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.
Woman shot by ex in murder-suicide after she revealed divorce journey on TikTok
dailystar.co.ukABC News officers arrived at the scene to find a woman and a man, each with gunshot wounds to their heads. A weapon was also recovered there. READ MORE: Horror Concorde crash that killed 113 was sparked by little metal strip left on runwayThe woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while the man was taken to Northwestern Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.Cook County Coroner's office confirmed their identities and said that Khan's death was ruled a homicide, while Ahmed's death was a suicide.Khan, originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, had used TikTok as an outlet to discuss her struggles with married life and how divorce had helped her find empowerment and begin a new life under the username 'geminigirl_099'.According to the woman's page, her marriage to Ahmed lasted less than a year before she filed for divorce.The Pakistani-American photographer also shared the difficulties she had faced with her family and members of the South Asian community who didn't approve of her divorce, as well as encouraging women to 'stop ignoring those red flags'."Going through a divorce as a South Asian Woman feels like you failed at life sometimes," she wrote in one video. "The way the community labels you, the lack of emotional support you receive, and the pressure to stay with someone because 'what will people say' is isolating. "It makes it harder for women to leave marriages that they shouldn't have been in to begin with."In another video, she wrote that family members had 'lectured' her publicly in a coffee shop after her TikTok about her divorce went viral."Women are always expected to stay silent," she wrote. "It's what keeps us in messed up situations in the first place.
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