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.
Julianne Hough Addresses ‘The Activist’ Show Backlash and Past Blackface Costume
variety.comJordan Moreau Julianne Hough has released a lengthy statement addressing the backlash that has surrounded her recently announced CBS competition show “The Activist,” which pits teams of activists against each other in challenges and uses their online engagement and celebrity judges to determine an overall winner.Hough, a former dancer and judge on “Dancing With the Stars, was announced as a co-host of “The Activist” alongside Usher and Priyanka Chopra, though Hough now admits she’s not qualified to be judging a show about activism, the premise of which has been widely panned online.“I do not claim to be an activist and wholeheartedly agree that the judging aspect of the show missed the mark and furthermore, that I am not qualified to act.
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