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.
WGA Strike: Zack Stentz Talks Those Critical First Days
thewrap.comWere you on the line [on Tuesday] at all? I was not because I was doing interviews all day. I was on this I was on the line [Wednesday morning]. What was the feeling among the participants? The vibe felt a lot like what it was the first few days of the 2007 strike, which is a big party atmosphere.
It has that Comic-Con vibe where you’re finally seeing a colleague who you worked with ages ago or you only knew online, even if you lived just a few miles away. What happens when the excitement and participatory glow wears off? That’s when the ground organization matters.
If you are a strike Captain, you got to keep the troops fired up. That’s when it becomes important when enthusiasm starts dwindling as people realize that it’s that they’re in it for the long haul.
At that point, they start wondering if they are going to make the rent or the mortgage payment or, if they are younger, if they are going to have to move back in with their parents. Are there stories about how a writer just got their big break only to have that stymied by the strike? Back in 2007, I was in front of the Warner Brothers lot on the first day of the strike.
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