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.
M Shadows says Avenged Sevenfold “cut a little too close” to Metallica on ‘Hail To The King’
nme.comAvenged Sevenfold have said their 2013 album ‘Hail To The King’ “cut a little too close” to Metallica.The album went platinum and earned the band two number one singles, but it was often criticised for sounding too much like Metallica.Now, in a social media post, frontman M.
Shadows has admitted that the album did cut “too close” to the band in response to a fan post online.Shadows said on social media: “‘Hail to the King’ (the song) streams more than double any other tracks we have weekly.
The album is on track to out-sell all the others…yet a portion of the fan base acts like it was a failure by all accounts.”Later, a fan pointed out the album’s similarities to Metallica, writing: “Loved the record.
Still do. Although I must know one thing, was ‘Sad But True’ and ‘Enter Sandman’ running through your minds when recording ‘Shepherd of Fire’ and ‘This Means War’?”Shadows replied to the fan: “Yes, in hindsight we cut a little too close.
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