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.
Far-right protestors descend on Southport after knife attack, one goes viral for taking rock to testicles
nme.coma mass stabbing at a Swift-themed event.The far-right protestors – believed to be supporters of the far-right English Defence League – took to the streets of Southport yesterday (July 30), where they clashed with police and disrupted a peaceful vigil held for the victims of a recent attack.It comes after three children were killed in a knife attack that took place at a Swift-themed dance and yoga workshop on Hart Street on Monday (July 29).
As reported by Sky News, three of the victims – six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar – sadly passed, while five other children and two adults remain in critical condition.A 17-year-old male was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.
According to police, he is originally from Cardiff and lived in the village of Banks close to Southport in Merseyside, England.The stabbing is currently believed to be an isolated incident, and it is not being treated as terror-related.
Police are not looking for other suspects in connection with the attack. However, the motivation for the incident is currently “unclear”.To pay respects to the victims, a peaceful vigil was held in the seaside town, with hundreds arriving to lay wreaths, candles and toys in tribute to the three children who died in the attack.Things soon turned violent, however, when the protestors took to the streets – throwing bricks at local mosques, clashing with police, setting cars alight and causing physical violence.Rioters just set an industrial wheelie bin alight and rammed it at police riot shields.
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