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.
Nicki Minaj to host 2023 VMAs in comeback bid amid ongoing career drama
nypost.comSuper Freaky again. Reassuming her role as head-Barb-in-charge at MTV’s Video Music Awards, Nicki Minaj is set to serve as the host of this year’s fab fête live from New Jersey’s Prudential Center on Tuesday, September 12. “For the second consecutive year, Minaj will announce the show’s star-studded lineup of performers, presenters and winners,” raved MTV of the 40-year-old Queens native in a press release.
The “Barbie World” lyricist will, too, beguile VMAs viewers with a world premiere performance of her newest single, “Last Time I Saw You,” during the swank shindig.
The hosting gig will be one of Minaj’s most public appearances in the recent past after months of being out of the limelight.
In June, the “Anaconda” mastermind was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by an artist claiming she “directly copied” his beat for her 2014 track “I Lied.” In 2021, singer Tracy Chapman also won $450,000 in a previous copyright suit against Minaj.But the “Queen” rhymer isn’t letting legal woes knock off her crown.
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