What everyone should know about... Taylor Swift

There's a good chance that you don't know much about Taylor Swift, because she's never been big in France. In which case, you maybe just looked at her picture and saw another banal American pop singer.
Wrong.
Or may be you know about her because of her relationship with Harry Styles from One Direction, in which case you've also probably heard lots of rumours about her "crazy love-life". 
Wrong again.
So let me tell you what you probably don't kow: Taylor Swift is very possibly the most impressive singer-songwriter of our time.
This is someone with such a natural talent for words that she won a national poetry contest in the USA at the age of nine. By age 12, she'd written 350 pages of a novel, but then a computer repair-man taught her how to play three chords on a guitar and she became obsessed by music. 
"I could say things in songs that I wasn't brave enough to say in person" she told The Times newspaper recently. "I xould turn them into a metaphor, into a chrous, and then, for some reason, those emotions  made more sense to me".
A year later, she was signed by Sony as their youngest ever songwriter. In fact, she later moved to the small independent label, Big Machine Records. After all, you can't get everything right at age 13, can you?
High school was a barrier to concentrating on her music, naturally, but what could she do? Well... complete her last two years of study in a single year at home. Obviously.
Are you staring to revise your opinion of her a little yet?