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.
I’m secretly glad party season’s cancelled
telegraph.co.ukChristmas party season might be a bit better, I was wrong. Almost three and a half years into this wonderful teetotal adventure, I still find it hard to go to parties in the evening, each conversation with a drunk as excruciating as the last. ‘Why donch chou dshrink?’ they slur, and I have found the easiest answer all round is just: ‘Because I’m an alcoholic.’ But oh, the tedium!
The repetition! The realisation that I was exactly like this, perhaps even worse, not too long ago! Any other time of the year I can avoid it, but at Christmas, it’s almost impossible to do this without seeming like a Scrooge.Or, even worse, people start to feel sorry for you.
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