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.
Manchester bars praised for new safety measures to tackle drink spiking
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOne of Manchester's biggest and most popular bar groups has announced a raft of new safety measures to try and put a stop to drink spiking.
A string of young women across the country have reported having their drinks spiked in recent weeks, with a nationwide boycott of nightclubs planned tonight.
Students in Manchester told the M.E.N. that they 'don't feel safe' in nightclubs. Read more: Students hold protest and boycott clubs this evening over spikings It's prompted Crazy Pedro's, which runs two late-night dive bars in the city centre, to introduce extra measures in their bars.
These will be rolled out across its sister sites in the city, including Lost Cat and Wolf at the Door in the Northern Quarter.
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