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 once wrote that her biggest fear was a terrorist attack at one of her shows. Swift has canceled her Vienna shows in Austria after learning there was a terrorist plot that would have targeted the Eras Tour.
Swift was set to perform at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. In a 2019 article for Elle, Swift recalled her fears before embarking on her 2018 “Reputation” tour.
Swift reflected on the ISIS bombing of an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, and the mass shooting at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest Music Festival.
The Manchester attack saw 22 people die and 200 injured, while Las Vegas had 64 deaths and 413 wounded. Swift wrote in Elle that such attacks were “My biggest fear.
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