Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. One of the leading contemporary recording artists, he is known for his narrative songs about his personal life, which has received widespread media coverage.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. He signed a contract with Big Machine Records label and became the youngest artist ever signed by Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her self-titled debut album reached number five on Billboard 200 and spent most of the week on the charts in the 2000s. The album's third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to write herself and do the number one song on the Hot Country Songs charts. Swift's second album, Fearless , was released in 2008. Supported by the successful single pop crossover "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me",
Swift is the sole author of his 2010 album, Speak Now . It debuted at number one in the United States and the single "Mean" won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red (2012), resulted in successful singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble". With the fifth album, pop-focus 1989 (2014), she became the first action to have three albums selling 1 million copies in a week in the United States. Her singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one in the US, Australia, and Canada. The album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first and fifth female acting overall to win the Album of the Year twice. The 2015 concert tour for 1989 became one of the bestsellers of the decade. Swift's sixth album Reputation (2017) and the main single "Look What You Made Me Do" topped the US and US charts, with the first being their fourth million sales debut.
As a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is included in Rolling Stone 's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015 He is also the recipient 10 Grammy Awards, five Guinness World Records, an Emmy Award, 23 Billboard Music Awards and 12 Country Music Association Awards. Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 40 million albums - including 27.8 million in the US - and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Time 's The 100 most influential people in the world (2010 and 2015), Forbes ' women high-earning in music (2011-2015), Forbes ' 100 most powerful women (2015), and Forbes Celebrity 100 (2016). This third inclusion made her the youngest woman on the list, and she ranked first in Celebrity 100.
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Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a financial advisor, and his mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (Finlay), is a housewife who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Swift has a younger brother named Austin. The singer spent the early years of his life on a Christmas tree farm. She attended preschool and kindergarten at Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, before being transferred to The Wyndcroft School. The family then moved to a rented house in the suburb of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing High School.
At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four productions of Berks Youth Theater Academy. He also travels regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. Swift then shifted his focus to country music inspired by the song Shania Twain, which made him "want to run around the block four times and dream about everything". He spends his weekend performing at local festivals and events. After watching a documentary film about Faith Hill, Swift felt confident that he needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career. At the age of eleven, he traveled with his mother to visit Nashville record labels and handed demo tapes from Dolly Parton and Dixie Chicks karaoke covers. However, he was rejected because "everyone in the city wanted to do what I wanted to do, so I kept thinking to myself, I had to find a way to be different."
When Swift was about 12 years old, computer repairman and local musician Ronnie Cremer taught him how to play the guitar and help with his first attempt as a songwriter, which led to his writing "Lucky You". In 2003, Swift and his parents began working with a New York-based music manager, Dan Dymtrow. With his help, Swift model for Abercrombie & amp; Fitch as part of their "Rising Stars" campaign, has original songs included on the Maybelline compilation CD, and attends meetings with major record labels. After bringing the original songs at an RCA Records exhibition, Swift was given an artist development deal and began frequent trips to Nashville with his mother.
To help Swift break into country music, his father was transferred to the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch when he was 14, and the family moved into a lake house in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift attended high school, but after two years moved to Aaron Academy, which through homeschooling could accommodate the tour schedule, and he graduated a year early.
2004-2008: beginning of Career and Taylor Swift
In Nashville, Swift works with experienced Music Row songwriters like Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally, and The Warren Brothers. He finally established a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose. They start meeting for two hours of writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. Rose thought that the session was "some of the easiest I've ever done" Basically, I'm just the editor She writes about what happened at school that day She has a clear vision of what she is trying to say. ". And he came up with the most incredible hook. "Swift was signed by the Sony/ATV Tree publisher, but left RCA Records when he was 14. He then recalled:" I really feel that I'm running out of time. I want to capture the years of my life on the album while they still represent what I experienced. "
Swift was at an industry exhibition at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville in 2005 when he drew the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form his independent record label Big Machine Records. He had met Borchetta in 2004. He became one of the first players, and his father bought a three percent stake in the new company for a fee of about $ 120,000. The singer began working on her debut album shortly after signing a record deal. He persuaded Big Machine to hire his demo producer, Nathan Chapman, with whom he felt the right "chemistry". Swift wrote three songs on the album alone, and wrote together the remaining eight with writers Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia. Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described it as "the small masterpiece of an open-minded country, wide-eyed and cynical, loud and begging from Ms. Swift ". Taylor Swift peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States and spent 157 weeks in rank, marking the longest stay on the chart with any release in the country in the 2000 decade -an. Until August 2016, the album has sold over 7.75 million copies worldwide.
