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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I agree with so many of these! Here are mine:

[b]Taylor Swift's main talent is business -- she's a mediocre singer, a vastly overrated songwriter, a bad dancer, and has an annoying public persona. But she knows how to work her target demo and she understands PR. She's the Donald Trump of pop music.
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The best films of the last 20 years are out of Asia, Europe and the Mideast. American filmmaking is broken (there are some gems but so much garbage too).

Television might be the best, most creative storytelling medium around at the moment. Far superior to film (as it currently stands) and due to problems with book publishing and literary mags, also beating literature as well at the moment. I think one reason for this is that making television places a lot of limitations on creators, and people underestimate the value and importance of limitations on creativity. Deadlines and length limits are actually good for creativity -- they force storytellers to make decisions and commit to them. They force creators to self-edit. And the serialized nature forces storytellers to focus on how to lure in the audience and hold their attention. Television has many flaws, but I think it offers more to storytellers than other mediums at the moment. Too bad many great storytellers reject it as beneath them!

Yup, I'm a cultural snob.[/quote]

THIS.  Not only does Taylor make great business choices, but she also manages to wrap her decisions in a cloak of "authenticity" so her fanbase still sees her as their BFF.  Taylor selling portions of her journals with her CDs is her "opening up her life" and "being vulnerable," rather than motivating fans to buy 4+ copies of her album.  Taylor doing listening parties for her albums is her "spending time with her friends" rather than incentivizing listeners to become the "stan"/fan army that do a lot of unpaid promotion and defend her image online.  Taylor no longer interacting with fans on social media is "protecting her mental health" rather than just no longer doing that type of marketing.

The Donald Trump comparison is so apt.  Taylor Swift really could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, and her fans would still be streaming Folklore, listening for "Easter eggs" that hinted at the murder.[/quote]

THANK YOU (I am PP). I have learned to keep my TSwift opinions to myself IRL because people have such strong reactions but it will never not be baffling to me when she does stuff that is so obviously a marketing ploy and people buy into it as genuine. She really understands exactly which buttons to push with her fans and it's kind of fascinating. I even like a few of her songs though when I've tried to listen to her music beyond her most popular singles, I get super board, and some of it is actively quite bad. It's crazy to me that she's convinced people she's some kind of singer-songwriter genius, but hey, she's making bank off that perception so good for her.[/quote]

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