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.
'My Tesco big shop was £90 when the cost of living crisis started, what I'm paying now is ludicrous'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt feels like a lifetime ago when we could visit the supermarket without fearing what price rises might be in store. Since the cost of living crisis started towards the end of November 2021, we've seen products increasing on a weekly basis.
And it's not just a few pence either, we're talking 20p to 30p hikes at a time. There are obviously some products that have taken more of a hit than others, but generally grocery prices have risen across the board. Read more: Shoppers say they no longer buy Kellogg's after discovering supermarket's cereal To see just how much things have gone up, this week I repeated a big shop I did at Tesco in December 2021, just as the crisis was taking hold.
Back then my shopping came to just over £90 - with a four pint bottle of milk costing £1.15 rather than today's £1.65 - and a Soft White Hovis loaf costing 99p, rather than the current £1.40, both amounting to hikes of more than 40%.
Today's bill for the same items is just shy of £111, that's a massive 23.2% increase overall. And as well as being dearer, some items are also smaller, which only adds insult to injury.
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