Big Machine Records was still in its early stages during the June 2006 release of the lead single, "Tim McGraw", and Swift and his mother helped "put a single CD into an envelope to be sent to the radio". He spent most of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift with a radio tour and television appearance. Borchetta said that his recording industry colleagues did not like the signing of 16-year-old singer-songwriters at first, but Swift tapped into previously unknown markets - teenage girls listening to country music. Following "Tim McGraw", four more singles were released during 2007 and 2008: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No". All very successful on the Billboard ' s Popular Country Songs in the United States, with "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" both reaching number one. For the first, Swift became the youngest person to write his own and perform the number one song on the chart. "Teardrops on My Guitar" became a moderate commercial success, reaching number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100 charts chart in the United States. Swift also released holiday albums in October 2007 and EP
Swift won the award for Taylor Swift . She was one of Songwriter/Song Artist of the Year Songwriter recipients in 2007, becoming the youngest person to be honored with the title. She also won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for Best New Artist, Best New Women's Vocalist of the Academy of Country Music Awards, and American Favorite Women's Favorite Artist Award. She was also nominated as Best New Artist at the 2008 Grammy Awards. In July of that year, Swift started a romance with Joe Jonas that ended three months later.
2008-2010: Fearless and acting
Swift's second studio album, Fearless , was released on November 11, 2008. The main single, "Love Story", was released in September 2008. It peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one in Australia. Four other singles were released during 2008 and 2009: "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me" is the highest album single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number two. The album debuted at number one on Billboard 200 and was the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States. The album received promotion from Swift's first concert tour, Fearless Tour, which earned more than $ 63 million. Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless , a concert film, aired on television and later released on DVD and Blu-ray. Swift also appeared as a supporter for Keith Urban's Escape Together World Tour.
In 2009, the music video for "You Belong with Me" was named MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Kanye West. This incident is subject to controversy and frequent media attention, resulting in many Internet memes. James Montgomery of MTV argues that the incident and media attention subsequently transformed Swift into a "bonafide mainstream celebrity". Also that year, he won five American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album. Billboard named Artist of the Year 2009. The album was ranked 99th in NPR's 2017 list of the 150 Largest Albums Made by Women.
At the 52nd Grammy Awards, Fearless was named Album of the Year and Best Country Album, and "White Horse" was named Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Appearance. Swift is the youngest artist ever to win an Album of the Year. During the ceremony, Swift sings "You Belong with Me" and "Rhiannon" with Stevie Nicks. His vocal performance received negative reviews and media reactions. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times found it "refreshing to see a very talented person make occasional flubs" and describe Swift as "the most important new pop star in recent years". Swift became the youngest artist to be crowned as Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.
Swift contributed backing vocals to John Mayer's "Half of My Heart", the single featured on his fourth album, Battle Studies (2009). He co-wrote and recorded "The Best Days of Your Life" with Kellie Pickler, and wrote two songs for Hannah Montana's soundtrack: The Movie - You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home "" and "Crazier "Swift also provided vocals for Boys Like Girls" Two Is Better Than One. "She donated two songs to Valentine's Day soundtracks, including" Today Was a Fairytale ", which became her first number in the Canadian Hot 100 charts.While filming his cinematic debut on Valentine's Day in October 2009, Swift started a romantic relationship with fellow star Taylor Lautner, but they broke up later that year.The romantic comedy, released the following year, saw him play a girlfriend the ditzy of high school athletes, the role in which the Los Angeles Times found a "serious comedy potential." In a scathing comment, critics for Variety consider it "entirely unfocused", with the reason that "he needs to find the sutradar a expert to solidify it and deliver its abundantly clear energy ".
