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.
You Can Thank Taylor Swift’s Mom for 10-Minute Version of ‘All Too Well’ (Video)
thewrap.comIt’s finally here: “Red (Taylor’s Version)” made its long-awaited debut on Friday, giving Taylor Swift fans old classics to revisit and new heartbreaking tracks to devour.
Among those songs is one that is both an oldie and a newbie, “All Too Well,” because the beloved ballad has been extended from its original 5-minute, 29-second runtime to a 10-minute version.And if you were one of the Swifties who immediately jumped to “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” with excitement when the re-recorded version of “Red” dropped at midnight, you can thank Swift’s mom, Andrea, for making the epically long track happen.“The way that this song was written was, I was going through a bit of a sad time and I was 22 and I was in band rehearsals,” Swift told.
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