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.
Courtney Love says Taylor Swift is “not important” and “not interesting as an artist”
nme.comCourtney Love has shared her thoughts on Taylor Swift – see what she had to say below.Speaking to The Standard in an interview recently the Hole singer to promote her new BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds series called Courtney Love’s Women, Love spoke about Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Madonna.Though she uses the Women show to uplift and celebrate women in music, Courtney Love slammed Swift in her interview with The Standard.
Love told the outlet: “Taylor is not important. She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist.”Love has also grown tired of recent Coachella 2024 headliner Lana Del Rey, saying she stopped liking the singer-songwriter in December last year: “I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off.
Up until ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ I thought she was great. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was influencing me too much.”Courtney Love then spoke on Madonna, with whom she has had a rocky relationship for decades.
In 2007, Love questioned Madonna’s validity as an artist, writing in her blog at the time: “Madonna is a great business woman but come on, she’s weak as an arists and we all know it.
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