Taylor

Taylor Swift, the rarest pop phenomenon is a star who was able to transcend across the border between country music and mainstream pop culture and became an idol of the pop world. The singer also conquered every continent during the course of her journey. Swift has shed her roots in the country genre as a third layer, showing herself to be the most savvy pop singer/songwriter her generation. Swift was able to make use of current trends and create her own. Her early songs including the neotribute in tribute to Tim McGraw were a testament to her abilities. However, her second album Fearless was released in 2008 and showed her as an songwriter discovering her voice and a wider public. The album was hugely successful not just in America in which six of the singles were declared platinum, on the back of Top Ten hit songs Love Story and Belong with Me. But it also performed well around the globe. Speak Now delivered almost two years after that, and it consolidated the popularity and propelled Swift up the ranks of celebrity. Swift's popularity grew over the course of her three following albums, Red (2012) and 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017) in addition to Reputation (2017), and was firmly established within a genre where she belonged. However, even when she reduced her strategy with 2020's stripped down siblings' folklore and Evermore her name remained at the top of the charts, a place she defended with the re-recordings the back catalogue, along with Midnights her chart-topping synth-heavy 2022 album.