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.
Santigold says touring for middle level artists is “rough”
completemusicupdate.comSantigold has further discussed her recent decision to cancel a US tour on the basis that – now that it has become possible to play live again following all the various COVID lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 – “some of us are finding ourselves simply unable to make it work”.“We were met with the height of inflation”, she said in a statement confirming the cancellations last month. “Gas, tour buses, hotels and flight costs skyrocketed – many of our tried-and-true venues unavailable due to a flooded market of artists trying to book shows in the same cities, and positive [COVID] test results constantly halting schedules with devastating financial consequences”.“All of that on top of the already-tapped mental, spiritual, physical and emotional resources of just having made it through the past few years”, her statement added.In a new interview with Variety, Santigold expands on that theme, explaining that: “Touring has never been great.
It’s always been really, really hard. At the very top level, it works out fine. But at my level – somewhere in the middle – it’s fucking rough”.“Even before COVID”, she adds, “the only time it was really profitable is when I could anchor tours with a bunch of festivals and some private [usually corporate] gigs.
And if you get a tour support from a label or other company – I never have – then you’re in debt even more because that’s a loan.
Nowadays, even people touring at high levels are taking deals, because they can’t make it work either”.As a result, she says, prior to the pandemic “I was making some money but not enough to live off.
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