Taylor Swift is awful (and her music isn't even very good)

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Anonymous wrote:You know what I hate about Taylor? How ubiquitous she is. She was on the cover of my grandmother’s Russian language senior citizen newspaper. Why or why? Nobody who reads that has ever heard of Taylor and they are not interested in her music. The only reason I saw it was because I was visiting my grandma in a nursing home. My grandma isn’t going to run out and buy her merchandise or go to a concert. Taylor and her PR team are just too much.

Hold on.
Let me get this straight.
YOU think, that Taylor Swift’s PR team planted:pushed a story to a Russian language granny magazine. YOU think that’s why that story was there, because Taylor Swift’s people put it there?
😂

DP. No you missed the point. The PP said what they hate about Taylor is "how ubiquitous she is." It doesn't matter why Taylor is on the cover of that magazine. Probably the magazine thought it would help them sell issues, though also I'm certain Taylor's PR team seeks to get her face as many places as they can because it helps Taylor to sell tickets, and actually a big part of Taylor's marketing these days is aimed at Gen X and Boomers because they are the ones who are often buying the tickets/merchandise for their millennial and Gen Z kids, so if Taylor can also turn them into fans, it will result in more $$ for her.

But regardless of who specifically made the decision to put Taylor on that cover, the point is that OP finds the ubiquity of Taylor Swift annoying. This is a very common phenomenon and it doesn't have to be something Taylor or her team are doing on purpose for it to annoy people. It's called being "overexposed" and it's a known PR problem, and I definitely think Taylor is/has tipped into that category over the last few months due to the Travis Kelce thing. I think if she and her team are smart, they'll pull back a bit. She's touring internationally in 2024 but especially once the NFL season is over, it would probably be beneficial for her to be seen less in tabloids/celebrity news for a while. Maybe disappear for about a year and then pop back up in 2025 with a new album.

No I read it correctly. The pp thinks she’s overexposed AND thinks the shadowy cabal of Taylor Swift comms dept is pushing stories to “Babushka’s Monthly”
And that’s hysterical
Honestly this thread has uncovered a previously unfathomable Venn diagram of conspiratorial thinkers and anti Swifties.
And frankly I’m so glad I’m here for it!
It’s been a real treat!

Why do you think a Taylor Swift story was on the cover of a Russian language Senior Citizen magazine that’s only available by subscription? You can’t buy this one at the store or in the stands, so people cannot be charmed by her great beauty to buy it. Its circulation is very small and limited to mostly Jewish Russian speaking Senior Citizens living in America. (They children and grandchildren do not read these.) Most of the ads are for Russian speaking doctors, lawyers and home health attendant services. It barely makes any money. Why do you think the editor decided to put Taylor on the cover?

Well I think it obvious!
The editor secretly works for Taylor Swift!!
Oh wait wait wait!
No, but he was handed a fat unmarked envelope in the depths of a parking garage late at night. There, a mysterious tall blonde woman, sporting a bold red lip, told him exactly what to print last month in “Matronly Matryoshka Monthly”.

I admire the obtuseness of rabid Taylor fans. It’s not that the above editor works for Taylor. It’s that her team has decided to release articles about her for little to no money. If the editor of some small obscure newspaper publishes an article about her (to fill space in an ad based tiny circulation paper), he or she doesn’t have to pay the usual fees. You have to be very unaware of how the publishing industry works to not get what’s going on here.

Taylor is the definition of overexposed and it’s because her team wants it that way. The bottom line is that she never made the leap from female tweens and their moms to the general public. And her team is desperate to get her there before she hits 40 and loses the tween audience. And if that means releasing her articles for free, so be it.

It’s the wrong angle, in my opinion.

If you think she’s just for teenagers, then you’ve probably missed Taylor mania. I know lots of people in their 40s and 50s that love her.

I mentioned the moms, too. But men, even gay men are not interested.

Im a straight man and think she’s awesome.

That’s great, but you are in the minority for men.

Are you just making up numbers? I have many male friends and they all think she’s great.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what I hate about Taylor? How ubiquitous she is. She was on the cover of my grandmother’s Russian language senior citizen newspaper. Why or why? Nobody who reads that has ever heard of Taylor and they are not interested in her music. The only reason I saw it was because I was visiting my grandma in a nursing home. My grandma isn’t going to run out and buy her merchandise or go to a concert. Taylor and her PR team are just too much.

