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.
Reliving the Most Memorable MTV Video Music Award Moments of All Time
etonline.comMTV Video Music Awards are nothing if not entertaining. While they give out accolades and statuettes like at any good awards show, the fact that this is MTV means all bets are off.
As the setting is more relaxed than other ceremonies, musicians and artists often feel they have more room to play, allowing for majorly artistic and often wild moments.
If you're on a first-name basis with your fans -- i.e. pop stars named Miley, Madonna and Taylor — that often means you've had more than one major moment play out on the VMA stage.
That's just what Miley Cyrus did, managing to shock viewers (though not her longtime fans) when she twerked with Robin Thicke onstage in 2013, which she followed up two years later with a hosting gig that included an.
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