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.
Director Darius Marder Talks The Complexity Of ‘Sound Of Metal’ & Pushing Boundaries In Cinema [The Playlist Podcast]
theplaylist.netWhile “Sound of Metal” marks the narrative feature debut for writer-director Darius Marder, this is a project that has been a long time coming for the film veteran.
Having written the script for “The Place Beyond the Pines” for director Derek Cianfrance, it appears that the origin story for one of 2020’s most acclaimed features began well over a decade ago with a simple proposition, “What if a drummer blew out his hearing?” In our new special episode of The Playlist Podcast, Charles Barfield, Mike DeAngelo, and Brian Farvour talked with Marder about “Sound of Metal” and the birth of what is one of the best films of 2020.
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