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 National are in the “gardening phase” of writing new material
nme.comThe National have said that they are in a “very creative space” and are in the “gardening phase” of writing new material.The band dropped two albums in 2023 – ‘The First Two Pages Of Frankenstein‘ and ‘Laugh Track‘ – but this hasn’t stopped new ideas from gestating.“There’s a lot of music, so that means a lot of new music for us to play,” bassist Scott Devendorf told NME at Glastonbury. “We’ve really tried to mix up the setlist a lot and try to be more dynamic in that way just because it’s interesting for everyone.”Asked if there’s more music to come from that universe, Matt Berninger said: “No, we kind of purged ourselves.
Once we started writing again, I wrote almost everything that was in the folders and made a song out of everything. Now the folders are filling up.
I’ve been writing a lot, but I think we’re just gonna take it nice and slow. The garden is full of seeds. But we don’t know when it’s gonna start to bloom or anything like that.
We’re in a very creative space – we’re in a gardening phase. Gardening at night!”Watch our video interview with the band above.Elsewhere in the interview, Berninger explained why he doesn’t like knowing what will be on the band’s setlist for the night. “In not knowing, every time it’s like a new flavoured gum ball and I get to take that little red pill and go to that song in a new way every time.
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