Taylor

Taylor Swift, the rarest pop phenomenon is a star who managed to move from the country genre to mainstream culture, and has become an idol of the pop culture. She also conquered every continent in the process. Swift removed her roots in the country like they were a second skin revealing that she was arguably the smartest populist singer/songwriter of her generation one that could tap into the current zeitgeist and make it personal and equally impressively do the reverse. Her early songs like the Neotribute in tribute to Tim McGraw were a testament to her talent. But, her follow-up album Fearless from 2008 showed an songwriter discovering her voice, and also a larger public. Fearless was a big hit not only in America with it's Top Ten singles Love Story as well as You Belong with Me helped it to achieve six platinum records however, it also swept the world. It performed particularly well in Canada, Australia and the U.K. Speak Now delivered almost two years later and consolidated this popularity and pushed Swift into the stratosphere of fame. The three albums that followed the three albums that followed -- Red 2012 1989, Red 2012 and Reputation 2017, her popularity only increased. It was a clear indicator that Swift had entered a new pop world that she could be part of. As she cut her style to the stripped-down versions of 2020, folklore and Evermore but she was still on top. It was a position that was confirmed with the re-recordings she had made from her earlier catalog, as along with Midnights the synth-based chart-topper 2022 album.