Hold on.
Let me get this straight.
YOU think, that Taylor Swift’s PR team planted:pushed a story to a Russian language granny magazine. YOU think that’s why that story was there, because Taylor Swift’s people put it there?
😂

DP. No you missed the point. The PP said what they hate about Taylor is "how ubiquitous she is." It doesn't matter why Taylor is on the cover of that magazine. Probably the magazine thought it would help them sell issues, though also I'm certain Taylor's PR team seeks to get her face as many places as they can because it helps Taylor to sell tickets, and actually a big part of Taylor's marketing these days is aimed at Gen X and Boomers because they are the ones who are often buying the tickets/merchandise for their millennial and Gen Z kids, so if Taylor can also turn them into fans, it will result in more $$ for her.

But regardless of who specifically made the decision to put Taylor on that cover, the point is that OP finds the ubiquity of Taylor Swift annoying. This is a very common phenomenon and it doesn't have to be something Taylor or her team are doing on purpose for it to annoy people. It's called being "overexposed" and it's a known PR problem, and I definitely think Taylor is/has tipped into that category over the last few months due to the Travis Kelce thing. I think if she and her team are smart, they'll pull back a bit. She's touring internationally in 2024 but especially once the NFL season is over, it would probably be beneficial for her to be seen less in tabloids/celebrity news for a while. Maybe disappear for about a year and then pop back up in 2025 with a new album.

No I read it correctly. The pp thinks she’s overexposed AND thinks the shadowy cabal of Taylor Swift comms dept is pushing stories to “Babushka’s Monthly”
And that’s hysterical
Honestly this thread has uncovered a previously unfathomable Venn diagram of conspiratorial thinkers and anti Swifties.
And frankly I’m so glad I’m here for it!
It’s been a real treat!

Why do you think a Taylor Swift story was on the cover of a Russian language Senior Citizen magazine that’s only available by subscription? You can’t buy this one at the store or in the stands, so people cannot be charmed by her great beauty to buy it. Its circulation is very small and limited to mostly Jewish Russian speaking Senior Citizens living in America. (They children and grandchildren do not read these.) Most of the ads are for Russian speaking doctors, lawyers and home health attendant services. It barely makes any money. Why do you think the editor decided to put Taylor on the cover?

Well I think it obvious!
The editor secretly works for Taylor Swift!!
Oh wait wait wait!
No, but he was handed a fat unmarked envelope in the depths of a parking garage late at night. There, a mysterious tall blonde woman, sporting a bold red lip, told him exactly what to print last month in “Matronly Matryoshka Monthly”.

I admire the obtuseness of rabid Taylor fans. It’s not that the above editor works for Taylor. It’s that her team has decided to release articles about her for little to no money. If the editor of some small obscure newspaper publishes an article about her (to fill space in an ad based tiny circulation paper), he or she doesn’t have to pay the usual fees. You have to be very unaware of how the publishing industry works to not get what’s going on here.

Taylor is the definition of overexposed and it’s because her team wants it that way. The bottom line is that she never made the leap from female tweens and their moms to the general public. And her team is desperate to get her there before she hits 40 and loses the tween audience. And if that means releasing her articles for free, so be it.

It’s the wrong angle, in my opinion.

If you think she’s just for teenagers, then you’ve probably missed Taylor mania. I know lots of people in their 40s and 50s that love her.

Also, each new generation of tweens becomes her fans. So she is constantly generating new fans. My 9 yo and all her friends are obsessed with Taylor.

Yes, that was kinda the point. Your 9 year old loves her, because Taylor is still young enough. But in ten years, 9 year old girls are not going to identify with a 44 year old woman, singing songs about teen heartbreak.

Taylor is smart enough to sing different tunes and to grow asan artist in 10 years. She’s remarkable

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All her songs sound alike? Shake it off doesn’t sound like Antihero

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Anonymous wrote:You know what I hate about Taylor? How ubiquitous she is. She was on the cover of my grandmother’s Russian language senior citizen newspaper. Why or why? Nobody who reads that has ever heard of Taylor and they are not interested in her music. The only reason I saw it was because I was visiting my grandma in a nursing home. My grandma isn’t going to run out and buy her merchandise or go to a concert. Taylor and her PR team are just too much.

