered a spot-on acceptance speech for his WGA Laurel Award honor, ripe for times as the WGA squares off with the AMPTP in another round of contract talks. “We are trained to believe that what we do is secondary to what they do,” said Charlie Kaufman taking a dig at studio execs.
The WGA issued their Pattern of Demands on Feb. 27. “We are trained to do the bidding of people who are motivated not by curiosity but who are protecting their jobs,” the filmmaker added to what was the first round of enormous applause at the Fairmont Hotel ballroom tonight. “Our work is to not contribute to their fortunes or our own, it is not to please them or critics or audiences,” he said, “Our work is to reflect the world, saying what is true in the face of so much lying.” “The rest is window dressing at best,” he continued. “Adrienne Rich wrote ‘I do know that art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage,” Kaufman said to another round of cheers. “The world is a mess, the world is beautiful, the world is impossibly complicated and we have the opportunity to explore that.” “If we give that up for the carrot, then we might as well be the executives,” the Being John Malkovich scribe added, “We have become their minions.
I have dropped the ball, wasted years seeking the approval of people with money.” “Don’t get trapped in their world of box office numbers!
We don’t work for them!” Kaufman exclaimed to a third round of applause. “We don’t work for the world of box office numbers, we work for the world.” He encouraged the scribes in the room to write honest stories. “They tricked us into thinking we can’t do it without
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