TAYLOR SWIFT



Taylor Swift's third album which received positive reviews from music critics. The album debuted number one on the 'US Billboard 2000 Chart' selling approximately 1,047,000 units in its first week, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Now). The album was also an international success, charting within the top 10 in several countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom. Swift promoted the album with a worldwide tour throughout 2011 with a total of 80 shows. Critics praised the tour saying the two-hour production Swift put on was an 'overwhelming experience'. The Korean Focus Times praised it by saying, “Taylor Swift charms Korea in style, radiant...with pitch-perfect and sincere vocals. The dedication of the fans present was boundless, the cheers of the crowd were sometimes louder than the music itself.” Her fans loved the album, 'her songs are really good on this album', 'strong vocals, amazing lyrics, amazing songs!', these were some of the comments on the amazon website when fans purchased her album. http://www.amazon.com/Speak-Now-Taylor-Swift/dp/B003WTE886.



Taylor Swift 'Speak Now Tour'

Taylor is a seven time grammy award winner. Her second album 'Fearless' won 'Album of the Year'

and 'Best Country Album'. Swift's song 'White Horse' won 'Best Female Country Vocal Performance' and 'Best Country Song'. Her 2012 song 'Mean' won 'Best Country Solo Performance' and

'Best Country Song'. Taylor's 2013 song 'Safe and Sound' which featured grammy winning duo

'The Civil Wars', which was written and featured on the movie 'The Hunger Games' won

'Best Song Written for Visual Media'.

Taylor Swift during her 2013 tour for her new album 'Red'.



Taylor with many of her fans.

Taylor Swift Biography

Born 13th December 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift spent most of her childhood on a farm.

At age 12 Taylor was shown how to play 3 chords on the guitar by a repairman which then inspired her to write her first song. At age 14 she moved with her family to Nashville as part of her fathers job transfer. While in Nashville she secured a deal at RCA Records. When she turned 15 she left RCA because she felt she was ready to release an album using her own material whereas RCA wanted her to record music written by other songwriters and wait until she turned 18 to release her own music. At an industry showcase at Nashville's The Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Taylor caught the eye of Scott Borchetta, a Dreamworks record executive who was in the process of creating his own record label, Big Machine Records and Taylor was Scott's first signings.

Swift is also a multi-grammy award-winning singer/songwriter who in 2010 became the youngest artist to win the grammy award for 'Album of the Year' at the age of 20. In 2011 Swift was named Billboard's Woman of the Year.

Swift is a role model to a lot of young teenage girls and inspires a lot of them. She is popular among many groups of females and many of her fans feel inspired by her. Her fans are a lot of the younger generation and that's why we wanted our target audience to be the younger female generation because not only are we young females ourselves but also because we wanted our video to fit with the conventions of a pop music video and we felt that we understood that particular audience a lot.

A lot of her fans feel as though she is an inspiration and as though they can connect to her through her music and because she writes songs that they feel are easily relate able because of their lyrics, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110421095054AAfZYRW

She is also very successful and accomplished very much in her short lifetime, and she teaches other young people that they can be like her and achieve many things like she has if they keep believing in their dreams.

Her music is enjoyed a lot by young females who can easily find themselves relating to her, maybe because of who she is or her music.