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.
What Do You Want It To Be?
thefader.comWhat Do You Want It To Be?, the follow-up EP to Estereomance's self-titled 2020 full-length debut, is out today. Written while the band sheltered in place in El Paso during the depths of the pandemic, the project confronts an uncertain future with unflinching optomism.
Sonically, though, it could easily function as a breezy soundtrack to a day at the beach. Take lead single "Gardenia Dreams," for example: Adria del Valle and Paulina Rezain finish each other's sentences with eerie ease, as if they've been singing together since birth.
They're equally fluid between rapped and sung passages, and between English and Spanish lyrics. El Paso borders on Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after all, and Esteromance call both cities home..
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