TaylorS Bio

Taylor Swift
Latar belakang
Nama lahir	Taylor Alison Swift
Lahir	13 Desember 1989 (umur 23) Reading, Pennsylvania, Amerika Serikat
Pekerjaan	Penyanyi, penulis lagu, musisi, produser rekaman, aktris
Instrumen	Vokal, gitar, Banjo, piano, ukulele
Tahun aktif	2006–sekarang
Label	Big Machine
Artis terkait	Nathan Chapman, Liz Rose
Situs web	TaylorSwift.com

About Taylor S

About Taylor Swift


 
She’s one of the few genuine rock stars we’ve got these days, with a flawless ear for what makes a song click." -- Rolling Stone, June 2012
Taylor Swift will release her fourth studio album, Red, on October 22nd, 2012.
22 year-old Taylor Swift is a six-time GRAMMY winner, and is the youngest winner in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year (for Fearless, released in 2008). Her 2010 album, Speak Now, was lauded on Rolling Stone’s prestigious The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (by women) list, and Time magazine has named Taylor one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
She is Billboard’s Woman of the Year, the reigning American Music Awards Artist of the Year, and both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music’s current Entertainer of the Year. She is also the most awarded star in the history of the Teen Choice Awards, taking home honors for both music and movies.
Taylor, who writes all of her own songs, has career record sales in excess of 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads. Each of her three studio albums has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide, and her most recent album, Speak Now, is one of only 17 albums in the entire history of music to sell more than 1 million copies in a single week. She has had singles top both the country and pop radio charts around the globe, is one of the top 5-selling digital music artists worldwide, and is the top-selling digital artist in country music history.

Fact

Tidbits about Taylor

• The first song she ever wrote was 'Lucky You'.

• Taylor and her best friend Abigail were Chewbacca for Halloween 2007.

• Her favorite color is white. She is aware that it's a boring color but she says "but, now, think a flowing white cotton skirt blowing in the wind".

• Her favorite sport is hockey, but only watching it. She is apparently not good at sports.

• She loves to drive fast.

• Her favorite place is anywhere around a creek.

• Her favorite season is summer.

• Her favorite movie is Love Actually.

• She loves playing the guitar, as well as the piano.

• She is the first artist to have an album go platinum on Big Machine Records.

• She won a national poetry contest in 4th grade.

• Has written over 200 songs.

• She is only the second country artist to appear on the cover of Blender magazine.

• Most people think Taylor's tattoo on her foot is real. However it is not! She promised that if her album ever went double platinum, she would. But now she's changed her mind because she doesn't want it to affect her role model status.

• Wouldn't quit practicing guitar until her fingers bled or her mom called her in for dinner.

• Taylor's lucky number is 13.

• Her ideal outfit is a sundress and cowboy boot.

• Law And Order: SVU and CSI are her favorite TV shos.

• She is the only female country artist in history to write or co-write every song on a platinum selling debut.

• Her video for the song "Tim McGraw" currently holds the longest record for a video consistently in GAC's Top Twenty Countdown.

• Taylor is the youngest person to be honored as Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International. The award was voted on by her song-writing peers.

• Taylor is the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a number-one country single entirely on her own.

• When Taylor wanted to make decisions, her point of reference is the 6-year-old girl in the front row of her concert

• Taylor loves black and white pictures.

• Taylor swift is the first celebrity to star on the cover of Justine Magazine.

• The second song Taylor Swift wrote is called "The Outside."

About TSwift Album

Taylor Swift (Debut Album)

• Tim McGraw (Taylor Swift & Liz Rose) - "This song means so much to me, that's why we wanted it to be the first track on the album. The idea for this song came to me in math class. I just started singing to myself `When you think Tim McGraw.' The concept for this song hit me, because I was dating a guy who moved away, and it was going to be over for us. So I started thinking of things that I knew would remind him of me. The first thing that came to mind was that my favorite song is by Tim McGraw. After school, I went downtown, sat down at the piano, and wrote this with Liz Rose in fifteen minutes. It may be the best fifteen minutes I've ever experienced."  

