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 Mancunian Way: We're out
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Here is today's Mancunian Way: Hello, We’re out! Manchester will not be hosting the Eurovision Song contest, despite our proven pop credentials (Take That, M People, Cleopatra…I mean come on!) Nevermind eh.
It’ll be either Liverpool or Glasgow doing the honours in place of Ukraine. As a show of solidarity with our North West neighbours I’ll be rooting for Liverpool.
Although I hope the trains are a bit more reliable by then. I don’t fancy battling the M62 in my Lordi costume. Manchester Council leader Bev Craig has spoken for us all by expressing her disappointment, but says the successful city will ’put on an incredible event on behalf of our friends in Ukraine’.
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