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 Independent Gamer: Author of Coffee Table Book Talks Gaming’s Slow Acceptance as Mainstream Media
hollywoodreporter.comThe Independent Gamer is a curated roundup of news from indie gaming, landing here every other Friday. There are few books about video games, and even fewer about independent games.
French writer and academic Bounthavy Suvilay has written one of the first dedicated entirely to the history, artwork and design of indie games — from narrative titles to art-focused and mechanic-heavy games.
It was published by Ablaze in August. Indie Games examines over 70 games and more than 50 developers, while also featuring interviews with Foam Sword's Rex Crowle, Giant Sparrow's Ian Dallas and Motion Twin's Yoann Laulan.
For this week's column, The Hollywood Reporter got on the phone with London-based Suvilay to speak about why video games are still not.
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