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.
Europe’s Festival’s Adapt to the Cannes Date Shift
variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAs Europe’s summer film festivals restart after taking a year of COVID-prompted pause — the notable exception being Venice — the Cannes Film Festival shift into July has caused an August overload.
But the disruption hasn’t dampened enthusiasm on the circuit.With no shortage of movies to launch and vaccinated local audiences keen to get back in front of a big screen, artistic directors of Europe’s other prominent summer shindigs such as Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo and Haugesund are gearing up for watershed editions — and looking to last year’s Venice for reassurance.“I am trying to be confident without sounding naive,” says Locarno Film Festival artistic director Giona A.
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