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 ‘was a functioning alcoholic’ in ‘TTPD’ song ‘Fortnight’: ‘I was supposed to be sent away’
nypost.comTaylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” is here — so let the lyric breakdown begin.In her highly anticipated 11th studio album, Swift dropped 17 tracks at midnight Friday, and then surprised fans with an extra 15 — making it a secret double album.
And she didn’t waste any time getting personal on the first single, “Fortnight.”“I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she sings. “I was a functioning alcoholic ’til nobody noticed my new aesthetic.”“All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February/I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary,” she goes on. “And I love you, it’s ruining my life/I love you, it’s ruining my life.”It’s unknown if Swift was just taking creative liberties with her songwriting with the lyrics.The 34-year-old musician cut out alcohol before she embarked on her Eras Tour, which she kicked off following her split from ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn.“I knew this tour was harder than anything I’d ever done before by a long shot,” Swift told Time magazine for her 2023 Person of the Year cover.
She previously trained “like a frat guy,” but this time trained six months ahead of the first show.“Every day I would run on the treadmill, singing the entire set list out loud.
Fast for fast songs, and a jog or a fast walk for slow songs,” she said. “Then I had three months of dance training, because I wanted to get it in my bones.
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