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.
North Korea 'copy and paste war planes into pics' in propaganda stunt to boast 'might'
dailystar.co.ukNorth Korea's air force has shown the country copied and pasted extra planes into doctored images, new analysis has shown.Pyongyang boasted of 150 planes taking part in an exercise last Thursday which demonstrated the "might of the people's air force", which is actually much smaller than first thought.Photos that showcase the "matchless bravery and indomitable fighting spirit" are said to have been doctored, with some plains apparently copied and pasted to make up poor numbers.READ MORE: 'Democracy Manifest' - sting operation, music cameo and decades search for furious blokeThorsten Beck, photo analysis expert at the HEADT Centre in Berlin, Germany, filed the images through a clone detection software and found "elements" that had been "cloned".Beck said: "Whoever created or manipulated these pictures certainly had some command of Photoshop.
It does not look amateurish, but the composition, the purpose and nature of the manipulation speak a different language."Partly because the images dramatise the power of North Korea’s air force, they appear somehow too good to be true and that creates a funny effect in some of the images."Of the photos, one in particular stood out to Beck, an image that supposedly showcased 30 warplanes.
Beck said of the photo: "It's worth noting here that the planes don't change size toward the viewer, despite their different heights and distances."That odd perfection to many of the images Beck put into the cloning machine was cause for concern, revealing that the images were "too good to be true" and, therefore, falsified.He added: "It also looks like they all have the same sharpness – no matter how far they are away.
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