Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13,1989 and is an American singer-songwriter.
133 Facts About Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift started professional songwriting at 14 and signed a recording contract with Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country musician.
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Taylor Swift signed a new contract with Republic Records in 2018, and she released her seventh album Lover and autobiographical documentary Miss Americana, influenced by political disillusionment.
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On her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore, Taylor Swift embraced indie folk and alternative rock.
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Taylor Swift directed music videos and films such as All Too Well: The Short Film, and played supporting roles in others.
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Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13,1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Taylor Swift's father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift, is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.
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Taylor Swift was named after singer-songwriter James Taylor, and has Scottish and German heritage.
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Taylor Swift's maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, was an opera singer.
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Taylor Swift spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm that her father had purchased from one of his clients.
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Taylor Swift attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by the Bernadine Franciscan sisters, before transferring to The Wyndcroft School.
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Taylor Swift spent her summers at the beach in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, and performed in a local coffee shop.
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At age nine, Taylor Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions.
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Taylor Swift traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons.
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Taylor Swift traveled with her mother at age eleven to visit Nashville record labels and submitted demo tapes of Dolly Parton and The Chicks karaoke covers.
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When Taylor Swift was around 12 years old, computer repairman and local musician Ronnie Cremer taught her to play guitar.
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Taylor Swift initially attended Hendersonville High School before transferring to the Aaron Academy after two years, which better suited her touring schedule through homeschooling.
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In Nashville, Taylor Swift worked with experienced Music Row songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally, and the Warren Brothers and formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose.
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Taylor Swift had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say.
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At an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Taylor Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form an independent record label, Big Machine Records.
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Taylor Swift was one of Big Machine's first signings, and her father purchased a three-percent stake in the company for an estimated $120,000.
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Taylor Swift began working on her eponymous debut album with producer Nathan Chapman, with whom she felt she had the right "chemistry".
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Taylor Swift wrote three of the album's songs alone, and co-wrote the remaining eight with Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia.
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Taylor Swift spent much of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift with a radio tour, television appearances; she opened for Rascal Flatts on select dates during their 2006 tour, as a replacement for Eric Church.
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Taylor Swift won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for Best New Artist, the Academy of Country Music Awards' Top New Female Vocalist, and the American Music Awards' Favorite Country Female Artist honor.
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Taylor Swift was nominated for Best New Artist at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.
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Taylor Swift performed as a supporting act for Keith Urban's Escape Together World Tour in 2009.
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Taylor Swift won Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year for "Love Story" at the 2009 CMT Music Awards, where she made a parody video of the song with rapper T-Pain called "Thug Story".
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Taylor Swift was the youngest artist to win Album of the Year.
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At the 2009 Country Music Association Awards, Taylor Swift won Album of the Year for Fearless and was named Entertainer of the Year, the youngest person to win the honor.
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Taylor Swift contributed two songs to the Valentine's Day soundtrack, including the single "Today Was a Fairytale", which was her first number-one on the Canadian Hot 100, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Taylor Swift hosted and performed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live; she was the first host to write their own opening monologue.
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At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Taylor Swift won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for "Mean", which she performed during the ceremony.
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At the American Music Awards of 2011, Taylor Swift won Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album.
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On Red, Taylor Swift worked with longtime collaborators Nathan Chapman and Liz Rose, as well as new producers such as Max Martin and Shellback.
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Randall Roberts of Los Angeles Times said Taylor Swift "strives for something much more grand and accomplished" with Red.
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Taylor Swift received American Music Awards for Best Female Country Artist in 2012, and Artist of the Year in 2013.
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Taylor Swift was honored by the Association with the Pinnacle Award, making her the second recipient of the accolade after Garth Brooks.
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In 2013, Taylor Swift recorded "Sweeter than Fiction", a song she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff for the One Chance film soundtrack.
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Taylor Swift provided guest vocals for Tim McGraw's song "Highway Don't Care", which featured guitar work by Keith Urban.
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Taylor Swift joined Florida Georgia Line on stage during their set at the 2013 Country Radio Seminar to sing "Cruise".
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Taylor Swift voiced Audrey in the animated film The Lorax, made a cameo in the sitcom New Girl, and had a supporting role in the dystopian drama film The Giver.
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In March 2014, Taylor Swift began living in New York City.
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Taylor Swift worked on her fifth studio album, 1989, with producers Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback, Imogen Heap, Ryan Tedder, and Ali Payami.
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Taylor Swift promoted the album through various campaigns, including inviting fans, called "Swifties", to secret album-listening sessions for the first time.
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Taylor Swift then returned her entire catalog plus 1989 to Spotify, Amazon Music and Google Play and other digital streaming platforms in June 2017.
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Taylor Swift was named Billboards Woman of the Year in 2014, becoming the first artist to win the award twice.
