To this end, at age 12, she started writing songs herself, and learned to play the guitar with the help of a computer repairman who had fixed her family's computer on one occasion. Returning to her home town in Pennsylvania, Swift realized she had to distinguish herself from other aspiring country singers. She was rejected because record labels believed country music's middle-aged demographic would not listen to music by a teenage girl, which Swift firmly disbelieved. At age eleven, Swift traveled to Nashville with her mother to pitch demo tapes of karaoke covers to record labels for a contract. After watching a documentary about country singer Faith Hill, Swift felt sure she needed to move to Nashville, Tennessee-widely regarded as the home of country music -to pursue a career as a country singer. Taylor Swift developed an early interest in the performing arts. The album's crossover appeal shaped the country pop style of Swift's next two albums, and its autobiographical narratives about love and heartbreak inspired a subsequent generation of singer-songwriters. Journalists attributed Taylor Swift 's success to Swift's online marketing via Myspace, which ushered in a younger demographic in country audiences who had mainly consisted of middle-aged listeners. Certified seven times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it made Swift the first solo female country artist to write or co-write every song on a platinum debut album. The album spent 24 weeks at number one on Top Country Albums and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200, becoming the longest-charting album of the 2000s decade. Taylor Swift was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards and helped Swift earn accolades including a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Critics praised the album's mainstream sensibility and Swift's songwriting at a young age for earnestly depicting adolescent sentiments. She embarked on a six-month radio tour in 2006, and opened tours for other country artists throughout 20. Swift promoted the album through social network Myspace, which journalists found atypical for a country musician's marketing strategy.
Produced by Orrall and Nathan Chapman, Taylor Swift is a country record with pop and pop rock elements, incorporating acoustic instruments such as guitars, banjos, and fiddles.įive singles supported Taylor Swift, including the Hot Country Songs number-ones " Our Song" and " Should've Said No", and Swift's first top-15 entry on the Billboard Hot 100, " Teardrops on My Guitar". Drawing on her personal life, the songs reflect Swift's outlook on life as a teenager, dealing with romantic relationships, friendships, and insecurity. Swift wrote or co-wrote 11 of the album's tracks, including three by herself Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, Angelo Petraglia, and Liz Rose have co-writing credits. Her contract with Big Machine in 2005 enabled her to work on the album during her first high school year. Swift had signed with Sony/ATV Tree publishing house in 2004, at age 14, to pursue a career as a country musician. It was released by Big Machine Records on October 24, 2006, in the United States and Canada, and March 18, 2008, internationally. Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
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