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.
Gorillaz Artist Damon Albarn Claims Taylor Swift ‘Doesn’t Write Her Own Songs’
etcanada.comTaylor Swift is once again facing claims that she isn’t the author of her own lyrics. In an interview with The L.A. Times, Gorillaz musician Damon Albarn shared his negative opinion about the “All That Well” singer-songwriter. READ MORE: Ben Affleck Says His Daughters Were Left Speechless When Meeting Taylor Swift During the conversation, the interviewer referred to Swift as “an excellent songwriter,” to which Albarn replied, “She doesn’t write her own songs.” The interviewer attempted to correct, explaining, “Of course she does.
Co-writes some of them.” “That doesn’t count. I know what co-writing is. Co-writing is very different to writing,” Albarn responded. “I’m not hating on anybody, I’m just saying there’s a big difference between a songwriter and a songwriter who co-writes.
Doesn’t mean that the outcome can’t be really great. And some of the greatest singers — I mean, Ella Fitzgerald never wrote a song in her life.
When I sing, I have to close my eyes and just be in there. I suppose I’m a traditionalist in that sense.” Albarn, who gained fame as a founding member of the band Blur, cited Eilish, who co-writes her songs with brother Finneas, as a current songwriter he likes. “A really interesting songwriter is Billie Eilish and her brother,” he said. “I’m more attracted to that than to Taylor Swift.
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