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.
Open Mike Eagle announces new mixtape
completemusicupdate.comOpen Mike Eagle has announced that he will release new mixtape ‘Component System With The Auto Reverse’ this autumn. He’s also released the first track from it, ‘I’ll Fight You’.The fourteen track release, which features collaborations with Aesop Rock, Madlib and Quelle Chris, among others, is inspired by the rapper’s earliest experiences discovering hip hop.“When I was in high school I used to stay up late to tape the hip hop shows on college radio station WHPK on the south side of Chicago”, he says. “It was the only way to hear the underground rap songs that changed my world”.“I still have many of the cassettes, with songs by giants like MF Doom, DITC, Outsidaz, All Natural, Juggaknots, Organized Konfusion and more”, he goes on. “I named each tape.
I named one ‘Component System’. This album was made in the spirit of that tape but with new music from me. Some of the people on the original tape appear on this album.
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