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.
Moneybagg Yo pushes new mixtape back a week to honor Taylor Swift
thefader.comIt’s an unwritten rule in the music industry that major artists shouldn’t release major works on the same day. Just this month, Chicago rapper Lil Durk pushed the arrival of his new album Almost Healed, in what may or may not have been a move to avoid direct competition with his bitter rival Youngboy Never Broke Again, whose May 12 record Richest Opp currently sits atop the Billboard R&B/hip-hop chart.
Now, Moneybagg Yo has also moved his album back — not, as one might imagine, to avoid conflict with Durk’s project, but to honor Taylor Swift, whose deluxe version of her 2022 album Midnights dropped today (May 26).
In a video posted to his socials yesterday, Yo explains his decision: “I just got the news my lil’ baby Taylor droppin’ tonight,” he says in the clip from the comfort of his red Ferrari after a spirited singalong to the title track of Swift’s 2019 album Lover, blunt in hand. “I ain’t gonna lie, y’all know how I feel about Taylor, man, so I think I’m gonna push Hard to Love back just a few days.
Y’all be patient with me, man. Let Taylor have this shit.” He then relights his blunt, resumes his singalong, and drives off under a cloudy, afternoon sky.
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