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.
How ‘Scales’ Director Made a Mermaid Fantasy About Body Positivity (Video)
thewrap.comAlso Read: 'Night of the Kings' Trailer Shows a Mythical Fairy Tale Inside an African Prison (Video)Ameen said her fascination with mermaids came when she imagined the image of a girl seeing a mermaid being chopped in half and what could come of that.
And though there are plenty of Arabic myths with dark undertones of their own, Ameen created the symbolism in “Scales” to modernize the story.“Most of the mythology I’ve created around symbolism so i can hold a mirror toward present-day society,” she said. “It was not about the mythology itself but about what it represented.
It was about the metaphor that it brought to the screen.”Of course it’s no coincidence that it’s young girls who are oppressed in this fantastical society, drawing a.
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