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.
Michaela Zee SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for HBO’s “House of the Dragon” Season 2 finale, titled “The Queen Who Ever Was,” now streaming on Max.
For much of “House of the Dragon,” Helaena Targaryen has spoken in riddles about what will unfold for the two factions within House Targaryen, the Greens and the Blacks.
That is, until the Season 2 finale, when she tells her brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell): “Aegon will be king again.” As for the one-eyed Prince Regent, he’ll be dead. “You were swallowed up in the God’s Eye, and you were never seen again,” Helaena says to him.
All the trauma Helaena’s endured this season, from her son Jaehaerys’ murder to the smallfolk attacking her and her mother Alicent (Olivia Cooke) outside the Sept, has led to this moment of clarity, Phia Saban explains. “The present is a little bit too painful to live in for now, so she’s managed to step more forthrightly into this otherness — and that’s why this moment felt so clear to her,” Saban tells Variety. “She’s not fighting it as much anymore.” Helaena is not involved in only one major prophecy in the finale; she also appears in Daemon’s weirwood tree-induced vision at Harrenhal. “It’s all a story.
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