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[quote=Anonymous][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]

While I agree with authenticity point, and that she has a very dedicated fan base, the comparison between Taylor swift and Donald trump is just off. One is a monster and one is a well branded singer. One staged a coup, and one uses her enormous platform for mostly benign entertainment purposes and sometimes for good ones. [/quote]

(Kind of can't believe that I have to explain that I was only comparing them on one point: the blind loyalty of their followers.  But since it was apparently not clear: Taylor Swift is very obviously not Donald Trump, who is indeed a monster.  The blind loyalty of Swifties is not a threat to our democracy.)[/quote]

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