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.
Doctors warn coronavirus and Brexit anxiety fuelling surge in kids self-harming
mirror.co.ukThe number of children under 15 needing hospital treatment for self-harming has doubled in a decade. Doctors warn anxiety over climate change, Brexit and Covid is fuelling the crisis, along with social media.
Some 7,473 youngsters were treated in England in 2019/20 – more than 20 a day. Of those, 116 were under-eights. The number is up from 3,632 10 years ago and set to get even worse due to Covid.
Dr Bernadka Dubicka, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, is leading calls for more specialist doctors. She said youngsters felt “a sense of hopelessness” over “the recession, climate emergency, Brexit and now the pandemic”.
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