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She’s a one of the best creation of God, she gave a real meaning to the word art, she’s the definition of aesthetic, she’s Ms. Lana del Rey a singer, songwriter, a poet, and one of my saviors.
Presenting her as my favorite artist is one way to pay my gratitude to her, and I know it’s not enough but at least I get to say thank you to her by presenting this to everybody. I included her as one of my savior because her music calms me down whenever I breakdown from the mistreatment of the world.
I have been living alone for almost 5 years now, and in that 5 years of being alone, sadness became a part of who I am. Countless breakdowns, panic attack, and many more, it’s scary and heartbreaking because  when you’re alone there’s no one to rely on, not until I found her music, her music connects to the most inner core of my heart, my soul, and even to my brain saying “it’s okay not to be okay”.
I couldn’t express how thankful I am for her beautiful art of music. Leaving this presentation to all of you with a quote by Ms. Lana del Rey “It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then loosing it to know what true freedom is.” Thank you.

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As someone who loves the eloquence of music and the emotions it could convey, I’m a fan of Morissette Amon-Lamar. She is a light lyric soprano that has a 5 octave vocal range, ranging from F#2-D8 and has a vocal tone that could be dark and light as well. Since I’ve heard her cover the song Never Enough from the movie The Greatest Showman at Wishbus, I’ve instantly became a fan of her. She is also one of the Filipino singers that has the best technique when it comes to belting/mixing. Her whistle notes also gives her an edge to other singers since it adds an additional 2 octaves on her range, and gives her the skill to do vocal breaks/squeks. Her newly released EP entitled Signature is also what I am listening to right now, and the emotions that the EP bears is just so passionating and resilient, and artists like her just gives me goosebumps and makes me compensate with perpetual adoration.

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I really haven’t thought about who my favorite artist is because I have a lot who I like but one artist that had an effect on me recently is Colleen Hoover and her book, “It Ends With Us”. This book had me on a rollercoaster of emotions and I learned a lot about the kind of relationship that this story has which is really heart-wrenching for me. This isn’t a romance book like how it is marketed and yes, there is romance but there’s a much more significant aspect to focus on in this book. What made this book more meaningful is that this story is based on someone who is very close to her. I recommend this book but just in case check the trigger warnings first before reading.

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Ben&Ben is my favorite artist because with every song they sing, they touch the heart of every person listening to it. I also admire their friendship and how it began, started from the twin brothers Paolo and Miguel into forming a 9-piece wholesome band. Their songs are my comfort and whenever i'm listening to them my heart and soul is slowly healing. One of their songs called "Doors" really got me because for me it's for the people who can't open up or having a hard time to express themselves to other people and same goes to me. Their song "Magpahinga" is also what I always remind myself that it's okay to get tired but don't let yourself give up in the middle of your process because there will be a time that the result will be worth it.

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Among the other veteran artists, I chose Shaffer Chimere Smith, better known as Ne-Yo. I adored the other artists. While occasionally incorporating pop and hip-hop, Ne-Yo's music is primarily R&B. Since the 2013–2014 period, along with Iyaz, Usher, Akon, Jay Sean, FM Static, Chris Brown, etc., he has been one of my favorites. Every time I listen to their music, I feel more relaxed and nostalgic, which helps you sense the surroundings around you and inspires pleasant memories. Furthermore, I admire his voice's quietness and how well it complements the music he composed. His music has catchy rhythms and straightforward lyrics that make it easy to dance to.

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Favorite artist is something that I don't have because I always tend to lose interest in my so-called “favorites” but I have my “inspiration” artists. One of them is Love Marie Payawal Ongpauco-Escudero also known as Heart Evangelista who is a Filipino artist, model, author, painter, advocate, and influencer. She is someone I look up to because she is living the dream life: doing her passion while earning at the same time. She does many things but still has time for her husband and dogs, which she considered kids. Aside from her physical appearance being beautiful and her being talented, I also adore how down-to-earth she is despite everything she achieved and it makes me wanna strive harder to be like her.

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The entire reason I became interested in Kpop in the first place. My first stan group. My very first love. I can still remember, I was just reading a book on Wattpad and they were the chosen portrayers in the story. I became curious and looked them up on the internet. After that, I didn't realize I was watching their video compilations on YouTube. I began researching and getting to know more about them. Until they released their comeback music video which is Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Then, since the release of their Wings album, I've been an ARMY member. I was astounded by how much passion they put into each song they create. They are, in my opinion, iconic artists of today. Moreover, I have so much to say and thank them for. They have completely changed my life forever. They have been there for me during some really difficult moments and have helped me tremendously. They are just great, and I am grateful for them. They inspire me every day. They’ve opened my mind and just have been the most beautiful moment in my life. They are my home. My favorite artists.

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BTS - Blood Sweat and Tears (Official Music Video)

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This is my first video on Vimeo. I’m here because I wanted to see BTS content outside of YouTube, but unfortunately, there is none, so I decided to make this the first ever BTS video on Vimeo.

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Stan Lee was known as the head of Marvel Comics, he was also the creator or co-creator of numerous well-known comic book characters. Because he founded the most incredible universe, known as Marvel, Stan Lee is my favorite artist. He enhanced the wonder and beauty of many peoples' childhoods, including mine. Everybody can learn valuable lessons and takeaway narratives from Stan Lee's works for their own lives. Because the heroes he created have inspired us to believe in the greatness of what each person is capable of, whether or not they have special abilities, he created stories and characters that are regarded as timeless, and he created heroes in both fiction and reality.

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I chose Johannes Vermeer as my favorite artist because the art of Vermeer seeks not to amaze and appal but to invite the observer to come closer. I agree on what the famous novelist once said that "Vermeer does not just to make a leaf and place it in the design, he relates space and leaf". For me, my understanding on that is Vermeer devoted to exploring tender moments of everyday life, providing an inmitable glimpse into the lifestyle of his thriving historical era. Vermeer works specialized in scenes of domestic life, a genre he helped catapult within the Baroque lexicon, with that the artworks of Vermeer also serve to us a lesson on how and what are the happenings in the early life in Baroque period.

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My favorite artist is the Ironman himself, Robert Downey, Jr. We all know the story about his drug addiction since he was exposed to drugs when he was young, his multiple arrests and rehab but that is definitely not the reason why I like him. He became my favorite primarily because he's ironman and also, because he fought his drug addiction which is a very hard thing to do. With the support of his friends and family, he became a better person and an inspiration to many who suffered the same.

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Xiao Zhan or known as Sean Xiao is a Chinese artist and he is also a member of X-NINE, a formed group in china.

The first time he caught my attention is when I watched the very first Xianxia chinese drama which is THE UNTAMED, in that drama he is a very good actor which makes the audience fall inlove with him and that includes me. Xiao Zhan is a talented artist, he can play some instruments like guitar & violin, He has so many dreams like he wants to be a painter and thats why he began to paint when he was 8 years of age, he can also photograph, and when he was in college he once opened a photography studio together with a friend of his, and because of this works of him I am inspired to do so many things like the way he did back then and of course now. Xiao Zhan is not just an actor for me but he is also an inspiration, he inspires me by his hardworks in life. And one reason that I like about Xiao Zhan is the way he act on his dramas and the way he delivers his lines, I have a favorite line of his from one of his dramas that was engraved in my heart for a long time where he said, "Let the self judge the right and the wrongs, let others decide to praise or to blame, and let the losses and gains remain uncommented on." In the end, he is the person who motivates me to continue and do some things that I really like, even though they're hard.

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J.Cole is my favorite artist because of who he is as a man. Not only do I listen to his music, I also watch his interviews. I look up to him because he truly shows what it means to be a real man, to have faith in God, to have good character, and to dream big. So I don't only consider J.Cole as my favorite artist, he is also one of my role models.

