Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, in full Taylor Alison Swift, (born December 13, 1989, West Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American pop and country music song writer whose tales of young heartache achieved widespread success in the early 21st century.
Musician Taylor Swift was earning renown as a country music singer by the age of 16. Early hits like "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me" appealed to country and pop fans alike and helped fuel the multi-platinum success of her albums, including the Grammy-winning Fearless (2008). Swift continued to top the charts with her 2014 studio effort 1989, which featured the No. 1 singles "Shake it Off" and "Blank Space" and won Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Her follow-up albums reputation (2018) and Lover (2019) also achieved immense commercial success.
Musical Journey
Starting her career in 2006, Taylor released her debut single Tim McGraw along with her self-titled debut album, which went on to multi-platinum after a stellar debut. In November 2008, she released her second album, Fearless, and earned four Grammys, including Album of the Year.
In 2009, Taylor was the involved with Kanye West‘s famous MTV VMA stunt, interrupting Taylor’s win for Best Female Video to declare Beyonce‘s “Single Ladies” to be superior to Taylor’s winning video for “You Belong With Me.”
She followed her success with her third album Speak on October 25, 2010, selling over a million copies in the first week.
In 2012, Taylor released her fourth studio album Red, which sold 1.21 million units in its first week. She was listed in the 2012 Guinness Book Of World Records as the Fastest Selling Digital Album by a Female Artist for her album Speak Now, and Most Simultaneous U.S. Hot 100 Hits by a Female Artist.
She starred in the 2010 romantic comedy Valentine's Day and animated feature in The Lorax in 2012.
In 2014, Swift’s sound made a complete transition to pop, and she released the pop/synthpop album 1989 in October. It sold over a million copies in its first week of release, and Swift began a worldwide tour for the album in 2015.
Her sixth studio album, Reputation, was released on November 10, and it also sold over 1 million copies in its first week. Her Reputation Tour kicked off on May 8, 2018.
Taylor Swift - Tim McGraw (Age 15 First Performance) - Bing video
Taylor Swift Before She Was Famous: Part 1 - Bing video
My Opinion
For a young teen's first song, it's amazing and really good for a classically trained over time. "Tim McGraw," was only written in 15 minutes. This song seems to use a complex structure to reflect on whether past relationships stay in the past or live on through memories. In the first verse, the narrator recalls a moment of dialogue between two young lovers. The second verse recalls the month after their separation and reveals that the narrator wrote a letter to her lover that she never sent, placing it instead in a box under her bed. The bridge, the only part of the song set in the present, sees the narrator placing the letter on her former lover’s doorstep. The chorus contains the contents of the letter, in which she wishes that he remembers her whenever he hears music by country singer Tim McGraw. The memory is vivid, appealing to the senses with images of the “moon like a spotlight on the lake,” the sound of a Tim McGraw song that the lovers “danced to all night long” and the feeling of “my head on your chest.”
Sources
“Taylor Swift.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/biography/Taylor-Swift.
“Taylor Swift.” IMDb, 13 Dec. 1989, www.imdb.com/name/nm2357847/bio.
Theaggie. “Taylor Swift’s Genre-Hopping Music Evolution.” The Aggie, 12 Oct. 2020, theaggie.org/2020/10/12/taylor-swifts-genre-hopping-music-evolution.
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