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 countryside is finally getting more diverse – and it’s about time
telegraph.co.ukCountryfile sparked a race row two years ago when they claimed people from Bame backgrounds feel unwelcome in the countryside because it is a “white environment”.
But of course the issue of race and country life has been discussed for decades. As a child in Somerset, I remember a black friend talking to me about how difficult she found it to grow up in an area where so few people looked like her.
Later I would come to understand that for me growing up rurally had added to my estrangement from the Jewish community – who I later found so accessible in London.If now discussions about racism in the countryside seem novel, perhaps it’s only because they’re finally being heard.
From hurtful words kept secret, hugged in fear, people are finding ways to more openly share their experiences.Perhaps in part, discussions about racism in the countryside are louder now, not because racism itself has become more heightened, but because the number of people of colour moving to the countryside has increased.
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