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.
Wunderhorse shares compelling new single ‘Leader Of The Pack’
nme.comWunderhorse turns bitterness on its head with a scuzzy new single ‘Leader Of The Pack’, the next cut from forthcoming debut album ‘Cub’.In a press release, Wunderhorse discussed the song’s thematic interest. “[It’s] about betrayal,” he said, “about not being able to escape the thing that eats away at you, it’s a song written as a means of getting even.”Listen to ‘Leader Of The Pack’ below:Wunderhorse – aka Jacob Slater – will release his debut album, ‘Cub’, on September 16 via Communion.
The offering will feature previous singles ‘Teal’, ‘Butterflies’, ‘Poppy’ and ’17’.Announcing the album last month, Slater discussed his transition from frontman of Dead Pretties to a solo artist. “I was tired of having to get up on stage and pretend I wanted to throw myself around and smash things up every night and sing these intense songs,” he said.“They were good songs, but I didn’t think we’d be able to transition into doing the more introspective music that I wanted to make.
I thought it would just alienate people.”He added: “I stopped taking drugs and I stopped the band. The two things seemed to go hand in hand.
I thought if I carried on with the band, I wouldn’t be able to not keep doing that to myself.“There’s the old myth that you need to take a load of drugs to be really creative, but I was much more creative when I wasn’t taking drugs.
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