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 Who’s Pete Townshend praises Taylor Swift’s songwriting: “I love what she does”
nme.comThe Who‘s Pete Townshend has revealed that he admires Taylor Swift.The guitarist and co-founder of The Who was discussing the art of songwriting with the What It Takes podcast earlier this summer.“I’m a song dreamer in a sense,” he told the podcast. “So I love the great songwriters of my father’s era, Gershwin and so on.
And also the great songwriters of today, past The Beatles and all the rest of them to Taylor Swift.”Townshend went on to praise Swift, saying: “I love what she does, too.
Not that she’s necessarily absolutely always to my taste, but I just love the fact that she seems to love it, that she seems to be having so much fun.
That’s what I identify with.”It’s not the first time the rock legend has spoken in support of Swift. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2019, he expressed sympathy for the ‘Cruel Summer’ singer, after Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group, which included Swift’s early work.
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