Swift made his acting debut in the 2009 CBS episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, playing rebellious teenagers. The New York Times notes that the character allows Swift to be "a bit naughty, and trustworthy". Later that year, Swift hosted and featured as a musical guest for Saturday Night Live episodes. Entertainment Weekly described her as "the best host of Saturday Night Live so far," noting that she's "always ready for the challenge, seems to be having fun, and helping the rest of the punchlines". Then in 2010, she briefly dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
2010-2014: Talk Now and Red
In August 2010, Swift released "Mine", the main single from her third studio album, Speak Now. Entering the United States at number three, making Swift the second female artist in Hot 100 history (after Mariah Carey) to start a few songs in the top five in a year; the other is "Today Was a Fairytale" at number two. Swift wrote his own album and produced every song. Speak Now , released on October 25, 2010, was a commercial success, debuting at number one on Billboard 200 and becoming 16th album to reach first week sales of one million copies. It became the best-selling digital album by the female artist, with 278,000 downloads a week, producing Swift an entry in 2010 Guinness World Records. He earned another Guinness World Record entry after becoming the first female to reach 10 debut songs on Billboard Hot 100. Three single albums, "Mine", "Back to December", and " Mean ", reaching its peak in the top ten in Canada.
"Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Swift performs songs during the ceremony. Claire Suddath of Time consumes her feeling "delivering her comeback to the key and with all her heart"; Jayme Deerwester of USA Today writes that critics in 2010 seem to have "made it a better songwriter and live performance". Swift won numerous other awards for Speak Now , including Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association (2010 and 2011), Women of the Year by Billboards (2011), and Entertainer of the Year by Academy of Country Music (2011 and 2012) and Country Music Association in 2011. At the American Music Awards in 2011, Swift won Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album. Rolling Stone placed Speak Now at number 45 in the 2012 list of "50 Best Female Albums of All Time", writes: "He may be played on state stations, but he is one from some of the original rock stars we've had lately, with perfect ears for what makes clicks. "
The Speak Now World Tour lasts from February 2011 to March 2012 and generates gross revenue of over $ 123 million. In November 2011, Swift released its first live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live . The following month, he contributed two original songs for the Hunger Games soundtrack album: "Safe & Sound", written and recorded with Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open". "Safe & Sound" won the Grammy Award for Best Songs Written for Visual Media. After delivering vocals to BoB's "Both of Us" in May 2012, Swift dated Conor Kennedy's political heirs from July to September 2012. In August, Swift released "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", the lead single from his fourth studio album, Red . It became its first number one in the US and New Zealand and reached the top slot on the iTunes digital song sales chart 50 minutes after its release, earning Guinness World Record's "Guinness World Record Single Selling Fastest". Swift released their second single album, "Begin Again", in October. It reached number seven on Billboard Hot 100. Other singles released from the album included "I Knew You Were Trouble", "22", "Everything Has Changed", "The Last Time", and "Red ". "I Knew You Were Trouble" is a huge commercial success, peaking at number two in the United States.
Red was released on October 22, 2012, incorporating new genres for Swift, such as heartland rock, dubstep and dance-pop. The album was a critical and commercial success, and debuted at number one on Billboard 200 with first week sales of 1.21 million copies. It marked the highest opening sales in a decade in the United States, and made Swift the first woman to have two million album sales, a record recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. The Red Tour lasts from March 2013 to June 2014 and grossed over $ 150 million. Red received several awards, including four nominations at the 56th Grammy Awards. The single "I Knew You Were Trouble" won Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards 2013. Swift was crowned Best Female Female Artist at the 2012 American Music Awards and Artist of the Year at the 2013 ceremony. He received the Songwriter/Artist Award of the Nashville Song Association for the year fifth and sixth respectively in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Swift was also honored by the Association with a special Pinnacle Award, making him the second recipient of the award after Garth Brooks.
In 2013, Swift cowrote "Sweeter Than Fiction" with Jack Antonoff for One Chance soundtrack, and received Best Original Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. She provides guest vocals for Tim McGraw's song "Highway Do not Care", featuring guitar work by Keith Urban. Swift features "As Tears Go By" with Rolling Stones in Chicago, Illinois as part of the 50 & amp; Counted the tour, and stated that the band had a major influence on career prospects. He also joined Florida Georgia Line on stage during their 2013 Country Radio Seminar to sing "Cruise". Outside of music, Swift voiced Audrey, a tree lover, in the animated film The Lorax (2012), made a cameo on the sitcom New Girl (2013), and has a supportive role in the adaptation film The Giver (2014). During this time, she was dating British singer Harry Styles.
