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 voices of thousands of voters across the UK have been heard ahead of the general election
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDiverse views and opinions from thousands of voters across the country have been heard as a result of an innovative project across Reach’s local and national brands during the course of the election campaign.
5,000 Voices is a video and written series that has run throughout the campaign, with around 40 journalists taking to the streets to ask people about the issues which are important to them, particularly those they feel are not being given enough attention by politicians or the media.
The aim was to give a voice to communities whose views may not typically be represented, and help the public help set the political agenda during the campaign. READ MORE: The big election lesson we've learned on the streets of Greater Manchester The project has enabled Reach titles to speak to voters in every single constituency across their readership area - in the case of the Manchester Evening News, that was a total of 27 constituencies.
M.E.N. reporters spoke to voters in every constituency, asking them what issues mattered to them ahead of the crunch poll. Issues covered included Brexit, the NHS, the housing crisis, education, Levelling Up and knife crime as well as reaction to key events in the election campaign such as Nigel Farage taking over Reform UK and the leaders’ debates on TV.
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