Taylor

Taylor Swift was a rarity in the world of pop music: she was the sole celebrity who crossed from country into the mainstream and then to be an international icon of pop culture. Swift shed her country roots like they were a second skin revealing that she was possibly the most savvy popular singer/songwriter in her generation someone who was able to harness the zeitgeist make it personal and just as impressively perform the reverse. The skills she displayed could be seen in the first songs she released, most notably the neodue Tim McGraw. But on the second album Fearless released in 2008 Swift could identify who she is and find an audience that was large. The album was able to have significant reach not just on the U.S. where it racked the record with six platinum singles, thanks to Top Ten hits Love Story and You Belong with Me but throughout the globe, performing especially well within Canada, the U.K. Canada and Australia. Swift's new album Speak Now, released almost two years after the first one, consolidated this momentum. It helped propel Swift into the spotlight. Her popularity only increased over her next three albums - Red (2012) 1989 (2014) as well as Reputation (2017) and Reputation in 2017 and found her moving assuredly into a realm of pop music where she already belonged. It was not long before she reformulated her approach by releasing 2020's streamlined the folk singer (and Evermore) and stayed in the forefront of pop culture.