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.
Families bearing brunt of cost of living crisis as Scots forced to cut back on heating and eating
dailyrecord.co.ukScots are being forced to skip meals and turn their heating off as families bear the brunt of the cost of living crisis. New research by Which?
has revealed people across the country are having to make choices that could be harmful to their health due to financial pressures.
Extensive research carried out by the consumer champion surveyed over 1,000 people in Scotland. One 34-year-old woman was severely depressed due to rising bills as she worried she would have to choose between heating and eating.
She said: “I'm severely depressed and worried all the time about being able to pay my bills and have enough money to feed and clothe my kids as well as electricity and gas to heat my home."It’s having a massive effect on my mental health, I feel anxious and stressed out all the time."Another respondent was trying to reduce their bills by skipping hot meals.
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