Anonymous wrote:I'm an older millenial, and I also don't get the Taylor Swift craze. She's pretty and has a couple of catchy songs, but her voice isn't great, and the majority of her music is not good.

I also think the Beatles are horrible, so there's that.

It was never about her being pretty. People connect to her music. You don’t that’s fine.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s a marketing genius - that is 95% of her success.

How is she a marketing genius? I always hear it so I believe it's true, but I don't pay any attention to her, so I don't get what it is that she is marketing about herself that is so appealing.

Then you must not understand her style of marketing. In addition to selling out every show and having 20,000+ fans just listening outside the stadiums in parking lots, people are driving over an hour just to buy merch in the parking lot! She’s clearly doing something right. Her entire business is playing to her fans, dropping Easter eggs, keeping her fans waiting on her every move. She starts dating matty from 1975 and now his song is played all over us radio raising in the charts when it wasn’t before. He was playing guitar with one of the opening acts. People are sort of cheering for the rest of the band. Anytime they showed him fans would would lose their mind. And in and in. You may not like her but to say she doesn’t understand Marketing is pretty silly.

I'm an older millenial, and I also don't get the Taylor Swift craze. She's pretty and has a couple of catchy songs, but her voice isn't great, and the majority of her music is not good.

I also think the Beatles are horrible, so there's that.

Anonymous wrote:GenXer here who loves her!

Same! This Gen X loves listening to her with my Gen Z!

nope, but i was never really into pop music...

-- millennial

GenXer here who loves her!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s a marketing genius - that is 95% of her success.

How is she a marketing genius? I always hear it so I believe it's true, but I don't pay any attention to her, so I don't get what it is that she is marketing about herself that is so appealing.

She is amazing at developing a relationship with her fans and making them feel special, and making them feel their connection to her is special. She also does an amazing job at performing vulnerability, to make the people who listen to her music feel like they are seeing her real self, while also always maintaining actual privacy and distance.

Her fans often feel like they relate to her or are like her, but it’s by design— her music is written to evoke this feeling, specifically.

She understands her fans extremely well and knows how to give them what they want.

Anonymous wrote:She’s a marketing genius - that is 95% of her success.

How is she a marketing genius? I always hear it so I believe it's true, but I don't pay any attention to her, so I don't get what it is that she is marketing about herself that is so appealing.

My H and I are genx and we like her.

My sons are young 20’s they like her along with a lot of other music

The people on the other thread sound like they are part of a cult buying expensive tickets and hankering for blue sweatshirts.

My millennial sons aren't interested at all.

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I agree with you.

Meaning I also find her bland and am surprised at her success.

Well, I get it from a business standpoint— I do see how hard she works and also how intelligently she markets herself. I admire her as a business woman. But her music all sounds the same to me, and all very “safe” and generic in terms of subject matter.

She has had a few catchy hits, but that doesn’t explain the extreme devotion of her fans to me.

She’s a marketing genius - that is 95% of her success.

Nope. I agree with you.

Yes we are a monolith

As a Gen Xer I’ve always been baffled by the popularity of Taylor Swift. Her songs - and voice are just so incredibly bland. It’s like the elevator music of pop. Are there millennials who are mystified by her success as well, or is this just a generational thing?