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Taylor Swift announced in April that she would cancel her concerts in 2020, and she is aware that not everybody is privileged as she is. Kevin Winter/ACM2015/Getty Images. Taylor Swift revealed that the relationship came to an abrupt end on a 27-second phone call that Joe Jonas initiated. Height: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m). [500], Her onstage guitar performances contributed to the "Taylor Swift factor", a phenomenon to which upsurge in guitar sales to women, a previously ignored demographic, is attributed. [140] During this time, she briefly dated English singer Harry Styles. [603] Beginning with Fearless, all of her studio albums sold over a million units globally in their opening weeks. [166][167] In 2015, Swift won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist. [321] Los Angeles Times remarked in 2010 that Swift's defining vocal feature is her attention to detail to convey an exact feeling"the line that slides down like a contented sigh or up like a raised eyebrow". [613], Swift has appeared in various power listings. [86] The album ranked number 99 on NPR's 2017 list of the 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women. On June 30, 2022 The Sun exclusively revealed that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn are secretly engaged - five years after they first started dating. [50][9] Following "Tim McGraw", four more singles were released throughout 2007 and 2008: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No". [390][391] YouGov surveys ranked her as the world's most admired female musician from 2019 to 2021. [448], Swift refrained from discussing politics early in her career, fearing it might influence people. It became her first number one in the U.S. and New Zealand,[123][124] and reached the top slot on iTunes' digital song sales chart 50 minutes after its release, earning the Fastest Selling Single in Digital History Guinness World Record. ", "Taylor Swift Has Signed A Multi-Year Deal With AT&T", "Watch Taylor Swift Hilariously Moonlight and Fail as a Bartender and Server in New Commercial", "Taylor Swift and Stella McCartney Reveal Their Lover Fashion Collaboration", "Taylor Swift Tapped as First Record Store Day Global Ambassador", "Love Story: The Impact of Taylor Swift's First Decade in Music", "Taylor Swift's incredible success in graphs who can blame me for being a Swiftie as a 50-year-old man? [622] She was the highest-paid celebrity of 2016 with $170milliona feat recognized by the Guinness World Records as the highest annual earnings ever for a female musician,[623] which she herself surpassed with $185million in 2019. [307][308] Although reviews of Swift's pop albums were generally positive, some critics lamented that the pop music production indicated Swift's pursuit of mainstream success, eroding her authenticity as a songwriter nurtured by her country music backgrounda criticism that has been retrospectively described as rockist. [241] The film received highly positive reviews of Swift's direction. [574] Professor Elizabeth Scala dubs Swift a bridge between contemporary and historical fiction. Tags: charity . [48] It made Swift the first female country-music artist to write or co-write every track on a U.S. platinum-certified album. [178] Swift and English singer Zayn Malik released a single together, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", for the soundtrack of the film Fifty Shades Darker (2017). Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter; who made her debut in the music industry in 2006 and is still going strong with her long list of popular and chart-buster songs. [507][508] Hence, musicologists Mary Fogarty and Gina Arnold regard her as "the last great rock star". [511] She is regarded as a champion of independent record shops,[492][512] contributing to the 21st-century vinyl revival. [458] She has donated to the LGBT organizations Tennessee Equality Project and GLAAD. Swift's seventh album, 2019 [414] Swift further popularized Polaroid motifs with 1989,[415] and cottagecore with Folklore and Evermore. ", "The 200 Most Important Artists of Pitchfork's First 25 Years", "Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars of 2021: No. [85] Billboard named her 2009's Artist of the Year. [152] The album was released on October 27, 2014, and debuted atop the U.S. [53] "Teardrops on My Guitar" reached number thirteen on the U.S. Taylor Swift's entire catalogue is back on Spotify. [226] The albums garnered widespread critical acclaim. [509] Swift is the only artist in Luminate Data history to have five albums sell over a million copies in a week. [23] She traveled with her mother at age eleven to visit Nashville record labels and submitted demo tapes of Dolly Parton and The Chicks karaoke covers. [342][343] She delved into the tumult of toxic relationships on Red,[344] and embraced nostalgia and post-romance positivity on 1989. 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Honored with titles such as Artist of the Decade and Woman of the Decade, Swift is an advocate for artists' rights and women's empowerment. [472] Publications describe her discography as a music "universe" subject to analyses by fans, critics and journalists,[473][474][384] referred to as "Swiftology" in the media. In. [352][353][354] Critics praised her melodic songwriting; Rolling Stone described Swift as "a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture". [37] They began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. Here are twenty rules Taylor Swift's staff has to follow if they want to work for her. [407] Her street style has received acclaim. [195] At the American Music Awards of 2018, Swift won four awards, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. [227][228] Three singles supported each of the albums, catering the U.S. mainstream radio, country radio, and triple A radio. "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer was the first song Swift learned to play on the guitar. 9 minutes. [192] It spawned three other international singles, including the U.S. top-five entry "Ready for It? [164] At the 2014 American Music Awards, Swift received the inaugural Dick Clark Award for Excellence. [118] She contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album: "Safe & Sound", co-written and recorded with the Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open". She lists Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams,[281] the Rolling Stones,[282] Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, and Carly Simon as her career role models. [468] Inc. dubs her an "incredible flywheel" of social media buzz and virtual word-of-mouth,[469] and The Ringer said she is an omnipresent "musical biosphere unto herself", having achieved the kind of success "that turns a person into an institution, into an inevitability. [451] In 2019, Swift told The Guardian that when she started her country music career, she was advised against discussing politics by her label executives because of the consequences of the Dixie Chicks controversy, but finally decided to speak up after she became disillusioned with contemporary American politics and moved out of Big Machine. Taylor Swift is back and she's embracing her curly roots again. [203] Besides Jack Antonoff, Swift worked with new producers Louis Bell, Frank Dukes, and Joel Little. All appeared on Billboard's Hot Country Songs, with "Our Song", and "Should've Said No" reaching number one. "[388], Journalists have written about Swift's polite and "open" personality,[34][43] calling her a "media darling" and "a reporter's dream". She is the most streamed woman on Spotify, and the only act to have five albums open with over one million copies sold in the US. TAYLOR Swift's colourful dating life has inspired some of her greatest songs, and helped make her into the global superstar she is today.The singer h [421] Swift has performed at charity relief events, including Sydney's Sound Relief concert. [451], She identifies as a pro-choice[452] feminist, and is one of the founding signatories of the Time's Up movement against sexual harassment. [306] Her albums Reputation (2017) and Lover (2019) have an upbeat pop production; the former incorporates hip hop and trap elements. [172] Prior to their breakup, they co-wrote the song "This Is What You Came For", which features vocals from Barbadian singer Rihanna; Swift was initially credited under the pseudonym Nils Sjberg. Perfectly Fine",[238] the first of which made Swift the second artist after Dolly Parton to have both the original and the re-recording of a single reach number one on the Hot Country Songs chart. 11. Charles Sykes/AP Van Halen demanded all the brown M&M's be removed from the group's candy bowl. [311] Swift eschewed mainstream pop in favor of alternative styles like indie rock with her 2020 studio albums, Folklore and Evermore. [372], Swift's music, life and image are points of attention in the global celebrity culture. The most daring outfits Taylor Swift has worn over the years, from a see-through catsuit to gowns with bold cutouts. It's well-known by now that Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and Katy Perry have a problem with Taylor Swift. [410] She co-chaired the 2016 Met Gala. Not only does she have an approximated net worth of $360 million, but she also has a lengthy list of trophies under belt. Getty. [433] Also a promoter of children's literacy, she has donated money and books to various schools around the country to improve education.