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.
Adele: “I Stand By That Decision” To Postpone Her Las Vegas Residency
deadline.comTo Adele, the decision to postpone her Las Vegas residency is now water under the bridge.The British songstress, who is headlining two festival shows at BST Hyde Park this weekend, told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that going forward with her planned Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace earlier this year was impossible, saying the show simply was not up to her standards.The concerts were initially scheduled to begin Friday, Jan.
21 and run through mid-April. The postponements without any make-up dates remains a sore spot for many Adele fans and critics.“I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down, and I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn’t, and I stand by that decision,” she said in the BBC interview.She acknowledged the backlash was “brutal” from fans angry at shelling out money for travel and hotels, not to mention taking time off from work.
That anger left her a “shell of a person for a couple of months.”She added ““You can’t buy me, you can’t buy me for nothing.
I’m not going to just do a show because I have to or because people are going to be let down or because we’re going to lose loads of money.
Read more on deadline.com
