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.
On Flamingos and Aging
thegavoice.comBefore dementia, there are flamingos and nosiness. Long before clinical dementia overtakes the brain, aging has mental effects that change us.
There’s the inevitable effect of watching the past repeat itself both personally and culturally. There’s also the effect by which anything eccentric about you in earlier life becomes intensified.
When two such effects come into alignment, you’re in trouble. For example, there are pink flamingos and the disposition of the author of this column (AKA the nosy bitch).
I’ll illustrate. True story, I’m afraid. I was driving through Morningside and passed a house landscaped with crepe myrtles, beds of flowers, and a lawn of pure green that had never been perturbed by a weed.
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