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.
Pet Shop Boys‘ Neil Tennant has admitted that he finds Taylor Swift‘s music “disappointing” following the release of her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.
Despite Swift’s massive success in recent years, with her new double album becoming the fastest-selling of 2024, Tennant said in a Guardian Live event An Evening with Pet Shop Boys that he thought the quality of her music didn’t hold up to her popularity.“What is Taylor Swift’s ‘Billie Jean’?” he asked. “‘Shake It Off’?
I listened to that the other day and it is not ‘Billie Jean’, is it?”Tennant added that he appreciated that Swift’s music “brings people together” but “the one disappointing thing is the music, not the lyrics”.
Despite this, he also raised an eyebrow at the way she has famously taken inspiration from her previous relationships for lyrics.“To have a successful pop career now you have to have a series of relationships, which are amazing and then break up tragically,” he said. “In the world of pop, people don’t write songs like ‘Karma Chameleon’ anymore.”Tennant isn’t the only person recently to criticise Swift’s music.
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