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.
Cowboy boots aren’t all thigh-slappin’ frontier fashion – here’s how to wear them every day
telegraph.co.ukJohnny Cash, pictured here in 1964. It’s a darker approach to cowboy style in keeping with his brooding image – although on the cover of his album The Man in Black 1963-1969, he is seen in a thigh-high pair of cowboy waders, showing he wasn’t afraid of a statement look, either.Cowboy boots will always be associated with a kind of thigh-slappin’ frontier campness, but their history goes back to Spanish equestrian uniform, which was later adapted by the pioneers of the Gold Rush era.Of course, the 1960s explosion of spaghetti western films and country music brought them to a wider audience, with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette singing of love-rat wrongdoin’ in increasingly bedazzled boots.
In the 1970s they were uprooted from the frontier to London’s King’s Road – cult cowboy boot specialist R Soles was established in 1973 to cater to the counterculture style renegades of the day.They rode over to the pastel streets of Primrose Hill in the ’90s, when the area’s ‘It’ crowd – including Kate Moss, Meg Mathews and Sadie Frost – began wearing them with their miniskirts and Marlboro Lights, subverting the masculinity of the traditional footwear.
From there to Glastonbury in the early ’00s, worn with mud-splattered shorts and an artfully dishevelled parka; and today they’re ubiquitous among a Gen Z contingent including Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid and Lady Gaga.The hallmarks of a cowboy boot – the scalloped dip in the front, cut-out leather and embroidery – are made to be seen, and they’ve recently strode the catwalks of Celine, Saint Laurent and Dries Van Noten.
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