Taylor

Taylor Swift has become a very rare pop icon: a superstar who crossed over completely from country music to pop culture to become a global icon lasting for a lifetime and has captured the hearts of a vast majority of people around the globe. Swift removed her roots in the country in the manner of a second skin, showing that she was perhaps the smartest contemporary singer/songwriter in her generation one who could harness the zeitgeist make it personal and equally impressively do the reverse. These skills were evident on her first hits, particularly the neo-tribute Tim McGraw but her second album in 2008's Fearless was a showcase of a songwriter discovering who she was and in the process, finding an audience of mass. The album was an enormous success not just in the U.S., with six platinum-certified tracks thanks to Top Ten songs Love Story & the hit song You Belong with Me. It was also a huge success internationally, in regions like The U.K. Canada & Australia. Swift's next album Speak Now, released almost two years after the first album, further consolidated the success of. Speak Now helped propel Swift into the spotlight. Her popularity only increased over her subsequent three albumsThe Red Album, 1989 (2014) Red (2012) 1989 (2014) as well as Reputation (2017) and Reputation in 2017 which saw her moving confidently into a pop realm that she had already been a part of. After she cut her music back with the stripped-down releases in 2020, such as folklore and Evermore however, she was still the king of the pop world. The position was sustained by the release of remastered versions of songs from her prior catalog as well as Midnights, her top-charting synth-heavy set for 2022.