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.
Nelly Furtado is going strong after 20 years. The Canadian artist is on the new cover of Fault Magazine, and in the issue she shares how TikTok helped her realize her legacy in pop music. READ MORE: Nelly Furtado Returns For Rare Live Set After Five-Year Hiatus “When it comes to my legacy, it has only started to connect in the last few years because of TikTok,” she says. “One day, my daughter said, ‘Mom, your music is trending on TikTok.’ I didn’t even have TikTok on my phone, and I didn’t know how to use it.” She continues, “We started making fun little videos on there.
At the same time, I started going out and often hearing my music being played. I found out why the DJs were playing these old songs and discovered that people want to celebrate and have fun to my music.” That meant something to Furtado, who explains, “When I started in this business, people would say, ‘Oh, maybe I’m a one-hit wonder,’ but 20 years have gone by and people still like my music.” READ MORE: Nelly Furtado And Charlotte Day Wilson Are Collaborating On New Music In the interview, she also teases her next album, including revealing the influence of her Latin roots on her new music. “I can’t help but write in Spanish and sometimes in Portuguese.
I just love it so much. The second record you’ll hear is a Spanglish track because it just happened that way. I don’t really overthink it when I write in Spanish; it just naturally happens,” Furtado says. “I’ve been singing in Latin languages since I was a kid.
I was singing on stage in Portuguese before I was singing in English. I even did a whole album in Spanish.” The singer also teased one of the collaborations on the new album: “One track is with Bomba Estéreo.
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