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 Road Up': Film Review
hollywoodreporter.comDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, some films take on more relevance than anyone could have planned. (Contagion is just the start.) The Road Up, a worthwhile new documentary about a Chicago jobs-training program, has the bad luck to be the opposite kind.
It takes viewers into a program called Cara, which offers practical help to people who are especially challenged in finding employment, often because of prison sentences or personal histories with drugs.
Cara's heartfelt message of hope still stands, but must have been far more convincing before the pandemic caused unemployment numbers to soar.
What now? Much of The Road Up was shot in 2016, but it feels like an artifact from the distant past, desperately in need of an update.
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