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.
The 1975’s Matty Healy shares political campaign-style ad for 2024 tour dates
thefader.comNext week, The 1975 will restart their world tour in North America before heading to the rest of the world. Since those dates were originally announced in the summer, the band’s frontman Matty Healy has gone from the enfant terrible of pop music to, uh, the adulte terrible of pop music thanks to heightened scrutiny over offensive podcast comments made earlier in the year, a brief romance with Taylor Swift, and forcing the cancelation of a Malaysian music festival thanks to an onstage same-sex kiss (that festival has ordered the band to pay $2.5 million or face court proceedings).
In a new ad for The 1975’s tour dates, Healy makes a nod to the controversy, styling it in the vein of a political campaign ad with the theme of redemption.
Healy stars as the ad’s “politician,” and makes the kind of rounds you’d expect from an ad like this: wearing a suit, he mingles with a carpenter and serves food, inter-spliced with stock footage of veterans and students, that kind of thing.
This being Matty Healy, though, it’s not quite as faithful a duplicate: there’s a shot of him doing pushups shirtless and a cutaway to his guest spot on the Adam Friedland Show, the podcast appearance that got him in trouble in the first place.
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