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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,1,2,3,Quick Introduction,Taylor Alison Swift is an American country music singer-songwriter. She was born on December 13, 1989. She started singing, playing a guitar, and songwriting at a very young age. Taylor started off showing her talentsat fairs and wherever she would get the chance.Her parents moved from her home in Pennsylvania to Tennessee so she could pursue her career. There Swift was able to sign her first record deal with a new record label before the age of sixteen.,4,Quick Introduction,After that it didnt take long before everyone was hearing her music. Her music sounds both county and pop, winning her countless diversified awards. Taylor Swift became the first country singer ever to have two singles reach number one on the pop chart. Fearless, Taylor Swifts second album, has spent more weeks at number one on Billboards Top 200 chart than any other album this decade. Not only does Taylor Swift singthe songs on her album,she also has written or co-written every song on the album.If that isnt enough accomplished at such a young age, she also is the youngest singer ever to win a Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year. She is known around the world by her music; her fans cant get enough of Taylor Swift.,5,Taylor Swift was born and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania as the first child and only daughter of Andrea, a homemaker, and Scott Swift, a stockbroker. She has a younger brother, Austin. Taylor was raised as a Baptist. When she was in fourth grade, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem entitled Monster In My Closet.,At the age of 10, Taylor began writing songs and singing them at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs around her hometown. When she was 12 years old, she devoted an entire summer to writing a 350-page novel, which remains unpublished. Her first major show was a well-received performance at the Bloomsburg Fair. In 2008, she earned her high school diploma through homeschooling at the age of 18.,Early Life,6,Taylors greatest musical influence is Shania Twain. Her other influences include LeAnn Rimes, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton, and Taylors grandmother. Although her grandmother was a professional opera singer,Taylors tastes always leaned more toward country music.,Taylor began learning to play guitar from a computer repairman who showed her how to play three chords. After learning those three chords, she wrote her first song, Lucky You.She began writing songs regularly and used it as an outlet to help her with her pain from not fitting in at school. Other kids would react badly to her so she wrote songs about them.,Songwriting Interest,7,At age 11, Taylor made her first trip to Nashville, hoping to obtain a record deal by distributing a demo tape of her singing with karaoke songs. She gave a copy to every label in town, but was rejected.After Taylor returned to Pennsylvania, she was asked to sing at the U.S. Open tennistournament, where her rendition of the national anthem received much attention. Taylor started writing songs and playing 12-string guitar when she was 12. Taylor began to regularly visit Nashville and wrote songs with local songwriters. By the time she was 14, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb. When Taylor was 15, she rejected RCA Recordsbecause the company wanted to keep her on an artist development deal. After performing at Nashvilles songwriters venue, The Bluebird Caf, she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, who signed her to his newly formed record label, Big Machine Records. At age 14, she became the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house.,Early Work,8,Music Career,20062008:,Taylor Swift,Taylor released her debut single, ,Tim McGraw, in mid-2006, reaching No.6 on Billboard magazines Hot Country Songs chart. Her self-titled debut album was later released on October 24, 2006.Debuting high on the Billboard 200, the album sold 39,000 copies during its first week.It peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums and No.5 on the Billboard200.,The music video for ,Tim McGraw, won Taylor an award for Breakthrough Video of the Year at the 2007 CMT Music Awards.,The second single from the,Taylor Swift,album, ,Teardrops on My Guitar, was released February 24, 2007. In mid-2007, the song peaked at No.2 on Billboards Hot Country Songs chart and No.33 on the Billboard Hot 100.,Her third song off her debut album, ,Our Song, spent six weeks at No.1 on the Country charts, peaked at No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100, and rose to No.24 on the Billboard Pop 100.,Shouldve Said No, became Taylors second No.1 single. In Summer 2008, Taylor released Beautiful Eyes, an EP sold exclusively at Wal-Mart.,9,1.Tim McGraw (3:52),2.Picture to Burn (2:53),3.Teardrops on My Guitar (3:33),4.A Place in This World (3:19),5.Cold as You (3:59),6.The Outside (3:27),7.Tied Together With a,Smile (4:08),8.Stay Beautiful (3:56),9.Shouldve Said No (4:02),10.Marys Song (Oh My My,My) (3:33),11.Our Song (3:22),“Taylor Swift ”(2006),the songs on,Taylor Swift,describe coming of age experiences such as insecurity, young love, and teenage angst. Most songs on the album were written during Swifts freshman year of high school.,10,Tim McGraw,Tim McGraw is theTaylors debut single,.,The song tells of Taylors