Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 09:25     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote: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?


Music is bland, but she writes her own music and plays an instrument. Most millennial musicians do neither. Battles, pick your.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:59     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gen X here. I like her songs and will sing along on the radio but I have never bought her CDs or concert tickets.


Psst- it’s called streaming music, not buying CDs.


You do realize Swift actually sold albums as CDs way back when before streaming was a thing? That’s what I’m referring to. I never purchased any of her earlier albums on CDs. You’re obviously not Gen X. Our generation bought CDs and will continue to.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:33     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote: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?


Gen X here and I 💯 agree with OP.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:29     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think that or being a foodie pretty much covers all millennials


We’re not all White you know…


… Or MC/UMC
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:29     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:I think that or being a foodie pretty much covers all millennials


We’re not all White you know…
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:29     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


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.


The pp you’re quoting never said she doesn’t understand marketing. They quite literally said, “I keep hearing it so I believe it’s true” and was asking what the marketing she’s doing is bc they don’t follow her enough to know.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:28     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
I don’t care for her.

Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:28     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:Gen X here. I like her songs and will sing along on the radio but I have never bought her CDs or concert tickets.


Psst- it’s called streaming music, not buying CDs.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:26     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
I think there’s a segment of fans who like her music, and that’s fine. Then there’s this segment that has an extreme parasocial relationship with her— which seems weird, but is something many fans of things do. I remember there was this group of middle-aged fans of the tv show “Outlander” that harassed the main actors to death because they were convinced that they were hiding a real life relationship. Point being, this is human behavior, not teen or Gen Z behavior.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:21     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Gen X here. I like her songs and will sing along on the radio but I have never bought her CDs or concert tickets.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:21     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:I'm with you OP...I don't get it. My teens say she's fine but very "basic." She just seems to lack any edge.


Her words cut like a knife. Not sure how you can say she has no edge lol. She’s all about the lyrics.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:18     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
I'm with you OP...I don't get it. My teens say she's fine but very "basic." She just seems to lack any edge.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:15     Subject: Re:Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
She appeals to across the board. All ages.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:09     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
I think that or being a foodie pretty much covers all millennials
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 08:07     Subject: Do all millennials like Taylor Swift?
I can't call myself a Swiftie because I don't know all the back stories or follow her that closely.

But I will say that the 3 albums she put out in 2020/21 were incredible. Lover, Folklore, Evermore are top notch. The last 2 albums especially are so soulful and the lyrics are pure poetry. If you don't listen to a single other Taylor Swift album, I would listen to those.