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Lee Ji-eun also known as her stage name IU, is one of my favorite artist. Because IU is a multi-talented, she can do all things. I love her when it comes the way she acts, she showcase the emotions of the character she is portraying. I also love her personality she`s down to earth. When it comes to music IU is a masterpiece because in all genre she conquered them all, she has an angelic voice, she makes meaningful  and amazing music. One of my favorite songs of IU is “Palette” this song is not only a song but really has a deep meaning on it. Palette has a different kind of color that represents different people with a different insecurities, different flaws and different opinion. This song telling us that we can be beautiful in our own way, we can be a person who we truly want. That the opinion of others does not define who you are, but what really matter is how you look at yourself as a person. Despite her success IU also experienced struggles in achieving her dreams. That is what I really admire IU the most she did not give up achieving her success, she keeps on trying even though she rejected many times, and look at her now, she`s an inspiration to many, she`s a living legend.

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Alexander James O'Connor, know professionally as Rex Orange County, That's what I will say if someone asks me who my favorite artist is.

2 years ago was a nightmare. It was chaotic at that time, but suddenly I heard a song from Rex Orange County, a song that could explain my situation at that time. So I dug for more information about him. When I am listening to his songs, suddenly it somehow makes me calm. That's why I considered him one of my favorite artists. He is also the one who produced his songs. His songs saved me, and most of his songs are masterpieces.

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Ever since I was in high school, I have been a huge fan and a tremendous admirer of the band LANY, and I could say that they are my favorite artists. I love listening to them because their songs and tracks always have that signature chill, nostalgic, and euphoric vibe. Their songs progress or flow smoothly without any sharp changes or jumps. They can experiment with the music they create and still not lose the soul of their unique sound; the backbeats are catchy, but the lyrics are what really stand out. Above all, they are great artists with great personalities and possess a magnetic charm, which is why I idolize them so much.

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BTS are my favorite artists because they have inspired me a lot when I got to know them. It's because of them that I got into dancing, writing poems, learning new languages, and drawing because if I'm not wrong, most of their members are actually good at painting and drawing. I discovered more about myself because of them because it is through them that I found out I actually like dancing, writing poems, drawing, and learning new languages and that I'm actually quite good at those, and whenever I see their works such as their paintings, it makes me want to develop my skills more. Their music also allowed me to connect with others and make more friends, and they actually helped me to learn to love myself little by little.

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My favorite singer of all time. Forever a Swifties

She is not just a great singer, amazing artist but also a model for me to look up.

I could spend days just see her walking in her dresses, smiling with her beautiful eyes and talking about her songs, her stories and her everything.

She had a dream, she made it come true

At the age of 10, she already knew what she wanted for her lifetime. He knew her dream was performing on stage in front of thousands of audiences since then.

At that time, she already started to work on her dream. It took her more than a year to beg her parents for a trip to Nashville - home for country music.

After another two years, she managed to convince her parents to move to Nashville for her dream in the country music industry. She moved there at the age of 13.

It’s so amazed me that she had such a direction, desire and determination at such a young age - the age that I just know how to go to school working toward a point 10 in Math.

She is intelligent with a big heart

It is not just a music talent that makes her so big.

She is great at marketing. She knows how to write the right music, how to released that music at the right time, how to attract attention from public and tons of other stuff to make the most of her hard-working.

She is great at working with others. It is not co-incidence that she still works with the same band since she started her music career until now. There must be a reason why they stay with her during such a long time. Every time she performs, she let them shine as well by many ways, such as: standing side by side with her band and her supporting vocals.

When she first began to sing in public, she created a different way to draw attention from others by making an introduction of before every song after realizing that no one pay attention to her. It worked quite well.

During her tours, she surprises fans by inviting the passionate audiences that night to a dinner. Is that so cool? She also hosts some small, warm and unexpected for her fans. Imagine you are invited to a party and Taylor suddenly shows up out of no where, singing your favorite song - All Too Well with a pink guitar hold in her arms. It’s just a dream comes true.

Sometimes, she showed up unexpectedly on a moving bus singing Long Live on a Thanksgiving day or in the middle of Central Park singing Back to December with her piano. Such amazing moments she has created!

She has working super hard for her career

It is not by chance that she is Woman of Decade, has received that many Grammy and other thousands Awards.

Since childhood, she loves and was playing guitar so much that her fingers got bleeding but she didn’t stop even when it’s dinner time. She got back to the guitar soon after she finished her meal.

She has released a new album every two years since her debut. That is something that not every singer can do with such a high commitment. Every single of her album always makes new record and becomes a big success.

It’s been 14 years now since her first album Taylor Swift (2006) and other six albums, including Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017) and the latest one - Lover (2019).

Every single of her songs is a masterpiece.

She maybe gifted with a music talent, but without hard - working, she can’t get to where she is today.

Her live has been also improved considerably. It’s also an outcome of hard-working.

Above all, she is just as emotional as we are

She is as happy as we are when she is with her family, her friends and her loved ones.

She is as excited as we are when she meets her idols - Tim McGraw and Stephen.

She is as passionate as we are when she is in love.

She is as hurtful as we are when she is heartbroken.

She is also as painful as we are when people keeps throwing lemon on her

You may not like her but you cannot deny her talents, her dedicated work and her achievements.

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To be honest I really don't know L. Frank Baum,but the thing is I love his works. He is the artist or writer behind the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This story made me believe that magic exist and witches and flying monkeys are real. When I read or watched a version of L.Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz,it takes me back to the time when I am still a child and reading about the story during a rainy day. With L. Frank I can just simple travel to a new world,into Oz and the Emerald City or I can become a witch,wizard,flying monkey, coward lion,scarecrow or a tin man.

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I didn't pick him because he is already well-known, but because I liked the way his arts captured the beauty of our country's cultures, I see Amorsolo's paintings as our cave of memory, where traditions, images of who we are, what we value, and our past are forever captured to help us remember. I adore how he helps us remember what it means to be truly Filipino by depicting who we were and what we did, that’s why I love all of his artworks because of he didn’t forget to include and portrays everything that can remind us that we are a Filipino, so these are the values we Filipinos can constantly aspire for.

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Cheon Soo-yeon (born Cheon Seong-im) or professionally known by her stage name Song Ji-hyo is a South Korean artists and model.

I commenced to admire her due to her tenacious personality in the widely known variety show in South Korea which is the Running Man. Moreover, she is not the type of a woman that has a complex personality unlike the other female celebrities like they are too dramatic and stagy. In addition, I adore how she project herself regardless what she will gonna do such as competing with her members to win the prize in the said show which is the Running Man, and how she project herself when she is acting. Furthermore, her cute side can't never be missed out because it is only once in a blue moon. Altogether, she bacame my favorite artist because of her personality.

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I don't have a current favorite artist, but my former long-time favorite was Byun Baekhyun from EXO.

I used to support EXO before they went on hiatus because of their members' enlistment, and I was lucky enough to see them, especially Baekhyun, perform live before they served their time for their mandatory service. Aside from his bubbly and funny personality, Baekhyun's my favorite artist because I respect his great passion and love for music and performing; I admire how he always wants to give his best in everything he does. And the moment that made me realize that I don't regret admiring him was when he suddenly lost confidence in his singing skills and went through a hard time, that's why he worked harder than ever and never missed his vocal lessons despite having a busy schedule. Overall, he was my favorite because he gave me the comfort that I couldn't find in other artists.

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One of my favorite artists is Fernando Cueto Amorsolo, one of the greatest artists of all time that caught my attention. Just like the other painters, he does not only paint but also gives reflections through art. I am deeply amazed at how he depicts the "Filipino Soul" through his paintings.

He is recognized for painting traditional Filipino customs, culture, fiestas, etc. His work of art gives me this tranquil vibes, knowing that some of his works are like "countryside paintings" which I find beautiful because it is our own motherland.

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I don't really have a favorite artist because every artist has a different art style that is beautiful in their own ways. But for me, the band December Avenue caught my attention most because their songs are catchy at the same time it has a deep meaning. I started liking rock music when I discovered their songs. I can't relate to most of their songs, but I can feel the emotions that they share especially when I understand the message more while vibing. They are also my comfort music. I listen to them when I have a problem or am feeling negative; that's why I really liked them.

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For my favorite artist I chose Leonardo Da Vinci. I like him because he’s famous, and he has created a lot of famous and bright colored pieces of art. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term “Renaissance Man.” Today he remains best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and I really love and admired it, which is Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. That is why I chose Leonardo Da Vinci and those pieces of art that mostly takes forever I know I wouldn’t last and I would love to be him anytime of the day.