2014-2016: 1989
In March 2014, Swift moved to New York City. Around this time, she was working on her fifth studio album, 1989 , with author Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback, Imogen Heap, Ryan Tedder, and Ali Payami. She promotes the album through various campaigns, including inviting fans to a secret album listening session, called " 1989 Secret Sessions". Credited as "first album, official pop album", it marks a departure from his previous country album. The album was released on October 27, 2014 to positive reviews.
1989 sold 1.28 million copies in the US during its first week of release and debuted on Billboard 200 - this made Swift the first action to have three albums sold over one million copies in the week of their opening release, where he got the Guinness World Records. As of June 2017, 1989 has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The album's main single, "Shake It Off", was released in August 2014 and debuted at number one on Billboard Hot 100. The album also produced two additional single-number singles - "Empty Spaces" and " Bad Blood "(featuring Kendrick Lamar) - as well as top-ten entries of" Style "and" Wildest Dreams ", and other singles" Out of the Woods "and" New Romantics ". "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" also topped the charts in Australia and Canada. After "Blank Space" reached number one in the US after "Shake It Off", Swift became the first woman in Hot 100 history to replace her in the top spot. The music video for the former briefly became the fastest video to reach one billion views in Vevo. Videos for "Blank Spaces" and "Bad Blood" won four awards at the MTV Video Music Awards 2015, with the final win for this Year's Video and Best Collaboration. The Swift headlining tour, the 1989 World Tour, runs from May to December 2015, generating gross revenues of over $ 250 million, and became one of the highest grossing tours of the decade.
Swift was crowned as Billboard ' Woman of the Year in 2014, becoming the first award-winning artist. Also in that year, he received the Dick Clark Award for Excellence at the American Music Awards. In 2015, "Shake It Off" was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year and Swift won a Brit Award for the International Women Solo Artist. The singer is one of eight artists who received the Milestone's 50th Anniversary Award at the 2015 Academy Country Music Awards. In 2016, Swift won three Grammy Awards for 1989 - Album of the Year, Pop Vocal Album Best, and Best Music Video for "Bad Blood". She became the first woman, and the fifth overall, to win the first of these two.
Prior to the release of 1989 ', Swift emphasized the importance of albums for artists and fans. In November 2014, he deleted his entire catalog from Spotify, arguing that ad-supported services, free services, undermined premium services, which gave higher royalties to songwriters. In an open letter in June 2015, Swift criticized Apple Music for not offering royalties to the artist during the three-month free trial of the streaming service and declared that he would withdraw 1989 from the catalog. The next day, Apple announced that they would pay the artist for a free trial period, and Swift agreed to stream 1989 on the streaming service. Swift's intellectual property rights management and parent company, TAS Rights Management, filed 73 trademarks related to the 1989 singer and meme era. He added back his entire catalog to Spotify, Amazon Music and Google Play in June 2017.
In 2015, Swift features "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Shake It Off" with Paul McCartney on Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special after the party, and joins Kenny Chesney to sing "Big Star" on the opening night of the Big Revival Tour in Nashville. In March 2015, Swift began dating Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris. In June 2015, the duo was ranked as the highest-paid celebrity celebrity last year by Forbes with a combined income of more than $ 146 million. In August, Swift discusses his mother's cancer diagnosis, and encourages others to undergo a medical examination. Before Swift and Harris announced the end of their relationship in June 2016, both wrote his work "This Is What You Came For" (featuring Rihanna), where he was originally credited with the pseudonym Nils SjÃÆ'¶berg. In October, he wrote "Better Man" from Little Big Town for their seventh album, The Breaker . The song earned Swift the award for Song of the Year at the 51st CMA Awards. Two months later, Swift and Zayn Malik released a joint single called "I Do not Want Live Forever", for the movie soundtrack of Fifty Shades Darker (2017). The song reached number one in Sweden and peaked at number two in the United States. At the MTV Video Music Awards 2017, both won awards for Best Collaboration for the song's music video.
