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.
Lady Gaga left in ‘catatonic state’ by rise to fame and battled depression: ‘I didn’t want to be myself’
metro.co.ukLady Gaga was left in a ‘catatonic state’ by the speed of becoming a celebrity, she now admits.Life moved too fast after her global hit Just Dance in 2008.
She was still trying to catch her breath right up until the release of her latest record, Chromatica, this summer.Gaga, no stranger to the headlines with kooky fashion choices such as her meat dress and carrying a teacup as an accessory, confessed: ‘I used to wake up in the morning, and I would realise I was “Lady Gaga”.
And then I became very depressed and sad, and I didn’t want to be myself.’The singer, real name Stefani Germanotta, says fame didn’t turn out to be as she had imagined. ‘I felt threatened by the things my career brought into my life and the pace of my life,’ admitted.
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