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.
Inside Josh Charles’ day working with ‘damn cool’ Taylor Swift on ‘Fortnight’ music video
nypost.comEthan and I just had one hell of a day,” Charles said of his “Dead Poets Society” co-star. “It was a great opportunity for us to spend some time together and laugh.
It was great. I was super excited about it. And it was really cool for my kids,” he added, referring to his 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter with his wife, Sophie Flack.
In the music video for Swift’s song, off her newly released album “The Tortured Poets Department,” Swift wakes up in what appears to be an asylum.Post Malone, who is featured on the song, is revealed to be an old flame.
Charles and Hawke play scientists working in a lab. Malone later swoops in to save Swift from the lab experiments. Swift wrote on Instagram shortly after the video’s release that Malone “blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I’m so grateful to him for everything he put into this collaboration … I’m still laughing from getting to work with the coolest guys on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the hall, the dead poets).”Charles’ and Hawke’s character names from the 1989 film are written on their lab coats in the video.“We stay in touch quite a bit,” Charles told us of Hawke. “I see him and we text quite a bit.
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