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.
Donald Glover Takes Swipe At Criticism Suggesting ‘Atlanta’ Isn’t For Black People
etcanada.comDonald Glover is addressing backlash surrounding his depiction of the Black community in his FX series “Atlanta”. Glover spoke about the criticism during the show’s TCA panel on Tuesday.
He said of some of the response to the show, which is set to air the first two episodes of its fourth and final season on September 15, “To be real, if you’re online, everybody’s gonna have an agenda on some level. “It would be silly to say that sometimes what people say doesn’t affect you because—especially being Black —I feel like a lot of the Black criticism bothers me only because it sounds like [it’s from] Black people who don’t really know what we’ve been through,” Deadline reported. READ MORE: Donald Glover Talks Return Of ‘Atlanta’, New Childish Gambino Music & More Glover continued, “I don’t think they give a lot of credit to what we’ve gone through.
So to be like, ‘Oh, these Black people hate Black people or these Black people hate Black women.’ I’m like… it’s such a small view of who we are.
I feel like it might even be because of what we’ve been through that you look at us the way you look at us.” The musician went on, “I kind of feel like I’m a little through with the culture, personally.
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