The nice part of being part of Gen Z is that you don’t realize that this is taylor swift until someone tells you, so you instead think that this is some neolib cottagecore mother
Glad I could be a part of your political education. The evolution of Marxism is Marx => Gramsci => Swift.
I'm a millenial and my exact first thought was 'neolib cottagecore mother' until i read your post so what does that make me...???
You are being assimilated. There is nothing you can do to stop this. Accept your fate.
Taylor Swift's dad is a wealthy investment banker who bought her several million dollars of studio time and lessons before she got anywhere
Several million dollars is a bit of an exaggeration even though yeah obviously a great deal of privilege is required to get into the music industry with very few exceptions, doesn't make her any less talented or savvy, and you don't ever hear anyone saying that about any other artist
Like the picture is cringe obviously, but the way that people will criticize swift and never criticize other people always feels kind of sexist since she's a female artist with a largely female fan base. You don't ever hear people saying the same things about like, for example, Drake who had the same sort of industry connects
at least $1.4 million of studio time alone
EDIT: and yes all artists are nepotist failshits they're all connnected but this post was about Taylor Swift
This is straight liberalism poisoning. So much so I’m going to assume it’s a bit.
Yeah this is a bit. Hollywood is bourgeois decadence and obviously everyone is getting the wall when the time comes.
The way people go out of their way to discredit certain artists and not others is still low key frustrating tho
Ugh I should’ve looked at the username. You got one over on me good job.
yes sexism is still trash.
Yeah I guess tbf in his case people are more likely to criticize him for being a pedo rather than for his music which is a more important thing to focus on (if only he'd actually face consequences for it lmao)
Eh, strongly disagree, she's a real powerhouse of a songwriter even if her singing voice is pretty middle of the road. Most of her best songs were never singles for whatever reason, maybe just not being as aligned with her brand or being way too gay. Like the song she co-wrote with St Vincent (Cruel Summer) is superb
This is true.
Before the internet and the 2000s, the "old way" of making it for poor and working class musicians was through gigging and hoping that you would get lucky one day and your band would reach the ears of some agent, manager or executive with a record company and that would lead to getting the big contract and a record deal. Marilyn Manson was the last real rock star and that's how his journey began - through gigging in his local area and spending years building a fan following locally, yet he still had to get lucky that someone with connections like Trent Reznor saw him and was impressed enough to sign him.
The music industry began to really change in the 90s due to grunge. Labels became obsessed with signing bands and hitting a home run with the debut album. This was their reaction to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and the other grunge bands having such massive success early on. The benchmark for album sales also changed around this time. In the 80s, it was considered good for bands to move around 50,000 units in sales. Suddenly, that became too low of a number as the industry became so greedy with the grunge bands' success. Long story short, many good bands and artists were cut from labels in the 90s cause they weren't selling over 100k albums. The obsession with having a debut album be a smash hit also is where the labels dropped artistic development and no longer cared about slowly building up an artist or band and letting them grow in the studio over time.
This all died too in the 2000s when record sales no longer were relevant. Unless you come from a privileged background and have connections, it's next to impossible to get into the mainstream music industry. I agree with you, that a lot of the criticism Swift gets is unfair and a bit sexist. Drake is a good example and I'll give you another one - Adam Levine of Maroon 5. His band had a few hits in the 2000s and 2010s, but Levine owes everything to being born with a silver spoon in his mouth and his band was never that big or really all that talented. Same can be said for Nickelback whom the current young generation absolutely hate with a burning passion.
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Is Taylor swift weird looking these days or does this person just look like her? Also who holds their head like that for a photo?
She's been dyking out on main a lot more the last couple years, we love to see it
I had no idea this was Taylor Swift. Now I'm not sure if that's because I don't have a solid knowledge of what she looks like, or if it's just an unusual photo for her.
lmao be nice to miss swift, her ex just announced that she's pregnant last night
Nope. I made them this morning with extra love and care. They are shortbread cookies!