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I don’t really have a favorite artist as I only enjoy the work, not the artist, but if I try hard to find one, it will be Hayao Miyazaki. Ponyo, spirited away, princess Mononoke, Howl’s moving castle, and many more are examples of Hayao Miyazaki’s work. His animation movie shows a soft, subtle, and whimsical aesthetic that I thoroughly enjoy. Seeing his anime movies sparks a different emotion that I could not explain.

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One of my favorite artist is Richard Stoltzman. You want to know why? Since I was 13 years old, I am interested to try a clarinet but that time I don't know how to play it so I started searching for tutorials to follow. I just stumbled upon a video of Richard Stoltzman playing in an orchestra and I clicked on it then I started to watched his videos where I became fond of him. I was amazed at his skill of playing the clarinet, that is why I studied the clarinet through him. He became my inspiration in learning and playing the clarinet because he started to play clarinet at the age of eight. Moreover, he became my idol because he is one of the best clarinetist in America and received a lot of awards. The videos of him playing the clarinet is where  I've learned to play the clarinet. I want to be like him and I want to be as skilled as him.

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Eminem is the artist that comes to mind when I am asked who my favorite artist is. Despite coming from a difficult background as a child, he managed to rise to the top and become one of the most important rappers of all time via hard work and talent. Through it, I become one of his admirers because he never gives up in the face of obstacles; instead, he uses them as inspiration for writing great songs. Also listening to his songs makes me motivated to keep moving in life despite all the challenges ahead of me.

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I don’t really have any particular artist in my mind that I would consider a favorite of mine but if I were to choose an artist that appeals to me the most, it would be Centimillimental, Atsushi. I first learned about him in the movie, Given, which is a Japanese BL drama adapted from a manga, focusing on a group of musicians in a band. Among all the songs he composed that was featured in the movie, the song “Fuyu no Hanashi” or “Winter Story” caught my attention because of its lyrics. The song started out sorrowful but as it reaches its end, the song had some sort of closure, finally expressing the main character’s feelings out loud, singing at the end “Even though I couldn’t say goodbye, you’ll always be here with me”. I know nothing about things related to music but this piece made me feel a certain amount of emotions that I cannot express in words, and I want to thank Centimillimental for creating such a beautiful song that I know I will always be grateful for its existence.

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Maybe some of you might say that it’s too cringy for me to say that my favorite artists are BTS. But to tell you honestly, I really like the way BTS use their fame and influence. Their charity projects, public appearances, where they raise the most controversial social topics, the way they interact with fan. All these parts of their story are really inspiring. Through their music, they are able to connect with the people and they truly capture everyone’s heart.

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Taylor Swift is one of the famous artist in this world because she's good in singing and dancing. When i was young i was her big fan because i admiring her so much. I remember her song "Shake it off" it was so nice and also the "Love story" "Blank space" "You belong with me" "Gorgeous" all i wanna say is it so very nice and lovable. When i am sad or feeling empty i always listening to her songs and i just being relax. I love Taylor Swift from the bottom of my heart, and i'm inlove to her songs. It is very nice and fun.

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Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Recognized for her songwriting, musical versatility, artistic reinventions, and influence on the music industry, she is a prominent cultural figure of the 21st century.

Swift began professional songwriting at age 14 and signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country singer. She released six studio albums under the label, four of them to country radio, starting with her 2006 self-titled album. Her next, (2008), explored country pop, and its singles " Love Story" and " You Belong with Me" catapulted her to mainstream fame. (2010) infused rock influences, while (2012) experimented with electronic elements and featured Swift's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one song, " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". She departed from her country image with (2014), a synth-pop album supported by the chart-topping songs " Shake It Off", " Blank Space", and " Bad Blood". Media scrutiny inspired the hip-hop-flavored Reputation (2017) and its number-one single " Look What You Made Me Do".

Swift signed with Republic Records in 2018. She released the pop album (2019) and autobiographical documentary Miss Americana (2020), embraced indie folk and alternative rock on 2020 albums and explored chill-out styles on (2022), and released four re-recorded albums subtitled Taylor's Version after a dispute with Big Machine. The albums spawned the number-one songs " Cruel Summer", " Cardigan", " Willow", " Anti-Hero", " All Too Well" and " Is It Over Now?". In 2023, Swift embarked on the Eras Tour and released its top-grossing concert film. She has also directed music videos and films such as All Too Well: The Short Film (2021).

With over 200 million records sold globally, Swift is one of the best-selling musicians. She is the most-streamed woman on Spotify and Apple Music, the highest-grossing female performer ever, and the first billionaire with music as the main source of income. She has been featured in lists such as Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists, the Time 100, and Forbes Celebrity 100. Among her accolades are 12 Grammy Awards (including three Album of the Year wins), a Primetime Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards (including Artist of the Decade - 2010s), 39 Billboard Music Awards, 23 MTV Video Music Awards, three IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year awards, and 111 Guinness World Records. Swift is also a philanthropist and an advocate of artists' rights and women's empowerment.

Life and career

Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. She is named after singer-songwriter James Taylor. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Taylor has a younger brother, actor Austin Swift, and is of Scottish, German, and Italian descent. Their maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer.

Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm that her father had purchased from one of his clients. She is a Christian. She attended preschool and kindergarten at Alvernia Montessori School, a Montessori school run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, before transferring to the Wyndcroft School. The family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where Swift attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. She spent summers in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, until she was 14 years old, performing in a local coffee shop.

At age nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions. She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. Swift later shifted her focus toward country music, inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything". She spent weekends performing at local festivals and events. After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt she needed to move to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career in music. She traveled there with her mother at age eleven to visit record labels and submitted demo tapes of Dolly Parton and Dixie Chicks karaoke covers. She was rejected, however, because "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different."

When Swift was around 12 years old, computer repairman and local musician Ronnie Cremer taught her to play guitar. " Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer was the first song Swift learned to play. Cremer helped with her first efforts as a songwriter, leading her to write "Lucky You". In 2003, Swift and her parents started working with New York-based talent manager Dan Dymtrow. With his help, Swift modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch as part of their "Rising Stars" campaign, had an original song included on a Maybelline compilation CD, and met with major record labels. After performing original songs at an RCA Records showcase, Swift, then 13 years old, was given an artist development deal and began making frequent trips to Nashville with her mother. To help Swift break into the country music scene, her father transferred to Merrill Lynch's Nashville office when she was 14 years old, and the family relocated to Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift attended Hendersonville High School before transferring to Aaron Academy after two years, which better accommodated her touring schedule through homeschooling. She graduated one year early.

2004-2008: career beginnings and first album

In Nashville, Swift worked with experienced Music Row songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally, and the Warren Brothers and formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose. They began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. Rose called the sessions "some of the easiest I've ever done. Basically, I was just her editor. She'd write about what happened in school that day. She had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say. And she'd come in with the most incredible hooks." Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house, but left then BMG-owned RCA Records (later bought by Sony Music) at the age of 14 due to the label's lack of care and them "cut[ting] other people's stuff". She was also concerned that development deals can shelve artists and recalled: "I genuinely felt that I was running out of time. I wanted to capture these years of my life on an album while they still represented what I was going through."

Swift opening for Brad Paisley in 2007. To promote her first album, she opened tours for other country musicians in 2007 and 2008.[43]

At an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form an independent record label, Big Machine Records. She had first met Borchetta in 2004. She was one of Big Machine's first signings, and her father purchased a three-percent stake in the company for an estimated $120,000. She began working on her eponymous debut album with producer Nathan Chapman, with whom she felt she had the right "chemistry". Swift wrote three of the album's songs alone and co-wrote the remaining eight with Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia. Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006. Country Weekly critic Chris Neal deemed Swift better than previous aspiring teenage country singers because of her "honesty, intelligence and idealism". The album peaked at number five on the U.S. Billboard 200, on which it spent 157 weeks-the longest stay on the chart by any release in the U.S. in the 2000s decade. Swift became the first female country music artist to write or co-write every track on a U.S. platinum-certified debut album.

