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Taylor Swift has a younger brother, Austin Kingsley Smith, who works as an actor. [355][356] NPR remarked that Swift's songs offer emotional engagement because "the wit and clarity of her arrangements turn them from standard fare to heartfelt disclosures". B efore the 11 Grammy wins, before cottagecore, before Joe Alwyn, before Cornelia Street, before the squad, before the legend of track 5, before the endless Easter eggs . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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"This absolutely contributes to the success of her re-releases because fans are emotionally invested in Taylor in a personal and emotional way." Swift is famously secretive about her love life, except when it comes to her music. [161] Swift's intellectual property rights holding company, TAS Rights Management, filed for 73 trademarks related to Swift and the 1989 era memes. [314], Swift possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range,[315] and a generally soft but versatile timbre. [292] She became a teen idol with her debut,[383] and has since been a dominant figure in popular culture,[384] often referred to as a pop icon. Academy Of Country Music Awards. 13. But I was inspired by this lady ever since. [396] Critics have highlighted the misogyny and slut-shaming to which Swift's life and career have been subject. [377] Swift produced the music video for "Bad Blood" and won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2016. [11] She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters,[12] before transferring to The Wyndcroft School. [382] Swift has cited Chlo Zhao, Greta Gerwig, Nora Ephron, Guillermo del Toro, John Cassavetes and Noah Baumbach as her filmmaking influences. [15] She spent her summers at the beach in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, and performed in a local coffee shop. Taylor does not like to talk about her politics under a public spotlight unless it is about issues that matter deeply to her. [24] She was rejected, however, because "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. [173] After briefly dating English actor Tom Hiddleston,[174] Swift began dating English actor Joe Alwyn in September 2016. [164] At the 2014 American Music Awards, Swift received the inaugural Dick Clark Award for Excellence. [199] It was followed up with an accompanying concert film on Netflix. 1", "Calvin Harris trumps Michael Jackson feat to join Taylor Swift, Rihanna and One Direction in Guinness World Records 2014 book", "Taylor Swift Leads Record Breaking Digital Sales Week", "Taylor Swift raises the bar with a savvy 'Red' marketing campaign", "Taylor Swift's 'Red': A Canonical Coming-Of-Age Album", "Taylor Swift's 'Red' Sells 1.21 Million; Biggest Sales Week for an Album Since 2002", "Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Justin Bieber Among 2014 Guinness Record-Setters", "Taylor Swift Scores Fourth U.K. No. [144] She joined Florida Georgia Line on stage during their set at the 2013 Country Radio Seminar to sing "Cruise". [574] Professor Elizabeth Scala dubs Swift a bridge between contemporary and historical fiction. [38] Rose thought the sessions were "some of the easiest I've ever done. The former's "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" were the first country songs to top the U.S. pop and all-genre airplay charts, respectively. Swift was the first female and second artist overall to win Video of the Year for a video that they directed. invisible string. Are you ready for it? [265] Carole King considers Swift her "professional grand daughter" and thanked Swift for "carrying the torch forward. CNN It's official. 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Swift Endorsement deals with Keds (American . [478][479], Swift has endorsed many brands and businesses. Her genre-spanning discography, artistic reinventions and songwriting have received critical praise and wide media coverage. [507][508] Hence, musicologists Mary Fogarty and Gina Arnold regard her as "the last great rock star". [498] Rolling Stone listed Swift's country music as one of the biggest influences on 2010s pop music,[499] and ranked her 80th in their 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time list. Here's a look inside the $81 million worth of mansions and penthouses the pop superstar owns", "Are You Ready for It? [184] The single was Swift's first U.K. number-one single. with Dave Meyers, and "You Need to Calm Down" (also serving as a co-executive producer) and "Lover" with Drew Kirsch,[380] but also ventured into sole direction with the videos for "The Man" (which won her the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction), "Cardigan", "Willow", "Anti-Hero" and "Bejeweled". [509] Swift is the only artist in Luminate Data history to have five albums sell over a million copies in a week. [115] Rolling Stone placed Speak Now at number 45 in its 2012 list of the "50 Best Female Albums of All Time", writing: "She might get played on the country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days, with a flawless ear for what makes a song click. [88] At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, Fearless was