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 why some people just hate ‘Wordle’
nme.comWordle with a passion.Writing in The Independent, Dr Pragya Agarwal – a behavioural and data scientist – has explained what makes certain people get so irritated by seeing others share their Wordle results.According to Agarwal, there are “many reasons” that some people might not enjoy Wordle in general, and mentions some people simply finding it too hard.Agarwal also identifies that outside of people who find Wordle too tough to crack, there are also certain behavioural reasons as to why people dislike the game.
Agarwal says that “it is inevitable that some people will hate things that become popular,” and notes that social media heightens the feeling of being on an opposing side of something.This means that for people who dislike Wordle, they find “a secure sense of identity” by associating themselves with Wordle, even if that association involves vocally criticising it with others.Agarwal also pounds out that we as humans are more prejudiced against people who aren’t in the same “group” as us, meaning that “people are also carving out a stronger affiliation to their group by attacking the popular group.”Earlier in the week, NME reported on someone who disliked people sharing their Wordle results so much that they built an automated bot to spoil the next day’s word.
The bot was quickly banned by Twitter, but not before it used a reverse-engineering trick to predict Wordle‘s future word of the day for many.In brighter news, Wordle has done some real good for charity.
When the developer of another app called Wordle discovered people were accidentally downloading his app in search of the free browser-based game, he donated his surprise proceeds to charity.
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