Big Machine Records was still in its infancy during the June 2006 release of the lead single, " Tim McGraw", which Swift and her mother helped promote by packaging and sending copies of the CD single to country radio stations. As there was not enough furniture at the label yet, they would sit on the floor to do so. She spent much of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift with a radio tour and television appearances; she opened for Rascal Flatts on select dates during their 2006 tour, as a replacement for Eric Church. Borchetta said that although record industry peers initially disapproved of his signing a 15-year-old singer-songwriter, Swift tapped into a previously unknown market-teenage girls who listen to country music.

Following "Tim McGraw", four more singles were released throughout 2007 and 2008: " Teardrops on My Guitar", " Our Song", " Picture to Burn" and " Should've Said No". All appeared on 's Hot Country Songs, with "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" reaching number one. With "Our Song", Swift became the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a number-one song on the chart. "Teardrops on My Guitar" reached number thirteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Swift also released two EPs, The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection in October 2007 and Beautiful Eyes in July 2008. She promoted her debut album extensively as the opening act for other country musicians' tours in 2006 and 2007, including those by George Strait, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

Swift won multiple accolades for Taylor Swift. She was one of the recipients of the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist of the Year in 2007, becoming the youngest person to be honored with the title. She also won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for Best New Artist, the Academy of Country Music Awards' Top New Female Vocalist, and the American Music Awards' Favorite Country Female Artist honor. She was also nominated for Best New Artist at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. In 2008, she opened for Rascal Flatts again, and dated singer Joe Jonas briefly.

2008-2010: Fearless and acting debut

Swift at the 2009 premiere of Hannah Montana: The Movie. She had a cameo appearance in the film and wrote two songs for its soundtrack.[70][71]

Swift's second studio album, , was released on November 11, 2008, in North America, and in March 2009 in other markets. Critics lauded Swift's honest and vulnerable songwriting in contrast to other teenage singers. Five singles were released in 2008-2009: " Love Story", " White Horse", " You Belong with Me", " Fifteen", and " Fearless". The first single peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one in Australia. It was the first country song to top Billboard's Pop Songs chart. "You Belong with Me" was the album's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number two, and was the first country song to top Billboard's all-genre Radio Songs chart. All five singles were Hot Country Songs top-10 entries, with "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" topping the chart. Fearless became her first number-one album on the Billboard 200 and 2009's top-selling album in the U.S. The Fearless Tour, Swift's first headlining concert tour, grossed over $63 million. Journey to Fearless, a documentary miniseries, aired on television and was later released on DVD and Blu-ray. Swift also performed as a supporting act for Keith Urban's Escape Together World Tour in 2009.

In 2009, the music video for "You Belong with Me" was named Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Kanye West, an incident that became the subject of controversy, widespread media attention and Internet memes. That year she won five American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album. Billboard named her 2009's Artist of the Year. She won Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year for "Love Story" at the 2009 CMT Music Awards, where she made a parody video of the song with rapper T-Pain called "Thug Story". At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, Fearless was named Album of the Year and Best Country Album, and "White Horse" won Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Swift was the youngest artist to win Album of the Year. At the 2009 Country Music Association Awards, Swift won Album of the Year for Fearless and was named Entertainer of the Year, the youngest person to win the honor.

Swift featured on John Mayer's single " Half of My Heart" and Boys Like Girls' " Two Is Better Than One", the latter of which she co-wrote. She co-wrote and recorded " Best Days of Your Life" with Kellie Pickler, and wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack-" You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" and " Crazier". She contributed two songs to the Valentine's Day soundtrack, including the single " Today Was a Fairytale", which was her first number-one on the Canadian Hot 100 and peaked at number two on the U.S. Hot 100. While shooting her film debut Valentine's Day in October 2009, Swift dated co-star Taylor Lautner. In 2009, she made her television debut as a rebellious teenager in an CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode. She hosted and performed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live; she was the first host ever to write their own opening monologue.

In August 2010, Swift released " Mine", the lead single from her third studio album, It entered the Hot 100 at number three. Swift wrote the album alone and co-produced every track. It was released on October 25, 2010, opening atop the Billboard 200 with over one million copies sold. It became the fastest-selling digital album by a female artist, with 278,000 downloads in a week. Critics appreciated Swift's grown-up perspectives; Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone wrote, "in a mere four years, the 20-year-old Nashville firecracker has put her name on three dozen or so of the smartest songs released by anyone in pop, rock or country." " Back to December", " Mean", " The Story of Us", " Sparks Fly", and " Ours" became subsequent singles, with the latter two reaching number one on the Hot Country Songs and the first two peaking in the top ten in Canada. She dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal in 2010.

At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Swift won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for "Mean", which she performed during the ceremony. Swift won other awards for Speak Now, including Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association (2010 and 2011), Woman of the Year by Billboard (2011), and Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music (2011 and 2012) and the Country Music Association in 2011. At the American Music Awards of 2011, Swift won Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album. Rolling Stone named Speak Now amongst its "50 Best Female Albums of All Time" (2012), writing: "She might get played on the country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days, with a flawless ear for what makes a song click."

The Speak Now World Tour ran from February 2011 to March 2012 and grossed over $123 million, followed up by the live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live. She contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album: " Safe & Sound", co-written and recorded with the Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open". "Safe & Sound" won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Swift featured on B.o.B's single " Both of Us", released in May 2012. She dated Conor Kennedy that year.

In August 2012, Swift released " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", the lead single from her fourth studio album, . It became her first number one in the U.S. and New Zealand, and became the fastest-selling single in digital history. Other singles from the album were " Begin Again", " I Knew You Were Trouble", " 22", " Everything Has Changed", " The Last Time", and " Red". "I Knew You Were Trouble" reached the top five on charts in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. "Begin Again", "22", and "Red" reached the top 20 in the U.S. On Red, released on October 22, 2012, Swift worked with Chapman and Rose, as well as the new producers Max Martin and Shellback. It incorporated many pop and rock styles such as heartland rock, dubstep and dance-pop. Randall Roberts of Los Angeles Times said Swift "strives for something much more grand and accomplished" with Red. It opened at number one on the Billboard 200 with 1.21 million sales, making Swift the first female to have two million-selling first-weeks. Red was Swift's first number-one album in the U.K. It earned several accolades, including four nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards (2014). Swift received American Music Awards for Best Female Country Artist in 2012, Artist of the Year in 2013, and the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist Award for the fifth and sixth consecutive years. The Red Tour ran from March 2013 to June 2014 and grossed over $150 million, becoming the highest-grossing country tour ever. Swift was honored with the Pinnacle Award, making her the second recipient of the accolade after Garth Brooks. During this time, she briefly dated English singer Harry Styles.

In 2013, Swift recorded " Sweeter than Fiction", a song she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff for the soundtrack. The song received a Best Original Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. She provided guest vocals for Tim McGraw's song " Highway Don't Care", also featuring Keith Urban. Swift performed " As Tears Go By" with the Rolling Stones in Chicago, Illinois, as part of the band's 50 & Counting tour, and joined Florida Georgia Line at their set at the 2013 Country Radio Seminar to sing " Cruise". Swift voiced Audrey in the animated film (2012), made a cameo in the sitcom (2013), and had a supporting role in the dystopian film The Giver (2014).

In March 2014, Swift began living in New York City. She hired Tree Paine as her publicist, and worked on her fifth studio album, , with producers Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback, Imogen Heap, Ryan Tedder, and Ali Payami. She promoted the album extensively, including inviting fans to secret album-listening sessions. 1989 was released on October 27, 2014, and opened atop the Billboard 200 with 1.28 million copies sold. Its singles " Shake It Off", " Blank Space" and " Bad Blood" reached number one in Australia, Canada and the U.S., the first two making Swift the first woman to replace herself at the Hot 100 top spot; other singles include " Style", " Wildest Dreams", " Out of the Woods" and " New Romantics". The 1989 World Tour (2015) was the highest-grossing tour of the year with $250 million in total revenue.

