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.
Swifties bash Taylor Swift’s ‘lack of empathy’ following her statement on Vienna terror plot
nypost.comshe finally addressed the foiled terror plot targeting her Eras Tour concert in Vienna.In her Wednesday statement, Swift never directly addressed the 200,000 stranded fans who were out thousands of dollars. “I think her statement is absolutely ridiculous and completely lacks empathy,” said Erica Vuitton of Kips Bay, who paid $1,200 for the hotel and $4,500 for the flight to the doomed shows. “She is not the big-hearted fan-loving performer she pretends to be.
It’s sad that the rose-tinted Taylor glasses were ripped off.”The pop star’s Instagram statement came two weeks after the terror threat was revealed by Austrian police on Aug.
7. “Having our Vienna shows canceled was devastating,” she wrote.“The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.” In the post, Swift, 34, also explained her silence.“Let me be very clear: I am not going to speak about something publicly if I think doing so might provoke those who would want to harm the fans who come to my shows,” she wrote.Jessica Smith, 33, of Colorado, said she didn’t approve of the wording the songstress used when addressing her disappointed fans.“The phrase, ‘Let me be clear,’ felt like an attack for us,” said Smith, who paid $4,500 in total for her trip to Vienna with her husband, Luke. “We, the fans, were also scared for our safety and went through a lot of emotions and just wanted some sign that she cared.
Instead, we got silenced and then basically reprimanded in the statement for wanting closure. It just felt like a rushed statement to shut us up.”After the Vienna concerts to be held on Aug.
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