
She has an Oprah-like gift for emotional expressiveness. Swift is sometimes called a twenty-one-year-old 2.0-the girl next door, but with a superior talent set.

So that’ll be really fun, because the past two times I’ve been at this party I haven’t had any of my close friends.” She exhaled loudly. “One of my best friends”-the actress Emma Stone-“is here tonight. “It’s so fun!” she said, talking about the ball. The only sound came from Swift’s iPhone, which emitted an occasional ding!Īfter a minute, Swift looked up from her phone. None of the car’s other passengers-her bodyguard, Greg, a burly former Washington, D.C., cop her publicist, Paula Erickson, a tall blond woman in a black blazer-spoke. Mendel spilled its train around her feet her hair was up her lips were dark red and her eyes were smoky. Swift is known for sparkly, beaded dresses that make her look like a flapper, but she had adopted a more polished look for the ball: a gauzy, black-and-peach dress by the designer J. One afternoon this spring, the twenty-one-year-old country pop star Taylor Swift was in the back seat of a black Escalade going up Madison Avenue, on her way to the annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum. streams over its first year, according to Billboard.Swift hooked a previously unrecognized audience: teen-age girls who listen to country music. It went on to spend 11 total weeks in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 chart in 2021 and totaled 722.7 million on-demand U.S. At the time of its release, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) was the biggest debut week for any 2021 album. The new version earned more equivalent album units-a measurement that accounts for streaming, song downloads and traditional album sales-in its first week of release than the original did over the next year. The new Fearless included remakes of Swift’s earlier successful songs like “Love Story” and “Fifteen,” as well as six additional songs known as “vault tracks” that weren’t included in the original album.Īccording to Billboard, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) performed even better than the original, when looking at streams and sales within its first year.

The re-recorded album, which was released April 2021, came shortly after Swift released two new albums in 2020, folklore and evermore.

The original album performed well upon its debut-its track “Love Story” debuted at number 25 on a Billboard country chart, becoming Swift’s highest debuting song of her career at the time. The first re-recorded album in Swift’s project was Fearless (Taylor’s Version), which recreated her 2008 album.
