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1 Today, Taylor Swift is one of the most popular singers in the world, and is also al
cover model for fashion magazines. But she was not always so popular.
2 Taylor Swift began singing country music in Pennsylvania when she was eleven.
Country music is an older form of music in the USA that is usually enjoyed by
5 adults. Maybe this is why other kids at her school thought she was strange for
stopped calling her.
singing country music. Over time, these friends
3 One day, she invited many of her friends to go to the shopping center, but all of
them said they were busy. So, Taylor went with her mother. When they got there,
they saw all the girls shopping together without Taylor. Soon after that, Taylor
10 began eating lunch at school alone.
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4 Taylor asked her parents to take her to *Nashville, a city in Tennessee where
many country singers and musicians worked. Her parents decided to move there
to help her make her dream come true. Taylor's parents were right to believe she
could succeed. At age fourteen, she got a contract with RCA Records, a major music
15 company.
5 RCA wanted Taylor to sing other people's songs until she was an adult. Taylor “
did not like this. She wanted to write and sing her own songs about her life and
the boys she dated. The record company did not think older country fans would
want to hear
(3)a teenage girl talk about her life.
6 Taylor left RCA and joined a smaller record company that released her records.
Her music became very popular with teenagers as well as older country music fans.
Soon, Taylor was considered a major pop star, and young people who did not
normally listen to country loved her music too.
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7 One day she returned to Pennsylvania to do a concert. Girls from her old school
came to the concert and were excited to see her. They treated her like a star, and
seemed to have forgotten that they had stopped talking to her in junior high school.
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Taylor realized her life had changed.
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* Nashville + VIEN
