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.
Whoopi Goldberg Slams Fox News for Touting Taylor Swift Conspiracy That She’s a Government Asset: ‘I’m Tired of Dumb People’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Whoopi Goldberg used the January 11 episode of “The View” to slam Fox News for perpetuating a conspiracy theory that claims the U.S.
government is using Taylor Swift to control public opinion (via Entertainment Weekly). “There are real issues impacting millions of Americans,” Goldberg said. “This is what the Fox News folks wanted viewers to be worried about during their prime-time broadcast on Tuesday.” “The View” then cut to a clip from Fox News featuring popular host Jesse Watters questioning whether or not Swift’s enormous popularity is linked to her being a government asset. “Have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this?” Watters asked his viewers. “Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon’s Psychological Operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting.
What kind of asset? A PsyOp for combatting online misinformation.” Watters tried to claim that Swift encouraging her fans to vote was proof of her ties to the U.S.
government, as “hundreds of thousands of young Taylor Swift fans all of a sudden registered to vote. I wonder who got to her, from the White House or from wherever?” “You know, I have to say, when we talk about snowflakes, you people worry about the weirdest stuff,” Goldberg fired back.
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