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’s ‘Anti-Hero’ and ‘Cruel Summer’: How the Superstar Had the Feel-Cruel Hits of the Summer and Winter, Too
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” wrote William Shakespeare in one of his sonnets.
Well, Bill, you might be enchanted to meet Taylor Swift, who has been busy proving just how long a summer can last: four years and counting, in the case of “Cruel Summer.” The song was released in 2019 but didn’t become a smash until 2023, when by popular acclamation her quasi-oldie was all but officially declared the song of summer. (“What’s past is prologue,” indeed!) The remarkable comeback of “Cruel Summer” was hardly the only major story as Swift singles went in 2023.
Going back into the darker months, “Anti-Hero” was arguably the song of the winter — and the one that reestablished Swift’s supremacy at radio.
Prior to the arrival of the “Midnights” album late in 2022, there was a period of years in which it was assumed that, as massive as she would always be as a seller and a streamer, she might have graduated past the point of having strings of No.
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