2017-present: Reputation
In August 2017, Swift sued and won in a civil court against David Mueller, a former morning show personality for Denver KYGO-FM. Four years earlier, Swift had told Mueller boss that he had sexually assaulted him by groping him at an event. After being fired, Mueller accused Swift of lying and suing for making him lose his job. Shortly after, Swift was charged back for sexual assault. The jury rejected Mueller's claim and decided to support Swift. The singer then cleared her social media account and released "Look What You Made Me Do" as the lead single from her sixth album, Reputation . The song topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the United States. The music video earned more than 43.2 million views during its first day on YouTube, breaking the record for the most watched music video in 24 hours. In October, Swift released their second single album, "... Ready for It?", Which charted at number three in Australia and at number four in the United States.
Two promotional singles released from Reputation , "Gorgeous" and "Call It What You Want"; the former then became the fifth single of the album, but only released like that in Europe. The album was released on November 10th and sold 1,216 million copies in the United States - becoming the best-selling album of 2017 (pure sales only) in the country - and 2 million copies worldwide during the first week. It topped the charts in several countries, including US, UK, Australia and Canada. Later that month, Swift did "... Ready For It?" and "Call It What You Want" on Saturday Night Live . "End Game", featuring Ed Sheeran and Future, followed in November as the third single, and peaked at number 18 in the US. Other singles from the album include "New Year's Day" and "Delicate"; the first released exclusively to state radio.
To support Reputation , Swift embarked on a Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium tour in 2018. In April 2018, Swift appeared in "Babe" Sugarland from their album Bigger .
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Influences
One of Swift's earliest memories of music is listening to his maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, singing in church. As a child, he enjoys the soundtrack of Disney movies: "My parents noticed that, after I ran out of words, I would just make my own." Swift says she owes her trust to her mother, who helped her prepare for a class presentation as a child. He also attributes his "interest in writing and telling stories" to his mother. Swift was interested in storytelling country music, and was introduced to the genre by "the great female artists of the 90s" - Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Dixie Chicks. Twain, both as a songwriter and a player, is the biggest musical influence. Hill is Swift's childhood role model: "Everything he says, do, wear, I try to copy". He admired the challenging attitude of Dixie Chicks and their ability to play their own instruments. The band "Cowboy Take Me Away" is Swift's first song to learn to play the guitar. Swift also explores the music of older country stars, including Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette. He believes Parton is "a remarkable example for every female songwriter out there". Artists from other countries such as Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna have inspired Swift.
Swift lists Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, and Carly Simon as role models of his career: "They have taken a risk, but they have also become the same artist for their entire career. McCartney, both as a Beatle and a solo artist, made Swift feel "as if I had let into his heart and mind... Every musician could only dream of such a legacy". He admired Springsteen for being "very much in touch with music after a long period of time". She aspires to be like Harris when she grows up: "It's not about her fame, it's about music". "[Kristofferson] shines in songwriting... He is just one of those people who have been in the business for years but you can say it does not chew it and spit it out," Swift said. He admires "Simon's songwriting and honesty... He's known as an emotional but a strong person".
Swift has also been influenced by many artists outside the country genre. As a pre-teenager, he enjoyed bubble pop acts including Hanson and Britney Spears; Swift says he has "unshakable loyalty" to Spears. In his high school years, Swift listens to rock bands like Dashboard Confessional, Fall Out Boy, and Jimmy Eat World. He has also talked about singers and songwriters such as Michelle Branch, Alanis Morissette, Ashlee Simpson, Fefe Dobson, Colbie Caillat and Justin Timberlake; and the 1960s acted The Shirelles, Doris Troy, and The Beach Boys. Swift's pop-focused 1989 album, influenced by some of 1980's favorite pop acts, including Annie Lennox, Phil Collins and "Like a Prayer-era Madonna".
Music style
Swift music contains elements of pop, pop rock, and country. She portrays herself as a country artist until the 2014 release , which she describes as "a cohesive sonic pop album". Rolling Stone wrote: "[Swift] may be played on state stations, but he is one of the few original rock stars we have today." According to The New York Times , "There is not much Ms. Swift music to show the country - some banjo strums, a pair of cowboy boots worn on stage, the guitar is stunned - but there's something interesting, unique to Nashville ". The Guardian wrote that Swift "crank melodies with the cruel efficiency of a Scandinavian pop plant".
