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.
Gay couple surprised to learn who was behind years of homophobic harassment
metroweekly.comWCVB that they have been receiving the homophobic mail at their Milton, Mass., home for five years, with no hints as to who was sending it.The harassment took the form of magazine and newspaper subscriptions, with the name of the subscription customized to include homophobic slurs or innuendo.“It was upsetting and we didn’t know when it was going to stop, or if it would advance to something more,” McLean told WCVB. “And it was an annoyance because I had to follow up on all of them.”The scheme stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the harasser attempted to resume this year by sending the couple a subscription to the Boston Globe.However, the couple already has a subscription to the Globe, causing the newspaper to return the subscription.
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