Taylor

Taylor Swift is that rarest of pop phenomenons: one of the most famous stars who successfully completely cross over from country to the mainstream becoming an icon of pop culture for the long haul and conquering the world through the process. Swift has shed her roots in traditional music as if she was a new layer, revealing herself as the smartest pop songwriter and singer of in her time. She managed to make use of current trends and make it her personal. The first songs she released such as the neotribute of Tim McGraw were a testament of her ability. But, her follow-up album Fearless was released in 2008 and showed her as an songwriter discovering her voice, and also a larger audience. Fearless was the biggest hit, but not just in the U.S., with six platinum-certified tracks thanks of the Top Ten songs Love Story & the hit song You Belong with Me. It had a great international success, too. places such as Canada, the U.K. Canada & Australia. Swift's second album Speak Now, released almost two years after the first one, consolidated this success. It propelled Swift into superstardom. In the following three years, Swift's popularity was growing with the release of three albums -three times - Red (2012), Reputation (2014) and 1989 (2014-2015) in 2014-2015 as she stepped into the world of pop where her talents were already well established. Even when she scaled back her strategy with 2020's stripped down sister album folklore, and Evermore she was still atop the world of pop, a position she maintained with re-recordings of her older catalogs as well as Midnights her chart-topping synth-heavy 2022 album.