Swift vocals are described by Sophie Schillaci from The Hollywood Reporter as "sweet, but soft". The Los Angeles Times identifies the vocal movement of "defining" Swift in the studio recording as "a line that slid down like a sigh of satisfaction or as eyebrow lifted up, giving his favorite girl their easy air hits intimacy". Rolling Stone , in the Speaking Now Review, writes: "Swift sounds are not sufficiently affected to cover how skilled he is as a singer; he lowered his voice to the line of payment in the classic fashion of a shy girl who tried to speak loudly. "In another review of Speak Now , The Village Voice wrote that the previous sentence was" bland and chaotic, but that changed. He can still sound tense and thin, and often strays out into the field that makes some people crazy, but he learns how to make words sound like they mean. "The Hollywood Reporter wrote that their live vocals are" good ", but they do not match their peers.In 2009, Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly described Swift's vocals as" flat , thin, and sometimes shaky like a newborn foal. "However, Swift has received praise for refusing to improve the tone with Auto-Tune.
In an interview with The New Yorker , Swift marked himself as a songwriter: "I write songs, and my voice is just a way to get the lyrics." A writer for The Tennessean admitted in 2010 that Swift was "not the best technical singer", but described it as "our best communicator". The presence of Swift's vocals is something that worries him and he has "done a lot of work" to fix it. It was reported in 2010 that he continued to take vocal lessons. He said that he was just nervous about doing "if I was not sure what the audience was thinking about me, like at the awards show".
Songwriting
Swift uses his life experience as inspiration in his work. In his song, Swift often discuss "anonymous high school years" and celebrities. Swift often criticizes ex-girlfriends, an aspect of his songwriting being belittled by The Village Voice : "Being told What Songs Mean is like having a truly ambitious professor and that really undermines the appreciation of Swift's talents , which is unconcerned, but dramatic. "However, New York believes that media scrutiny of his decision to" mine his personal life for music... is sexist, so it is not asked of his male colleagues. " The singer himself has said that not all of the songs are factual and that they are sometimes based on observations. Aside from the clues to his liner notes, Swift tries not to talk about the subject of the song specifically "because this is a real person.You try to provide insight into where you came from as a writer without actually throwing someone under the bus."
For a woman to write about her feelings, and then described as a passionate, insane, desperate boyfriend who needs to make you marry her and have a child with her, I think it takes something potentially to be celebrated - a woman writes about her feelings in a way recognition - it picks it up and changes it and turns it into something that is frankly a bit sexist.
The Guardian praised Swift for writing about adolescence "with calm and sepia-pitched nostalgia" during his first two albums. New York has stated that many singer-songwriters have made terrific notes as teenagers, but "nobody makes a great record explicitly about their teens". The magazine also compares his work with Brian Wilson. In Fearless , Swift displays fairy-tale images and explores the "between fairy tales and love reality". Her latest albums discuss more adult relationships. In addition to romance and love, Swift songs have discussed parent-child relationships, friendships, alienation, fame, and career ambitions. Swift often includes "phrases thrown in to suggest big and serious things that will not fit in a song, things that enhance or subvert the surface narrative".
Rolling Stone describes Swift as "a rich songwriting with intuitive gifts for the temple-choir architecture". According to The Village Voice , he uses the third-way reversal angle heading often. In terms of imaging, repetition is evident in Swift song writing. In the words The Guardian ', "he spent so much time kissing in the rain that it seems a miracle he has not developed trenchfoot". Slant Magazine added, "For Swift's credit, he explored new lyrical motifs during his fourth [[album]". Although the review of Swift's work is "almost uniformly positive", The New Yorker says he is generally described "more as an expert technician than as a Dylanesque visionary".
Public image
Personal life Swift is the subject of constant media attention. In 2013, Abercrombie & amp; Fitch marketed a slogan tshirt with the "whore-shaming" remark addressed to him. The New York Times affirms that "his dating history has begun to move what feels like the beginning of a counter-attack" and questioned whether Swift was in the midst of a "mid-life crisis". Swift says that he does not want to discuss his private life in public, because he believes that talking about it can be a "career weakness".
