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.
Love Island blogger Murad Merali apologises for vile race play sex videos
ok.co.ukLove Island blogger Murad Merali has apologised after appearing in vile race play videos that have leaked online.The podcast host and YouTuber has 300k subscribers and is best known for his explosive interviews with Love Island stars and reaction videos to the series’ highs and lows.The 26 year old has shared an apology video called “Addressing my past…” after videos leaked online that show the YouTuber fetishing black and Asian men.
The videos have been shared alongside captions containing racial slurs that are claimed to have been written by the YouTuber, although Murad denies writing the captions himself.
In a video posted to YouTube, Murad has now addressed the viral videos. In the video, he says: "First and foremost, the written content is not me, the derogatory comments are not written by me and I will stand by that, this is not who I am.” "Some of this content is also not me and I can profusely apologise, I take full accountability for how this has come across and how everybody has felt from this content. "Some of this content is me, not now, not recently in the last five years, six years, not any moment now." Murad goes on to insist the "vile racist verbiage" in the captions of the screenshots were not written by him. "I did not write this stuff, people make their own captions, they mix it with their own pictures for their own satisfaction, their own desires or their own fantasies, their ideations, whatever they have and they put it together for their own mental satisfaction for whatever desire that they have as a person," he said.
Murad then claims that he was "severely raped" at the age of 14 "countless times". He admits the abuse "f***ed me up" and he could "never get it out of my head".
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