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.
BBC Storyville Picks Up Sundance Prize-Winning Doc ‘Bad Press’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: BBC Storyville has acquired U.K. rights to the Sundance prize-winning doc Bad Press. Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek Nation) and Joe Peeler, Bad Press debuted at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it picked up the U.S.
Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. The film will hit BBC and iPlayer in 2024. Billed as a “political docu-thriller,” the doc charts the fight for a free press in the native Muscogee Nation.
Synopsis reads: Bad Press provides unparalleled insight into the inner workings of a modern Native American tribe. Just three years after its passage, the “Free Press Act” was repealed in 2018, placing Mvskoke Media, the Muscogee Nation’s sole news outlet, back under the control of the chief and his cabinet.
Veteran reporter Angel Ellis quickly becomes the key voice of dissent at the decimated news outlet and is willing to lay it all on the line to deliver the truth to her fellow citizens. “We’re thrilled to share our story with the world’s leading public service broadcaster at the BBC.
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