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.
Lorde calls for urgent action on climate change after visit to Antarctica
nme.comLorde has called on world leaders to take urgent action on tackling climate change, after a trip to Antarctica allowed her to view the crisis first-hand.The singer’s plea comes after she announced plans to release a new 100-page photo book which will document her trip to the continent last year.Lorde’s trip was funded by government agency Antarctica New Zealand and took place before she began writing new material for the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Melodrama’.In a new essay for New Zealand’s Metro magazine, she explained that she undertook the trip after becoming concerned by the Trump’s administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement.She wrote: “I envisioned Antarctica slowly turning to slush, flooding the Southern ocean.“The.
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