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 think a lot of Mancunians feel like Manchester is not for them anymore": A 'warning' from the future
manchestereveningnews.co.ukLike a proud parent marking their toddler’s height with a pencil on a door frame, Manchester’s leaders can look at the city centre and see how it has grown.
New skyscrapers keep pushing the upper limit of the second city, with the crown of ‘town’s tallest building’ set to pass to a new 71-storey tower on the edge of Castlefield.
It will sit next to the current holder, Deansgate Square’s south tower, at 200m (656 ft) tall. Now, a new artistic project is attempting to act as a cautionary tale to Manchester’s top brass — and it’s been written by people who know what it’s like to be on the fringes of the city.
The creators, Manchester Street Poem and Blast Theory, say they want people to ‘confront people’s perspective about what the city could be’. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link The project, called We Cut Through Dust, will allow ticket-holders to follow a guided tour around Castlefield, led by a phone call.
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