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 talks to Paul McCartney about her songwriting pseudonym for Rihanna and Calvin Harris
nme.comTaylor Swift has addressed her songwriting pseudonym in a new artist-on-artist interview with Paul McCartney.The pop star, who this week chatted to The Beatles legend for Rolling Stone, said “nobody knew for a while” about her co-write on Calvin Harris‘ (feat.
Rihanna) 2016 song ‘This Is What You Came For’. She disguised herself under the name Nils Sjöberg.“I wrote under the name Nils Sjöberg because those are two of the most popular names of Swedish males,” Swift told McCartney. “I wrote this song called ‘This Is What You Came For’ that Rihanna ended up singing.
And nobody knew for a while. I remembered always hearing that when Prince wrote ‘Manic Monday’, they didn’t reveal it for a couple of months.”McCartney added to the discussion:.
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