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.
Jessica Simpson Reflects on 4 Years of Sobriety: ‘The Drinking Wasn’t the Issue. I Was.'
glamour.comOpen Book. “I think it’s important for people to know that what I did, giving up alcohol, was seriously the easy part for me,” she told timed to the book's release.“The hard part was breaking down the reasons why,” she continued. “The reasons why alcohol was my crutch.
You know because people are like, ‘Are you an alcoholic?’ It’s like, No, I had a drinking problem. I don’t identify with that.
I needed to slow down and I needed to, like, feel things again because there were so many moments that were passing me by. That I wasn’t, like, grasping and enjoying.
When your kids are growing up, you only have it for that amount of time, and I just saw my whole life flash before my eyes.”More from GlamourSee More Stories© 2021 Condé Nast.
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