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.
Everything to Know About Gayle, the TikTok Phenom Nominated For Best New Artist at the VMAs
glamour.comat the 2022 Video Music Awards. But if you have no idea who I'm talking about, don't worry. She's still kinda niche, and I'm here to explain.Taylor Gayle Rutherfurd (sometimes stylized as GAYLE but imma call her Gayle) is an 18-year-old singer signed to Atlantic Records.
Her song “abcdefu,” about a worthless ex, blew up over the course of the latter half of 2021 on TikTok, being paired with literally millions of videos.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.There was a small controversy over the origins of the song, which I will sum up briefly but you can read about in full on .
Basically, as part of the release strategy, Gayle teased the song on TikTok, and in one video responded to a commenter asking her to write something based on the alphabet.
TikTok being TikTok, viewers took this very literally and assumed that the song was written as a response to the comment's prompt, so when it went viral, they pointed to it being a sui generis TikTok hit.
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