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Stepping off Music Row and into the small but stylish lobby of Big Machine Records, a visitor quickly realizes it’s not just the walls that reveal the story of Taylor Swift’s meteoric rise to stardom. Even the floors have a tale to tell.
With much of the vertical real estate already claimed by industry awards, framed national magazine covers, and gold and platinum records, the staff has adopted the tactic of neatly stacking the continuous stream of accolades and achievements along the baseboards. All that’s needed is a break in a busy intern’s schedule to grab a hammer, a few nails and search out any open wall space.The image found most often found framed inside with all that precious metal: the cover shot of FEARLESS, Swift’s second album. The photo captures Taylor’s face in profile. Flowing blonde hair fills the top of the frame. Her logo and the record’s title dominate the lower half.
Of course, that one-word title is a part of pop-and-country culture now. It’s been spotted at the top spot of charts around the world, entered into record books, and engraved on dozens of plaques and awards. But at one point this extraordinary collection of songs had a name. And the artist who put her heart, soul and talent into that music knew it needed to be something special.
“It’s a big deal to title your album, so I wanted to make sure that it was the right call,” remembers Taylor. “Because you really have to make sure that it explains this body of work that you’re putting out these last two years of stories you want to tell.”
In the end, Swift decided on the single word that captures perfectly her journey to this moment. After all, this is the girl, who at the tender age of 10, had the guts to take the stage at every karaoke contest, festival, and county fair that passed through her hometown of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. This is the girl, who at age 11, took a trip to Music City and left a trail of amused receptionists as she dropped off her homemade demo tape at every label in town. This is the girl, who at 14, became the youngest person ever to be signed as a professional staff songwriter at Sony/ATV Publishing. This is the teenager who signed her first record deal before she could drive. Who had the guts to step from an ACM awards stage and into the audience to introduce herself to Tim McGraw live on national television – just seconds after playing the last chord of her first hit song that bears his name. Who at 17, became the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a #1 country hit entirely on her own.
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It’s safe to say Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about being FEARLESS.
“To me, fearless isn’t not having fears,” explains Swift. “It’s not that you’re not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.”
Jump? With FEARLESS, Taylor Swift has taken a flying leap. Her achievements with her second album have been nothing less than staggering. At times, Taylor seems to be rewriting music history on a weekly basis.
Since its release in November of 2008, FEARLESS has spent more weeks at #1 on Billboard’s all-genre Top 200 chart than any other album this decade and helped her sell more albums in 2008 & 2009 than any other artist, in any genre of music. It has produced #1 singles on both Billboard’s Pop and Country Radio charts and helped Taylor become the first country artist in the history of SoundScan to have not one, but two singles reach #1 on the Pop Chart.
As for her first headlining tour in 2009 – the FEARLESS TOUR sold out every show in mere minutes, including every seat in Madison Square Garden in 60 seconds.
Her trophy case display is one of the most diverse of any artist today...and its collection is growing at an exponential rate.
There’s the “Moon Man” for her Female Video of the Year win at the MTV VMAs -- the first ever
