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The Origin
The date was December 13, 1989, a child was born this child was named Taylor Allison Swift
Young Taylor
she was born in the US state of Pennysylvania, She lived on a Christmas tree farm, in a rural and isolated area. Her grandma was an opera singer, which inspired her to become a musician, at age 10 she was singing at local fairs and events in front of small audiences. She sang "The Star-Spangled Banner for a Philadelphia 76ers basketball game, at age 11. At age 13 the swift family sold their property in Pennsylvania and moved to Nashville Tennesseeto pursue her musical interest. At this point, she was already learning guitar and writing her own songs. At age 16 she got a record label, and released her first album titled "Taylor Swift" the label was Big Machine Records. Before she released the full album she released the single "Tim McGraw" which quickly rose to the top 10 country songs. When the album was released it quickly sold around 3 million copies, which for a teen beginning in the music industry was crazy. The album included songs like "Our Song' which rose quickly to the top of the billboard hot 100! It also had songs like "Teardrops on my Guitar", "Picture to Burn", and "Should've Said No". Soon after the album was released she had gotten country music awards such as the Horizon award from the Country Music Association. The following year in 2007 she released her album "Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection" it didn't get too popular, but a few songs got into the hot 100. In the year 2008, she got a grammy, in the Best New Artist category. She also got the ACM Female Vocalist of the Year award around the same time. She then released her hit album Fearless which took both the pop and country hot 100 billboards by storm. By the end of the year, she was the highest-selling country artist of the year! She got many more awards such as the CMT Music Awards for video of the year, this being the "Fearless" music video. She also won the MTV Video Music Award's Best Female Video for "You Belong With Me" She also became the first country star to earn a VMA. Then the everlasting drama with rapper, Kanye West began when he took the microphone during Taylor's speech and said Beyonce should have won the VMA. At this point, her concerts started selling out quickly. in 2010 she became the youngest ever person to earn the Grammy for Album of the Year. Later in the year, she released the album Speak Now. It quickly rose to the number album on the hot 200 albums and was a huge success. It sold 1 million copies in just the first week and many songs got into the top 20 on the hot 100. In the year 2012, she released the album red, she was shifting more towards pop rather than country at this point, but the album nearly sold 2 million copies within the first week of release. She had more earnings than many of the biggest singers at this point, with a total earning of $57 million. But she still cared more about her fans, than fame and money. Later that year she spent $4 million to fund the Taylor Swift Education Center, for young aspiring artists. Sooner or later in 2014, she released the mega-hit album 1989, which instantly got very popular. Many of the songs from this album such as Shake it Off, and Blank Space hit the billboard hot 100. The album was the best-selling album of 2014. She earned many awards for the album. She even had a track on it talking about the toxicity of Kanye West, and how badly he treats her even though they barely know each other. She went into a lawsuit that year because of an incident that happened the year before in which somebody s***ally assaulted her. In the year 2017, she released the album "reputation" she had a lot of hate leading up to it and had a lot of trouble even being in public because of the stress of everything. The album was represented in many ways by a snake. The reason was that Kim Kardashian called her a snake after denying Kanye West to use her name in a song. The song "Look what you Made me Do" blew up quickly. it hit a record for most YouTube views within the first 24 hours with 19 Million, and is now sitting at over 1 billion. The album hit over 1 million sales in the first week now having 4 in a row that have held that spot. In 2019 the album Lover came out a month before she released the single ME!(the snake from reputation is represented in the music video for ME! blowing up into butterflies showing that she is not going to put up with toxic people anymore.) When 2020 came it turned out to be the only album that sold over 1 million copies in 2019, and the only reason ME! did not get to number 1 on the hot 100 like most of her other singles, is because of the song Old Town Road, which was number one for nearly 7 weeks. This album she switched to the record label Republic Records. She had a lot of drama with big machine, which caused her to leave. In 2021 she starts recording her albums with big machine again, so the selfish members of big machine don't get the money, along with the re-recorded songs she adds songs that were candidates for the original. In 2020 just 11 months after Lover she releases "folklore" which is a very toned-down album. In December just 5 months later she released another album "evermore" with the same style which shocked fans. folklore was a story about a guy named James cheating on his wife, then he died and the wife, and the other girl started fighting. Then in 2022 she released midnights all 20 songs were the top 20 on the billboard hot 100 every song of the album was a huge hit! It took the world by storm and was one of the biggest albums in all history. But then the TicketMaster incident happened, actually, we won't talk about that because well it is insane. Throughout 2023 the eras tour happened and it was insane! Then in November, she released the next Taylor's Version album. 2024 was not that eventful of a year. But when it turned to 2025, she released the album Moonlight, Spotify went down longer than with midnights, being down for 1 whole week. Within 1 month every song had over 1 billion listens on Spotify. Some collaborations on the album were with Adele and Britney Spears. Skip to 2035, and she has released all Taylor's Version albums, and other albums with 17 albums in total at this point, Taylor's Version taking the place of the original. In 2036, a huge group of fans decided that they wanted to be able to live in a nation with her as president. All these 5 million superfans moved to a spot in Canada, and did everything they could to get Taylor to come, the fans had gotten the land at this point, from Canada for a lot of money. And finally, on January 21st, 2039, The nation of Folkmore was officially founded with Taylor as president. Over the next 5 years the nation grew to nearly a population of 2 billion. Taylor's success is still going, and may never end. The nation of Folkmore has a great future ahead, and so does Taylor.
-Agatha, Folkmore's biggest news reporter signing off.