Hold on.
Let me get this straight.
YOU think, that Taylor Swift’s PR team planted:pushed a story to a Russian language granny magazine. YOU think that’s why that story was there, because Taylor Swift’s people put it there?
😂

DP. No you missed the point. The PP said what they hate about Taylor is "how ubiquitous she is." It doesn't matter why Taylor is on the cover of that magazine. Probably the magazine thought it would help them sell issues, though also I'm certain Taylor's PR team seeks to get her face as many places as they can because it helps Taylor to sell tickets, and actually a big part of Taylor's marketing these days is aimed at Gen X and Boomers because they are the ones who are often buying the tickets/merchandise for their millennial and Gen Z kids, so if Taylor can also turn them into fans, it will result in more $$ for her.

But regardless of who specifically made the decision to put Taylor on that cover, the point is that OP finds the ubiquity of Taylor Swift annoying. This is a very common phenomenon and it doesn't have to be something Taylor or her team are doing on purpose for it to annoy people. It's called being "overexposed" and it's a known PR problem, and I definitely think Taylor is/has tipped into that category over the last few months due to the Travis Kelce thing. I think if she and her team are smart, they'll pull back a bit. She's touring internationally in 2024 but especially once the NFL season is over, it would probably be beneficial for her to be seen less in tabloids/celebrity news for a while. Maybe disappear for about a year and then pop back up in 2025 with a new album.

No I read it correctly. The pp thinks she’s overexposed AND thinks the shadowy cabal of Taylor Swift comms dept is pushing stories to “Babushka’s Monthly”
And that’s hysterical
Honestly this thread has uncovered a previously unfathomable Venn diagram of conspiratorial thinkers and anti Swifties.
And frankly I’m so glad I’m here for it!
It’s been a real treat!

Why do you think a Taylor Swift story was on the cover of a Russian language Senior Citizen magazine that’s only available by subscription? You can’t buy this one at the store or in the stands, so people cannot be charmed by her great beauty to buy it. Its circulation is very small and limited to mostly Jewish Russian speaking Senior Citizens living in America. (They children and grandchildren do not read these.) Most of the ads are for Russian speaking doctors, lawyers and home health attendant services. It barely makes any money. Why do you think the editor decided to put Taylor on the cover?

Well I think it obvious!
The editor secretly works for Taylor Swift!!
Oh wait wait wait!
No, but he was handed a fat unmarked envelope in the depths of a parking garage late at night. There, a mysterious tall blonde woman, sporting a bold red lip, told him exactly what to print last month in “Matronly Matryoshka Monthly”.

I admire the obtuseness of rabid Taylor fans. It’s not that the above editor works for Taylor. It’s that her team has decided to release articles about her for little to no money. If the editor of some small obscure newspaper publishes an article about her (to fill space in an ad based tiny circulation paper), he or she doesn’t have to pay the usual fees. You have to be very unaware of how the publishing industry works to not get what’s going on here.

Taylor is the definition of overexposed and it’s because her team wants it that way. The bottom line is that she never made the leap from female tweens and their moms to the general public. And her team is desperate to get her there before she hits 40 and loses the tween audience. And if that means releasing her articles for free, so be it.

It’s the wrong angle, in my opinion.

If you think she’s just for teenagers, then you’ve probably missed Taylor mania. I know lots of people in their 40s and 50s that love her.

I mentioned the moms, too. But men, even gay men are not interested.

Im a straight man and think she’s awesome.

That’s great, but you are in the minority for men.

Are you just making up numbers? I have many male friends and they all think she’s great.

No, I’m not just making it up. This is based on ticket and product sales. Men are not her audience. Black people aren’t either.

There is a very specific demographic who buys Taylor’s stuff and it’s soon to age out. (The largest contingent being 12-35 year old middle class white women.) In five or so years, ten year olds won’t be begging their parents to take them to a concert. Meanwhile, her team is trying to get men more interested (hence the mugging for the camera at NFL games) in the hope of increasing their audience before the middle age crunch happens. If she doesn’t expand into men, she’ll fade out when the tweens decide she’s too old, which is going to happen soon. It’s obvious to those of us who are ambivalent about her.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what I hate about Taylor? How ubiquitous she is. She was on the cover of my grandmother’s Russian language senior citizen newspaper. Why or why? Nobody who reads that has ever heard of Taylor and they are not interested in her music. The only reason I saw it was because I was visiting my grandma in a nursing home. My grandma isn’t going to run out and buy her merchandise or go to a concert. Taylor and her PR team are just too much.

