Taylor

Taylor Swift has become a uncommon pop sensation: a superstar who crossed over completely from the world of country music to pop culture, becoming a pop icon lasting for a lifetime and capturing the hearts of a vast majority of people around the globe. Swift shed her country roots as though they were part of her skin and revealed that she was perhaps the savviest popular singer and songwriter of her age one who could harness the current zeitgeist and make it personal and also perform the reverse. These skills were evident on her earliest hits especially the neo-tribute Tim McGraw but her second album of 2008's Fearless was a showcase of a songwriter discovering her true identity while also gaining a mass audience. Fearless became the biggest hit, but not just within the U.S., with six platinum-certified songs thanks to the Top Ten songs Love Story & I Belong with Me. It also did well internationally in places like Canada, the U.K. Canada & Australia. Swift's second album, Speak Now, released almost two years after her first album, further consolidated the success of. Speak Now helped propel Swift into the spotlight. She grew in popularity over the course of her three albums following, Red (2012) and 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017) as well as she was established as a subgenre she felt was right for her. She was at the high end of pop, even as she reduced her sound with her sibling albums folklore in the year 2020, and Evermore.