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.
Inside abandoned housing estate dubbed 'Scotland's Chernobyl' where 20 people still live
dailyrecord.co.ukAn abandoned housing estate dubbed 'Scotland's Chernobyl' is still home to 20 residents. Eerie photographs taken by urban explorer Kyle Urbex, detail the extent of the derelict conditions inside the Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.Despite the area once being a thriving community of shipyard workers in the 1920s, the estate has since been abandoned with less than 10 per cent of residents believed to be living in the 430-flat estate.The site was once the cheapest place to buy property in Britain after one flat sold for just £7,000 at auction.The derelict scheme has been plagued by vandals and arsonists, with the inside of some flats extensively damaged by fire.
A church and primary school on the estate are also boarded up and abandoned. The leader of Inverclyde Council, Stephen McCabe, said "it would remind you of somewhere like Chernobyl".Photographs from inside Clune Park show abandoned homes full of possessions as if residents left their homes in a rush.Kyle Urbex, 26, felt uneasy as he explored the abandoned buildings and was in disbelief when he spotted people still living there.
He told the Record: "One of the things that struck me the most was that the majority of the flat blocks are abandoned and derelict but some people are still living there.
Some flats still had lots of possessions in them, like someone had gone out for the day and never came back."Outside of the flats, it is surprising to see people still going about their normal lives and going into houses next to the estate when 80 per cent of it is derelict.
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