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.
KICK ii, shares “Born Yesterday” featuring Sia
thefader.comArca has announced her new album KICK ii, out December 3 via XL Recordings, with the new single "Born Yesterday" featuring Sia.
Sia is, of course, the megastar pop artist behind hits like "Chandelier," "Cheap Thrills," and "Elastic Heart," while Arca is best known as a groundbreaking electronic producer who has flexed her also-considerable singer-songwriter talents on recent projects.
While both artists operate in very different spheres, they have an appetite for the transgressive that makes their collaboration natural yet no less exciting. "Born Yesterday" is a musical sphinx that's dancing between anthemic electro-pop and tempestuous Björk-style production and reveling in triumph.
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