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.
'It's the stuff of nightmares': Hanging 'horror bags' of caterpillars are spooking town residents
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDangling bags of writhing caterpillars are giving the residents of an historic market town the shivers, after shrouding an entire tree with web-like cocoons.
As well as covering the tree in threads, huge balls of the wriggling creatures dangle down from the tree in a scene that some have described as "like something from a horror movie".
It's all perfectly natural of course, as the silk blanket protects the caterpillars as they prepare to chrysalis into moths each year.
But it has created an extraordinary display on the busy main Old Mill Road through Sandbach in Cheshire which leads to the M6 motorway.
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