Taylor

Taylor Swift has become a very rare pop icon: a celebrity who has strayed from country music to pop culture, becoming a pop icon that is enduring as she captures the hearts and minds of millions around the globe. Swift left her roots in traditional music as if she was a new layer, showing herself to be the smartest pop songwriter and singer of that her generation has ever seen. Swift was able to draw inspiration from the zeitgeist of today and turn it into her personal. Her early songs like the Neotribute to Tim McGraw were a testament to her abilities. The second album Fearless of 2008 proved to be an artist who found her voice and an even wider public. The album was hugely successful and not just in America, which is where six singles were certified platinum on the backs of Top Ten hit songs Love Story and Belong with Me. But the album also enjoyed a great reception across the globe. Speak Now delivered almost two years later and consolidated this success and propelled Swift up the ranks of celebrity. Swift's popularity grew over the course of her three subsequent albums, Red (2012) as well as 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017), and she was established as the genre she was a part of. Even when she scaled back her approach with 2020's stripped-down twins release folklore and Evermore she remained atop the world of pop, a position that she maintained by rerecordings from her earlier catalog, as well as Midnights the top charting synth heavy 2022 collection.