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.
Report: Atlanta festival cancelled due to law that makes prohibiting firearms on event grounds illegal
thefader.comThe Music Midtown Festival will no longer take place this September, according to a statement posted on Monday by the event's organizers.
The message only alluded to "circumstances beyond our control" for the cancellation, but a Billboard report claims the "likely cause" is Georgia's gun laws, which make it illegal for Music Midtown to bar attendees from bringing guns onto publically owned land like the festival grounds of Piedmont Park.
Georgia's "Safe Carry Protection Act" was passed in 2014 and allowed citizens of the state to bring guns into places like schools, churches, and bars.
It was expanded in a 2019 court ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court. While certain businesses on public land with "long-term leases" are allowed to ban guns, brief events like Music Midtown are not.
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