                        

• Picture To Burn (Taylor Swift & Liz Rose) - "Before I sing this song, I always try to tell the audience that I really do try to be a nice person... but if you break my heart, hurt my feelings, or are really mean to me, I'm going to write a song about you. Haha. This song is the perfect example." 

• Teardrops On My Guitar (Taylor Swift & Liz Rose) - "I used to have a huge crush on this guy, who would sit there every day talking to me about...another girl: how beautiful she was, how nice and smart and perfect she was. And I sat there and listened, never meaning it any of the times I said `Oh, I'm so happy for you.' I guess this is a good example of how I let my feelings out in songs, and sometimes no other way. And I've never been afraid of using names. I love this song because of its honesty and vulnerability. To this day, they are still together and he has no idea about this song." 

• A Place In This World (Taylor Swift & Robert Orrall & Angelo) - "I wrote this song when I was thirteen and had just moved to Nashville. It was tough trying to find out how I was going to get where I wanted to go. I knew where I wanted to be, but I just didn't know how to get there. I'm really happy this is on the album, because I feel like I finally figured it out." 

• Cold As You (Taylor Swift & Liz Rose) - "I wrote this song with Liz, and I think the lyrics to this song are some of the best we've ever written. It's about that moment where you realize someone isn't at all who you thought they were, and that you've been trying to make excuses for someone who doesn't deserve them. And that some people are just never going to love you. We were halfway through writing this when I started singing `And now that I'm sitting here thinking it through, I've never been anywhere cold as you'." 

• The Outside (Taylor Swift) - "This is one of the first songs I ever wrote, and it talks about the very reason I ever started to write songs. It was when I was twelve years old, and a complete outcast at school. I was a lot different than all the other kids, and I never really knew why. I was taller, and sang country music at karaoke bars and festivals on weekends while other girls went to sleepovers. Some days I woke up not knowing if anyone was going to talk to me that day. I think every person comes to a point in their life when you have a long string of bad days. You can choose to let it drag you down, or you can find ways to rise above it. I came to the conclusion that even though people hadn't always been there for me, music had. It's strange to think how different my life would be right now if I had been one of the cool kids." 

                          

• Tied Together With A Smile (Taylor Swift & Liz Rose) - "One of my best friends is absolutely beautiful. She goes to beauty pageants and wins everything. Girls want to be her and guys want to be with her. I wrote this song the day I found out about her eating disorder. It completely blew my mind, and this one was tough to write, because I wasn't just telling some sad story. This was real. This song is basically about the girls I know, and the difficult things I saw them go through. I've never seen this song as a lecture. It's really about how no matter what my friends go through, I'm always going to love them." 

                                      

• Stay Beautiful (Taylor Swift & Liz Rose) - "After hearing my songs, a lot of people ask me, `How many boyfriends have you HAD?' And I always tell them that more of my songs come from observation than actual experience. In other words, you don't have to date someone to write a song about them. This is a song I wrote about a guy I never dated! Wow, right? Haha. This song is about a guy I thought was cute, and never really talked to him much. But something about him inspired this song, just watching him." 

                        

• Should've Said No (Taylor Swift) - "Just being a human being, I've realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could've just said no. This is a song I wrote about a guy who never should have cheated on me."

                               

• Mary's Song (Oh My My My) (Taylor Swift & Liz Rose & Brian Maher) - "I wrote this song about a couple who lived next door to us. They'd been married forever and they came over one night for dinner, and were just so cute. They were talking about how they fell in love and got married, and how they met when they were just little kids. I thought it was so sweet, because you can go to the grocery store and read the tabloids, and see who's breaking up and cheating on each other (or just listen to some of my songs, haha). But it was really comforting to know that all I had to do was go home and look next door to see a perfect example of forever." 

                     

• Our Song (Taylor Swift) - I just sat down one day with my guitar and got in a groove, and went with it. I like to write about how music affects people, and this was fun to write because it's about a couple who DOESN'T have a song. I like the banjo and you really can't go wrong with banjo. I wanted it to be last on the album, because the last line of the chorus is `play it again'. Let's hope people take it as a hint to go ahead and play the album again. Haha!" 

