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.
Kanye West has claimed he was moved by God to storm the stage and interrupt Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009.The rapper has explained his motivation behind the televised moment, which has gone down in history, when he snatched the mic from a then-19-year-old Taylor as she won the award for best female video.Yes, we all remember the moment, when Kanye believed Beyonce should have taken the Moon Person for her Single Ladies clip, so he made it known to a shocked audience.The Heartless rapper famously ran on stage at the music awards ceremony over a decade ago while Taylor was accepting the award for her song You Belong With Me – and his speech still rings through the mind, as he told the crowd: ‘Yo Taylor, I’m really happy.
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