Prior to 1989's release, Swift stressed the importance of albums to artists and fans. In November 2014, she removed her entire catalog from Spotify, arguing that the streaming company's ad-supported, free service undermined the premium service, which provides higher royalties for songwriters. In a June 2015 open letter, Swift criticized Apple Music for not offering royalties to artists during the streaming service's free three-month trial period and stated that she would pull 1989 from the catalog. The following day, Apple Inc. announced that it would pay artists during the free trial period, and Swift agreed to let 1989 on the streaming service. She then returned her entire catalog plus 1989 to Spotify, Amazon Music and Google Play and other digital streaming platforms in June 2017. Swift was named Billboard's Woman of the Year in 2014, becoming the first artist to win the award twice. At the 2014 American Music Awards, Swift received the inaugural Dick Clark Award for Excellence. On her 25th birthday in 2014, the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live opened an exhibit in her honor in Los Angeles that ran until October 4, 2015, and broke museum attendance records. In 2015, Swift won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist. The video for "Bad Blood" won Video of the Year and Best Collaboration at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. At the 58th Grammy Awards (2016), 1989 won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, making Swift the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice.

Swift dated Scottish DJ Calvin Harris from March 2015 to June 2016. They co-wrote the song " This Is What You Came For", featuring vocals from Barbadian singer Rihanna; Swift was initially credited under the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg. In April 2016, Swift criticized the lyrics of West's single " Famous", in which he sings "I made that bitch famous" in reference to his interruption of her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. West claimed he had received her approval for the line, and his then-wife Kim Kardashian released video clips of Swift and West discussing the single amicably over the phone; a full recording of the call leaked in 2020 established that West did not disclose that he would call her a bitch.

After briefly dating English actor Tom Hiddleston, Swift entered a six-year relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn in September 2016. She wrote the song " Better Man" for country band Little Big Town, which earned her the Song of the Year award at the 51st CMA Awards. Swift and English singer Zayn Malik released the joint single " I Don't Wanna Live Forever" for Fifty Shades Darker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017). The song reached number two in the U.S. In August 2017, Swift successfully countersued David Mueller, a former radio jockey for KYGO-FM, who sued her for damages from his loss of employment. Four years earlier, she informed Mueller's bosses that he had sexually assaulted her by groping her at an event.

After a one-year hiatus from public spotlight, Swift cleared her social media accounts and released " Look What You Made Me Do" as the lead single from her sixth album, Reputation. The single was Swift's first U.K. number-one single. It topped charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the U.S. Reputation, released on November 10, 2017, incorporated heavy electropop, along with hip hop, R&B, and EDM sounds. Reviews praised Swift's mature artistry, but some denounced the themes of fame and gossip. The album opened atop the Billboard 200 with 1.21 million sales, making Swift the first act to have four albums sell one million copies in a week in the U.S. The album topped the charts in the UK, Australia, and Canada, and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide as of 2018. It spawned three more singles: "...Ready for It?", " End Game" (featuring Ed Sheeran and rapper Future) and " Delicate". Reputation was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019. At the American Music Awards of 2018, Swift won four awards, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. Swift had garnered collected 23 AMAs in her career, becoming the most awarded female musician in the show, surpassing Whitney Houston. In April 2018, Swift featured on country duo Sugarland's " Babe". She embarked on her Reputation Stadium Tour in 2018. It broke many records, such as the highest-grossing North American concert tour in history with $345.7 million revenue worldwide. It was followed up with an accompanying concert film on Netflix.

Reputation was Swift's last album under Big Machine. In November 2018, she signed a new deal with the Universal Music Group; her subsequent releases were promoted by Republic Records. Swift said the contract included a provision for her to maintain ownership of her masters. In addition, in the event that Universal sold any part of its stake in Spotify, it agreed to distribute a non-recoupable portion of the proceeds among its artists. Vox called it a huge commitment from Universal, which was "far from assured" until Swift intervened.

Swift released her seventh studio album, , on August 23, 2019. Besides Jack Antonoff, Swift worked with new producers Louis Bell, Frank Dukes, and Joel Little. Lover made Swift the first female artist to have a sixth consecutive album sell more than 500,000 copies in one week in the U.S. Critics commended the album's free-spirited mood and emotional intimacy. The lead single, " Me!", peaked at number two on the Hot 100. Other singles from Lover were the U.S. top 10 singles " You Need to Calm Down" and " Lover", top 40 single " The Man", and " Cruel Summer", which became a resurgent success in 2023 and reached number one on the Hot 100. Lover was the world's best-selling album by a solo artist of 2019, selling 3.2 million copies, and along with its singles earned nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020. At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, "Me!" won Best Visual Effects, and "You Need to Calm Down" won Video of the Year and Video for Good. Swift was the first female and second artist overall to win Video of the Year for a video that they directed.

While promoting Lover, Swift became embroiled in a public dispute with talent manager Scooter Braun and Big Machine over the purchase of the masters of her back catalog. Swift said she had been trying to buy the masters, but Big Machine would only allow her to do so if she exchanged one new album for each older one under a new contract, which she refused to sign. Swift began re-recording her back catalog in November 2020. Besides music, she played Bombalurina in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical (2019), for which she co-wrote and recorded the Golden Globe-nominated original song " Beautiful Ghosts". Critics panned the film but praised Swift's performance. The documentary Miss Americana, which chronicled parts of Swift's life and career, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Netflix that January. Swift signed a global publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group in February 2020 after her 16-year-old contract with Sony/ATV expired.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift released two surprise albums: on July 24, and on December 11, 2020. Both explore indie folk and alternative rock with a more muted production compared to her previous upbeat pop songs. Swift wrote and recorded the albums with Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner from The National, as producers. Alwyn co-wrote and co-produced select songs under the pseudonym William Bowery. The albums garnered widespread critical acclaim. The Guardian and Vox opined that Folklore and Evermore emphasized Swift's work ethic and increased her artistic credibility. Three singles supported each of the albums, catering the U.S. mainstream radio, country radio, and triple A radio. The singles, in that order, were " Cardigan", " Betty", and " Exile" from Folklore, and " Willow", " No Body, No Crime", and " Coney Island" from Evermore. Swift became the first artist to debut a U.S. number-one album and a number-one song at the same time with Folklore's "Cardigan" and Evermore's "Willow". Folklore was 2020's best-selling album in the U.S. with 1.2 million copies. It won Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, making Swift the first woman to win the award three times. At the 2020 American Music Awards, she won three awards, including Artist of the Year for a record third consecutive time. According to Billboard, she was 2020's highest-paid musician in the U.S., and the world's highest-paid solo musician.

2021-present: re-recordings, Midnights, and the Eras Tour

Following the masters dispute, Swift released re-recordings of her first six studio albums, beginning with Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version) in April and November 2021, respectively. Both releases peaked atop the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever re-recorded albums to do so. Fearless (Taylor's Version) was preceded by " Love Story (Taylor's Version)", which made her the second artist after Dolly Parton to have both the original and re-recorded versions of a song reach number one on the Hot Country Songs chart. Red (Taylor's Version) was supported by " All Too Well (10 Minute Version)", which became the longest song in history to top the Hot 100. The song was accompanied by a short film, which won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video and Swift's record third MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year.

Swift's tenth studio album, , was released on October 21, 2022. Experimenting with chill-out music, it received critical acclaim; Rolling Stone critics dubbed it an instant classic. The album was Swift's fifth to open atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of over one million copies and broke various sales and streaming records, including the most single-day streams and most single-week streams on Spotify. Its tracks, led by the single " Anti-Hero", monopolized the entire top 10 of the Hot 100, making Swift the first artist to do so. Two other singles, " Lavender Haze" and " Karma", both peaked at number two on the Hot 100. Swift won nine awards at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year ("Anti-Hero") for a record fourth time, and received six nominations at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, including a record seventh for Song of the Year ("Anti-Hero"). She embarked on the Eras Tour in March 2023. Media outlets extensively covered the tour's cultural and economic impact, and its U.S. leg broke the record for the most tickets sold in a day. Ticketmaster received public and political criticisms for mishandling ticket sales and alleged monopoly in the concert industry. A concert film of the tour, released to theaters worldwide on October 13, 2023, became the highest-grossing concert film ever, grossing $250 million worldwide.