                     

FEARLESS (Sophomore Album)

• Fearless (Taylor Swift, Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey)- This is a song about the fearlessness of falling in love. No matter how many break up songs you write, no matter how many times you get hurt, you will always fall in love again. When I wrote “Fearless,” I wasn’t dating anyone. I wasn’t even in the beginning stages of dating anybody. I really was all by myself out on tour and I got this idea for a song about the best first date. I think sometimes when you’re writing love songs, you don’t write them about what you’re going through at the moment, you write about what you wish you had. So, this song is about the best first date I haven't had yet.

• Fifteen (Taylor Swift)- I wrote this around the story line of my best friend from high school, Abigail. I started everything with the line “Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind” and wrote everything else from that point, almost backwards. I just decided I really wanted to tell that story about our first year of high school because I felt in my freshman year, I grew up more than any year in my life so far.

• Love Story (Taylor Swift)- This is a song I wrote when I was dating a guy who wasn't exactly the popular choice. His situation was a little complicated, but I didn't care. I started this song with the line "This love is difficult, but it's real." When I wrote the ending to this song, I felt like it was the ending every girl wants to go with her love story. It’s the ending that I want. You want a guy who doesn’t care what anyone thinks, what anyone says. He just says, “Marry me, Juliet, I love you, and that’s all I really know.” It’s sort of told in a character kind of thing, where it’s Romeo and Juliet, and it’s not me saying that I’m getting married or anything...but I think it’s fun to write about it.

• Hey Stephen (Taylor Swift)-We were recording at John McBride’s (Martina McBride’s husband’s) studio and he was like, ‘My kids are dying to meet you. Do you think that you could say hi to them?’ I said, ‘Sure, have them come and hang out while we’re recording.’ So his daughters and their friends from school – there were about ten of them there – they all came into the studio when we were recording “Hey Stephen” and they loved it. They were singing along with it by the end of it.

• White Horse (Taylor Swift, Liz Rose)-I actually wasn’t going to put this song on the album. I was going to wait for the third album because I really felt like we had the “sadness” represented on this record. Then my agency out in LA set up a meeting with executive producers Betsy Beers and Shonda Rhimes at Grey’s Anatomy because that’s my favorite show. It would just be a dream come true to have a song on it. So, I played them “White Horse.” It was just me and my guitar and they freaked out. They loved it. They said, “We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.” For a while, we didn’t know if we were going to put it on the record because if it wasn’t going to be on the show, then we weren’t going to put it on the album. Then they called and said they were very interested in the song. We recorded it right away, sent it off to them, and they put it in!  To me, “White Horse” is about what, in my opinion, is the most heart-breaking part of a break-up – that moment when you realize that all the dreams you had, all those visions you had of being with this person, all that disappears. Everything after that moment is moving on.. But that initial moment of "Wow, it's over" is what I wrote "White Horse" about.

• You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift, Liz Rose)-I came into the writing session with Liz Rose and said….I’ve got this idea. I had overheard a friend of mine talking to his girlfriend and he was completely on the defensive saying, “No, baby...I had to get off the phone really quickly...I tried to call you right back...Of course I love you. More than anything! Baby, I’m so sorry.” She was just yelling at him! I felt so bad for him at that moment.So I came up with the first line “You’re on the phone with your girlfriend, she’s upset, going off about something that you said,” and I ran that into the story line that I’m in love with him and he should be with me instead of her. It just became this whole picture. It was really fun for us to write the line, “She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts.”

• Breathe (Taylor Swift, Colbie Calliat)-It’s a song about having to say goodbye to somebody, but it never blames anybody. Sometimes that’s the most difficult part. When it’s nobody’s fault.i was a huge fan of Colbie’s record. When it came out, I fell in love with the way that she makes music. I contacted her management right away and I asked if I could write with her and, sure enough, Colbie had a date coming up in Nashville where she was going to be playing a show and she had the day off. I think she sounds beautiful on it. I’m so excited to have her voice on my album.

