Taylor

Taylor Swift has become a very rare pop icon: a pop star that has crossed the line completely from traditional country music to popular culture to become a global icon that will last forever and capturing the hearts of a vast majority of people around the globe. Swift left her country roots like they were a second skin and revealed that she was perhaps the smartest populist singer/songwriter of her generation person who could take advantage of the current zeitgeist and make it personal and equally impressively do opposite. Swift's first hit songs, particularly Her neo tribute to Tim McGraw, showed off the talents of her. But her 2008 album Fearless revealed a songwriter who was discovering herself and gaining a huge following. Fearless wound up having considerable reach not just in the U.S. where it racked up six platinum singles on the basis of Top Ten hits Love Story and the hit single You Belong with Me but throughout the world. It was particularly successful in Australia, U.K. Canada and Australia. Swift had the chance to further consolidate her success with Speak Now almost two year after. Swift gained popularity throughout the course of her three albums following, Red (2012) and 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017) in addition to Reputation (2017), and was firmly established within an industry she felt was hers to be. When she scaled her music back with the stripped-down releases in 2020, such as folklore and Evermore and Folklore, she still controlled the charts with pop. That position was further maintained by the release of remastered versions of songs from her prior catalog as well as Midnights the top selling synth heavy album set for 2022.