Hold on.
Let me get this straight.
YOU think, that Taylor Swift’s PR team planted:pushed a story to a Russian language granny magazine. YOU think that’s why that story was there, because Taylor Swift’s people put it there?
😂

DP. No you missed the point. The PP said what they hate about Taylor is "how ubiquitous she is." It doesn't matter why Taylor is on the cover of that magazine. Probably the magazine thought it would help them sell issues, though also I'm certain Taylor's PR team seeks to get her face as many places as they can because it helps Taylor to sell tickets, and actually a big part of Taylor's marketing these days is aimed at Gen X and Boomers because they are the ones who are often buying the tickets/merchandise for their millennial and Gen Z kids, so if Taylor can also turn them into fans, it will result in more $$ for her.

But regardless of who specifically made the decision to put Taylor on that cover, the point is that OP finds the ubiquity of Taylor Swift annoying. This is a very common phenomenon and it doesn't have to be something Taylor or her team are doing on purpose for it to annoy people. It's called being "overexposed" and it's a known PR problem, and I definitely think Taylor is/has tipped into that category over the last few months due to the Travis Kelce thing. I think if she and her team are smart, they'll pull back a bit. She's touring internationally in 2024 but especially once the NFL season is over, it would probably be beneficial for her to be seen less in tabloids/celebrity news for a while. Maybe disappear for about a year and then pop back up in 2025 with a new album.

No I read it correctly. The pp thinks she’s overexposed AND thinks the shadowy cabal of Taylor Swift comms dept is pushing stories to “Babushka’s Monthly”
And that’s hysterical
Honestly this thread has uncovered a previously unfathomable Venn diagram of conspiratorial thinkers and anti Swifties.
And frankly I’m so glad I’m here for it!
It’s been a real treat!

Why do you think a Taylor Swift story was on the cover of a Russian language Senior Citizen magazine that’s only available by subscription? You can’t buy this one at the store or in the stands, so people cannot be charmed by her great beauty to buy it. Its circulation is very small and limited to mostly Jewish Russian speaking Senior Citizens living in America. (They children and grandchildren do not read these.) Most of the ads are for Russian speaking doctors, lawyers and home health attendant services. It barely makes any money. Why do you think the editor decided to put Taylor on the cover?

Well I think it obvious!
The editor secretly works for Taylor Swift!!
Oh wait wait wait!
No, but he was handed a fat unmarked envelope in the depths of a parking garage late at night. There, a mysterious tall blonde woman, sporting a bold red lip, told him exactly what to print last month in “Matronly Matryoshka Monthly”.

I admire the obtuseness of rabid Taylor fans. It’s not that the above editor works for Taylor. It’s that her team has decided to release articles about her for little to no money. If the editor of some small obscure newspaper publishes an article about her (to fill space in an ad based tiny circulation paper), he or she doesn’t have to pay the usual fees. You have to be very unaware of how the publishing industry works to not get what’s going on here.

Taylor is the definition of overexposed and it’s because her team wants it that way. The bottom line is that she never made the leap from female tweens and their moms to the general public. And her team is desperate to get her there before she hits 40 and loses the tween audience. And if that means releasing her articles for free, so be it.

It’s the wrong angle, in my opinion.

If you think she’s just for teenagers, then you’ve probably missed Taylor mania. I know lots of people in their 40s and 50s that love her.

I mentioned the moms, too. But men, even gay men are not interested.

Im a straight man and think she’s awesome.

That’s great, but you are in the minority for men.

Are you just making up numbers? I have many male friends and they all think she’s great.

No, I’m not just making it up. This is based on ticket and product sales. Men are not her audience. Black people aren’t either.

There is a very specific demographic who buys Taylor’s stuff and it’s soon to age out. (The largest contingent being 12-35 year old middle class white women.) In five or so years, ten year olds won’t be begging their parents to take them to a concert. Meanwhile, her team is trying to get men more interested (hence the mugging for the camera at NFL games) in the hope of increasing their audience before the middle age crunch happens. If she doesn’t expand into men, she’ll fade out when the tweens decide she’s too old, which is going to happen soon. It’s obvious to those of us who are ambivalent about her.

