Taylor Alison Swift

is an American singer-songwriter. As one of the world's leading contemporary recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which has received widespread media coverage. Wikipedia
Born: 13 December 1989 (age 29 years), Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

Swift has received many awards and honors, including 10 Grammy Awards, 23 American Music Awards (most wins by a female artist), 23 Billboard Music Awards (the most wins by an act), 12 Country Music Association Awards, 8 Academy of Country Music Awards, one Brit Award,] and one Creative Arts Emmy Award. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has been listed in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.

Swift has sold more than 50 million albums, 150 million single downloads, and was one of the top five music artists with the highest worldwide digital sales. Swift's studio albums Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, and 1989 have all sold over 4 million copies in the US. She is the third best-selling digital singles artist in the US with a total of 106.5 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America.

Reputation 

is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on November 10, 2017, through Big Machine Records. The record was primarily produced by Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback and Swift herself, who also serves as the executive producer. Artists featured on the album include English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and American rapper Future.

Reputation received generally positive reviews from music critics and reached number one in 13 countries including the United Kingdom, and United States. In the US, the album sold 1.216 million copies in its first week of release, making it the country's best-selling album of 2017, while with global sales of 4.5 million copies, it was the second best-selling album of 2017 worldwide.

It received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Grammy Awards, becoming her second nomination in the category. To promote the album, Swift embarked on the Reputation Stadium Tour, starting on May 8, 2018 and ended on November 21 of the same year. The tour grossed $345.7 million, being the second highest-grossing concert tour of the year and the highest grossing tour of all time in United States History. A concert film based on the tour was released on Netflix on December 31, 2018.

The album's title alludes to many of its lyrical themes, such as handling fame and media coverage of celebrities. The cover art, which portrays Swift over a background of a tabloid publication, reinforces these themes. The title also is derived from lyrics on the songs "End Game" ("Big reputation, big reputation, ooh, you and me we got big reputations") and "Delicate" ("My reputation's never been worse").

 

Greg Kot, writing for Chicago Tribune, described the album as "another shift, this time into electronic pop". Neil McCormick, from The Daily Telegraph, defined it as "brash, weaponised pop", while Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield said that "Reputation builds on the synth-pop of 1989". Swift explained that the album had a linear timeline, starting with how she felt when she started working on the album, and transitioning to how she feels now. The album's opener, "...Ready for It?", is a "pop-oriented", "electronic-inspired"electropop and industrial pop song, with elements of tropical house, dubstep and trap music. Swift states the song "introduces a metaphor you may hear more of throughout the rest album, which is like this kind of Crime and Punishment metaphor". The track is "basically about finding your own partner in crime", Swift said.

  

"I Did Something Bad", the album's third song, was written on the piano. Swift explained to iHeartRadio that the idea for the production of the song came to her in a dream. Swift described the concept to producer Max Martin, who used Swift's voice and pitched it down to create the effect that takes place after the chorus. Swift's goal for "Delicate" was to use the vocoder to create an "emotional" and "vulnerable" sound for the track. She explains the song is about, "what happens when you meet somebody that you really want in your life and then you start worrying about what they've heard before they met you." Lead single "Look What You Made Me Do" started out as a poem and is "about realizing that you couldn't trust certain people, but realizing you appreciate the people you can trust." It interpolates the song "I'm Too Sexy" by the British dance-pop group Right Said Fred.

Swift structured "King of My Heart" such that each individual section of the song was its own phase of a relationship, with the sections getting deeper and more fast-paced as the song went on.The twelfth song on the album, "Dress", contains many lines that Swift "came up with like a year before". It was described by critics as Swift's "sexiest song to date" and bringing out her sensual side at last. "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things", the thirteenth track, heavily references Swift's feud with rapper Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian, which was believed to be the cause of Swift's reputation being ruined. "Call It What You Want" was recorded at Jack Antonoff's home studio in Brooklyn. Swift said the song best represents her current emotional state. The album's closer, "New Year's Day", explores the flip side of the romanticism of a New Year's Eve kiss, and is about how the one that sticks around the next day to "give you Advil and clean up the house" is the person that matters more.

  

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

What did she do to pursue her dreams? To pursue her music career, Taylor and her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee. One of her remarkable performance helped her get a contract with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records, where she released her first single, "Tim McGraw", in 2006.

I've been listening and supporting Taylor ever since I was 8 years old, it started when my eldest sister suggested that I listen to one of her songs which is "You Belong With Me", I liked her style of singing that's why I decided to listen to her other songs too. I memorized most of her old songs because it calms me whenever I listen and sing with it.

I also admire her work because she started her career at a very young age, at my current age which is 14 years old, it's very impressive and inspiring to see a girl full of passion to pursue her dreams. Her talent and confidence is truly inspiring.

Her new album "reputation"  is far different from her past albums, from the song "Look What You Made Me Do", there was a part where she said; "The old Taylor can't come to the phone right now, why?,'cause she's dead". I really felt that, the old Taylor has changed from a vulnerable girl full of heartbreaks, to a stronger independent individual. 

I love how she could relate her songs to her personal life and experiences. It's like, she's making herself as her own inspiration and it's amazing.

She have gained thousands and millions of supporters, fans, subscribers, and followers through years of hard work and effort, and I feel proud of her even if I'm just a supporter, because she deserves it.

I will always love her style and always be inspired through listening to her songs even if it gets old. Her old songs will always be classical and inspirational for me.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift