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.
Nearly 1 in 5 Russians believe LGBTQ people should be “eliminated,” poll says
metroweekly.comLBGTQ Russians in St. Petersburg protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – Photo: InkBoB, via Wikimedia. A new poll finds that nearly 1 in 5 Russians believe that LGBTQ people should be “eliminated” from society.
The poll is a project of the Levada Center, which surveyed 1,614 respondents from 50 Russian regions from Feb. 20-26 to examine societal attitudes towards individuals or groups whose behavior or lifestyle deviates from social norms.
The questions in the survey were based on a set of questions from a 1989 sociological study on the “Soviet common man,” which captured attitudes among citizens of the Soviet Union in the final years of its existence.
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