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.
Mustard on the Beat: Hitmakers’ Producer of the Year Says He’s Just Getting Started
variety.comAndrew Barker Senior Features WriterIf you’ve turned on a hip-hop radio station at any point in the past decade, chances are good you’ve heard something that Los Angeles producer Mustard is responsible for.
The signature Mustard sound — seemingly easy to imitate but perilously difficult to properly replicate — was approximated so many times that it nearly became its own genre.
Perhaps that’s why the man behind it has been increasingly looking elsewhere for inspiration.“I feel like that’s what I do with my eyes closed,” the producer says of his style of uptempo, liquid-bass synth productions that defined West Coast hip-hop in the 2010s. “That’s what I do best.
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