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.
Gunman launches machete rampage after being 'rejected' by girl
dailyrecord.co.ukgunman fired a fake weapon at a frightened man before launching a machete rampage in a horrifying revenge campaign which saw him threaten to murder a family in their own home.
Marshall Tricklebank, 20, lashed out after he was "rejected" by a teenage girl. He burst into a property and fired a fake firearm at his former partner's step-father before being forced out.
However, Tricklebank from Stechford, Birmingham, clambered back into the home through an upstairs window and started to hack down a bedroom door with a machete, leaving young children inside the property in a frenzied state.
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