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.
Juanes on His Deeply Personal New Record ‘Vida Cotidiana’: ‘This Is My Best Album — in All Aspects’
variety.comThania Garcia Juanes’ new album took two years to complete for many reasons. Countless No. 1s (his 2004 song “La Camisa Negra” continues to be a Spanish pop radio hit) and some 20 Latin Grammys later, the Colombian singer-songwriter has been a part of the upper echelons of Latin music for several years.
The stillness of the pandemic, however, served as a reset button that brought the student out in Juanes, and thus his 11th full-length effort was created with one question in mind: “What if this was my last album?
How would I face it?” For that reason, an element of catharsis is woven into the songs and stories that make up “Vida Cotidiana” (translates to “Everday Life”), which arrives today via Universal Music Latino. “For me, this is my best album, my best composition — in all aspects,” Juanes tells Variety. “It’s not an album that I made with the thought that it had to be the most commercial by any means but rather it is an album that I feel really reflects what’s in my soul and it’s my sound.” Known as an early ambassador of the Spanish rock music that seemingly airwaves into and through the late 2000s, Juanes returns to his roots in “Vida.” Immersive electric guitars cascade into swooning chorus lines about his personal struggles in marriage, while other tracks exorcise man-against-the-world frustrations about the sociopolitical battles that plague his home country.
Album opener “Mayo” boasts airy, orchestral harmonies that support commentary on Colombia’s mass protests and murders over social inequality. “I have always written songs that are a reflection of my feelings and personal experiences,” he says, offering the example of his 2010 album “P.A.R.C.E,” as a juxtaposed yet parallel comparison to “Vida” — with
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