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.
How 'Bridgerton' Cleverly Includes Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande in Its Soundtrack (Exclusive)
etonline.com, Shondaland’s first Netflix original series, is set in 1800s London during the reign of King George III, it’s infused with plenty of modern sensibilities, from its racially diverse ensemble to an anachronistic soundtrack featuring the likes of Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift.
In order to cleverly incorporate the pop songs into the Regency era-inspired original score and to keep things sounding like the time period, music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas says they opted to go for classical covers by composer Kris Bowers, the Vitamin String Quartet and Duomo. “The familiarity of these pop songs performed by a quartet or orchestral seemed the most seamless way to create a musical signature and also support Kris Bowers' beautiful score,” Patsavas.
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