She was one of the few singers who appealed to love-crazy teenager girls a couple of decades ago.
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People like her cuz they're told to like her ๐
I went to a Daddy-Daughter school dance with my kid a few weeks ago, she's in Kindergarten, so it was just a new experience for her going to a dance, we had a good time. However, it's been a while since I've been to any sort of dance function at all (in school or out), but I'm pretty sure that more than half the songs were all Taylor Swift songs. I don't know if that's indicative of white people dance music selections in general, or if this was specific to that function and who they thought the girls wanted to listen to, but her music apparently gets played alot.
I think her popularity might be tied to her relatively clean image. Apart from the serial dating, the racist boyfriend thing, and the wasteful jet planes, she's still fairly clean in the eyes of popular America, she apparently hasn't had a big sex scandal or nude photos leak. Hell, when fake photos of her started spreading everywhere recently, that's when politicians started talking about reigning in and regulating AI Art, and that's been around for years now (even photoshopping images has been a thing for ages).
Funny enough though, my daughter actually hates Taylor Swift.
Ha, yeah, I agree with you that the clean image certainly helps lend an air of credibility to her success
I'm with you dude, she has a completely unremarkable to me as well.
In terms of her songs and dancing, definitely.
But I really think this threat has pointed out why she's so successful.
Squeaky clean image so she can be played everywhere, great marketing, high production, clever lyrics, a lot of community outreach, autobiographical social media and songs, and I finally understand why people talk about her business acumen after I listened to a podcast about her eras tour and how much was self produced.
She's knocking it out of the park on every front she can while focusing solely on the music industry.
Definitely an interesting phenomenon.
I'm still not wild about her music, but I was very curious how someone so young can become so successful when she sounds so similar to all of the other artists I've grown up listening to.
Kanye interrupted her acceptance speech with some crazy shit.
From there on, it was just maintaining the momentum.
And all these years later, Jay Z was just complaining on stage that his wife should have won Album of the year after Taylor won it again.
I do think this is a good point, that she got a cultural relevance boost from this.
Tbh, I'm not a swiftie, but ever since the Kanye thing I've hated Kanye and been partial to T swift.
Kanye is just such an asshole. I don't see how anyone can like him.
It's very difficult for me to listen to any Kanye West music no matter how much he's pumped up since I heard him talk on rogan's podcast and sounded literally insane, and that Taylor Swift thing was unbelievable, in the actual sense of that word.
i love kanye but he hasn't been the same ever since his mom died and it went downhill during coronavirus lockdown. he used to be a personification of self confidence but I don't think i can say the same anymore. wish he gets proper help.
I'm with you, OP. There has to be something we're missing, right?
I think people in this thread have offered a pretty good mosaic of all of the things that lend to her inordinate success.
It's been really interesting reading everyone's answers and then looking for corroborating evidence in her music, videos, cultural touchstones and so on
Da joos
The juice?
American football former running back OJ Simpson? I don't know...
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