This doesn’t track with global stars - look at Madonna. I was a fan at 9 and now a bunch of moms in my circle took their teens to the recent Madonna show. Not to hear new music but nostalgia is huge and the kids were happy to go along.

Will Taylor have this much influence on the culture and this amount of rabid fans in 10 or 20 years? Probably not but doesn’t mean she will be experiencing career death. She like Madonna and other big stars will probably still put out the occasional album and still collaborate with hot young stars like Madonna did with Britney and Justin when they were in their prime. I’m sure she has more tours on her future too.

People love to think about their first concerts and the music they loved as a kid and I dont see that changing with this generation.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly cannot name one of her songs, even though I am exposed to them daily. There is nothing unique about them. Elevator music.

All music is elevator music. The most wonderful, poignant song you ever heard in your life is just elevator music.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what I hate about Taylor? How ubiquitous she is. She was on the cover of my grandmother’s Russian language senior citizen newspaper. Why or why? Nobody who reads that has ever heard of Taylor and they are not interested in her music. The only reason I saw it was because I was visiting my grandma in a nursing home. My grandma isn’t going to run out and buy her merchandise or go to a concert. Taylor and her PR team are just too much.

Hold on.
Let me get this straight.
YOU think, that Taylor Swift’s PR team planted:pushed a story to a Russian language granny magazine. YOU think that’s why that story was there, because Taylor Swift’s people put it there?
😂

DP. No you missed the point. The PP said what they hate about Taylor is "how ubiquitous she is." It doesn't matter why Taylor is on the cover of that magazine. Probably the magazine thought it would help them sell issues, though also I'm certain Taylor's PR team seeks to get her face as many places as they can because it helps Taylor to sell tickets, and actually a big part of Taylor's marketing these days is aimed at Gen X and Boomers because they are the ones who are often buying the tickets/merchandise for their millennial and Gen Z kids, so if Taylor can also turn them into fans, it will result in more $$ for her.

But regardless of who specifically made the decision to put Taylor on that cover, the point is that OP finds the ubiquity of Taylor Swift annoying. This is a very common phenomenon and it doesn't have to be something Taylor or her team are doing on purpose for it to annoy people. It's called being "overexposed" and it's a known PR problem, and I definitely think Taylor is/has tipped into that category over the last few months due to the Travis Kelce thing. I think if she and her team are smart, they'll pull back a bit. She's touring internationally in 2024 but especially once the NFL season is over, it would probably be beneficial for her to be seen less in tabloids/celebrity news for a while. Maybe disappear for about a year and then pop back up in 2025 with a new album.

No I read it correctly. The pp thinks she’s overexposed AND thinks the shadowy cabal of Taylor Swift comms dept is pushing stories to “Babushka’s Monthly”
And that’s hysterical
Honestly this thread has uncovered a previously unfathomable Venn diagram of conspiratorial thinkers and anti Swifties.
And frankly I’m so glad I’m here for it!
It’s been a real treat!

Why do you think a Taylor Swift story was on the cover of a Russian language Senior Citizen magazine that’s only available by subscription? You can’t buy this one at the store or in the stands, so people cannot be charmed by her great beauty to buy it. Its circulation is very small and limited to mostly Jewish Russian speaking Senior Citizens living in America. (They children and grandchildren do not read these.) Most of the ads are for Russian speaking doctors, lawyers and home health attendant services. It barely makes any money. Why do you think the editor decided to put Taylor on the cover?

Well I think it obvious!
The editor secretly works for Taylor Swift!!
Oh wait wait wait!
No, but he was handed a fat unmarked envelope in the depths of a parking garage late at night. There, a mysterious tall blonde woman, sporting a bold red lip, told him exactly what to print last month in “Matronly Matryoshka Monthly”.

I admire the obtuseness of rabid Taylor fans. It’s not that the above editor works for Taylor. It’s that her team has decided to release articles about her for little to no money. If the editor of some small obscure newspaper publishes an article about her (to fill space in an ad based tiny circulation paper), he or she doesn’t have to pay the usual fees. You have to be very unaware of how the publishing industry works to not get what’s going on here.

