Taylor

Taylor Swift has become a unique pop star: a pop star that has crossed the line completely from traditional music into pop culture, becoming a pop icon that is enduring and has captured the hearts of millions around the globe. Swift shed her country roots as if they were just a second skin, showing that she could be the most pop-oriented singer/songwriter of her time, someone who was able to harness the zeitgeist make it personal while also able to do in the opposite direction. The skills she displayed were apparent on her early hits including the neo-tribute Tim McGraw but her second album of 2008's Fearless featured a singer-songwriter finding out who she was and in the process finding a mass audience. Fearless ended up being hugely popular, not just within the U.S., with six platinum-certified tracks thanks of the Top Ten songs Love Story & the hit song You Belong with Me. It also did well internationally in countries like Canada, the U.K. Canada & Australia. Speak Now delivered almost two years later, which consolidated the success and helped propel Swift into the stratosphere of stardom. Swift's popularity grew over the course of her three albums following, Red (2012) in addition to 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017) as well as was firmly established within the genre she was a part of. However, even when she reduced her strategy with 2020's stripped down siblings' folklore and Evermore her name remained at the top of the world of pop, a position that she maintained through re-recordings of her earlier catalog, as well as Midnights and her chart-topping, synth-heavy 2022 set.