• Tell Me Why (Taylor Swift, Liz Rose)-I’d been talking to a guy I’ve never “officially” dated. Sometimes it’s the hardest thing when you have all these dreams of dating them, and you’re getting close, but it doesn’t work out. He would say things that would make me go, “Did you just say that?” It bothered me so much because he would say one thing and do another, do one thing and say another. Because he didn’t know what he wanted, he would just play all these mind games.So I went over to write with Liz and was just ranting and raving about how this guy is such a flake and such a jerk sometimes, and so cool other times. I was like, “Liz, I don’t know what’s up with this guy!” So I just started playing the beginning, “I took a chance, I took a shot. And you might think I’m bulletproof, but I’m not.”

• You’re Not Sorry (Taylor Swift)-It is about this guy who turned out to not be who I thought I was. He came across as prince charming. Well, it turned out prince charming had a lot of secrets that he didn’t tell me about. And one by one, I would figure them out. I would find out who he really was. I wrote this when I was at the breaking point of, “You know what? Don’t even think that you can keep on hurting me.” It was to a point where I had to walk away.

• The Way I Loved You (Taylor Swift, John Rich)-I got this idea for a song about being in a relationship with a nice guy who is punctual and opens up the door for you and brings you flowers...but you feel nothing. The whole time you’re with him, you’re thinking about the guy who was complicated and messy and frustrating.So I brought that idea, the title and where I thought the song should go to John. He was able to relate to it because he is that complicated, frustrating messy guy in his relationships. We came at the song from different angles. It was just so cool to get in a room and write with him because he really is an incredible writer.

• Forever & Always (Taylor Swift)-“Forever & Always” is about when I was in a relationship with someone and I was just watching him slowly slip away. I didn't know why, because I wasn't doing anything different. I didn't do anything wrong. He was just fading. It’s about the confusion and frustration of wondering why? What changed? When did it change? What did I do wrong? In this case, the guy I wrote it about ended up breaking up with me for another girl. Guess I know why he was fading..

• The Best Day (Taylor Swift)-I wrote this song on the road and didn’t tell my mom about it. I decided that I was going to keep it a secret and give it to her as a surprise for Christmas. I wrote it in the summer and then recorded it secretly with the band in the studio. After it was done, I synched the song up to all these home videos of her, and my family.She didn’t even realize it was me singing until halfway through the song! She didn’t have any idea that I could possibly write and record a song without her knowing about it. When she finally got it, she just started bawling her eyes out.

• Change (Taylor Swift)-At one point, I began to understand that it would be harder for me on a smaller record label to get to the places and accomplish the things that artists were accomplishing on bigger record labels. I realized that I wouldn’t get favors pulled for me because there weren’t any other artists on the label to pull favors from. It was going to be an uphill climb and all that I had to encourage me was the hope that someday things would change. That things would be different. After so many times of just saying that to myself over and over, I finally wrote it down in a song.

 

TSwift quotes

Quotes straight from Taylor herself...

• "Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes. I don't care. I'm just a senior in high school who has a better job. Who am I to think I'm better than talking to people?"

• "Clubs are just not where I want to be photographed. For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values. I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.”

• "What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become."

• "I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."

• "You only get so many firsts, every one is a blessing."

• "I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."

• "I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

• "When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening."

• "I write blatantly obvious songs with blatantly obvious details, and then I'm like NO! When they find out, I dunno what's wrong with me. I have issues."

• "It feels kinda weird being back in a highschool cause i haven't been in a highschool for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in highschool again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

• "And Kenny Chesney is so completely nice. Genuinely nice. Like, we were all sitting around the bus after the show and he came up and sat down and talked to us for a while.. and before he left he said "I'm going to get something to eat, y'all want anything?" Like, simple things like that.. It's just.. really nice. And I really really like nice people."

