UNIT12

1	Today, Taylor Swift is one of the most popular singers in the world, and is also a 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 adults.  Maybe this is why other kids at her school thought she was strange for singing country music.  Over time, these friends stopped calling her.
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 began eating lunch at school alone.
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.  Taylorfs parents were right to believe she could succeed.  At age fourteen, she got a contract with RCA Records, a major music company.
5	RCA wanted Taylor to sing other peoplefs 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 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.
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.  Taylor realized her life had changed.
