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.
Michigan school district sued after anti-gay bullying led teen to attempt suicide
metroweekly.comPhoto: Nick Quan / Unsplash A school district in Michigan has been sued by a mother who said her bisexual son was so badly bullied by fellow students that he attempted suicide.
Traci Matuschek is suing Warren Consolidated Schools in a federal lawsuit, after alleged bullying at Sterling Heights High School in Sterling Heights, Mich.
Matuschek said her 15-year-old son came out as bisexual in August last year, but was subsequently “gay-bashed” by students to such an extreme that he dropped out of the school’s junior varsity football team in October and attempted suicide in November, the Macomb Daily reports. “He was getting gay-bashed in school,” Matuschek told the Macomb Daily. “He quit something he loved.
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