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.
'I fell 100 feet through a trapdoor and can't believe people queue for this'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukYou never quite know what half-term will bring do you, but freefalling 100 feet through a trapdoor wasn't exactly on my to-do list.
Yet with a trip planned to Zip World Fforest in Betws-y-Coed in Conwy I somehow found myself accompanying my daughter on the world’s first tandem drop experience, Plummet 2.
Apparently it's at the top of the North Wales adventure bucket list, no doubt put together by those sadist thrill-seeker types. Read more: The pretty village with ‘world rated’ beach bar three hours from Manchester I'm in a different - keep my feet firmly on the floor camp - but usually give in to the request of my kids to 'stop being a wimp'.
The tower itself offers glorious views over the Conwy valley, it's just a bit tricky concentrating on that when all you can think about is that impending drop.
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