Rolling Stone politely commented: "If this is the face of the Swift game, it should be tattooed because it never falls." The magazine also noted "ease with pleasure", and The Hollywood Reporter thought of it as "The Best Person Ever since Bill Clinton". While presenting the Swift award for his humanitarian efforts in 2012, Michelle Obama portrays him as a singer who "rockets to the top of the music industry but still maintains his feet on the ground, someone who has destroyed every expectation of what the so-called 22-year-old can achieve". Swift considers Michelle Obama as a role model. Swift is one of the most widely followed in social media, and is known for its friendly interaction with its fans. He has sent holiday gifts to fans via mail and directly, dubbed "Swiftmas". He considered it a "responsibility" to realize his influence on young fans, and said that his fans were "the longest and best relationship I ever had".
Often portrayed by the media as "America's Sweetheart", Swift insists that "I do not live with all these rigid and strange rules that make me feel fenced in. I love what it feels like, and it makes me feel really free." She refused to take part in an overly sexual shoot, even though Bloomberg L.P. view it as a sex symbol. Swift was crowned as Icon of American Style by Vogue in 2011. In 2014 she occupied the People best yearly clothing list. In 2015, he was named the Woman of the Year at the Elle Style Awards, and was ranked first on the Hot 100 list of Hot Max. Maxim .
Swift also appears on various lists of powers. Because of her success and earnings, she is on the annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2010 and 2015. From 2011-15, she appeared in the top three time ' Forbes ' Women with Top Income in Music earning $ 45 million, $ 57 million, $ 55 million, $ 64 million and $ 80 million respectively. In 2015, she became the youngest woman ever to be included in the Forbes list of 100 most influential women, ranked at number 64. In 2016, Swift occupied
In 2015, veteran singer Ray Stevens released his album Here We Go Again which included the single "Taylor Swift is Stalking Me". The song is partly written by a radio friend of his, Chuck Redden and another man, Buddy Kalb.
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Philanthropy
Swift's philanthropic efforts have been recognized by the Do Something Awards and the Tennessee Disaster Services. He has also received The Big Help Award for "dedication to helping others" and "inspiring others through action", and the Ripple of Hope Award for "his dedication to advocacy at a young age [...] Taylor is just the kind of woman we want our daughter becomes ". In 2008, he donated $ 100,000 to the Red Cross to help the victims of the Iowa 2008 flood. The singer has been doing charity help such as the Sydney Sound Relief concert. She also recorded a song for Hope for Haiti Now album. In response to the May 2010 Flood of 2010, Swift donated $ 500,000 during a telethon organized by WSMV. In 2011, Swift used rehearsals from his Speak Now tour as a charity concert for a recent tornado victim in the United States, collecting more than $ 750,000. In 2012, Swift supports the MTV Telethon Architecture for Humanity's Restore the Shore after Hurricane Sandy. In 2016, he contributed to the flood aid of Louisiana and the Dolly Parton Fire Fund.
Swift is an art supporter and donated $ 75,000 to Hendersonville High School in Nashville in 2010 to help refurbish the school auditorium. In 2012, he pledged $ 4 million to fund the construction of a new education center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Also in 2012, Swift partnered with a textbook rental company Chegg to donate $ 60,000 to the music department of six US colleges. Swift also promotes children's literacy. In 2009, he donated $ 250,000 to schools across the country for educational improvement. Other efforts to promote literacy include donating 6,000 Scholastic books to the Reading Public Library, Pennsylvania; 14,000 books to the Nashville Public Library, Tennessee; 2,000 Gramedia books for early childhood literacy programs Children's Hospital of Reading Health Center; and 25,000 books to New York City schools by 2015.
In 2007, he launched a campaign to protect children from online predators, in partnership with the Tennessee Chief Police Association. In 2009, Swift recorded the announcement of the Sound Matters (PSA) public service to make listeners aware of the importance of listening "responsibly" to prevent hearing loss. Swift has donated items to be auctioned off to several charities, including: The Elton John AIDS Foundation, UNICEF Tap Project, MusiCares, and Feeding America. Recipient of the Academy of Country Music of the Year award in 2011, Swift donated $ 25,000 to St. Son's Research Hospital. Jude, Tennessee. In 2012, Swift participates in Stand Up to Cancer telethon, performing "Ronan", a song he wrote to commemorate a four-year-old boy who died of neuroblastoma. The song was made available for digital downloads with all the proceeds donated to cancer-related charities. In 2014, he donated $ 100,000 to Foundation V for Research on Cancer, and $ 50,000 to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The singer made a private visit to the hospital to meet with the sick patient and to support them. Swift has encouraged young people to volunteer in their local communities as part of Global Youth Service Day. In 2018, he collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to prepare Time's Up initiatives to protect women from abuse and discrimination.
