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.
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament praise “incredibly prolific” Taylor Swift
nme.comPearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament have shared their thoughts on Taylor Swift – see what they had to say below.This past weekend, Vedder and Ament joined Bill Simmons for the latter’s self-titled podcast, during which they talked about a myriad of topics, including Taylor Swift.
Touching on Swift’s surprise set portion of her show, during which she’d perform a different song every night, Vedder said: “She’s an artist who’s respectful of her audience and I know from my daughter that she’s really kind of incredible at planting these little hidden codes that they can pick up.
And then all of a sudden, it activates all those people that are listening, and has them involved in it.”He continued: “I think it’s done in a very creative way.
She changes it up and there’s talk about what she played that night. The other thing she has working so well for is she’s incredibly prolific, so she’s able to just keep putting out music and putting out music.”Ament chimed in adding that he found her choice of producers “interesting”. “A couple records ago, choosing to work with the Aaron Dessner guy from The National and Bon Iver.
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