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.
Scots mum's abusive ex branded 'M' for Mark into her skin to 'prove he owned her'
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots mum has told how her controlling ex branded her back with the letter M to prove 'he owned her' in an abusive relationship that lasted seven years.Vile thug Martin Burns told Amanda McManus, 30, that no one would believe he was abusing her because the majority of the attacks were not physical.
During his reign of terror, the 31-year-old subjected Amanda, from Johnstone, to a torrent of emotional and physical trauma.
Burns was convicted at Paisley Sheriff Court on March 29 after pleading guilty to a charge of abusive behaviour towards his partner or ex-partner under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018.
Amanda told the Record: "He wouldn't let me go out with my friends and he was always checking my phone. He said I didn't need anyone else but him."He would constantly accuse me of having affairs with people and was even jealous of my relationship with my dad."He told me that no one else would ever want me and that I needed him financially."Amanda said that as well as trying to prevent her from seeing friends and family, Burns told her she was his property.She added: "He branded an M into my back using his nails one day.
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