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.
Tips for Eating Out from a Former Food “Critic”
thegavoice.comI’ve written a restaurant dining column for Creative Loafing, “Grazing,” for more than 30 years. For most of that time, it was weekly and required me to eat out five days a week.
I did not start writing it because I particularly wanted to; I was editor of the paper and the initial writer left after three years.
I couldn’t find a replacement who could sustain the weekly schedule, so I took it over. I refused to call myself a critic, and we always had someone else on staff to take that official role.
My goal was mainly to write humor and commentary against the backdrop of eating out. I broke all the official rules of dining criticism.
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