Van wie was Taylor Swift?

Taylor Swift ([ˈteɪlɚ swɪft]), née le 13 décembre 1989 à West Reading en Pennsylvanie, est une auteure-compositrice-interprète, musicienne, actrice et réalisatrice de clips musicaux américaine.

La sortie de son premier album intitulé Taylor Swift (2006) lance sa carrière en Amérique du Nord dans le genre country alors qu'elle n'a que seize ans. Son deuxième album, Fearless (2008), fait d'elle une artiste à succès dans les pays anglophones. Son quatrième album , Red (2012), s'éloigne des sonorités country pour plaire à un public international. L'album suivant, 1989 (2014), génère deux des plus gros tubes de sa carrière, Shake it Off et Blank Space. Son sixième album, Reputation (2017), fait de Taylor Swift la seule artiste de l'histoire à vendre consécutivement quatre albums à plus d'un million de copies lors de la première semaine de leur sortie, aux États-Unis. En 2019, son septième album, Lover, lui permet de devenir l'artiste la plus récompensée de l'histoire des American Music Awards.

Entre 2019 et 2025, un conflit majeur l’oppose à sa maison de disque . Elle réenregistre alors quatre de ses anciens albums. Les versions réenregistrées sont un succès. Elles contribuent à remettre au goût du jour son catalogue et médiatisent la question des droits des artistes. Taylor Swift met fin au conflit l'opposant à Scooter Braun et Shamrock Holdings en rachetant tous les masters originaux de ses six premiers albums. Elle devient unique propriétaire de son œuvre musicale depuis ses débuts.

En une quinzaine d'années, Taylor Swift est passée du statut de vedette de la country en Amérique du Nord à être l'une des plus influentes popstars mondiales. Trois éléments l'expliquent, en partie : sa maitrise du marketing, sa communauté de fans, appelés les « swifties » et les changements de genre musical qu'elle a faits durant sa carrière : de la country à la pop, en passant par la folk avec les albums Folklore et Evermore en 2020. Son impact culturel, économique et politique fait d'elle la première artiste désignée « personnalité de l'année » par le magazine américain Time en 2023. Cette année-là, son album Midnights fait de Taylor Swift une quadruple récipiendaire du Grammy Award de l'album de l'année, record absolu. La même année, elle entame une tournée mondiale des stades, The Eras Tour. Cette tournée rencontre un immense succès commercial et médiatique, relance la vente de ses anciens albums grâce au streaming mais aussi en termes de ventes réelles. Cruel Summer devient un hit plusieurs années après sa sortie et sa chanson la plus écoutée sur Spotify. Ses albums pop Midnights (2022), The Tortured Poets Department (2024) et The Life of a Showgirl (2025) connaissent un succès de plus en plus massif lors de leur sortie. The Fate of Ophelia devient un de ses plus gros hits en 2025-2026. En 2026, elle entre dans le Songwriter Hall of Fame à l'âge de 36 ans. Elle est la plus jeune femme intronisée, et le 2^e auteur-compositeur femmes et hommes confondus.

En plus de sa carrière musicale, la chanteuse mène une carrière d'actrice dans diverses productions pour le cinéma et la télévision. En 2024, son patrimoine est estimé à plus d'un milliard de dollars.

Joseph (Joe) Adam Jonas (Casa Grande (Arizona), 15 augustus 1989) is een Amerikaanse zanger en acteur. Hij vormde van 2005 tot 2013 samen met zijn twee broers, Kevin Jonas en Nick Jonas de band genaamd Jonas Brothers. Sinds 2019 zijn de Jonas Brothers weer bij elkaar. Sinds 2016 is Joe Jonas de hoofdzanger van de poprockband DNCE. Deze band maakte in 2022 een comeback.

John Clayton Mayer (Bridgeport (Connecticut), 16 oktober 1977) is een Amerikaanse singer-songwriter en gitarist die in Montana woont. Na afbreken van zijn studie op het Berklee College of Music verhuisde hij in 1997 naar Atlanta (Georgia) waar hij zijn talent doorontwikkelde en naam begon te maken. Zijn eerste albums Room for Squares en Heavier Things verkochten goed. In 2003 won hij tijdens de Grammy Awards de prijs voor de "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance" voor "Your Body Is a Wonderland".

Mayer begon zijn carrière voornamelijk met het spelen van akoestische rock, maar schoof langzamerhand naar het bluesgenre. In 2005 speelde hij dan ook met bluesartiesten als B.B. King, Buddy Guy en Eric Clapton. Zijn album Continuum, uitgebracht in oktober 2006, getuigt het meest van zijn liefde voor blues. Tijdens de negenenveertigste editie van de Grammy Awards in 2007 won Mayer de prijs voor "Best Pop Vocal Album" voor Continuum en "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance" voor Waiting on the World to Change. Naast het zingen is de carrière van Mayer inmiddels uitgebreid tot stand-upcomedy, design en schrijven. Zo heeft hij verscheidene stukken geschreven voor Amerikaanse magazines als bijvoorbeeld het blad Esquire.

Lucas Daniel Till (Fort Hood, 10 de Agosto de 1990) é um ator norte-americano. Ele começou a atuar no início de 2000, e desde então tem aparecido em vários filmes e séries de televisão, incluindo seu papel em House, Hannah Montana: The Movie , MacGyver e X-Men: First Class. Lucas também estrelou no videoclipe da canção "You Belong With Me" da cantora Taylor Swift.

