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.
Ashley Park Has Finally Come to Terms With Being a ‘Survivor’
glamour.comAshley Park overcame cancer as a teen, but she never considered herself a “survivor.” She just wanted to be seen as Ashley—as someone more than her disease.
Name-calling is one of the oldest power plays in the book: It’s just as cutting in the boardroom as it was on the playground, but since it never causes physical harm, it’s easily dismissed.
And while we all know the "stick and stones" rhyme, anyone who’s been called crazy or a slut (or stuck with any label she doesn’t identify with) understands just how damaging name-calling can be.
In , Glamour talks to some of the most interesting women we know about the role name-calling or labels played in their past—and how it’s shaped the women they are today.At 15, an age so formative even Taylor Swift has a song dedicated to it, Ashley Park was diagnosed with leukemia.
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