Everything about Taylor Swift: early years, music, success
Taylor Swift is a songwriter and performer who made a splash in the world of country music in 2006 year, and subsequently became one of the best in the genre of popular music ... Taylor has earned fame as a country singer already by the age of 16! The list of her early hits includes such still popular tracks as "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me". It is noteworthy that both country and pop music fans liked Swift's songs, which brought the singer a multi-platinum success! Swift delighted the public with her debut, and went on to top the charts with her studio album "1989", which not only received a couple of Grammys, but also gave the world hit singles "Shake it Off" and "Blank Space"! The subsequent records of the performer also achieved a huge commercial success. But... how did it all begin? Who was she, and how did she become a world-class star? First things first...
Early years
Taylor Alison Swift was born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania, however, the childhood of the future star passed on a farm in a nearby wyomissing. Grandma Swift was professional opera singer, and soon the baby followed in her musical footsteps! Already at age 10 Taylor has performed at various local events, including fairs and competitions, and at 11 sang the national anthem The Star Spangled Banner at a basketball game in Philadelphia! The girl mastered the guitar at the age of 12. Around this time, she started writing her own songs...
In search of inspiration Taylor often visited Nashville, Tennessee, the capital of country music ... There she became a co-writer of songs, and even tried to get a recording contract! Noting her dedication to the cause, Swift and her family moved to a nearby Hendersonvilleso that Taylor can continue to build her career...
"Taylor Swift is a country music star!"
Brilliant performance in The Bluebird Café in Nashville helped Swift secure a contract with Big Machine Records! Yes, in 2006 her first single is released "Tim McGraw"…
The song attracted the attention of the public, and very soon found itself in the top ten of the country charts! This track will later appear on the debut album swiftwhich has sold over 5 million copies...
Behind "Tim McGraw" more popular singles followed, including "Our Song", "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Picture to Burn"…
Speaking of the debut album: it brought Taylor not only the praise of critics, but also several prestigious music awards!
New albums and new successes
In 2008 year swift was nominated for Grammy Awards in category "Best New Artist". Around the same time, she released an album Fearless: the record hit the top lines of both the country and pop charts, where it stayed 11 weeks! By the end of the year Taylor Swift became the best-selling country artist...
Very soon Swift became a trend! Tickets for her concerts were sold out in a matter of minutes ... During this period, Speak Now - an album containing hit songs "Mean", "Ours" and "Sparks Fly". Debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, the record sold a million copies in its first week!
An album followed Red, which also surpassed one million in first week sales and delivered a hit track to the public "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together":
About the work "1989"
Soon, Swift seemed to stray from her country music roots… In October 2014 she released an album "1989", one of the most popular hits from which turned out to be "Shake It Off":
No less hit single was the song "Blank Space":
In an era of low sales, the album "1989" sold out over 1.2 million copies for the first week! This success made Swift the first artist to surpass the one million mark in three consecutive album sales in the first week!
Scandals: Feud with Katy Perry and Kanye West
AND Taylor Swift and Katy Perry once met with a musician John Meyer, and it seems that this has become a bone of contention ... Here is what Swift said in her interview:
“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not… She came up to me at the awards ceremony, said something and left, and I thought: “Are we friends? Or did she just inflict the most cruel insult of my life on me? It was all terrible…”
At some point. Perry crossed all boundaries ... Let's listen swift:
“She did something so terrible… I was like, 'Oh, we're just sworn enemies!' And it wasn't even about the guy... It had to do with business. In fact, she was trying to sabotage the entire arena tour! She tried to hire a bunch of my people, mine, you know? You wouldn't believe how much I hate conflict. So I figured I'd just avoid her from now on. It's embarrassing and I don't like it..."
Fortunately, in May 2018, Perry ended their feud. She sent Swift an olive branch with a conciliatory note...
As for hostility Kanye West, then it takes its beginning in 2009 year, at the ceremony MTV Video Music Award: then Swift won the nomination "Best Female Video" per clip "You Belong With Me". This, at the same time, made her the first country music star to receive this award, and caused fierce controversy ... Rapper Kanye West literally jumped onto the stage during Swift's acceptance speech, took the microphone and declared that the R&B singer Beyonce should have received this award! Taylor, stunned, was unable to give her acceptance speech, and West was removed from the audience ... Later, when Beyoncé received her award for the best video of the year, she called Swift to the stage so that she could finish her speech ...
But on this enmity between Taylor and Kanye did not end: in 2016, West released the track "Famous", in which Swift was mentioned ... When the singer stated that she did not give West permission to use her name in his song, his wife Kim Kardashian named Swift "snake" on Twitter.
“I want to say to all young women that there will still be people on your path who will try to undermine your success or take credit for your achievements or your fame ... But if you just focus on work and don’t let these people distract you, someday when you get to where you're going, you'll look around and find out that it was you and the people who loved you all along... And it's going to be the greatest feeling in the world!"
Album Reputation
The famous album Reputation was released in November 2017 of the year. The hit single from him was the track "Look What You Made Me Do": in the video for it, Swift played the characters of all her distortions attributed to her by the media ... By the way: the music video also turned out to be successful, typing 1.2 billion views on YouTube for three years (only on the first day it was viewed by more than 19 million times).
In general, the album reputation sold over one million copies in USA within the first four days, becoming the best selling album of the year!
"Cats" and "Miss Americana"
In December 2019 year Swift along with Jennifer Hudson, James Corden and Rebel Wilson presented a film adaptation of the famous Broadway musical "Cats"! She also teamed up with the creator "Cats", Andrew Lloyd Webber, to create a composition "Beautiful Ghosts"…
After the singer presented her own documentary "Miss Americana", which talked about her latest studio albums, as well as other high-profile events such as a sexual assault trial ... The film premiered at a film festival Sundance in January 2020 year, after which the tape received a limited release in theaters and appeared on Netflix.
Finally, it remains to add that the biography singers very rich - it will take not an article, but a whole book to study it! IN 2012 In 2008, the singer was recognized by Forbes magazine as the highest paid celebrity under the age of 30, overtaking Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Lady Gaga with an income of $57 million! The following year, Swift shared some of her fortune to help others by funding the $4 million Taylor Swift Education Center in the Country Music Hall of Fame. in Nashville… The facility opened with three classrooms, a learning lab and a space dedicated to children's exhibits. In an interview CMT Hot 20 Countdown the star explained that "music education is a really important part of life":
“My life completely changed when I found myself writing my own songs and playing the guitar! And it is not necessary to learn all this at school, it is enough to devote several hours a day to this ... "
