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.
Trans teen attacked by anti-LGBTQ mob at Florida middle school
metroweekly.comWPLG that she has been repeatedly attacked and bullied because of her LGBTQ identity.Last month, video emerged showing Sanford being attacked while at school.
In the video, filmed by a student, youths surround Sanford while a male student approaches from behind, picks Sanford up, and slams her into the ground.The attack continues once Sanford is on the ground, with the students also yelling anti-gay slurs.“He just stepped on my face, they were kicking and spitting on me and all that was a little clip of the video,” Sanford told WPLG. “They were screaming.
They were saying, ‘We got that gay faggot.’”Sanford said the attacks have taken place since last year and singled out the student who threw her to the ground, saying the youth one day.
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