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.
Rory O’Neill: ‘I’m gutted at PantiBar graffiti slur, but it’s a reminder of why we need Pride’
evoke.ieA gay bar in Dublin has been targeted with a homophobic slur, sprayed on to a nearby building. PantiBar’s owner, Rory O’Neill, who also goes by his drag name Panti Bliss, shared a photograph of the graffiti on social media yesterday.
The words ‘pedo bar’ were sprayed across the walls of a nearby building, with an arrow pointing towards PantiBar, just two doors down.
Shortly after O’Neill spoke out against the slur, members of the business representative group, DublinTown, painted over the graffiti.
The well known drag queen and gay activist added that there is clear CCTV of the incident happening and it ‘seemed planned’ rather than spur-of-the-moment.
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