Taylor is the definition of overexposed and it’s because her team wants it that way. The bottom line is that she never made the leap from female tweens and their moms to the general public. And her team is desperate to get her there before she hits 40 and loses the tween audience. And if that means releasing her articles for free, so be it.

It’s the wrong angle, in my opinion.

If you think she’s just for teenagers, then you’ve probably missed Taylor mania. I know lots of people in their 40s and 50s that love her.

I mentioned the moms, too. But men, even gay men are not interested.

Im a straight man and think she’s awesome.

That’s great, but you are in the minority for men.

Are you just making up numbers? I have many male friends and they all think she’s great.

No, I’m not just making it up. This is based on ticket and product sales. Men are not her audience. Black people aren’t either.

There is a very specific demographic who buys Taylor’s stuff and it’s soon to age out. (The largest contingent being 12-35 year old middle class white women.) In five or so years, ten year olds won’t be begging their parents to take them to a concert. Meanwhile, her team is trying to get men more interested (hence the mugging for the camera at NFL games) in the hope of increasing their audience before the middle age crunch happens. If she doesn’t expand into men, she’ll fade out when the tweens decide she’s too old, which is going to happen soon. It’s obvious to those of us who are ambivalent about her.

This doesn’t track with global stars - look at Madonna. I was a fan at 9 and now a bunch of moms in my circle took their teens to the recent Madonna show. Not to hear new music but nostalgia is huge and the kids were happy to go along.

Will Taylor have this much influence on the culture and this amount of rabid fans in 10 or 20 years? Probably not but doesn’t mean she will be experiencing career death. She like Madonna and other big stars will probably still put out the occasional album and still collaborate with hot young stars like Madonna did with Britney and Justin when they were in their prime. I’m sure she has more tours on her future too.

People love to think about their first concerts and the music they loved as a kid and I dont see that changing with this generation.

You’ve got to be kidding. Madonna always had a much wider audience demographic than Taylor Swift. That’s a ridiculous comparison. Backstreet Boys would be more like it.

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There is an article in today'a washington post about Taylor Swift and her Chinese fans.

So it may not appral to everyone but China is pretty big!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All her songs sound alike? Shake it off doesn’t sound like Antihero

To me they do. It’s okay that I think that.
It’s me I’m the problem.
So shake it off PP, shake it off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is an article in today'a washington post about Taylor Swift and her Chinese fans.

So it may not appral to everyone but China is pretty big!

And here’s an article about a Hispanic convicted murderer, who is spending life in prison and discovered Taylor Swift, and how much it helped him the past 10 years.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison


It’s a really cool article and I just think painting all her fans with a broad brush is silly and pointless. Yes, she clearly has key demographics as all artist do, but she also has broad appeal, I don’t think you get to be a billionaire if you don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:There is an article in today'a washington post about Taylor Swift and her Chinese fans.

So it may not appral to everyone but China is pretty big!

And here’s an article about a Hispanic convicted murderer, who is spending life in prison and discovered Taylor Swift, and how much it helped him the past 10 years.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison


It’s a really cool article and I just think painting all her fans with a broad brush is silly and pointless. Yes, she clearly has key demographics as all artist do, but she also has broad appeal, I don’t think you get to be a billionaire if you don’t.

Wow, how the mighty have fallen!!! The New Yorker must be really financially desperate if they’re publishing TMZ articles written by convicted murdered.

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I love how people just declare something as fact that is either a. Untrue or b. Subjective so unprovable.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people just declare something as fact that is either a. Untrue or b. Subjective so unprovable.

You mean like writing a broad, generic comment that could apply to absolutely anything, but implying that it has a deeper, profound significance to the topic at hand?

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people just declare something as fact that is either a. Untrue or b. Subjective so unprovable.

You mean like writing a broad, generic comment that could apply to absolutely anything, but implying that it has a deeper, profound significance to the topic at hand?

No.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what I hate about Taylor? How ubiquitous she is. She was on the cover of my grandmother’s Russian language senior citizen newspaper. Why or why? Nobody who reads that has ever heard of Taylor and they are not interested in her music. The only reason I saw it was because I was visiting my grandma in a nursing home. My grandma isn’t going to run out and buy her merchandise or go to a concert. Taylor and her PR team are just too much.