Swift continued releasing her re-recorded albums during the Eras Tour. Speak Now (Taylor's Version), released on July 7, 2023, made Swift the woman with the most number-one albums (12) in Billboard 200 history, surpassing Barbra Streisand. 1989 (Taylor's Version) was released on October 27, 2023, and became Swift's record-extending sixth album to sell one million copies in a single week in the U.S. The best-selling album of 2023, it surpassed Midnights for the largest album sales week of her career and garnered the most U.S. first-week vinyl sales of the 21st century. Its single " Is It Over Now?" debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, replacing her own "Cruel Summer".

Beyond her albums, Swift featured on five songs from 2021 to 2023: " Renegade" and "Birch" by Big Red Machine, a remix of " Gasoline" by Haim, " The Joker and the Queen" by Ed Sheeran, and " The Alcott" by the National. For the soundtrack of the 2022 film Where the Crawdads Sing, she recorded " Carolina", which received nominations for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes and Best Song Written for Visual Media at the Grammy Awards. Swift's music releases, touring, and related activities culminated in an unprecedented height of popularity post-pandemic. Music Business Worldwide remarked that she entered a "new stratosphere of global career success" in 2023. Swift was the most streamed artist of 2023 on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. She became the first act to place number one on the year-end Billboard top artists list in three different decades (2009, 2015 and 2023), as well as the first living artist to simultaneously chart five albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200.

Outside of music, Swift had a supporting role in the 2022 period comedy film and signed to direct an upcoming feature film for Searchlight Pictures. She began dating American football player Travis Kelce in 2023.

Influences

One of Swift's earliest memories of music is listening to her grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, sing in church. As a child, she enjoyed Disney film soundtracks: "My parents noticed that, once I had run out of words, I would just make up my own." Swift said she owes her confidence and "fascination with writing and storytelling" to her mother, who helped her prepare for class presentations as a child.

Swift was drawn to the storytelling aspect of country music, introduced to the genre by "the great female country artists" of the 1990s: Shania Twain, Faith Hill, and the Dixie Chicks. Twain, both as a songwriter and performer, was her biggest musical influence. Hill was Swift's childhood role model, as she would often imitate her. She admired the Chicks' defiant attitude and ability to play their own instruments, and was also influenced by older country stars like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton, the last of whom she believes is exemplary to female songwriters. As a songwriter, Swift was influenced by Joni Mitchell's emotional and autobiographical lyrics, highlighting Mitchell's album as a favorite "because it explores somebody's soul so deeply." She also spoke of influence from 1990s songwriters such as Melissa Etheridge, Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette, and alt-country artists like Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna.

Various pop and rock artists have also influenced Swift. She lists Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, and Kris Kristofferson as her career role models. 1989 was influenced by some of her favorite 1980s pop acts, including Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Phil Collins, and Madonna. She also cited Keith Urban's musical style and Fall Out Boy's lyrics as major influences.

"If there's one thing that Swift has proven throughout her career, it's that she refuses to be put in a box. Her ever-evolving sound took her from country darling to pop phenom to folk's newest raconteur."

Swift is known for venturing into various music genres and undergoing artistic reinventions, having been described as a "music chameleon". She self-identified as a country musician until 2012, when she released her fourth studio album, Red. Her albums were promoted to country radio, but music critics noted wide-ranging styles of pop and rock. After 2010, they observed that Swift's melodies are rooted in pop music, and the country music elements are limited to instruments such as banjo, mandolin, and fiddle, and her slight twang; some commented that her country music identity was an indicator of her narrative songwriting rather than musical style. Although the Nashville music industry was receptive of Swift's status as a country musician, critics accused her of abandoning her roots in favor of crossover success in the mainstream pop market. Red's eclectic pop, rock, and electronic styles intensified the critical debate, to which Swift responded, "I leave the genre labeling to other people."

Music journalist Jody Rosen commented that by originating her musical career in Nashville, Swift made a "bait-and-switch maneuver, planting roots in loamy country soil, then pivoting to pop". She abandoned her country music identity in 2014 with the release of her synth-pop fifth studio album, 1989. Swift described it as her first "documented, official pop album". Her subsequent albums Reputation (2017) and Lover (2019) have an upbeat pop production; the former incorporates hip hop, trap, and EDM elements. Midnights (2022), on the other hand, is distinguished by a more experimental, "subdued and amorphous pop sound". Although reviews of Swift's pop albums were generally positive, some critics lamented that the pop music production indicated Swift's pursuit of mainstream success, eroding her authenticity as a songwriter nurtured by her country music background-a criticism that has been retrospectively described as rockist. Musicologist Nate Sloan remarked that Swift's pop music transition was rather motivated by her need to expand her artistry. Swift eschewed mainstream pop in favor of alternative, folk and indie rock styles with her 2020 studio albums Folklore and Evermore. said her career "has always been one of transcendence and covert boundary-pushing", reaching a point at which "Taylor Swift is just Taylor Swift", not defined by any genre.

Swift possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and a generally soft but versatile timbre. As a country singer, her vocals were criticized by some as weak and strained compared to those of her contemporaries. Swift admitted her vocal ability often concerned her in her early career and has worked hard to improve. Reviews of her vocals remained mixed after she transitioned to pop music with 1989; critics complained that she lacked proper technique but appreciated her usage of her voice to communicate her feelings to the audience, prioritizing "intimacy over power and nuance". They also praised her for refraining from correcting her pitch with Auto-Tune.

The Los Angeles Times remarked that Swift's defining vocal feature is her attention to detail to convey an exact feeling-"the line that slides down like a contented sigh or up like a raised eyebrow". With Reputation, critics noted she was "learning how to use her voice as a percussion instrument of its own", swapping her "signature" expressive vocals for "cool, conversational, detached" cadences and rhythms similar to hip hop and R&B styles. Alternative Press stated that her "evocative" vocal stylings are more reminiscent of pop-punk and emo genres.

Reviews of Swift's later albums and performances were more appreciative of her vocals, finding them less nasal, richer, more resonant, and more powerful. With Folklore and Evermore, Swift received praise for her sharp and agile yet translucent and controlled voice. described it as "versatile and expressive". With her 2021 re-recorded albums, critics began to praise the mature, deeper and "fuller" tone of her voice. An review said Swift's voice is "leagues better now" with her newfound vocal furniture. The Guardian highlighted "yo-yoing vocal yelps" and passionate climaxes as the trademarks of Swift's voice, and that her country twang faded away. Midnights received acclaim for Swift's nuanced vocal delivery. She ranked 102nd on the 2023 Rolling Stone list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. In a review of the Eras Tour, The New Yorker critic Amanda Petrusich praised the clarity and tone of Swift's live vocals. Musicologist Alyssa Barna, in a study of Evermore, said that Swift's timbre is "breathy and bright" and she sings in an upper regiser and "full and dark" when she sings in a lower register.

Songwriting

Swift has been referred to as one of the greatest songwriters of all time by several publications. English-language scholars like Jonathan Bate and Stephanie Burt have noted that her literary and melodic sensibility and verbal writing style are rare amongst her peers. Swift's bridges are often underscored as one of the best aspects of her songs, earning her the title "Queen of Bridges" from Time. described her as "a sharp narrator with a gift for the extended metaphor".

In The New Yorker in 2011, Swift said she identifies as a songwriter first: "I write songs, and my voice is just a way to get those lyrics across". Her personal experiences were a common inspiration for her early songs, which helped her navigate life. Her "diaristic" technique began with identifying an emotion, followed by a corresponding melody. On her first three studio albums, love, heartbreak, and insecurities, from an adolescent perspective, were dominant themes. She delved into the tumult of toxic relationships on Red, and embraced nostalgia and post-romance positivity on 1989. Reputation was inspired by the downsides of Swift's fame, and Lover detailed her realization of the "full spectrum of love". Other themes in Swift's music include family dynamics, friendship, alienation, self-awareness, and tackling vitriol, especially sexism.

