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Taylor Swift Named Apple Music's Artist of the Year
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You don't have to like her as an artist (to each their own), but you cannot deny the hard work she put into her career. I read she went to Nashville at age 14 to get a record deal. Think of what you were doing at age 14. Probably not thinking about your career and future like that. She definitely earned everything she has.
let me guess, you only listened to her most popular songs, right?
And how do you think she was able to move to Nashville at that age? Her family is mega rich, so rich that her dad went on to purchase considerable shares in her record label. There are much harder workers in the industry who’ve had to start off on the ground floor, rather than her, who started off in the executive suite.
And she is having a great tour too. People do not seem to understand you can like (and root) more than one artist.
As a Chiefs fan, I concur. Kelce plays better when she comes to his games!
That’s a lie. She also released Midnights which was an enormous hit and cleaned up awards in 2023 for it like crazy as well as putting on the most lucrative tour in history. Not to mention giving out millions to the roadies as surprise bonuses and a crapton of philanthropy this year.
No, actually. Once you look past the empty signifiers and mixed metaphors in even her more lauded songs like All Too Well or the hollow literary references in songs like Cardigan, which are all dressed up to sound more profound than they actually are, you come to realize that her lyricism is mostly artifice designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Her only skill has been finding a way to market herself as so generically beige that practically anyone can see themselves in her. She’s a glorified Hallmark card. Or, more poignantly, a Hallmark movie.
As lyricists, her peers (eg Billie Eilish, SZA, even Ed Sheeran really) all run laps around her, but they’re not so calculatedly palatable so they lack her mass appeal.
I tried giving that whole album a listen because I was feeling charitable but had to turn it off when I hit that one. The way she says “gauche” is so, well…gauche. There’s barely even a song there.
Yeah there’s nothing commercially palatable about Ed Sheeran and Billie Eilish with their most recent work. 🙄 Good grief.
As a sports betting enthusiast who has wagered on Kelce a few times in 2023, I can agree. He plays better when she attends the games.
Even the Simpson's Comic Book Guy thinks that was pretentious.
As a KC hater, I have to wonder why she is dating that frat boy Kelce.
Yeah, commerically successful artists are always panned. It's like only destitute indie artists are allowed to be considered good.
I simply don't like Taylor Swift's style. Pop music is just really bad in my opinion. I'm not just disliking her for no reason.
Never will be a fan of her music, just not my tastes but she and her team certainly know how to bring in the cash, so good on them.
How was anything I said “pretentious”
I don’t like Swift’s music. I explained why. If you don’t like or agree with my justification that’s fine but there was nothing smug about anything I said.
The criteria: A top pop star that brings in a lot of money and gets a lot of air time and doesn't come with much controversy.
A form of popularity contest. Just like the Grammy, Oscars, Emmys.
Apparently according to Apple’s primary demographic (tweenagers), no one deserves better.
Singing is average. Dancing is below average. Lyric writing is average for pop music. Entertainer skills are above average. Business sense (coming from a family of rich bankers) is off the charts.
Now the question is, will she dominate this so-called “artist of the year” forever, even after her retire?