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.
Taylor Swift calls Midnights track Anti-Hero "one of my favourite songs I've ever written"
officialcharts.comTaylor Swift has called one of the tracks of her upcoming album Midnights "one of my favourite songs I've ever written." As the next part of her rolling series Midnight Mayhem - where she's revealing the names of the songs featured on her upcoming 13th studio album one-by-one - Taylor delved a little deeper into the forthcoming album's third song, titled Anti-Hero.
Not only is it apparently one of Tay's favourite songs (a list which we also hope includes Style and August), the music superstar revealed that Anti-Hero topic delves deeper into her own insecurities than anything she's ever written.
Speaking about the track's links to the relationship to Taylor's own fame and celebrity, she said: "I struggle a lot with the idea that my life has become unmanagebaly sized." She continued: "Not to sound too dark, but I struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person.
Don't feel bad for me, you don't need to, this song is a guide through all the things I hate about myself." Ultimately, in Tay's own words, it sounds like Anti-Hero is going to give us a sense of the demons she's had to face in order to "be this person," we all know as Taylor Swift, and the dissonance between her interior and exterior lives.
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