Her confessional lyrics received positive reviews from critics, who highlighted their vivid details and emotional engagement, which they found uncommon in pop music. Critics also praised her melodic compositions; Rolling Stone described Swift as "a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture". NPR dubbed Swift "a master of the vernacular in her lyrics", remarking that her songs offer emotional engagement because "the wit and clarity of her arrangements turn them from standard fare to heartfelt disclosures". Despite the positive reception, The New Yorker stated she was generally portrayed "more as a skilled technician than as a Dylanesque visionary". Tabloid media often speculated and linked the subjects of her songs with her ex-lovers, a practice reviewers and Swift herself criticized as sexist. Aside from clues in album liner notes, Swift avoided talking about the subjects of her songs.

On her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore, Swift was inspired by escapism and romanticism to explore fictional narratives. Without referencing her personal life, she imposed emotions onto imagined characters and story arcs, which liberated her from tabloid attention and suggested new paths for her artistry. Swift explained that she welcomed the new songwriting direction after she stopped worrying about commercial success. According to , she explored complex emotions with "precision and devastation" on Evermore. Consequence stated her 2020 albums convinced skeptics of her songwriting prowess, noting her transformation from "teenage wunderkind to a confident and careful adult".

Swift divides her writing into three types: " quill lyrics", referring to songs rooted in antiquated poeticism; " fountain pen lyrics", based on modern and vivid storylines; and "glitter gel pen lyrics", which are lively and frivolous. Critics note the fifth track of every Swift album as the most "emotionally vulnerable" song of the album. Awarding her with the Songwriter Icon Award in 2021, the National Music Publishers' Association remarked that "no one is more influential when it comes to writing music today" than Swift. deemed her the foremost female songwriter of modern times, and the Nashville Songwriters Association International named her Songwriter-Artist of the Decade in 2022. Swift has also published two original poems: "Why She Disappeared" and "If You're Anything Like Me".

Performances

Journalists have described Swift as one of the best performers and entertainers in mainstream music. Often praised for her showmanship and stage presence, Swift is known for her ability to command large audiences, such as in a stadium, without having to rely fully on dance like her contemporaries do. According to V magazine's Greg Krelenstein, she possesses "a rare gift of turning a stadium spectacle into an intimate setting", irrespective of whether she is "plucking a guitar or leading an army of dancers".

In a 2008 review of Swift's early performances, Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker called Swift a "preternaturally skilled" entertainer with a vibrant stage presence, adding "she returned the crowd's energy with the professionalism she has shown since the age of fourteen." In 2023, Adrian Horton of The Guardian noted her "seemingly endless stamina" on the Eras Tour, and i critic Ilana Kaplan called her showmanship "unparalleled".

Critics have highlighted Swift's versatility as an entertainer, praising her ability to switch onstage personas and performance styles depending on the varying themes and aesthetics of her albums. Her concert productions have been characterized by elaborate Broadway theatricality and high technology, and her performances frequently incorporate a live band, with whom she has played and toured since 2007. Swift also often accompanies herself with musical instruments such as electric guitar; acoustic guitar; piano; and sometimes twelve-string guitar, banjo, or ukulele. Interacting frequently with the audience, her solo acoustic performances are considered intimate and emotionally resonant, complementing her story-based lyrics and fan connection. Lydia Burgham of The Spinoff opined that this intimacy remains "integral to her singer-songwriter origins". Chris Willman of called Swift "pop's most approachable superstar", and the 21st century's most popular performer.

Video and film

Swift emphasizes visuals as a key creative component of her music making process. She has collaborated with different directors to produce her music videos, and over time she has become more involved with writing and directing. She developed the concept and treatment for "Mean" in 2011 and co-directed the music video for "Mine" with Roman White the year before. In an interview, White said that Swift "was keenly involved in writing the treatment, casting and wardrobe. And she stayed for both the 15-hour shooting days, even when she wasn't in the scenes."

From 2014 to 2018, Swift collaborated with director Joseph Kahn on eight music videos-four each from her albums 1989 and Reputation. Kahn has praised Swift's involvement in the craft. She worked with American Express for the "Blank Space" music video (which Kahn directed), and served as an executive producer for the interactive app AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program in 2015. Swift produced the music video for "Bad Blood" and won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2016.

Her production company, Taylor Swift Productions, is credited with producing all of her visual media starting with the 2018 concert documentary Reputation Stadium Tour. She continued to co-direct music videos for the Lover singles "Me!" with Dave Meyers, and "You Need to Calm Down" (also serving as a co-executive producer) and "Lover" with Drew Kirsch, but first ventured into sole direction with the video for "The Man" (which won her the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction). After Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, Swift debuted as a filmmaker with All Too Well: The Short Film, which made her the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Best Music Video as a sole director. Swift has cited Chloé Zhao, Greta Gerwig, Nora Ephron, Guillermo del Toro, John Cassavetes, and Noah Baumbach as her filmmaking influences.

Achievements

Swift has won 12 Grammy Awards (including three for Album of the Year-tying for the most by an artist), an Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards (the most won by an artist), 39 Billboard Music Awards (the most won by an artist-tying with Drake), 111 Guinness World Records, 23 MTV Video Music Awards (including four Video of the Year wins-the most by an act), 12 Country Music Association Awards (including the Pinnacle Award), eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and two Brit Awards. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the National Music Publishers' Association and was the youngest person on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015. At the 64th BMI Awards in 2016, Swift was the first woman to be honored with an award named after its recipient.

From available data, Swift has amassed over 50 million album sales and 150 million single sales as of 2019, and 114 million units globally, including 78 billion streams as of 2021. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) ranked her as the Global Recording Artist of the Year for a record three times (2014, 2019 and 2022). Swift has the most number-one albums in the United Kingdom and Ireland for a female artist this millennium, earned the highest income for an artist on Chinese digital music platforms ( RMB 159,000,000 as of 2021), and is the first artist to replace themselves at the top spot and occupy the entire top five of the Australian albums chart. Swift remains the world's highest-grossing female touring act of all time, with cumulative ticket sales at $1.68 billion as of September 2023 according to . The Eras Tour is the highest-grossing tour ever by a woman as of August 2023. Beginning with Fearless, each of her studio albums have opened with over one million global units. Swift is the most streamed female act on Spotify and Apple Music. On Spotify, she is the only artist to have received more than 200 and 250 million streams in one day (260 million on October 27, 2023), and the only female act to reach 100 million monthly listeners. The most entries and the most simultaneous entries for an artist on the Billboard Global 200, with 142 and 31 songs, respectively, are among her feats.

In the US, Swift has sold over 37.3 million albums as of 2019, when Billboard placed her eighth on its Greatest of All Time Artists Chart. Eleven of her songs have topped the Billboard Hot 100. She is the longest-reigning act of the Billboard Artist 100 (84 weeks); the soloist with the most cumulative weeks atop the Billboard 200 (64); the woman with the most Billboard 200 number-ones (13), Hot 100 entries (231), top-ten songs (49), and weeks atop the Top Country Albums chart (99); and the act with the most number-one songs on Pop Airplay (12) and Digital Songs (27). Swift is the first woman to simultaneously chart four albums in the top 10 and 11 albums on the entire Billboard 200. She is the second highest-certified female digital singles artist (and fifth overall) in the U.S., with 137.5 million total units certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the first woman to have both an album ( Fearless) and a song ("Shake It Off") certified Diamond. Swift is the only artist in Luminate Data history to have five albums sell over a million copies in a week.

Swift has appeared in various power listings. Time included her on its annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2010, 2015, and 2019. She was one of the "Silence Breakers" honored as Time Person of the Year in 2017 for speaking up about sexual assault. In 2014, she was named to ' 30 Under 30 list in the music category and again in 2017 in its "All-Star Alumni" category. Swift became the youngest woman to be included on Forbes' list of the 100 most powerful women in 2015, ranked at number 64. Swift received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from New York University and served as its commencement speaker on May 18, 2022.

Cultural status

Swift at the 2010 Time 100 Gala

Swift has made a profound impact on the music industry, popular culture, economy and beyond. She dominates cultural conversations, and hence publications describe her as a cultural "vitality" or zeitgeist. Her music, life and public image are points of attention in global celebrity culture. Initially a teen idol, she has been referred to as a pop icon; publications describe her immense popularity and longevity as a kind of fame unwitnessed since the 20th century. In 2013, New York magazine's Jody Rosen dubbed Swift the "world's biggest pop star" and opined that the trajectory of her stardom has defied established patterns. Rosen added that Swift "falls between genres, eras, demographics, paradigms, trends", leaving her contemporaries "vying for second place". Critics regard Swift as a rare yet successful combination of the pop star and singer-songwriter archetypes.

