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.
Here’s how Taylor Swift kicked off the UK leg of the Eras tour in Edinburgh
nme.comTaylor Swift finally kicked off the UK leg of the ‘Eras’ tour in Edinburgh last night (June 7) – check out all the notable moments from the night below.The show was the first of three consecutive shows at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium and some fans had been queuing for days ahead of gates opening.
The day before the show, fans queuing for merch had been warned by security that they could expect to wait over an hour to get served.Swift mentioned during the show – her first in Scotland since 2015 – that she had been told this was the most highly-attended stadium show in Scottish history.She also suggested that Scotland had unconsciously inspired her two lockdown albums ‘folklore’ and ‘evermore’. “This foresty, mossy, beautiful, natural world which I now realise is probably just based on videos I’ve seen online of Scotland,” she said.‘This foresty, mossy, beautiful, natural world which I now realise is probably just based on videos I’ve seen online of Scotland’Taylor Swift tells fans at Murrayfield in Edinburgh that her album Folklore was influenced by ScotlandVIDEO: @heraldscotland pic.twitter.com/fj8Gv21CPD— The Herald (@heraldscotland) June 7, 2024Swift played a huge 45-song setlist which largely followed a similar pattern to previous ‘Eras’ shows, with a selection of newly added songs from her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.The picks for the ‘surprise song’ segment of the show were ‘Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve’ from ‘Midnights’, which Swift played on guitar and incorporated elements of ‘I Know Places’ from ‘1989’.
She then took to the piano for a mash-up of ’tis the damn season’ and ‘Daylight’ from ‘Evermore’ and ‘Lover’ respectively.’tis the damn season’ is the only song other than ‘Long Live’ to have been.
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