Besides listening to her when she is on the radio from time to time, Taylor Swift was forever carved in my mind when she agreed to have a (now classic) duet with a goat.
She was one of the few singers who appealed to love-crazy teenager girls a couple of decades ago.
She's been an industry plant since the beginning of her life, her parents were both rich and her dad was already in the music industry.
This was mentioned and I do think it explains an important part of her initial success, but of course not all of it.
Miley Cyrus, Lana del ray, Zoe Kravitz all have wealthy parents whom were big in the music industry, but aren't as big Taylor Swift is.
It also seems important to note that her parents were not in the music industry, her dad was a stock broker and her mom was a marketing executive, according to what I'm reading here.
How was her dad in the music industry?
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.
Why did so many 12- year- olds buy Batman T-shirts in 1989? Other T-shirts were surely available?
Because she's not only good at producing the right music, she's good at business and has the right connections to launch them.
I honestly don't know. What I do know, though, is that her fanbase is weird and likes putting curses on people. No joke.
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.
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