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 give ‘Superstar’ its live debut
nme.comTaylor Swift gave ‘Superstar’ its live debut in Germany last night (July 17).The singer-songwriter dropped the song towards the end of her set during the first of three shows at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen.
You can view footage below.‘Superstar’ featured on the platinum version of her second album ‘Fearless’.Swift is currently on the European leg of her career-spanning ‘Eras’ tour, which is due to end this December.It comes after she recently shared the next single from her latest album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.‘I Can’t Do It With A Broken Heart’ was shared digitally with a newly released instrumental version of the track.Last month, NME gave Swift’s first Edinburgh show of the tour a glowing five-star review, writing: “Despite being an arena show, in a huge, cavernous venue, Swift and her fans have managed to cultivate a community.
Strangers swap friendship bracelets, laugh and cry together, and embrace the tour’s in-jokes and lore (for example shouting “one, two, three, let’s go bitch” during ‘Delicate’).“It’s the power of Swift, an artist who’s inspired not only the renaming of a Scottish Loch, but also countless fans to come out and embrace being a part of the Eras family.
With The Eras Tour, then, Swift’s managed to craft a marvel of a show that comes with a beating heart.”Meanwhile, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ recently became the biggest album of the year so far in the US after shifting 4.66million equivalent album units in the first half of this year.It also became the first album by a woman to spend its first 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.The star will return to the UK next month for five more dates at London’s Wembley Stadium, before finishing the tour with a North American leg.
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