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 was turned down for a cameo in Twilight: New Moon by director Chris Weitz
dailymail.co.ukTaylor Swift almost made an appearance in the beloved Twilight saga. The songstress, 32, was a Twilight fan and had her agent petition for a cameo in the second film - New Moon - but was turned down by director Chris Weitz, who didn't want her to be a distraction for viewers.However, years after the decision he says he regrets it: 'I kick myself for it too...
I could have been hanging out with Taylor Swift, and maybe we could've been friends,' he said on Ashley Greene's The Twilight Effect podcast.
Almost: Taylor Swift, 32, almost made an appearance in the Twilight saga, but was turned down by the director who didn't want her to be a distraction for viewers; Pictured 2021'The craziest [casting story] of all was to hear that Taylor Swift was a huge Twi-hard,' the 52-year-old filmmaker revealed on the episode, while speaking to Greene (who starred as Alice Cullen in the movies) and Melanie Howe. 'Taylor Swift and I had the same agent at the time and he said, "Taylor would like to be in this movie – not because of you, but she's a Twi-hard.
She will be someone at the cafeteria, or the diner, or whatever, but she just wants to be in this movie.'" Weitz explained that his reason for saying 'no' came down to what was best for the film: 'The hardest thing for me was to be like, "The moment that Taylor Swift walks onto the screen for about five minutes, nobody is going to be able to process anything,"' Turned down: The songstress, 32, was a Twilight fan and had her agent petition for a cameo in the second film New Moon, however director Chris Weitz, 52, turned her down; Pictured 2018 Regret: Weitz said he regrets the decision: 'I kick myself for it too...
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