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In 2015, Taylor Swift won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist.
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Taylor Swift was one of eight artists to receive a 50th Anniversary Milestone Award at the 2015 Academy of Country Music Awards.
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Taylor Swift was the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice as a lead artist.
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Taylor Swift wrote the song "Better Man" for country band Little Big Town; it earned Swift an award for Song of the Year at the 51st CMA Awards.
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Taylor Swift launched the short-lived The Taylor Swift Life mobile app for fans in late 2017.
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Taylor Swift said the contract included a provision for her to maintain ownership of her masters.
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Taylor Swift released her seventh studio album, Lover, on August 23,2019.
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Besides Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift worked with new producers Louis Bell, Frank Dukes, and Joel Little.
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Taylor Swift was the first female and second artist overall to win Video of the Year for a video that they directed.
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Taylor Swift said she had been trying to buy the masters, but Big Machine only allowed her to do so if she exchanged one new album for each older one under another contract, which she refused to do.
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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Taylor Swift released two surprise albums: Folklore on July 24, and Evermore on December 11,2020.
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Taylor Swift wrote and recorded the albums with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner from the National.
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Taylor Swift became the first artist to debut a US number-one album and a number-one song at the same time with Folklore's "Cardigan" and Evermore's "Willow".
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At the 2020 American Music Awards, Taylor Swift won three awards, including Artist of the Year for a record third consecutive time.
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Taylor Swift was 2020's highest-paid musician in the US, and the world's highest-paid solo musician.
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Taylor Swift was the highest-paid female musician of 2021, and both her 2020 albums and the re-recordings were ranked among the top 10 best-sellers of the year.
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Taylor Swift was awarded the National Music Publishers' Association's Songwriter Icon Award among others.
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Taylor Swift released "Carolina" as part of the soundtrack of the film Where the Crawdads Sing, and played a brief role in the period comedy Amsterdam.
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Taylor Swift experimented with electronica and chill-out music styles on it.
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Taylor Swift tied Barbra Streisand for the most number-one albums among women, and became the first artist in history to monopolize the Hot 100's entire top 10.
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Taylor Swift admired the Dixie Chicks' defiant attitude and their ability to play their own instruments.
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Taylor Swift explored the music of older country stars such as Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton, the last of whom she believes is exemplary to female songwriters, and alt-country artists like Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna.
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Taylor Swift has been influenced by various pop and rock artists.
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Taylor Swift has cited Keith Urban's musical style and Fall Out Boy's lyrics as major influences.
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Taylor Swift's ever-evolving sound took her from country darling to pop phenom to folk's newest raconteur.
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Taylor Swift is known for venturing into various music genres and undergoing artistic reinventions, having been described as a "music chameleon".
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Taylor Swift self-identified as a country musician until 2012, when she released her fourth studio album, Red.
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Taylor Swift's albums were promoted to country radio, but music critics noted wide-ranging styles of pop and rock.
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Taylor Swift abandoned her country music identity in 2014 with the release of her synth-pop fifth studio album, 1989.
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Taylor Swift described it as her first "documented, official pop album".
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Taylor Swift eschewed mainstream pop in favor of alternative styles like indie rock with her 2020 studio albums Folklore and Evermore.
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Clash said her career "has always been one of transcendence and covert boundary-pushing", reaching a point at which "Taylor Swift is just Taylor Swift", not defined by any genre.
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Taylor Swift possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and a generally soft but versatile timbre.
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Taylor Swift admitted her vocal ability often concerned her in her early career and has worked hard to improve.
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An i review said Taylor Swift's voice is "leagues better now" with her newfound vocal furniture.
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Taylor Swift ranked 102nd on the 2023 Rolling Stone list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Taylor Swift has been referred to as one of the greatest songwriters of all time by several publications.
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Taylor Swift told The New Yorker in 2011 that she identifies as a songwriter first: "I write songs, and my voice is just a way to get those lyrics across".
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Taylor Swift delved into the tumult of toxic relationships on Red, and embraced nostalgia and post-romance positivity on 1989.
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On her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore, Taylor Swift was inspired by escapism and romanticism to explore fictional narratives.
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Taylor Swift explained that she welcomed the new songwriting direction after she stopped worrying about commercial success.
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Consequence stated her 2020 albums provided a chance to convince skeptics of Taylor Swift had "songwriting power", noting her transformation from "teenage wunderkind to a confident and careful adult".
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Taylor Swift's bridges are often underscored as one of the best aspects of her songs, earning her the title "Queen of Bridges" from Time.
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Taylor Swift has published two original poems: "Why She Disappeared" and "If You're Anything Like Me".
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Taylor Swift emphasizes visuals as a key creative component of her music making process.
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Taylor Swift has collaborated with different directors to produce her music videos, and over time she has become more involved with writing and directing.