remembrance of a summer love, and how an un-named song by country music artist Tim McGraw (identified later on as Cant Tell Me Nothin from his,Live Like You Were Dying,album) brings back memories of that love.,Taylor has said she wrote the song during math class in high school. The song, she says, is about her and her boyfriend, when he was moving away to go to college, and they would eventually have to break up. Taylor goes on to say, I started thinking of all the things that reminded me of him.,The music video for ,Tim McGraw, won Taylor an award for Breakthrough Video of the Year at the 2007 CMT Music Awards.,11,The song talks about her relationship with then boyfriend Drew Dunlap. According to Swift, We had a strong relationship and we had a lot of fun those years, and we still do, but we are just friends now. This song was Swifts first number-one on the country chart in December 2007, also making her the youngest artist to be the sole writer of a number-one country song.,Our song,12,Teardrops On My Guitar,The song is about a girl who is secretly in love with a boy named Drew, but Drew is interested in another girl. The song talks about the heartbreak of liking someone who is so close but is out of ones reach. Taylor also states that its about the conflicting feelings of loving someone and wanting them to love you back and wanting them to be happy. In a behind the scenes video, Taylor reveals that the song was written about a classmate.,13,Music Career,20082009:,Fearless,Fearless,is her second studio album. Released on November 11, 2008, the album debuted at No. 1 on the U.S.,Billboard,200 and the Top Country Albums charts. The release sold 592,000 copies in the United States its first week.,Fearless,later became the first album to sell one million copies in 2009, and earned the title of top-selling album of 2009.As of February 11, 2010, the album has been certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA,and has sold over 8 million copies worldwide.,The albums lead single, Love Story, was her first song to achieve commercial success outside of the United States. The albums third single, You Belong with Me, became her biggest domestic hit, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself topped the Billboard 200 for 11 non-consecutive weeks and topped the,Billboard,Top Country Albums for 35 non-consecutive weeks.,At the 52nd Grammy Awards,Fearless,won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Country Album. Her Album of the Year win made her the youngest person ever at the age of 20 to receive that award.,Fearless,was also the first album in history to win the American Music Award (AMA), Academy of Country Music Award (ACM), Country Music Association Award (CMA), and Grammy Award for Album of The Year in the same year.,14,“Fearless”(2008),1.Fearless (4:01),2.Fifteen (4:54),3.Love Story (3:55),4.Hey Stephen (4:20),5.White Horse (3:54),6.You Belong With Me (3:51),7.Breathe(ft.Colbie Callait) (4:23),8.Tell Me Why (3:20),9.Youre Not Sorry (4:22),10.The Way I Loved You (4:04),11.Forever & Always (3:45),12.The Best Day (4:05),13.Change (4:40),Its,fearless,to have faith that someday things will change.,Fearless,is having the courage to say goodbye to someone Who only hurts you,even if you cant breathe without them.Letting go is,fearless,.-Taylor Swift,15,The lyrics to Fifteen were inspired by Taylors eventful freshman year at Hendersonville High School, during which she met her best friend, Abigail Anderson, experienced her first date and first kiss, and supported Anderson through a broken heart. Taylor said, 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.,Fifteen,16,Taylor was inspired to write You Belong with Me after overhearing a male friend of hers arguing with his girlfriend through phone call; she continued to develop a story line afterward. The song contains many pop music elements and its lyrics have Swift desiring an out-of-reach love interest.,At the 52nd Grammy Awards, the song received nominations for the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Videoat the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.,17,Love Story was Taylors first international single,and it reached the top of the,Billboard,country chart.In Taylors Words:This is a song I wrote when I was dating a guy who wasnt exactly the popular choice. His situation was a little complicated, but I didnt care. I started this song with the line,This love is difficult, but its 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. Its the ending that I want. You want a guy who doesnt care what anyone thinks, what anyone says. He just says, “Marry me, Juliet, I love you, and thats all I really know.” Its sort of told in a character kind of thing, where its Romeo and Juliet, and its not me saying that Im getting married or anything.but I think its fun to wrote about it.”,18,Albums,Self titled: October 24, 2006.,Taylor Swift Deluxe Edition:November 6, 2007,Fearless: November 11, 2008.,Fearless Platinum Edition,：,November 3,，,2009,Singles:,Thug Story(2009),Cazier(Hanna Motanna,：,The movie, 2009),Today Was a Fairytale(,Valentines Day,2010),EPs :,Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection,(2007),Beautiful Eyes,(2008),Discography,19,Songwriting style,Taylors lyrics are highly autobiographical; she has said that If you listen to my albums, its like reading my diary. For instance the song Forever & Always was inspired by her relationship with Joe Jonas, while the song Hey Stephen