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.
Mindless Self Indulgence frontman Jimmy Urine sued for sexual assault of minor
nme.comContent warning: this article discusses alleged sexual assault of a minor.Mindless Self Indulgence singer James Euringer, known more commonly under his stage name Jimmy Urine, has been accused of sexual battery of a minor in a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court this week.As Rolling Stone reports, the plaintiff, whose identity has been kept anonymous as she was a minor at the time of the alleged acts, claims she had a sexual relationship with Euringer between January 1997 to June 1999, beginning when she was 15-years-old and Euringer was 27.The lawsuit alleges that Euringer “groomed and manipulated [her] into believing that his sexually assaultive behavior was not criminal and that by engaging in sexual activity with him Plaintiff was.
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