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.
Aaron Dessner says indie and alternative music is “kind of a myth now”
nme.comAaron Dessner has said that the distinctions between genres are “melting” following his recent collaborations with Taylor Swift.As well as working with Swift on her two indie folk-influenced albums from last year – ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ – the pair teamed up recently for Dessner’s latest Big Red Machine record with Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon, ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’Speaking to The Irish Times in an interview published today (August 25), the National guitarist spoke about why he felt collaborations between acts traditionally belonging to different styles of music were becoming more commonplace.“The boundaries between genres have been melting a long time,” he said. “Indie music or alternative music is kind of a myth now.
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