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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think so weird how people are like I can’t relate to what she’s singing about, why is she still singing about Break ups and falling in love? Those times are so fleeting in our lives that sometimes a good song like that reminds you what it’s like to be “Down Bad” and bring back those feelings of nostalgia. If not that we relate to it now, but it brings up old feelings and that’s not necessarily a bad thing![/quote]

Those times are clearly not fleeting in Taylor’s life. They have been a constant since she was a teen.

If people acted normal about Taylor, none of this would be a topic. It’s the crazy obsession that is bizarre. It’s the death threats and threats of violence sent to article writer who critique her. It’s the hyperventilating and crying over seeing a glimpse of her. It’s the insane amounts of money people pay and debt they will go into just to see a show. It isn’t healthy. It’s adults obsessed with a singer to the point that they lose all rational thought. [/quote]

There are many worst things To be addicted to. I will take a Taylor Swift addicted America over alternatives.  [/quote]

I could not disagree more. You could be addicted to exercise (ie train for the Iron Man). Or in the case of Taylor’s target audience, you could be addicted to doing your homework and achieving. You could be addicted to cleaning or cooking or reading or knitting or playing the piano or swimming or basketball. I can think of a million better addictions than obsessing over Taylor Swift.

Being fascinated with such a mediocre talent is precisely what is ruining America. [/quote]

Yet here you are, as captivated as anyone else. Joke’s on you. [/quote]

Not really, the more people talk about how much they don’t like her, the less financing she’ll get for that next album. Eventually she will fade away. [/quote]

Yesterday her record hit 500 million streams in one day, the fastest for any artist in history. This doesn’t even account for the sales of physical media. She’s currently still on her tour which will ultimately end up being the highest grossing of all time. She is not going anywhere, you’re just a bitter hag. [/quote]

Because of the internet, any musician today has a bigger world market than the ones from before. A tween in China or Russia can stream Taylor, but their parents/grandparents couldn’t buy a Beatles record or a Michael Jackson single. Those things weren’t for sale, so you can’t really compare her sales to anyone, but other musicians today.

Also, because of the internet, gone are the days of managers and agents scanning clubs and local venues for talent. There’s no point, their songs will end up free on YouTube and their managers won’t make money. They are not looking for the best singers anymore. Instead, they’re make money on the very few who have connections and more importantly FINANCING so that the record label can get paid and they can all keep their houses and cars, etc.

Taylor Swift is one of those lucky few, financed and marketed to the extreme, but she lacks real talent. Sure, a talented musician can now post on YouTube, too, but who is going to see them without the marketing? You might as well sing in the streets.

Worse than the fact that the managers and record labels won’t look for talented musicians anymore, they actively prevent them from reaching wider audiences, because actual talent makes the pre-packaged, well financed musicians they’ve backed (ie Taylor) look like the sh-t that they are in comparison.

I’m not old, but you are right, I am am bitter, [b]bitter that my grandparents had Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry, while I’m repeatedly forced to listen to the cat in Heat voice of Taylor every time I leave the house[/b].

But all things are cyclical and eventually a true talent will somehow break through.

Taylor will go away. It’s just a matter of time.[/quote]

NP. There’s this thing now where you can just stream whatever you want to listen to, and not stream whatever you don’t want to listen to. You can listen to Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry all day and night if you want to.[/quote]

Um yeah, [b]but I’d like to hear new talented young musicians that are alive today. [/b]Unfortunately, Big Bankers and Hedge funders have put their money on Taylor, so I can’t access new talented musicians, since they aren’t being financed and marketed.

We had a great system for finding talent, but it’s been obliterated and now we have Taylor. I’m a capitalist, but Marx was write about some things.[/quote]

Uh…okay? You’re the one who specifically brought up those older, dead artists.

And it’s easier in 2024 than ever before to access new musicians. Just go on Spotify. You can even set your account to never play songs from Taylor.[/quote]

It’s actually much harder to access new musicians for the casual listener. Before the managers and the record labels would do all the work by prescreening and only signing the top talent. Now, the audience has to do all the work hard and listen to a lot of garbage to maybe hear someone good. No thanks.

The same goes for merchandise buyers in stores. Before they’d pick out nice clothes, with good materials to the taste of a certain demographic shoppers who went to their store. Now, I have to look through millions of pictures of clothes I can’t touch to try to see what may or may not be nice. And even if I pick a good dress, I can’t try it on to see if it fits me.

You know what? I liked having the middle man. Now, I have to pay the same amount or more for everything and now I have to find and test it.

And don’t get me started on Netflix. I miss the stations managers who made a tv lineup.

Having lots of choices isn’t that great when most of the choices are garbage and you have to filter through it to find the good stuff.

Less is more![/quote]

You are a genius[/quote]

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