I thought the Dixie Chicks got in hot water for speaking out against GWB? Or is it some other artist/group that I’m thinking of?
While I don’t think it is some sort of stupid political conspiracy, I do think that she is being advertised/shilled a crazy amount.
It feels like it blew up in less than a year. She’s fucking everywhere now.
Edit: to the fans (or Swifties or whatever you want to be called), I’m in no way talking shit about her. I’m simply pointing out that she’s in the news a lot. Stop PM’ing me bullshit. I also don’t care about your downvotes.
Thank fuck I’m not in the US. After being outside for so long, I think the advertisement-atmosphere would send me to suicide.
Definitely. She’s a capitalist’s dream. See creates scarcity with her albums and merch, forcing frenzied buying and price scalping. She’s a prolific polluter and her dad bought her success.
Now any criticism of her actions and business practices are met with her fans calling you a conservative or a misogynist because capitalism has melted their brains.
Yo harddaysknoght, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Taylor Swift has been in the industry a long time… A long time!
In particular, her tour was a massive three hour retrospective covering her entire career rather than being focused on one new album. Combine that with a few re-recordings of old albums and her successfully getting a new generation of Gen Z fans and you’ve got one very popular star.
She re-did and re-released a couple albums this year, had a massive worldwide tour, which she had filmed. The movie made $100,000,000 on opening weekend and is the highest-grossing concert film ever. She’s doing an awful lot of stuff this year, so of course she’s getting a lot of coverage.
She also managed to completely sidestep the entire multiple Hollywood strikes issue by the simple expedient of meeting with the unions, asking them what they wanted, and saying, “Okay, you got it.”
Yep. I’m not a fan of the billionaire class in general since I don’t think anyone should be allowed to be that rich, but she actually seems to do right by her workers, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say for most of them.
Most Billionaires don’t earn their wealth. Taylor Swift has earned her wealth.
I mean most of these huge pop artists are pure astroterf from the record labels. But what does this have to do with Trump?
Swift is a force of good, as much as any insanely rich person can be. She alone may end up responsible for tens of thousands of young women registering to vote between now and election day. One of her Instagram posts drove 35,000 voter registrations. Republicans have every reason to fear the Swiftie factor.
Yeah. She’s measured with it too. One of the reasons her sway is so strong imo, is she just saved it up for a long time. So when she finally asks a fan “hey could you do this one little thing for me?” it almost feels like “uh, yeah, I’ve known you my whole life Taylor, of course.”
Which the fan doesn’t “know her” per se, but between a musician and a huge fan, it definitely feels like you do. It’s a personal relationship, a little different from most other fandoms. Music is just odd that way.
I would say that Princess Diana would be a comparison.
Personally, I like Swift because she has legs for days. I’ll vote for that reason alone.
It’s because the GOP knows that more voters means they lose. Centrists don’t exist. There’s no middle ground between Ds and Rs anymore.
No one is 50/50 on Trump.
VOTE
Centrists do exist and will always exist. Regardless how bad or good things are.
The problems is both sides have at least 1 great and 1 terrible policy or stance.
We need more sizeable parties options, or at least vote for them.
That way people can vote for parties that best fits them.
Note: voting for the lesser of two evils, won’t solve the problem. Just make things worse overall. We can all see that
There are tons of people who don’t know anything about political ideology that are 50/50 on Trump.
