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.
NYU launches course in Lana Del Rey studies
thefader.comLana Del Rey fans attending NYU next semester will be able to put their standom to the test with a course focused on the singer.
Topics in Recorded Music: Lana Del Rey will be taught at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music with journalist and author Kathy Iandoli helming the two-credit course.
Variety reports that students taking the course will "examine Del Rey’s relationship to feminism, musical influences and connection to social justice movements." It will run from October 20 to December 8.
The course description hails Del Rey as an artist who has "introduced a sad core, melancholic, and baroque version of dream pop that in turn helped shift and reinvent the sound (and mood) of mainstream music beyond the 2010s." The Lana Del Rey course follows a similar Clive Davis Institute class focused on Taylor Swift, which was launched earlier this year.
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