Taylor Daniel Lautner ( LOWT-nər; born February 11, 1992) is an American actor. He is best known for playing werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012). His accolades include a Scream Award, seven Teen Choice Awards, two People's Choice Award, and an MTV Movie Award.

Born in Michigan, Lautner began practising karate and martial arts at the age of six. He became a black belt at the age of 10, and by the age of 14, he was a four-time world champion. He began his acting career playing bit parts in comedy series such as The Bernie Mac Show (2003) and My Wife and Kids (2004), before having voice roles in television series like What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2005) and Danny Phantom (2005). In 2005, he got his big break when he landed the role of Sharkboy in the film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D. Also that year, he starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

The late 2000s saw Lautner become a teen idol and sex symbol, after extensively changing his physique to keep the role of Jacob Black in further Twilight installments and generating media attention for his looks. In 2010, he was ranked second on Glamour's "The 50 Sexiest Men of 2010" list, and fourth on People's "Most Amazing Bodies" list. Also in the same year, Lautner was named the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood.

In 2011, Lautner starred in the action film Abduction, in which he did almost all of his stunts. In 2013, he appeared in the comedy film Grown Ups 2. From 2014 to 2018, Lautner starred in the BBC sitcom Cuckoo as the son of the titular character. In 2015, he starred in the action film Tracers and the comedy film The Ridiculous 6. The following year, he portrayed Dr. Cassidy Cascade in the second season of FOX black comedy series Scream Queens.

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal ( JIL-ən-hawl, Swedish: [ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl]; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor who has worked on screen and stage for over thirty years. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in the biopic October Sky (1999) and a troubled teenager in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001). Gyllenhaal expanded to big-budget films with a starring role in the 2004 disaster film The Day After Tomorrow.

Gyllenhaal played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which he won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Mysterio. After playing a supporting role in the drama Wildlife (2018), Gyllenhaal starred in action or thriller projects, including the films The Guilty (2021), Ambulance (2022) and Road House (2024), as well as the series Presumed Innocent (2024).

Gyllenhaal has performed on stage, starring in a West End production of the play This Is Our Youth (2002) and Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George (2017) as well as the plays Constellations (2014) and Sea Wall/A Life (2019), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues.

Harry Edward Styles (Redditch, 1 februari 1994) is een Britse singer-songwriter en acteur. Hij is bekend als lid van de Brits-Ierse band One Direction en als solozanger. Hij tekende in juni 2016 een contract bij het Amerikaanse platenlabel Columbia Records. In 2017 bracht hij zijn debuutsingle "Sign of the Times" uit.

Calvin Harris, artiestennaam van Adam Richard Wiles (Dumfries, 17 januari 1984), is een Schotse singer-songwriter, dj en producer van elektronische muziek. Zijn professionele carrière begon in 2006 en een jaar later scoorde hij met Acceptable in the 80's zijn eerste hit in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. In 2009 volgde zijn internationale doorbraak, waarna Harris wereldwijd grote hits scoorde met nummers als We found love (2011), Summer (2014), Blame (2014), How deep is your love (2015), Feels (2017), One kiss (2018), Promises (2018) en Giant (2019).

Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is a British actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Thor in 2011 and including the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023).

Hiddleston started his film career with Joanna Hogg's films Unrelated (2007) and Archipelago (2010). In 2011, Hiddleston portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris, and appeared in Steven Spielberg's War Horse. That year, he was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He continued working with auteurs in independent films, including Terence Davies' drama The Deep Blue Sea (2012), Jim Jarmusch's vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and Guillermo del Toro's horror film Crimson Peak (2015). He also played the troubled country music singer Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light (2015) and led the big-budget adventure film Kong: Skull Island (2017). On television, Hiddleston is starring in and executive producing the BBC One series The Night Manager (2016–present), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

Hiddleston made his stage debut in Journey's End in 1999. He continued acting in theatre, including in the West End productions of Cymbeline (2007) and Ivanov (2008). He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in Cymbeline and was nominated for the same award for his role as Cassio in Othello (2008). Hiddleston starred as the title character in a production of Coriolanus (2013–2014), receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He made his Broadway debut in a 2019 revival of Harold Pinter's drama Betrayal, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

Joseph Matthew (Joe) Alwyn (Londen, 21 februari 1991) is een Britse acteur.

Travis Michael Kelce ( KEL-see; born October 5, 1989) is an American professional football player who is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft and later won Super Bowls LIV, LVII, and LVIII with the team. He played college football for the Cincinnati Bearcats.

Considered one of the greatest tight ends in history, Kelce is a ten-time Pro Bowler and a seven-time All-Pro, with four first-team and three second-team selections. He holds the NFL records for most consecutive and most overall seasons with 1,000 receiving yards by a tight end: seven. He holds the record for most receiving yards by a tight end in a single season with 1,416 in 2020, despite playing in only 15 games.

During the 2022 season, Kelce became the fifth NFL tight end to reach 10,000 career receiving yards and reached the milestone faster than any tight end in NFL history. Kelce was named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team. During the 2023 season, he surpassed Jerry Rice in career playoff receptions en route to winning Super Bowl LVIII, his fourth Super Bowl appearance in five seasons.

Outside of football, Kelce has appeared on reality and scripted television, including being the namesake of the dating show Catching Kelce on E!, hosting a 2023 episode of Saturday Night Live, and in advertisements. He co-hosts the podcast New Heights with his brother Jason, covering topics from football to popular culture. The show was ranked as the 8th most popular podcast in the United States on Apple Podcasts in 2024. Kelce's relationship with and subsequent engagement to singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has drawn massive media coverage and stimulated viewership and revenue for his team and the NFL.