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.
Elvis Costello won’t be suing Olivia Rodrigo over ‘Brutal’ as “it would be ludicrous”
nme.comElvis Costello has once again spoken out about his decision not to sue Olivia Rodrigo after fans suggested there were similarities between their songs.The ‘Oliver’s Army’ singer first came to Rodrigo’s defence in 2021, after people noticed a similarity between the guitar riff on ‘Brutal’ and that of Costello’s ‘Pump It Up’.
Responding to claims the track was “a direct lift from Elvis Costello”, the artist said, “this is fine by me”.“It’s how rock and roll works.
You take the broken pieces of another thrill and make a brand new toy. That’s what I did.”He then made references to ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ by Bob Dylan, which inspired Costello’s ‘Pump It Up’, and Chuck Berry’s ‘Too Much Monkey Business’, which influenced Dylan’s song.Now, he’s once again spoken out about why he didn’t get lawyers involved to try to claim royalties from the track upon its release three years ago.“Now, I did not find any reason to go after them legally for that, because I think it would be ludicrous,” Costello said in a new interview with Vanity Fair. “It’s a shared language of music.
Other people clearly felt differently about other songs on that record.”Costello was referring to Rodrigo’s 2021 debut album ‘Sour‘.
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