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.
The inconvenient Man City transfer truth that blows away Manchester United and Liverpool FC spending claims
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThere is an uncomfortable truth behind Manchester City's on-field dominance of the Premier League in the last four seasons. The narrative that the bumblers at Manchester United, and the shirt-tail clingers at Liverpool would have you believe is that Manchester City have simply thrown oodles of money at their football team, to become top dogs.
Nothing more, nothing less, just plain old lucre is what it takes, goes the argument, and the fact that they hatched and executed a plot to bring in one of the all-time great football coaches, who has shaped a carefully-selected group of players into a killing machine, is viewed as incidental.
No-one, but no-one denies that money has been at the root of what City have achieved. Pep Guardiola himself has repeatedly said that without the club digging deep to bring in the top-class footballers he needs, he would not have been this successful.
But that simple, undisputed fact tends to ignore the harsh truth - that to compete for the big prizes on a regular basis, you need money, and lots of it.
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