Taylor

Taylor Swift was a rarity in pop: she is the only celebrity to have transitioned from the traditional to the mainstream and then to be a global pop culture icon. Swift has thrown off her country roots as if it were a second-skin, showing herself to be one of the best pop singers and songwriters within her generation. She has the ability to take the zeitgeist of today and turn it into her own. The skills she displayed were apparent in some of the first songs she released, most notably the neodue Tim McGraw. But on her second album Fearless which came out in 2008, Swift discovered who she is and find an audience that was large. The album was a huge success, not just on American soil, with six platinum-certified singles. Its Top Ten songs Love Story & the hit song You Belong with Me were the main reasons for this. It also performed exceptionally well throughout the world. Swift's second album, Speak Now, released nearly two years following the previous one, built on this momentum. The album propelled Swift to the heights of fame. Swift's popularity grew through her three subsequent albums - Red (2012), 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017). Swift became a household name within the genre she was a part of. However, even when she reduced her strategy with 2020's stripped down siblings' folklore and Evermore she continued to be atop of the charts, a place she maintained with re-recordings of her older catalogs as well as Midnights which was her top-charting synthesizer 2022 collection.