Hold on.
Let me get this straight.
YOU think, that Taylor Swift’s PR team planted:pushed a story to a Russian language granny magazine. YOU think that’s why that story was there, because Taylor Swift’s people put it there?
😂

DP. No you missed the point. The PP said what they hate about Taylor is "how ubiquitous she is." It doesn't matter why Taylor is on the cover of that magazine. Probably the magazine thought it would help them sell issues, though also I'm certain Taylor's PR team seeks to get her face as many places as they can because it helps Taylor to sell tickets, and actually a big part of Taylor's marketing these days is aimed at Gen X and Boomers because they are the ones who are often buying the tickets/merchandise for their millennial and Gen Z kids, so if Taylor can also turn them into fans, it will result in more $$ for her.

But regardless of who specifically made the decision to put Taylor on that cover, the point is that OP finds the ubiquity of Taylor Swift annoying. This is a very common phenomenon and it doesn't have to be something Taylor or her team are doing on purpose for it to annoy people. It's called being "overexposed" and it's a known PR problem, and I definitely think Taylor is/has tipped into that category over the last few months due to the Travis Kelce thing. I think if she and her team are smart, they'll pull back a bit. She's touring internationally in 2024 but especially once the NFL season is over, it would probably be beneficial for her to be seen less in tabloids/celebrity news for a while. Maybe disappear for about a year and then pop back up in 2025 with a new album.

No I read it correctly. The pp thinks she’s overexposed AND thinks the shadowy cabal of Taylor Swift comms dept is pushing stories to “Babushka’s Monthly”
And that’s hysterical
Honestly this thread has uncovered a previously unfathomable Venn diagram of conspiratorial thinkers and anti Swifties.
And frankly I’m so glad I’m here for it!
It’s been a real treat!

Why do you think a Taylor Swift story was on the cover of a Russian language Senior Citizen magazine that’s only available by subscription? You can’t buy this one at the store or in the stands, so people cannot be charmed by her great beauty to buy it. Its circulation is very small and limited to mostly Jewish Russian speaking Senior Citizens living in America. (They children and grandchildren do not read these.) Most of the ads are for Russian speaking doctors, lawyers and home health attendant services. It barely makes any money. Why do you think the editor decided to put Taylor on the cover?

Well I think it obvious!
The editor secretly works for Taylor Swift!!
Oh wait wait wait!
No, but he was handed a fat unmarked envelope in the depths of a parking garage late at night. There, a mysterious tall blonde woman, sporting a bold red lip, told him exactly what to print last month in “Matronly Matryoshka Monthly”.

I admire the obtuseness of rabid Taylor fans. It’s not that the above editor works for Taylor. It’s that her team has decided to release articles about her for little to no money. If the editor of some small obscure newspaper publishes an article about her (to fill space in an ad based tiny circulation paper), he or she doesn’t have to pay the usual fees. You have to be very unaware of how the publishing industry works to not get what’s going on here.

Taylor is the definition of overexposed and it’s because her team wants it that way. The bottom line is that she never made the leap from female tweens and their moms to the general public. And her team is desperate to get her there before she hits 40 and loses the tween audience. And if that means releasing her articles for free, so be it.

It’s the wrong angle, in my opinion.

If you think she’s just for teenagers, then you’ve probably missed Taylor mania. I know lots of people in their 40s and 50s that love her.

I mentioned the moms, too. But men, even gay men are not interested.

Im a straight man and think she’s awesome.

That’s great, but you are in the minority for men.

Are you just making up numbers? I have many male friends and they all think she’s great.

No, I’m not just making it up. This is based on ticket and product sales. Men are not her audience. Black people aren’t either.

There is a very specific demographic who buys Taylor’s stuff and it’s soon to age out. (The largest contingent being 12-35 year old middle class white women.) In five or so years, ten year olds won’t be begging their parents to take them to a concert. Meanwhile, her team is trying to get men more interested (hence the mugging for the camera at NFL games) in the hope of increasing their audience before the middle age crunch happens. If she doesn’t expand into men, she’ll fade out when the tweens decide she’s too old, which is going to happen soon. It’s obvious to those of us who are ambivalent about her.

I thought the same thing as my daughter was first interested in TS when she was about in third grade or so. Her very first concert was Taylor Swift's 1989 tour. She's now 18 and still loves Taylor Swift, and went to her eras tour. so not all kids "age out" of Taylor Swift.