You know, I think that it's hard for critics to look at an arena of screaming year-old girls and say, 'This is really credible songwriting. All Taylor Swift's songs are autobiographical. They thought he was a creep Pop queen has deep country roots. We spoke to Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard. Lesley Stahl: So, you think that the persona and the fan base and all that almost diminishes-- Bill Werde: Yeah, I definitely think it does.
Bill Werde: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, no doubt. Taylor Swift: And he was but I, at the time, just thought he was amazing. Recent Segments Carnegie heroes and the neuroscience behind acts of heroism. Stanching the longest-running oil spill you've likely never heard of.
Missouri law prohibits local police from enforcing federal gun laws. She was a star. She lit up the room. She was very easy to root for. Swift, as a teen-age singer-songwriter, was an anomaly in the country-music industry. The predominant model is the songwriter workshop: writers churn out material in groups of two or three, and the results are hawked by a song-plugger, so that superstars like Tim McGraw can pick their favorites. There had, of course, been other teen-age singers—from Tanya Tucker to LeAnn Rimes—but they often performed material written by and for middle-aged listeners.
As part of her publishing deal, she was matched with professional songwriters. Her mother would set up the writing sessions and drive her there. She eventually began writing regularly with Liz Rose, a middle-aged Texan who co-wrote many of the songs on her first two albums. Some have objected that Swift promotes a noxious, fifties-style ideal of virginal, submissive femininity.
The song sketches out the experiences of Swift and her best friend from high school, Abigail, a University of Kansas student who has become a demi-celebrity among Swifties. More like Speak softly and smile a lot. In person, Swift has a quietly ironic sense of humor. That was incredible.
At every stop on the tour, six workers take five hours to transform a cinder-block holding room into an exotic tented emporium to greet fans. It feels like the refuge of a prosperous Bedouin teen-ager: a central column is decorated with snapshots Swift making a heart symbol with Stephen Tyler , and swaths of purple, yellow, green, and red silk are draped from the top, Maypole style, forming a billowy ceiling.
During each show, Andrea Swift or an assistant scouts the arena and selects the most enthusiastic fans. She gives each lucky girl they are usually girls a wristband and invites her backstage later. Borchetta, a former Universal executive, left to start his own operation, and Swift was his first client.
In the basement is a map of the world stuck with multicolored pins. Swift has sold more than three million albums internationally—an extraordinary number for a country act—and Borchetta outlined the plan of attack: Australia is next.
Since , the Swifts have been in litigation with Dan Dymtrow, a former manager of Britney Spears, who claimed that they had violated a contract with him before Taylor signed with Borchetta. If you believe the version of the story being told to the world, Taylor Swift knocked on record-company doors when she was just thirteen years old. You asked me to break both his legs, wrap him in chains and throw him in the lake.
I did. Hello, hey. It was late afternoon, and she was now in Detroit, preparing to play the first stadium of her tour: Ford Field, which seats fifty thousand people, and, five years ago, hosted the Superbowl.
Like all her tour dates, it had sold out in less than five minutes. She sat on the floor of her dressing room, a bare stadium space accessorized with scented candles, puffy purple couches, and lamps with the tags still on them.
She was barefoot, wearing jeans and a red plaid shirt, with her hair in a ponytail. Except for a certain high-sheen exquisiteness—thinness, the lipstick—she looked like a regular college student. She was talking to her management office about an album of pictures from the tour, which would be sold at merchandise stands.
I look like a big, giant cat. When I arrived, she had been bent over a glass coffee table, writing thank-you notes to local radio-station managers. The cards, which she had helped write and design, were from the American Greetings line. And I like stamps. She signed a card:. Thank you so much for coming to my show the other night, it meant a lot to see so many of my friends from the station.
And thanks for coming to say hi to me backstage! She is an incessant worrier. This artist peaked on their third album.
This artist peaked with every album. These are singles artists. These are album artists. In Detroit, Swift seemed somewhat melancholy. Once in a while, I had the feeling that she was on the verge of bursting into tears. At one point, her security guard, Greg, came in, carrying a pair of portable iPod speakers. She wrote that! The songs, which she wrote without collaborators, are extra long, and cover a multitude of relationships, in moods that range from regret to a surprising, and somewhat satisfying, cattiness.
A perusal of the songbooks begs a logistical question: where does she find the time to date so many people? The answer seems to be that a little goes a long way.
Many of the songs are based on a memory or on a flirtation. One song from her current album is, however, about a professional dustup. The consensus is that the song is aimed at Bob Lefsetz, a former L. Swift refuses to defend her singing voice. The album celebrates a full first year in the top 10 of the Billboard chart, making it just the fifth album to spend its first 52 weeks of release in the top Swift takes home three Grammy Awards, for best music video "Bad Blood" , best pop vocal album and album of the year She's the first woman to win the album of the year award twice for their own album.
She previously won the award for Fearless. It peaks at No. Swift wins her 21st career Billboard Music Award, for top touring artist. Through , she has earned 21 Billboard Music Awards -- the most of any artist. Swift's Reputation launches as her fifth No.
Starting with 1. Having gone all-out pop in on her album , after breaking through as a country superstar, Swift makes her first visit to the Hot Country Songs chart in nearly four years, as ballad "New Year's Day," from her album Reputation , debuts at No. Swift totaled 19 top 10s, including seven No. For the full list of Swift's 40 biggest Billboard chart hits, click here.
After announcing that "Delicate" would be the sixth single from Reputation , the track debuts on the Billboard Hot chart dated March 24 and reaches No.
The song becomes her 76th entry on the chart, which passes Ray Charles for 10th-most entries in the Hot 's year history. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles.
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