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 enlist Thundercat for new single “Cracker Island”
thefader.comPart of what keeps Gorillaz exciting as a pop project is the often surprising roster of collaborators that the animated group bring to play in their world.
Funk impresario Thundercat, who plays on the new, hauntingly-titled "Cracker Island," is not exactly a left-turn in the context of Gorillaz team-ups, but it is an exciting one.
Dance-punk a la The Rapture is the name of the game on "Cracker Island." It starts off recalling the more paranoid moments of the third Gorillaz project Plastic Beach with a horror-movie synth line that's balanced out by Thundercat's heavenly vocal presence and groovy bass lines.
It's one of the better Gorillaz cuts in recent memory where the song's pure sense of fun gels with and boosts the band's iconoclastic vision.
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