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 says she wants to make “as many albums as humanly possible”
nme.comTaylor Swift says that she wants to make “as many albums as humanly possible” across her career.The singer has released ten studio albums across the 17 years of her career, with six LPs – including three re-recorded albums from her back catalogue – coming out in the last three years.
This week, she also teased the arrival of ‘Reputation’ (Taylor’s Version)’.As the first leg of her ‘Eras’ Tour wraps up in Los Angeles this week with six sold-out shows, Swift told the crowd that she wants to “keep the connection going” with her fans by releasing new music and touring.Per Variety‘s review of one of the shows, Swift said: “The reason we didn’t tour for five years — that was not a normal or scheduled thing.
We had a global pandemic; we had much more important things that we had to worry about.“But I’ve been playing shows sort of as a coping mechanism my whole life, since I was about 12 years old.
I go through this process where I feel things, I write a song about that thing, I show it to you and I go, ‘Do you like it? Did you ever feel this way too?’”She added: “And so when you guys are at at a show, if you even nod your head or make eye contact with me or sing the words to a song during a show, that to me validates that emotion and makes me feel like I wasn’t alone in feeling it.
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