Taylor

Taylor Swift was a rarity in pop: she is the only celebrity to have moved from the country to mainstream and then to be a global pop culture icon. Swift left her heritage in the country genre like a second skin and showed she had the finest pop sensibility of the time. Swift was the only artist/singer who could be a part of the trending zeitgeist and take it when she went on tour. Swift's talents could be seen in her earliest tracks, notably the Neodue Tim McGraw. But on her second album Fearless that came out in 2008, she could identify her true identity and gain audiences across the globe. Fearless became a worldwide hit and not just in the United States (where it earned with six platinum awards for Top Ten Hits Love Story as well as "You Belong with Me") as well as in Canada Australia and the U.K. and many other countries. Swift's new album Speak Now, released nearly two years following the first one, consolidated this success. The album propelled Swift into the spotlight. The next three years, Swift's popularity was growing -- Red (2012), Reputation (2014) in addition to 1989 (2014-2015) during which time she moved into a arena of pop in which her talent was already established. Although she slowed down the production of her folklore album, and Evermore released in 2020, she was in the forefront of pop music.