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.
Pub punters warned about foul-mouthed parrot who can't stop dropping the F-bomb
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA foul-mouthed parrot has been banned from watching TV because he can't stop dropping the F-bomb after picking up bad language - from action films.
Louis the African Grey parrot often goes on 'rants' and 'starts shouting the F-word' around customers in the pub he lives in.
Owner Andy Ashby, 50, says the five-and-a-half year old parrot is now that bad he's trying to stop the bad language by getting the bird to socialise with his punters rather than letting him watch TV.
And he's even had to put a note on his cage in his pub, the Nailmakers Arms in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to warn others of the swearing and that he could bite them if they get too close.
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