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.
Squid team up with Tim Key and Paul Ewan for ‘O Monolith’ audiobook ‘Lessons’
nme.comSquid have teamed up with Tim Key to record the audio of Paul Ewen’s story Lessons, which is available to listen to now.The story was first featured on a pamphlet inside vinyl copies of the band’s new album ‘O Monolith’, which came out last month, while Squid guitarist Anton Pearson has written accompanying music for the audio read by UK poet, screenwriter and comedian Key, which is free to listen to on Bandcamp and YouTube.“We’ve loved working with these two people we really admire,” Pearson said of the release in a press statement.You can listen to the new audio recording below.Elaborating on the collaboration, Pearson said: “John Fahey’s story insert to his 1967 album ‘The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death’, inspired the project, and after reading and listening to Paul Ewen’s amazing work (London Pub Reviews, How to be a Public Author) and talking to him, we found he had a great understanding of our work and exciting ideas for the project.“He said he wanted to write a story about an out of touch geography teacher and it doesn’t get much more exciting than THAT!
Similarly, Tim seems to have an amazing grasp of Paul’s humour and his delivery takes it to another level, as is the case on the pub reviews series.”A post shared by Squid (@squidbanduk)Pearson continued: “I went to see Tim on his Mulberry tour and loved it so was very excited to have him involved.
It was fun writing some music for the audiobook, I used stems from the album for some of it and built other bits from scratch.
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