Her fans are known as the Swifties. Billboard noted only few artists have had her chart success, critical acclaim, and fan support, resulting in a wide impact. Swift's million-selling albums are considered an anomaly in the streaming-dominated industry following the end of the album era in the 2010s. Economist Alan Krueger described Swift as an "economic genius".

Labeled by the media in her early career as " America's Sweetheart" for her girl next door persona, Swift has been accused by detractors of being "calculated" and manipulative of her image, a narrative bolstered by her 2016 dispute with West. Critics have also noted that her personal life and career have been subject to intense misogyny and slut-shaming, as well as a topic of rampant media scrutiny and tabloid speculation. She has been a victim of numerous house break-ins and stalkers, some of whom were armed.

"You have different artists dominating different sectors of the industry: Some are huge at streaming, some are big draws on the road. But we're at this moment where there's no one better than Taylor Swift, whether that's on the radio, with streaming, ticket sales or just cultural impact."

Swift helped shape the modern country music scene, having extended her success beyond the Anglosphere, pioneered the use of internet ( Myspace) as a marketing tool, and introduced the genre to a younger generation. Country labels have since become interested in signing young singers who write their own music; her guitar performances contributed to the "Taylor Swift factor", a phenomenon to which an upsurge in guitar sales to women, a previously ignored demographic, is attributed.

According to publications, Swift changed the music landscape with her genre transitions, a discography that accommodates cultural shifts, and her ability to popularize any sound in mainstream music. Lyrically, in being personal and vulnerable in her songs, music journalist Nick Catucci opined Swift helped make space for later singers like Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, and Halsey to do the same. Scholars have highlighted the literary sensibility and poptimist implications of Swift in the 21st century. She has been credited with legitimizing and popularizing the concept of album "eras". Swift is a subject of academic study and scholarly media research. Various educational institutions offer courses on Swift in literary, cultural and sociopolitical contexts.

Swift has influenced numerous music artists, and her albums have inspired an entire generation of singer-songwriters. Journalists praise her ability to reform industry practices, noting how her actions changed streaming policies, prompted awareness of intellectual property in new musicians, and reshaped ticketing models. Various sources deem Swift's music a paradigm representing the millennial generation; Vox called her the "millennial Bruce Springsteen", and named her "the Bob Dylan of our age". Swift earned the title Woman of the Decade (2010s) from Billboard, Artist of the Decade (2010s) at the American Music Awards, and Global Icon at the Brit Awards for her impact. Senior artists such as McCartney, Mick Jagger, Madonna, and Parton have praised her musicianship. Carole King regards Swift her "professional grand daughter" and thanked Swift for "carrying the torch forward". Springsteen called her a "tremendous" writer, while Ringo Starr and Billy Joel considered Swift the Beatles' successor. Britney Spears labeled Swift "the most iconic pop woman of our generation".

Entrepreneurship

Media outlets describe Swift as a savvy businesswoman. She is also known for her traditional album rollouts, consisting of a variety of promotional activities that Rolling Stone termed as an inescapable " multimedia bonanza". Easter eggs and cryptic teasers became a common practice in contemporary pop music because of Swift. Publications describe her discography as a music " universe" subject to analyses by fans, critics and journalists. Swift maintains an active presence on social media and a close relationship with fans, to which many journalists attribute her success. Her in-house management team is called 13 Management.

Swift has endorsed many brands and businesses, such as having launched clothing lines with L.E.I. and Stella McCartney, designed American Greetings cards and Jakks Pacific dolls , released a number of fragrances with Elizabeth Arden, and signed multi-year deals with AT&T and Capital One. She was a spokesperson for the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators and Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras, and became the global ambassador for New York City in 2014 and the Record Store Day in 2022.

Social activism

Swift identifies as a pro-choice feminist, and is one of the founding signatories of the Time's Up movement against sexual harassment. She criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to end federal abortion rights in 2022. Swift also advocates for LGBT rights, and has called for the passing of the Equality Act, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. She performed during WorldPride NYC 2019 at the Stonewall Inn, a gay rights monument, and ha donated to the LGBT organizations Tennessee Equality Project and GLAAD.

A supporter of the March for Our Lives movement and gun control reform in the U.S., Swift is a vocal critic of white supremacy, racism, and police brutality. Following the George Floyd protests, she donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Black Lives Matter movement, called for the removal of Confederate monuments in Tennessee, and advocated for Juneteenth to become a national holiday. In 2020, Swift urged her fans to check their voter registration ahead of elections, which resulted in 65,000 people registering to vote within one day of her post, and endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election. She has openly criticized former president Donald Trump.

Swift's net worth is estimated by and Bloomberg News at $1.1 billion as of October 2023, making her the first musician to achieve billionaire status "solely based on her songs and performances". Forbes named her the annual top-earning female musician four times (2016, 2019, 2021, and 2022). She was the highest-paid celebrity of 2016 with $170 million-a feat recognized by the Guinness World Records as the highest annual earnings ever for a female musician, which she herself surpassed with $185 million in 2019. Overall, Forbes listed Swift as the highest-paid female artist of the 2010s, earning $825 million. She has also developed a real estate portfolio worth $150 million as of 2023, with properties in Nashville; Tribeca, New York City; Los Angeles ( Samuel Goldwyn Estate); and Rhode Island ( High Watch).

Philanthropy

Swift is known for her philanthropic efforts. She ranked number one on DoSomething's 2015 "Gone Good" list, having received the Star of Compassion from the Tennessee Disaster Services and the Big Help Award from the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for her "dedication to helping others" and "inspiring others through action". In 2008, she donated $100,000 to the Red Cross to help the victims of the Iowa flood. In 2009, she sang at BBC's Children in Need concert and raised £13,000 for the cause. Swift has performed at charity relief events, including Sydney's Sound Relief concert. In response to the May 2010 Tennessee floods, Swift donated $500,000 during a telethon hosted by WSMV. In 2011, Swift used a dress rehearsal of her Speak Now tour as a benefit concert for victims of recent tornadoes in the U.S., raising more than $750,000. In 2016, she donated $1 million to Louisiana flood relief efforts and $100,000 to the Dolly Parton Fire Fund. Swift donated to food banks after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston in 2017 and at every stop of the Eras Tour in 2023; she also directly employed local businesses throughout the tour and gave $55 million in bonus payments to her entire crew. In 2020, Swift donated $1 million for Tennessee tornado relief.

She is a supporter of the arts. A benefactor of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Swift has donated $75,000 to Nashville's Hendersonville High School to help refurbish the school auditorium, $4 million to fund the building of a new education center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, $60,000 to the music departments of six U.S. colleges, and $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony. Also a promoter of children's literacy, she has donated money and books to various schools around the country to improve education. In 2007, Swift partnered with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police to launch a campaign to protect children from online predators. She has donated items to several charities for auction, including the UNICEF Tap Project and MusiCares. As recipient of the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year in 2011, Swift donated $25,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Tennessee. In 2012, Swift participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, performing the charity single " Ronan", which she wrote in memory of a four-year-old boy who died of neuroblastoma. She has also donated $100,000 to the V Foundation for Cancer Research and $50,000 to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Swift has encouraged young people to volunteer in their local communities as part of Global Youth Service Day.

Swift donated to fellow singer-songwriter Kesha to help with her legal battles against Dr. Luke and to actress Mariska Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation organization. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift donated to the World Health Organization and Feeding America, supported independent record stores, and offered a signed guitar for auction to raise money for the National Health Service.[better source needed ] Swift performed " Soon You'll Get Better" on the One World: Together At Home television special, a benefit concert curated by Lady Gaga for Global Citizen to raise funds for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. In 2018 and 2021, Swift donated to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. In addition to charitable causes, she has made donations to her fans several times for their medical or academic expenses.

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