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.
Watch Taylor Swift debut deep cut ‘The Albatross’ in Dublin
nme.comTaylor Swift has performed ‘The Albatross’ for the first time on her ongoing ‘Eras’ tour. Watch footage from her performance below.On the second of three nights in Dublin, Ireland at Aviva Stadium (June 29), Swift unveiled the track – taken from this year’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ – following a segment featuring songs from the album.Swift took to her acoustic guitar for ‘The Albatross’, where her arrangement for the night saw it fused with ‘Dancing With Our Hands Tied’ as a special song mash-up.“The acoustic section — I absolutely wait for this all night because it is the point of the show that keeps me on my toes because I do something on guitar, I do something on piano,” she said before debuting the song live, per Rolling Stone.“And I do things completely different.
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