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.
A metro train which smashed through the end of a platform was saved from plummeting to the ground by a piece of art. Last night the vehicle crashed through the barrier at De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, Netherlands.
Rather than hurtling about ten metres to the floor below, the train was caught by a large sculpture poetically titled 'Saved by a Whale's tail'.
The metro driver, who was the only person on board, managed to get out unharmed. Despite working remarkably well as a back-up train barrier, the piece of work was not designed with that function in mind.
Artist Maarten Struijs told AD : “There are two tails. If the metro had hit that other tail, I think it would have fallen through. "Sure, it looks poetic, but it's really a stroke
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