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 felt like I was being violated again and again and again." Sitting in court as her attacker is about to be jailed, a survivor of attempted rape tells of the pain and suffering she experienced to get to this moment. "It felt like it had happened to me five times, not once. "It was almost as much trauma as what happened." She is talking about the stress of attempting to navigate through the criminal justice system during the Covid pandemic. After two collapsed trials, and over 18 months on from the attack, the woman can now finally start to move on. But the route to justice very nearly broke her. The victim, whose identity is concealed for legal reasons, had been visiting a friend at an asylum seeker refuge in Rochdale when
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