T SWIFT: Then And Now
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T SWIFT: Then And Now

A look into the past, present, and future of one of the most successful artists in the world.

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T SWIFT: Then And Now
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All eyes have been on Taylor Swift since her debut as a country artist in 2006. The youngest artist ever to be signed by Sony, she has become one of the most popular contemporary female recording artists today.


Taylor's debut self-titled album released in 2006, began her career as a country music singer. Since then, Taylor has won 10 GRAMMY's, was the youngest recipient of the music industry's highest honor, the GRAMMY award for Album of the Year and is the only female in history of the GRAMMY's to win Album of the Year twice. Taylor is the only artist in history to have an album hit the 1 million first-week sales figure three times (2010’s SpeakNow, 2012’s RED and 2014’s 1989). She’s a household name whose insanely catchy yet deeply personal self-penned songs transcend music genres, and a savvy businesswoman who has built a childhood dream into an empire.

We all remember when Taylor began her career as a country music artist, and we have all watched her grow and transition out of country music to singing pop music.


We fell in love with Taylor and her blonde curly hair and innocent voice. Taylor was the type of artist who wrote songs about her personal experiences, particularly love and relationships.


Whether you care to admit it or not, you probably know close to every single word of her most popular songs: Our Song, Teardrops on My Guitar, Love Story, Red, Shake it Off, Bad Blood, the list goes on and on. As much as you want to hate Taylor Swift for switching from country music to pop, you cant help but dance around and sing to her catchy tunes.

According to her biography on her website: In the fall of 2014, when Taylor released her critically acclaimed fifth album, 1989, she astounded the world by selling almost 1.3 million albums in its debut week -- a feat that had been called impossible. She calls 1989 her most cohesive collection of confessionals yet. It is a touchstone: Taylor's songwriting and sonic evolution surprise us more than ever before. Heavily keyboard- and beat-driven, on 1989, the pop sensibilities that have always been the hallmark of Taylor’s music now move front and center. And throughout the album’s release and the record-breaking world tour that followed, she found herself, as always, in the glare of a blinding spotlight -- but if you think that scares her, you haven’t been paying attention.


It feels like T-Swizzle has been around for a very long time already. She has released multiple albums that have been extremely successful and keeps releasing records that the world falls in love with. Her music has transitioned from sappy love songs and bashing your ex-boyfriend songs to songs about herself and her happiness.

On her website, she also writes a piece on herself: About Me, From Me

"For the last few years, I’ve woken up every day not wanting, but needing to write a new style of music. I needed to change the way I told my stories and the way they sounded. I listened to a lot of music from the decade in which I was born and I listened to my intuition that it was a good thing to follow this gut feeling. I was also writing a different storyline than I’d ever told you before.

I wrote about moving to the loudest and brightest city in the world, the city I had always been overwhelmed by...Until now. I think you have to know who you are and what you want in order to take on New York and all its blaring truth. I wrote about the thrill I got when I finally learned that love, to some extent, is just a game of cat and mouse. I wrote about looking back on a lost love and understanding that nothing good comes without loss and hardship and constant struggle. There is no ‘riding off into the sunset,’ like I used to imagine. We are never out of the woods, because we are always going to be fighting for something. I wrote about love that comes back to you just when you thought it was lost forever, and how some feelings never go out of style. I wrote about an important lesson I learned recently...That people can say whatever they want about me, but they can’t make me lose my mind. I’ve learned how to shake things off.

I’ve told you my stories for years now. Some have been about coming of age. Some have been about coming undone. This is a story about coming into your own, and as a result…Coming alive."

Taylor Swift will always be a force to be reckoned with, and I cant wait to see what she does next.
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