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A decade of sore winners | The Outline
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The underdogs that are top dogs, the upstarts who are establishment — these people refused to admit they had any power, even if they had all of it.
B.D. McClay Dec—31—2019 01:30PM EST Taylor Swift began the decade well. In 2010 she took home four Grammys, including Album of the Year (the youngest artist ever to do so); she released her third album, Speak Now , which sold over a million copies in its first week. Her next album, Red , was a massive critical and commercial success. She was so successful that she took all of her work off of Spotify until she received better terms and forced her record label to adopt a revenue-sharing approach to streaming media for all of their artists . By any objective measure, Swift also ende
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