Taylor

Taylor Swift was a rarity in pop culture: she was the sole celebrity who transitioned from the traditional to the mainstream, and to become a pop icon worldwide. Swift has shed her roots in the country as if it were a second-skin, revealing herself to be one of the best pop singers and songwriters in her generation. She is able to take the zeitgeist of today and turn it into her personal. These skills were evident on her earliest hits especially the neo-tribute Tim McGraw but her second album 2008's Fearless showed a writer discovering the person she really was, and in the process finding an audience of mass. Fearless was an enormous success not just in the US with its Top Ten singles Love Story as well as You Belong with Me helped it to break six platinum records as well as around the globe. The album was particularly successful in Canada, Australia as well as the U.K. Swift was able to consolidate her progress through Speak Now almost two year following. With the three subsequent albums (Reputation 2017, 1989 2014, and Red 2012) Red 2012 1989 2014, along with Reputation 2017 -- Swift's popularity only increased. This was a sure indication that she was in a new pop world where she fit in. Even when she scaled back her strategy with 2020's stripped down siblings' folklore and Evermore she remained atop the world of pop, a position she kept with the re-recordings of her older catalogs as well as Midnights her chart-topping synth-heavy 2022 collection.