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 Stand Review: The CBS All Access Adaptation Captures Stephen King's War of Good vs. Evil
tvguide.comThe Stand arrived in bookstores in 1978, few reviewers hailed it as a modern classic. A widely circulated Associated Press review predicted it might "merely make some readers sleep," rather than prompt them to sleep with the lights on.
UPI was kinder, but condescending, saying it "ain't art — but it's fun." One of the few unabashedly glowing notices came from Jim Ridley in the Murfeesboro, Tenn.
Morning Press who called it a "new American classic." Later an acclaimed film critic and editor for the Nashville Scene, Ridley was all of 12 when he wrote the review, but it's safe to say popular opinion has swung his way in the 40+ years since The Stand's publication.
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