was written about a guy who opened some shows for her. Fifteen was written about her freshman year of high school. It has been said that her lyrics can be tinged with acid: the quiet loner girl getting one over on the cheerleaders, or a caustic payback for the boy who dumped her. Shes also indicated that she tries to write so her fans can relate to the lyrics, saying My goal is to never write songs that my fans cant relate to.,The intensely personal nature of the songs has drawn her the most attention. Taylor once said, I thought people might find them hard to relate to, but it turned out that the more personal my songs were, the more closely people could relate to them.,20,In spring 2009, Taylor headlined a massive, sold out 52-city,Fearless Tour,in the United States and Canada, According to Country Standard Time, the tour feature an incredibly theatrical presentation of graphics, sets and visual elements designed by Taylor herself. Each show consisted of performances by Taylor on five guitars and the piano, as well as multiple costume changes and an illuminated fairy-tale castle. Most of Swifts shows sold out within hours; her August 27, 2009, show at Madison Square Garden sold out in less than 1 minute after its availability.,Fearless Tour,21,Taylor has won over 22 awards in only 3 years.She also has had 35 nominations and, Received the most awards for “BMI Awards” and “CMT Music Awards”.,She won the 2009 MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Artist, despite Kanye Wests opinion. She also won the 2009 Entertainer of the Year award at the CMAs. At 19 years old, Taylor is the youngest artist ever to receive that honor.,Taylor won the 2010 Peoples Choice Award for Best Female Artist and the Album of the Year Award at the 2010 Grammy Awards for her album Fearless, along with Best Country Album, Best Country Song, Best Female Country Vocal Performance.,Awards,22,Taylor has been featured on the cover of a number of magazines. She has been a cover girl for,Blender, for which she was one of two country artists during the magazines fifteen year run to be a cover subject. She was included in,People,s,annual ,100 Most Beautiful People, 2008, 2009, and 2010 lists. Additionally, she was named number fifty-seven on,Maxims,sexiest women of 2008, number fifty on the 2009 list and number thirty-one on the 2010 list.,CosmoGirl,voted Swift as the ,2008 Girl of the Year,.Swift was named by,Rolling Stone,magazine as one of ,The RS 100: Agents of Change,.She was nominated as a candidate for,TIMEs,2009 The Time 100 Finalists, list, which is determined by online voting.,PEOPLE,magazine named Swift one of 25 Most Intriguing People of 2009.,Public Image,23,Taylor made her acting debut in March of 2009 on an episode of ,CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,. She also co-starred in the musical film,Hannah Montana: The Movie,(2009) and an ensemble romantic comedy,Valentines Day,(2010).,Filmography,24,Philanthropy,On September 21, 2007, Taylor helped launch a campaign to protect children from online predators.She has teamed up with Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen to combat internet sex crimes.,In early 2008, Taylor donated the pink Chevy pick-up truck given to her by her record label to the childrens charity, the Victory Junction Gang; in June, 2008, Swift donated all the proceeds from her merchandise sales at the 2008 Country Music Festival to Red Cross, the Nashville Area Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and the National American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.,Taylor donated $100,000 to the Red Cross in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to help the victims of the Iowa flood of 2008. On December 13th, Taylors own birthday, she donated $250,000 to various schools around the country which she either attended or been involved with.,25,Fashion Style,Her fashion style is strictly feminine, shes always seen wearing floaty dresses,with her Boho style reflecting her love for country-music. From then on shes included on the watch list of hot fashion celebrity because of her cute and stylist dresses, tops and outfits.,26,Most recent romantic rumors have Taylor Lautner dating Taylor Swift after they filmed the upcoming film Valentines Day together. However, they were rumored to have split in January 2010. In the film, they also share at least one passionate kiss.,In 2008, Taylor was in a relationship with pop singer Joe Jonas which ended in November of that year. Taylor indicated that her heartbreak song Forever & Always on her album,Fearless,was inspired by Jonas.,Personal Life,27,Taylor is 5 feet 11 inches tall,Her eyes color is blue,Her lucky number is “13” and is written on her hand during every performance,Her favorite artists are Miranda Lambert and Tim McGraw,Her best friend is Abigail Anderson,Her favorite season is summer,Her favorite food is cheesecake.,Her favorite color is white,Did You Know?,28,More Pictures,29,30,31,32,33,References: Information,Taylor Swift Biography at GAC,Taylor Swift at Ask M,Taylor Swift reaches No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart,a b c Taylor Swift Warns Kids About Internet Crime,a b Life in the Swift Lane,Taylor Swift at the Internet Movie Database,Taylor Swifts Official website,Taylor Swift: Growing into superstardom,Taylor Swift biography at Allmusic,Artist Chart History Taylor Swift,34,Thank You,35,
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