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.
Rap is starting to sound a whole lot like Michigan
thefader.comAs expansive and forward-pushing as rap can be, it’s equally, if not more, steeped in comfort and familiarity. Almost as quickly as trends are set, they become played out.
Ones that stick are practically absorbed into the genre’s DNA, stylistic origins blurred as they become pastiche. For better or worse, every flow, drumkit, vocal preset, or sound effect is liable to become just another piece of the toolkit for making a contemporary rap song.
Sometimes it sounds like rap has been preserved in amber since 2018; twangy guitars and weepy keys continue to play in a loop with no end in sight. “Sold Out Dates” was such an undeniable hit that Gunna and Lil Baby went back and did it again a few months later with “Drip Too Hard.” (The latter peaked at No.
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