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.
Kanye West Is Buying Right-Wing Social Media App Parler
etcanada.comAfter being blocked by major social media platforms, Ye is buying his own. On Monday, Parlement Technologies announced that they had signed a deal with Kanye West for the rapper to buy the right-wing social media app Parler. READ MORE: Kanye West Locked Out Of Twitter Following Anti-Semitic Tweet And Instagram Account Restriction The app was originally created to “fight against Big Tech, Big Government, censorship and cancel culture,” and West’s move comes after a string of anti-semitic posts and statements led Twitter and Instagram to lock his accounts. “Ye has become the richest Black man in history through music and apparel and is taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech, using his far-reaching talents to further lead the fight to create a truly non-cancelable environment,” West and Parlement said in a joint statement to Variety.
West added, “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” Parler was originally founded in 2018 as an “uncancellable free speech platform.” In 2021, the app was delisted from Apple and Google’s app stores, and Amazon cut it off from its AWS cloud service, citing incitement of violence in the wake of the Jan.
6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The app reappeared on the app stores a few months later, after the company satisfied Apple and Google on moderation of hate speech and violent content. READ MORE: ‘The Shop’ Announces Kanye West Episode Won’t Air Over ‘Hate Speech’ Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer said West’s purchase of Parler “will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech.
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