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 View’s Whoopi Goldberg & Sara Haines Defend Jo Koy Amid Golden Globes Hosting Backlash
deadline.comJo Koy has been heavily criticized following his turn as host at last night’s Golden Globes. Following Sunday night’s ceremony, The View discussed the show during the “Hot Topics” segment with Whoopi Goldberg and Sara Haines defending the comedian’s talents.
Although Goldberg said she didn’t watch the award ceremony, she did share a comment based on her experience as host of events like this. “These hosting gigs are brutal,” Goldberg said. “If you don’t know the room, if you’ve not been in these rooms before and you’re thrust out there, it’s hit or miss.” Goldberg continued, “I love Jo Koy, he makes me crazy because he’s funny.
I don’t know whether it was the room, I don’t know whether it was the jokes, I didn’t get to see it. But I do know, that he is as good as it gets when it comes to stand-ups and it is not an easy gig.” The ABC Daytime talk show host reminded her fellow co-hosts that “if you read any of the reviews of some of the gigs I’ve had where they wished me into the cornfields… it’s not an easy gig.” RELATED: Golden Globes TV Review: Taylor Swift, Kevin Costner & “White People Roles” Help Ceremony Pick Up The Pace After Stumbling Start Ana Navarro jumped in, saying she did watch the Golden Globes and said Koy “wasn’t funny to me.” Haines chimed in, saying she loved the comedian and was “nervous for him because I think he is so funny.” However, she said she was more bothered by people who didn’t have a sense of humor about Koy’s jokes on stage. “We need to protect these national treasures called our comedians because life needs them.
We need to stop binding them in [and] fencing them in,” Haines continued. “In that room, Jo Koy is punching up. No one feels sorry.
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