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.
Man called his friend a "future paedophile" and then stabbed his mum
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA man called his friend a "future paedophile" and then stabbed his mum in the neck. Ellis Sanderson was told he "may well have killed" Nicola Carney after he escalated an online feud he had picked with her son.
She did not suffer serious injuries in the knife attack on her own doorstep, The Liverpool Echo reports. Liverpool Crown Court heard that the 19-year-old had "grown up" with Michael Carney, but in October last year the defendant sent his pal a string of messages "using homophobic language" and "stating that he wasn't gay".
One read: "You future paedophile, trying to get in my life - I'll slit your throat." READ MORE: BREAKING: Residents evacuated from homes and bomb squad scrambled after 'hand grenade' discovered Mr Carney blocked Sanderson and had no subsequent contact with him, until the teenager attended the home on Andrew Street in Walton where he lived with his mother at around 5.30pm on December 8.
He began banging on the front door, which was opened by Ms Carney. Ken Grant, prosecuting, described how the teen began trying to force his way into the property and "lunged" at her with a knife "in a stabbing motion" 10 to 15 times.
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