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.
Reese Witherspoon Praises Taylor Swift's 'Haunting' Original Song for 'Where the Crawdads Sing' (Exclusive)
etonline.comReese Witherspoon read Delia Owen's 2018 bestseller,, she knew she had to bring the story to the big screen.«I read this novel probably in one day, maybe two days, I just couldn't put it down,» the actress and producer says in ET's exclusive look at the set of the upcoming drama, which stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kya, the central figure in the story.
was first featured in Witherspoon's namesake book club before being adapted into a feature film by an all-female creative team, including director Olivia Newman and screenwriter Lucy Alibar.The book and film tell the tale of Kya's life as a girl who grew up alone in the swamplands of North Carolina before being thrust into the spotlight in a nearby town after a local football star turns up dead near her home.«You really don't know if she did it,» Witherspoon explains of the tumultuous story. «She's been so outcast in society, she's been treated so poorly by people that it's really possible that she might have committed this crime.»«This film is so many things,» adds Edgar-Jones, who used her past experience as a competitive diver for some of the film's intense underwater scenes. «It's a love story, it's a a story about nature, a story about survival.
But it's also a sort of courtroom drama, and there's this really big thriller aspect to the film.»Bolstering the film's haunting themes is an original new song from Taylor Swift, titled «Carolina,» which she wrote specifically for the end credits — and has sparked buzz about the singer earning her first Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.«She was so inspired by the book,» Witherspoon says of Swift's contribution. «It's haunting.
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