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.
‘SNL’ Post-Production Editors Set to Strike on April 1
thewrap.comSaturday Night Live” is planning to strike on April 1 after the union failed to reach an agreement with NBCUniversal. Last October, about 20 post-production editors who work on pretaped sketches and segments for the famed late-night comedy show unionized with the Editors Guild, which is also known as IATSE Local 700.
The guild sent a contract proposal in December that NBCU responded to the following month, but the Editors Guild said that the counterproposal was not sufficient.
The Editors Guild has criticized NBC for paying its editors “far below industry standards,” with assistant editors receiving pay that is a “fraction” of their unionized counterparts.
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