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.
Becoming Southern
thegavoice.comRecently, I was back in the United States — Texas, to be exact — and as any Texan will tell you, it is its own thing. While visiting my ailing father, we watched television together, and I came across a show on HGTV that caught my imagination. “Home Town” is set in Laurel, Mississippi, and stars the real-life married couple, the Napiers.
The show’s concept is that they love the small Southern town they live in and go about fixing up old houses in the historic center.
For someone such as myself, who has a love of architecture as well as a nostalgic soft spot for my own small town back in South Carolina, “Home Town” mashed the pleasure button in my cerebral cortex.
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