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.
'Can't make jokes!' Corrie's Maureen Lipman fears being vocal amid cancel culture backlash
express.co.ukCoronation Street since 2018, and has opened up in a new interview about her "acid-tongued" character.The actress has admitted that due to "today's climate" she could not make the jokes her character Evelyn gets away with on the show, leaving her to "watch [herself] carefully".Maureen is known for speaking her mind, but has admitted in a recent interview that she finds it harder to speak out due to today's cancel culture.Relating to her character Evelyn, Maureen admitted: "You can’t make jokes that I would normally make."I am watching myself carefully.
I am not going to be on breakfast television like someone we know telling people they can f*** off."At the same time I am an intelligent person and I want a better world."I don’t know how I identify and I am watching carefully as to how this plays out because prejudice is prejudice, however you dress it up", Maureen told The Mirror.She also shared that she thinks it's very "important" for characters like Evelyn to be shown on screen as in "life nobody ever speaks their minds".Maureen elaborated: "I think it’s great for people to see someone who actually has no membrane between her mouth and her brain and I think everybody would like to be like that but because of social mores you can’t, so she’s a good character."This comes as Maureen received backlash this summer after she backed JK Rowling who came under fire after the author objected to the phrase "people who menstruate" instead of "women" sparking a trans debate.Maureen exclaimed in defence: "I am an actress, not an actor and, if somebody tries to take the word "woman" away from me, I shall be very cross."If you have to kick a** at someone like Joanne Rowling, who’s literally taught a generation to read, something’s.
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