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.
Olivia Rodrigo Slams ‘Sexist Criticism’ That Her Songwriting Focuses On Angsty Relationship Drama: ‘I’m A Teenage Girl’
etcanada.comOlivia Rodrigo burst onto the pop charts with her hit single “Drivers Licence”, but has no patience for “BS” complaints that her songs focus on teenage angst. “I try not to look at it or take that stuff super seriously,” the 18-year-old says in an interview with The Guardian.
However, she admitted she had picked up on the “sexist criticism of songwriters like me being told that they only write songs about boys.” RELATED: Olivia Rodrigo Talks ‘Drivers License’ Success And Having Fans Dissect Her Love Life Pointing out she’d seen similar criticism levelled at her songwriting idol Taylor Swift — “which is just BS in my mind” — she said the argument being made didn’t make sense to her. “I’m a teenage girl, I write about stuff that I feel really
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