• Kalkaline
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      1681 year ago

      Smart cookie undersells it dramatically. Taylor Swift is a marketing and possibly a financial genius who has locked herself into the collective consciousness of the country. I used to try to not listen to her music at all, but my daughter and wife absolutely love her, so it’s all I get to listen to around them. She’s had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her. You don’t have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

      • @yenahmik
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        941 year ago

        If nothing else, she is an incredible business woman.

        • snooggums
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          421 year ago

          She is also an extremely talented musician and entertainer. I am not even a fan, just acknowledging that she has put out solidly constructed music and tours for well over a decade and is clearly far more than just a fad.

        • @assassin_aragorn
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          1 year ago

          She’s incredibly shrewd with business. Her father was in finance and it shows. She knows her shit.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 year ago

        You don’t have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

        Actually this is a point of conflict for some of her fans. Some of my friends are swifties and they hate consumerism and high concert prices and collectibles and marketing that incentivize FOMO to spend more money. They jokingly call her their capitalist queen.

      • @glimse
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        331 year ago

        I completely agree except for one small thing:

        She’s had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her.

        I’d say her dating a scumbag (the singer from The 1975) generated a fair bit of bad press. But it was usually fans yelling “DUMP THAT SHITHEAD”

      • IWantToFuckSpez
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        She probably got that from her parents. They made the smart move to buy a farm and legitimize her country status. And I bet it was the parents idea to do country first and than transition to pop. The country genre was an easier market to break into at the time since country fans, back when she was an unknown, were still buying CDs at Walmart and such. So these store would put a larger selection of country music on the shelves than any other genre. Meaning a smaller country artist would get shelve space.

          • @rambaroo
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            121 year ago

            The biggest lie you’ve been told in music is that American folk/country music is a southern thing. It’s not and never has been. Just another thing the narcissistic South stole from the rest of the country.

      • @assassin_aragorn
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        101 year ago

        She’s had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her

        Eh, she literally had an album titled reputation because hers was not so great at the time. This was when people were calling her a snake with the whole Kanye thing.

        So, virtually 0 bad press that actually matters, yeah. Good point.

    • @Jiggle_Physics
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      521 year ago

      They are aware that the more people that vote the less likely they are to get elected.