• "I pulled out my iPod and randomly selected a Grey's Anatomy episode to watch the pass the time.. And it randomly selected the episode where Denny dies, and so I started hysterically crying and couldn't stop for about ten minutes. (He was my favorite character, hands down. Why'd he have to die?) For the the record, this is the first time I've cried in a VERY long time. So I figure if the only reason I have to cry is a TV show, I must be pretty lucky."

• "Chatting with friends and surfing the Internet is cool, but it's important to stay safe. Be smart about keeping your identity private online."

• “I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”

• “(On her win at the 2007 CMT Music Awards) I cannot believe this is happening right now. This is for my MySpace people and everybody who voted. The fans, y'all, I'm going out on tour with Brad Paisley and this is coming with me to every single [autograph] signing line so you can get a picture of the award you won for me. Thank you so much.”

• “I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, "If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people." 

• “I'm so excited, but really nervous, too! I've never been nominated for anything before. I've sat in the nosebleed section watching the CMT Awards for two years in a row now, looking down and hoping that maybe if I worked hard enough, I'd get to sit in the awesome seats the nominees get to sit in. And it looks like that's going down this year!”

• “My life has gotten AWESOME.”

• “I had this dream that Kanye West called me and said, "I wanna rap on one of your songs." Then I woke up and was really mad it was just a dream.”

• “Guys being complicated and sending mixed signals? That never stops.”

• “Umbrella is like, the best song over. I'm obsessed with her. Her performance at the MTV Movie Awards, when she came out in a black tutu and those sparks rained down - incredible.”

• “I hope 20 years down the line, my songs still make an impact on people.”

• “I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.”

• "Fearless is not that you’re not afraid of anything. It's having a lot of fears but jumping anyway."

• "I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone is 25 seconds when I was 18."

• "See, this one even comes with a phone...so he can break up with other dolls."

• "See, I really try to be a nice person, BUT, if you break my heart, hurt my feelings, or are really mean to me, I'm gonna write a song about you."

• "People haven't always been there for me but music always has."

• “That’s always the hardest thing. When someone completely has you fooled, so much that you think they’re never gonna hurt you, and then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak.”

• "FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you." 

• "Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."

• "In high school its cool to be different the more and more further away you get from middle school Jr.High the more you realize that in the real world if you have something about yourself that is different your lucky its not a curse dont make high school everything because if high school is everything then you got a long life to live and id like to think the best years of my life are still ahead of me"

• "I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."

• "I have to believe in fairytales and I have to believe in love" 

• "This song is about the best first date ever. The best first date ever has nothing to do with where you go to dinner. And the best first date ever has nothing to do with if somebody brings you flowers. Because the best first date happens when you're with the person who makes you feel fearless..."

• "dont make high school everything"

• "When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair."

• "If you have something different about yourself consider yourself lucky. It's not a curse"

• "Some of your most heartbreaking material is what could have been, and some of the most romantic material is what could be." 

• "Whether you tell stories about how you live on a farm and cherish your family and God, or whether you tell stories about being in high school and being cheated on, they're stories about your life. That's what makes me a counrty artist."

• "I pour my heart and soul into every song. I take advantage of that when I play live, telling them where I wrote it, why I wrote it. I'm not just out there putting on a show. What they get in the music and on stage is me."

• "To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."

•  "I'm the girl who is best friends with her guitar and writes songs about everything and everyone that happens to me. Names included."

• "I love, love, and the way that it makes you feel, and the way it drives people crazy, and the way it motivates people in certain ways, and i'm fascinated by it."

Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck is a women's fragrance from Elizabeth Arden. Endorsed by country singer Taylor Swift, it took its name from Swift's song "Enchanted", which reflected on the first impression one person has of another: "I'm wonderstruck blushing all the way home". The tagline for the fragrance is "The beginning of something magical".
It was released in the US in October 2011. Together with Justin Bieber's Someday it revitalized the celebrity fragrance business, with sales in 2011 up by 57 percent.
Taylor will release a spin-off fragrance, Wonderstruck Enchanted, in the US in September 2012.
Wonderstruck is due for release in the UK on 25 July 2012 and in the Philippines on August 17, 2012.