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.
It may have took many by surprise this weekend when Olivia Rodrigo (taking a cue from her beloved idol, Taylor Swift) paused her first-ever set at Glastonbury to welcome to the stage another artist, one who she deemed "someone I absolutely adore" and an "incredible" songwriter.
That artist was Lily Allen, the equally-beloved British pop queen who, decked head to toe in Chanel, led the vast Other Stage audience in a rendition of her quirky 2009 track F**k You, taken from her graceful second album It's Not Me, It's You.
Olivia dedicated the explicit kiss-off track to the five US Supreme Court justices who last week voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, in a widely criticised move.
Naming each by name, Olivia deftly re-purposed F**k You's original political message (which criticises the far-right politician's views on gender, sexuality and race) for 2022, allowing old fans to re-experience it and for new ones to discover it (and Lily herself) for the first time.
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