Taylor

Taylor Swift is that rarest of pop stars A superstar who managed to completely cross over from the country music scene to and become a enduring pop culture icon and conquering all over the world at the same time. Swift left country music like it was an additional layer and proved that she is perhaps the smartest pop-singer/songwriter her generation. One who can harness the current zeitgeist and make it personal and also be able to perform at the opposite. Swift's talents were apparent in some of her first tracks, including the Neodue Tim McGraw. But on the second album Fearless that came out in 2008, she could identify the person she was and reach a wide audience. Fearless became a worldwide hit, not only in the United States (where it received six times platinum for the Top Ten Hits Love Story and "You Belong with Me") however, in Canada, Australia as well as the U.K. and many other countries. Swift's next album, Speak Now, released almost two years after the first one, consolidated the success of this album. It helped propel Swift into the spotlight. In the three albums that followed (Reputation 2017, 1989 2014, and Red 2012) Red 2012 1989, Red 2012 as well as Reputation 2017. Swift's popularity only increased. This was a sure indicator that Swift had entered a new pop world where she fit in. However, even when she reduced her strategy with 2020's stripped down sibling releases folklore and Evermore she remained atop the charts, a place she kept with the re-recordings of her earlier catalog, as well as Midnights which was her top-charting synthesizer 2022 set.