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.
Griff on supporting Taylor Swift at Wembley: “Eight-year-old me wouldn’t believe this”
nme.comGriff has spoken to NME about collaborating with Coldplay‘s Chris Martin, and how opening for Taylor Swift at Wembley Stadium will be “one of the most surreal things in my career”.The singer-songwriter was talking to NME backstage at BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend, where she spoke of how much she was looking forward to the Eras Tour stop in the capital on June 22.“Eight-year-old me who had ‘Fearless’ on repeat wouldn’t believe this,” she said. “I’m unbelievably grateful to Taylor for all the love she’s shown me and my music.”It comes after Swift posted about Griff’s track ‘Vertigo’ on her Instagram last year.“That was very surreal,” Griff told NME. “I was at home seeing my parents, sitting at the dinner table, and not on my phone.
Then, when I went on my phone, there were so many notifications but I didn’t know what it was.She continued: “I had to scroll right to the bottom where it said ‘Taylor Swift has mentioned you in her story’.
It’s just so wild that she would even share my music because she never posts and she didn’t have to do that.”Looking ahead to her debut album ‘Vertigo’, Griff described the record as “heartbroken but also euphoric” and cited Enya as a key influence.“There’s a sense of ethereal euphoria in her music and I would describe my album as heartbroken but also euphoric,” she said. “When you hear ‘Miss Me Too’, ‘Cycles’ and ‘Vertigo’, especially, there’s this journey of sadness but also euphoria.”The BRITs Rising Star award winner added that she chose the title ‘Vertigo’ “because all the songs have been written from an emotional sense of vertigo, and heartache and sadness often feels like that.”“I hope there are songs on it that people will really resonate with,” she added.Having written 100 songs for.
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