Taylor

Taylor Swift has become a rare pop phenomenon: A star who strayed completely from country music to pop culture and became a pop icon that will endure forever, and sweeping over everywhere. Swift left country music like it was a second layer of herself, proving that she's perhaps the best pop-singer/songwriter in her generation. Someone who is able to harness the current zeitgeist and make it personal, and perform in the opposite. These skills were evident on her first hits, particularly the neo-tribute Tim McGraw but her second album 2008's Fearless showcased a songwriter discovering her true identity and in the process finding an audience of mass. Fearless was an enormous success not just in the US with it's Top Ten singles Love Story, and You Belong with Me helped it to record six platinum albums but also around the world. The album was particularly successful across Canada, Australia in Australia and Canada. U.K. Swift's new album Speak Now, released just two years after the previous one, built on this success. The album propelled Swift into the spotlight. With the three albums that followed the three albums that followed -- Red 2012, 1989 2014 along with Reputation 2017. her success only grew. That was an obvious sign she had moved to an entirely new world of pop which she was able to fit into. Her name was always in the forefront of pop even when she dropped her style with her sibling albums, folklore and Evermore in 2020.