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I remember remarking over the last couple months how Swift's rise to superstar this past year could have a real impact on Voter turnout. I was hoping she'd pop into the political sphere and boy, Republicans just made sure she will lol.
Edit: Okay, calm down. Sure absolutely she's been a superstar for years, but nobody can deny she jumped to whatever the next level is called this past year. She went from another highly successful pop star a la Lady Gaga or Katie Perry to literally the most successful of all time to the point where she inundates my feeds (pre-recent politics news) where no other pop star does.
She's been a superstar a whole lot longer than this past year.
She became a billionaire in the past year. You know how hard that is to do as an artist? She's been at this a minute. Like 2 decades of superstar minutes.
Sure absolutely, but nobody can deny she jumped to whatever the next level is called this past year. She went from another highly successful pop star a la Lady Gaga or Katie Perry to literally the most successful of all time to the point where she inundates my feeds (pre-recent politics news) where no other pop star does.
I'll deny it. She's stayed pretty consistent, just because other artists have waned in popularity doesn't mean she's somehow more.
By pretty much every metric in terms of search trends, sales, concert tickets... She's above her past average.
I've seen no evidence provided by you to suggest otherwise.
That uptick was mostly because of the AI nudes.
Oh please... Taylor Swift is an "artist" as much as I'm a world class chess grandmaster.
Apparently billionaires should not exist... Except for Taylor Swift.
Billionaires shouldn't exist but if one of them happens to use their ill gotten wealth to improve society, I don't see why I should be mad?
Taylor Swift is a prolific polluter.
I don't have the capacity to stop Peter Thiel or Elon musk from doing billionaire stuff. I also don't have the capacity to stop Taylor Swift from doing billionaire stuff. I am going to feel positively toward positive social developments even if I am aware it's not perfect.
Give me a button that deletes a random billionaire and I will fingerblast it until it breaks.
We should have her stay home and just do concerts from there. Let's instead let 1000's of fans get plane tickets and go see her instead.
If missing the point was an Olympic sport you'd be a gold medalist for sure.
how is she not an artist?
Everything about her is meticulously curated for optimal cash flow. Her music is written mostly by a literal team of professionals whose job it is to create the broadest appeal. She's not an artist, she's a product line.
you seem to have a very biased perspective. even if that were true, isn't she still a performance artist?
That’s kind of sexist, dude.
How?
Do you figure she’s not an artist because she’s a broad?
Literally shaking right now from the pent up misogynist energy coming off your comment.
You've narrowed yourself down to one of 50ish people if you earned the title the same year her first album came out.
"This past year"? Did you live under a rock? She has been a superstar for a long time now.
In a way I have, and this proves my point:
Sure absolutely, but nobody can deny she jumped to whatever the next level is called this past year. She went from another highly successful pop star a la Lady Gaga or Katie Perry to literally the most successful of all time to the point where she inundates my feeds (pre-recent politics news) where no other pop star does.
So you see a couple articles and that "proves" that now she's a superstar?
I'd say that follows as much logic as the people touting that she's part of some liberal conspiracy.
Buddy, I think you're taking this far too seriously.