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 has ‘liked’ a series of supportive posts on Tumblr following the leak of the full video from her infamous 2016 phone call with rapper Kanye West.
The Shake It Off hitmaker fell from grace and withdrew from the limelight in 2016 after Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian posted edited video clips of Taylor seemingly giving Kanye her approval about the controversial lyrics in his song Famous, something which Taylor had consistently denied, claiming she wasn’t told that he was planning to call her a “b**ch” on the track.
However, full audio and video from their phone call was leaked over the weekend, with the transcript proving that the rapper never mentioned to Taylor about the “b**ch” lyric, and fans raced to social media to slam Kanye
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