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.
What Can Hollywood Do About the Violence Against Asians in America? (Guest Column)
hollywoodreporter.comHere we go again. Another out-of-touch so-called celebrity who needs to shut up or do more (depending on whom you ask), preaching to the entertainment industry choir.
Who cares what this guy thinks? Believe me, I couldn’t agree with you more. But, as one of Hollywood’s statistically least desired demographics, an Asian man, I have a moral and civic responsibility to take the industry press opportunities I can.
In recent weeks, the almost daily videos of physical attacks on innocent elderly Asian Americans finally hit a cultural tipping point that pushed it into the American news media zeitgeist.
Yes, the same American news media zeitgeist that everyone seems to simultaneously hate and seek thevalidation of finally found the pattern of.
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