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.
Taylor Swift asked Lorne Michaels to cut ‘SNL’ sketch about her girl squad: ‘I do not negotiate with terrorists’
nypost.comVulture report about Michaels, 80, claims that the NBC series asked Swift, 35, to make a cameo in a 2015 skit that spoofed her “Bad Blood” music video, which featured Swift and her celebrity pals Zendaya, Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevingne, Karlie Kloss, Ellie Goulding, Ellen Pompeo, Cindy Crawford, Hayley Williams, Mariska Hargitay, Lena Dunham and more.The outlet said that Swift called Michaels directly and declined to be in the sketch.
She also reportedly asked him to kill it from the show entirely.Michaels, according to Vulture, “heard Swift out, but as he did he picked up a piece of popcorn from the basket on his desk.”He reportedly told the singer, “Taylor, I do not negotiate with terrorists,” before allegedly “tossing the kernel into the air and catching it with his mouth.”There were two “Bad Blood” sketches that ultimately aired on the show.
The first followed Aidy Bryant and Vanessa Bayer as two young women trapped in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by Swift and her squad.The second sketch, called “Tina & Amy’s Dope Squad,” starred Tina Fey and Amy Poehler who form a squad that includes Amy Schumer, Gayle King and Robert Downey Sr.The Vulture report said that after the first sketch aired, Swift sent Michaels flowers and a note that read, “I hope there’s no bad blood.”The Post has reached out to Swift’s rep for comment.Swift has appeared on “SNL” several times over the years.
She made her debut on the show as a musical guest in 2009, and then returned later that year to host.She performed as the musical guest again in Nov.
Read more on nypost.com
