Taylor

Taylor Swift was a rarity in the world of pop music: she was the sole celebrity who moved from the country to mainstream and become a global pop culture icon. Swift removed her roots in the country like they were a second skin to reveal that she was perhaps the savviest populist singer/songwriter of her generation someone who was able to harness the current zeitgeist and make it personal and also perform the reverse. Her talents could be seen in her first tracks, including the Neodue Tim McGraw. But on her second album Fearless that came out in 2008, she could identify the person she was and reach an audience that was large. The album was a huge success, not just in America, but also with six platinum-certified singles. The Top Ten songs Love Story and I Belong with Me were the most important reasons. It also performed very well across the globe. Swift's second album Speak Now, released almost two years after the debut, further consolidated this success. It propelled Swift to superstardom. Over the next three years, Swift's popularity increased through the years -the albums - Red (2012), Reputation (2014) as well as 1989 (2014-2015) -- as she entered a new world of pop music with her skills already well established. Although she slowed down her approach with 2020's stripped-down sibling releases folklore and Evermore she remained atop the pop world a position she kept with the re-recordings of her older catalogs as well as Midnights which was her top-charting synthesizer 2022 album.