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.
Judge quotes Taylor Swift in replying to Metallica insurance lawsuit
nme.comTaylor Swift track while rejecting Metallica‘s lawsuit related to a handful of 2020 gig cancellations in South America.The legendary metal band had sought out legal ruling after their insurance policy did not cover their losses after having to cancel six tour dates in 2020 due to COVID travel restrictions.
Lloyd’s of London – the insurance company used by the band – stated that there was a clear exclusion in their contract for any losses accrued from “communicable diseases.”A California appeals court rejected the band’s lawsuit – which demanded that the insurance company pay for more than $3 million in losses due to the COVID travel restrictions.
Per Loudwire, the band had submitted that they suffered a $3,234,569 loss from the canceled shows.Metallica argued that the case should’ve gone to trial to which Justice Maria Stratton quoted Swift’s lyrics from her song ‘All Too Well’ from her 2012 LP ‘Red’ and stated that it was “absurd to think that government closures were not the result of Covid-19.”“To paraphrase Taylor Swift: ‘We were there.
We remember it all too well,’” the justice wrote (Per Billboard). “There was no vaccine against Covid-19 in March 2020 and no drugs to treat it.
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