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Taylor Swift developed the concept and treatment for "Mean" in 2011 and co-directed the music video for "Mine" with Roman White the year before.
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Taylor Swift worked with American Express for the "Blank Space" music video, and served as an executive producer for the interactive app AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program in 2015.
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Taylor Swift produced the music video for "Bad Blood" and won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2016.
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Taylor Swift has cited Chloe Zhao, Greta Gerwig, Nora Ephron, Guillermo del Toro, John Cassavetes, and Noah Baumbach as her filmmaking influences.
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Taylor Swift has won 12 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, 40 American Music Awards, 29 Billboard Music Awards, 92 Guinness World Records, 14 MTV Video Music Awards, 12 Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and two Brit Awards.
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At the 64th BMI Awards in 2016, Taylor Swift was the first woman to be honored with an award named after its recipient.
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Taylor Swift is the most streamed female act on Spotify, and the only artist to have received more than 200 million streams in one day.
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Taylor Swift is the longest-reigning act of Billboard Artist 100, the soloist with the most cumulative weeks atop the Billboard 200, the woman with the most Hot 100 entries, top-ten songs, and weeks atop the Top Country Albums, and the act with the most Digital Songs number-ones.
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Taylor Swift became the youngest woman to be included on Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in 2015, ranked at number 64.
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Taylor Swift received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from New York University and served as its commencement speaker on May 18,2022.
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Taylor Swift is the only artist in Luminate Data history to have five albums sell over a million copies in a week, proving she is "the one bending the music industry to her will" to New York magazine.
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Taylor Swift is regarded as a champion of independent record shops, contributing to the 21st-century vinyl revival.
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Taylor Swift was the most googled woman in 2019 and musician in 2022.
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Taylor Swift helped shape the modern country music scene, having extended her success and fame beyond the US, pioneered the use of internet as a marketing tool, and introduced the genre to a younger generation.
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Furthermore, in being personal and vulnerable in her lyrics, music journalist Nick Catucci opined Taylor Swift helped make space for later pop stars like Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, and Halsey to do the same.
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Taylor Swift has influenced numerous music artists, and her albums have inspired an entire generation of singer-songwriters.
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In recognition of her cultural impact, Taylor Swift earned the title Woman of the Decade from Billboard, Artist of the Decade at the American Music Awards, and Global Icon at the Brit Awards.
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Taylor Swift is a subject of academic study; her artistry and fame are popular topics of scholarly media research.
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Taylor Swift's songs are studied by evolutionary psychologists and cultural analysts to understand the relationship between popular music and human mating strategies.
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Taylor Swift started as a teen idol, and has become a dominant figure in popular culture, often referred to as a pop icon.
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Taylor Swift was labeled by the media in her early career as "America's Sweetheart" for her likability and girl-next-door image.
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Glamour opined Taylor Swift is an easy target for male derision, triggering "fragile male egos".
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Taylor Swift is known for her traditional album rollouts, consisting of a variety of promotional activities that Rolling Stone termed as an inescapable "multimedia bonanza".
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Taylor Swift maintains an active presence on social media and a close relationship with fans, to which many journalists attribute her success.
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Taylor Swift released a sustainable clothing line with Stella McCartney in 2019.
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Taylor Swift has refused to invest in cryptocurrency and "unregistered securities".
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Taylor Swift criticized the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade and end federal abortion rights in 2022.
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Taylor Swift performed during WorldPride NYC 2019 at the Stonewall Inn, a gay rights monument.
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Taylor Swift has donated to the LGBT organizations Tennessee Equality Project and GLAAD.
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Taylor Swift has performed at charity relief events, including Sydney's Sound Relief concert.
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In 2011, Taylor Swift used a dress rehearsal of her Speak Now tour as a benefit concert for victims of recent tornadoes in the US, raising more than $750,000.
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Taylor Swift donated to food banks after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston in 2017 and to various cities during the Eras Tour in 2023.
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Taylor Swift is a benefactor of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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In 2007, Taylor Swift partnered with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police to launch a campaign to protect children from online predators.
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Taylor Swift has donated items to several charities for auction, including the UNICEF Tap Project and MusiCares.
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In 2012, Taylor Swift participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, performing the charity single "Ronan", which she wrote in memory of a four-year-old boy who died of neuroblastoma.
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Taylor Swift has donated $100,000 to the V Foundation for Cancer Research and $50,000 to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Taylor Swift has encouraged young people to volunteer in their local communities as part of Global Youth Service Day.
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Taylor Swift donated to fellow singer-songwriter Kesha to help with her legal battles against Dr Luke and to actress Mariska Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation organization.
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Taylor Swift performed "Soon You'll Get Better" during the One World: Together At Home television special, a benefit concert curated by Lady Gaga for Global Citizen to raise funds for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.