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.
‘Simpsons’ fans say old episode predicted Michelangelo’s David outrage
nypost.compredicted real-life events years before they happened. This time, involving Michelangelo’s David.A principal at a charter school in Tallahassee, Florida, resigned last week after parents complained about a Renaissance art lesson involving Michelangelo’s iconic, unclothed David statue — with one parent even calling it “pornographic.”People have realized that situation is eerily similar to a 1990 episode of “The Simpsons” titled “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge.”In the episode, Marge forms an activist group called Springfieldians for Nonviolence, Understanding and Helping to petition the creators of the cartoon “Itchy & Scratchy” to remove violence from their show.But members of the organization later ask her to also lead a petition “against this abomination” that is the statue of David after it arrives in Springfield, as they feel he “graphically portrays parts of the human body which, practical as they may be, are evil.”Marge then appears on an episode of the fictitious news program “Smartline” to discuss whether David is “a masterpiece or just some guy with his pants down.” To her group’s dismay, Marge calls the statue a work of art and urges everyone in town to go see it.
Fans of the show took to Twitter to discuss the show’s 33-year-old prediction come to life. “A reminder that the early years of The Simpsons sharply noted and satirized the moral panic of the right.
Here they are 30 years ago talking about Michaelango’s David,” one user wrote. “Normally I’m not all about the ‘Simpsons predict the future’ thing but this is like … spot f – – king on,” another admitted.“1990 episode of The Simpsons featured Michelangelo’s David.
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