Taylor Alison Swift
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter of pop and country music who was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, on December 13, 1989. In the early twenty-first century, her songs about adolescent heartbreak found enormous acclaim.
Early life:
Swift originally expressed an interest in music at a young age, and she quickly advanced from parts in children's theatre to her debut in front of a large audience. Before a Philadelphia 76ers basketball game when she was 11 years old, she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner." The following year, she picked up the guitar and started writing songs. Swift created original music that expressed her experiences of tween alienation by drawing inspiration from country music performers like Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks. Swift met recording industry veterans through a development arrangement with RCA Records, and in 2004, when she was 14 years old, she signed with Sony/ATV as a songwriter.
Debut album and Fearless:
The song became popular right away and stayed on the Billboard country singles top for eight months. Swift, who is now 16 years old, released her self-titled debut album and embarked on a tour as Rascal Flatts' opening act. After selling more than a million copies of her album in the US, Taylor Swift was awarded the platinum certification in 2007. She then continued her hard touring schedule, serving as the opening act for performers like George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill.
Swift displayed a sophisticated pop sense on her second
album, Fearless (2008), able to court the mainstream pop audience without
losing sight of her country roots. Fearless debuted atop the Billboard 200
chart with sales of over 500,000 copies in its first week. In the end, it
stayed at the top of the list longer than any other album published during that
era. The digital market also saw success for singles like "You Belong with
Me" and "Love Story," the latter of which had more than four
million paid downloads.
In April, the Academy of Country Music named Fearless album
of the year. In September, at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), she won the best
female video for "You Belong with Me." Swift won all four of the
categories for which she was nominated at the CMA Awards that November. She was
the first female solo artist to win the CMA performer of the year award in
1999, and she was the award's youngest-ever winner. Later that year, Swift made
her acting debut in the love story Valentine's Day, and she was chosen as the
new CoverGirl cosmetics ambassador. Before recording her next album of songs,
Red (2012), Swift maintained her acting career with a vocal part in the
animated Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012).
Later albums and controversies:
After Kanye West's single "Famous" was released in 2016, their dispute was once again in full swing. Swift said that a lyric in the song that referred to her as a "bitch" was misogynistic since it called her a "bitch." Swift gave her okay for the lyric in a phone call in which West did not mention calling her a bitch, but the audio of the conversation was made public by West's wife, Kim Kardashian. Swift's seventh album, Lover, which she dubbed "a love poem to love itself," was released in 2019. She also had an appearance in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's wildly popular theatrical show Cats that same year. A documentary called Miss Americana (2020) is about her life and work. In 2020, without much notice, she published folklore. Swift's eighth studio album, a departure from her earlier pop-inspired work, received plaudits for its introspection and restraint and won the Grammy for album of the year. Later in 2020, the "sister record," Evermore, was released. The photo in 2013 ruined his career. Swift parted ways with Big Machine in 2018 and signed deals with Universal Music Group and Republic Records. She then attempted to reach an agreement with Braun, but in 2020, he sold her back catalog to a private investment company. In response to this, Swift started rerecording her early material in an effort to take control of it. She did this in the hopes that her recreated songs would be chosen for licensing deals rather than the originals, and in 2021 Fearless (Taylor's Version) was released. It was a reworking of her 2008 album that included a number of unheard songs.
Swift's seventh album, Lover, which she dubbed "a love
poem to love itself," was released in 2019. She also had an appearance in
the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's wildly popular theatrical show
Cats that same year. A documentary called Miss Americana (2020) is about her
life and work. In 2020, without much notice, she published folklore.
1. “I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.”
5. “I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.”
6. “People are software running on hardware, both built for lives we no longer live.”
7. “I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me”
8. “I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.”
9. “Life is like walking, you take one step at a time.”
12. “There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson”
13. “We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”
14. “I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.”
15. “Someday I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me and all you’re gonna be is mean.”
16. “I want to make the most of this cultural relevance or success or whatever you want to call it because it’s not going to last.”
17. “I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.”
19. “My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”
20. “Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.”