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.
Virginia school board member calls for gay books to be burned
metroweekly.comVirginia school board members are calling for the burning of “sexually explicit” books, after a Fredericksburg mother objected to LGBTQ fiction in her child’s high school library app.“I think we should throw those books in a fire,” said Rabih Abuismail, a member of the Spotsylvania County, Virginia School Board, at a meeting on Monday, the Free Lance-Star reports.Fellow board member Kirk Twigg added that he wants to “see the books before we burn them, so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff.”“There are some bad, evil-related material that we have to be careful of and look at,” he said.The call to ban — and potentially burn — books apparently stems from a mother’s discovery that her teenage child could.
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