named Album of the Year and Best Country Album, and "White Horse" won Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance. [165] On her 25th birthday in 2014, the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live opened an exhibit in her honor in Los Angeles that ran until October 4, 2015, and broke museum attendance records. [292] The University of Texas at Austin,[572] New York University,[573] and Queen's University at Kingston offer courses on Swift in literary and sociopolitical contexts. [475] Swift maintains an active presence on social media and a close relationship with fans, to which many journalists attribute her success. "[375], From 2014 to 2018, Swift collaborated with director Joseph Kahn on eight music videosfour each from her albums 1989 and Reputation. [410] She co-chaired the 2016 Met Gala. [570], She is a subject of academic study;[571] her music and fame are popular topics of scholarly media research. Billboard 200, where it spent 157 weeksthe longest stay on the chart by any release in the U.S. in the 2000s decade. Taylor Alison Swift was born to Andrea Gardner Swift and Scott Kingsley Swift on 13th December, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month & #RAINNDay, Taylor Swift has made a generous gift to RAINN. [324][325][326] Pitchfork noted her as a "versatile, expressive vocalist". [200], Reputation was Swift's last album with Big Machine. [439] She has also donated $100,000 to the V Foundation for Cancer Research[440] and $50,000 to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. [395] The New York Times asserted in 2013 that her "dating history has begun to stir what feels like the beginning of a backlash" and questioned whether she was in the midst of a "quarter-life crisis". 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Picture: Getty On 1 July, reports broke yet again that Taylor and Joe have been secretly engaged for some time now. [239] The second re-recording Red (Taylor's Version) was released on November 12. "[20] She spent weekends performing at local festivals and events. Taylor Swift is back and she's embracing her curly roots again. [50] She spent much of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift with a radio tour, television appearances; she opened for Rascal Flatts on select dates during their 2006 tour,[51] as a replacement for Eric Church. [108], At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Swift won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for "Mean", which she performed during the ceremony. [187] It incorporated a heavy electropop sound, along with hip hop, R&B, and EDM influences. [204] Lover made Swift the first female artist to have a sixth consecutive album sell more than 500,000 copies in one week in the U.S.[205] Critics commended the album's free-spirited mood and emotional intimacy. [91], Swift featured on John Mayer's single "Half of My Heart" and Boys Like Girls' single "Two Is Better Than One", both of which she co-wrote. No on both counts. The song "Tim McGraw . Asked why photos of . [208] Other singles from Lover were the U.S. top-10 singles "You Need to Calm Down" and "Lover", and U.S. top-40 single "The Man". [422] In response to the May 2010 Tennessee floods, Swift donated $500,000 during a telethon hosted by WSMV. Exiting Big Machine, Swift signed with Republic Records in 2018 and released her seventh studio album, Lover (2019), followed by the autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020). [210] At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, "Me!" [564] Various sources deem Swift's music a paradigm representing the millennial generation;[565] Vox called her the "millennial Bruce Springsteen",[566] and The Times named her "the Bob Dylan of our age". She gave a girl $90 out of her purse in Central Park to get Chipotle for the fan's birthday. [209] Lover and its singles earned nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020. All appeared on Billboard's Hot Country Songs, with "Our Song", and "Should've Said No" reaching number one. [99][100], In August 2010, Swift released "Mine", the lead single from her third studio album, Speak Now. In a Colorado courtroom, Swift described the incident: "He stayed latched onto my bare ass cheek" as photos were being snapped. [604], In the US, Swift has sold over 37.3million albums as of 2019,[593] when Billboard placed her eighth on its Greatest of All Time Artists Chart. [615] In 2014, she was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the music category[616] and again in 2017 in its "All-Star Alumni" category. [102] Speak Now, released on October 25, 2010,[103] debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of one million copies. [461] She endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. t.co/oE7P1BVnNJ", "Taylor Swift's cash gift helps student take up degree", "Taylor Swift on Going Pop, Ignoring the Gossip and the Best (Worst) Nickname She's Ever Had", "Taylor Swift: 'I was literally about to break', "Taylor Swift: 'Pop music can feel like it's The Hunger Games, and like we're gladiators', "The Original 300+ Time's Up Signatories", "Taylor Swift Says She's 'Absolutely Terrified' After Roe v. 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