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 is the subject of a new university course
nme.comTaylor Swift has become the subject of a new university course in Arizona.The course, entitled the Psychology of Taylor Swift – Advanced Topics of Social Psychology, aims to analyse what psychologists can learn from her career.PhD student Alexandra Wormley, who is teaching the course told Arizona State University‘s news site: “The course is basically using Taylor Swift as a semester-long example of different phenomena – gossip, relationships, revenge,” emphasising that “the class is not a seminar on how much we like or dislike her – we want to be able to learn about psychology.”She added that she will be connecting themes from Swift’s various albums to psychology, giving 2017’s ‘Reputation’ as an example.“Taylor’s sixth album, ‘Reputation’, is her comeback after disappearing from the spotlight due to conflicts with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
She enacts her revenge on them – and the broader media landscape – by dropping an incredibly successful album along with a stadium tour,” she said.“The students know this – but do they know why we like revenge?
Do they know how we enact revenge? Social psychology can tell us.”It comes after a university class dissecting Swift’s ‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version)’ was announced at Stanford University earlier this year.The course, titled All Too Well (10 Week Version), will be available at Stanford University during its upcoming winter quarter.
The course will see “an in-depth analysis” of the singer-songwriter’s hit song, led by Stanford University alum Nona Hungate.
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