Politics
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Swift promoted the Every Woman Counts campaign, which aims to involve women in the political process, and is one of the many country stars to record PSA for Vote campaigns (For You). He stated: "I do not think it's my duty to try and influence people in what way they should vote." After the inauguration of Barack Obama, he told Rolling Stone that he supported the president: "I have never seen this country so happy about political decisions throughout my life, I'm very happy this is my first election."
In an interview in 2012, Swift said that despite making himself "educated and informed", he did not discuss politics, fearing that it might affect others. Writing about media pressure on Swift to openly adopt a political stance, Politico calls Swift "very disrespectful". Swift has spent time with the Kennedy family and has talked about his admiration for Ethel Kennedy. Swift is also a feminist. He has spoken out against LGBT discrimination. After the murder of Larry King in 2008, he recorded GLSEN PSA to combat hate crime. On the first anniversary of the King's death, Swift told Seventeen that his parents taught him "never judge others based on who they love, their skin color, or their religion". The music video for Swift's anti-bullying song, "Meaningful", relates to homophobia in high school; the video was nominated for the MTV VMA social activism award in 2011. The New York Times believes that he is part of "a new wave of young (and mostly straight) women who provide the soundtrack for a generation of gay fans coming to terms with their identity at a time when cultural messages are turbulent and confusing. "
Product support
While promoting his debut album, Swift appeared as the face of Verizon Wireless's Music Phone campaign. In the Fearless era, he launched l.e.i. sundress range at Wal-Mart, and designed American Greetings and Jakks Pacific dolls cards. He became the spokesperson for the National Hockey League (NHL) Nashville Predators and Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras. In the era of Speak Now , he released a special edition of his album through Target. Swift became the spokesperson for CoverGirl, launching two fragrances Elizabeth Arden - Wonderstruck and Wonderstruck Enchanted.
While promoting her fourth album, Red , Swift offers exclusive album promotions through Target, Papa John's Pizza, and Walgreens. She became the spokesperson for Diet Coke and Keds sneakers, releasing her third Elizabeth Arden perfume named Taylor by Taylor Swift, and continued her partnership with Sony Electronics and American Greetings. Swift also partnered with AirAsia and Qantas companies during Red Tour. It acts as the official airline for Australian and Asian foot, and Cornetto sponsors an Asian tour. When promoting 1989 , Swift has relationships with Subway, Keds, Target, and Diet Coke. In 2014, Swift released its fourth fragrance, Incredible Things.
Awards and achievements
Swift has received many awards and honors, including 10 Grammy Awards, 19 American Music Awards, 23 Billboard Music Awards (the most widely won by law), 12 Country Music Association Awards, 8 Academy of Country Music Awards, one Brit Award, and one Emmy Creative Arts Award. As a songwriter, he has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has been listed on 2015's Rolling Stone list of 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
As early as 2016, Swift has sold more than 40 million albums, 130 million single downloads and is one of the five highest-selling music artists in the world. Swift Taylor Swift , Fearless , Talk Now , Red and 1989 all of them sold over 4 million copies in the US. She is the third best-selling digital single artist in the US with a total of 106.5 million equivalent units certified according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
Discography
- Taylor Swift (2006)
- Without fear (2008)
- Talk Now (2010)
- Red (2012)
- 1989 (2014)
- Reputation (2017)
Tour
- Fearless Tour (2009-2010)
- World Tour Now Speaking (2011-2012)
- The Red Tour (2013-2014)
- 1989 World Tour (2015)
- Taylor Swift Stadium Reputation Stadium (2018)
See also
- List of bestselling singles in the United States
- A list of the most subscribed users on YouTube
- List of the highest certified music artists in the United States
- List of top selling music artists
- List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones
- List of best-selling albums by year in the United States
Footnote
References
External links
- Official website
- Taylor Swift at Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Taylor Swift at IMDb
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