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.
Allison Ponthier faces down her truest self on her debut single “Cowboy”
thefader.comSinger-songwriter Allison Ponthier has arrived with the first single from her debut EP. It's a bright slice of queer country-pop titled "Cowboy" that brings her face-to-face with a truer sense of self in the great frontier of Brooklyn. "I spent so much time trying to distance myself from my Texan childhood, that it was always bizarre to me that the song that means the most to me was country-inspired," Ponthier writes on her Instagram. "While this song has existed for four years, it has always been my favorite because I wrote it for me." She doubles down on the song's camp earnestness in the video, a miniature B-movie directed by Jordan Bahat (Christine and the Queens, TOKiMONSTA).
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