Taylor

Taylor Swift is that rarest of pop phenomena: a superstar who managed to seamlessly transition from country to the mainstream making her an iconic celebrity and then conquering the world in the process. Swift left her heritage in country music like a second-skin and proved that she was the most refined pop sensibility of her generation. Swift was the only singer/songwriter who knew how to follow the zeitgeist of popular music out on the road. Her early songs including the neotribute for Tim McGraw were a testament to her talents. But, her follow-up album Fearless of 2008 proved to be an songwriter discovering her voice, and also a larger public. Fearless went on to become a global hit but not only in the United States (where it was certified with six platinum awards for Top Ten Hits Love Story and "You Belong with Me") as well as in Canada Australia and the U.K. as well as other nations. Speak Now delivered almost two years later and consolidated this popularity and pushed Swift into the stratosphere of superstardom. The popularity of Swift only grew over her next three albums - Red (2012) 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017) and Reputation in 2017 and found her moving assuredly into a pop realm in which she was already a part. The popularity of her music grew after she changed her strategy by releasing 2020's streamlined folklore (and Evermore) and stayed atop of the pop world.