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Can someone explain why Taylor Swift is so successful?
Cos I just don't get. I honestly can't think of one song she has done other than that Shake it song...which...is just..ugh. I find her like a musical lobotomy. She also looks like LeAnn Rhimes, goofier sister to me. I can even understand a core fanbase..but to achieve the sales she has with her latest album.
Is she successful outside of the USA?
Is she successful outside of the USA?
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She looks like an actress's from a US comedy drama to me. As a pop star I find she looks awkward, almost slightly embarrassed a lot of the time. Maybe it's just me.
She has reasonably good songs (didn't like Shake it Off though), ESP when you look a her rivals in the charts.
But something about her uncomfortable ness makes her a very weird pop star to me.
Yeh..I think you missed the point. DId u actually read the title.....
The point being that you seem to not understand that everyone has different tastes and likes to each other. You don't like someone but seem unable to grasp what others might like in the same person. That's right isn't it?
Also, she doesn't have an amazing range so I can sing along in the car.
Music however, is very subjective, just because you don't like something doesn't mean there is no appeal to others. For every artist you like, there will probably be more people that don't like them.
Nail on head with this one I think.
her first headlining tour saw her play japan, australia and the uk as well as the US, playing to over a million folk and making $63m. she did japan, australia, and europe as well as the US for her second tour which made $97m
depending on your opinion, you could say she was successful outside of the USA. her most recent uk shows put onsale were an instant sell out too
she's successful as she writers her own songs, which means she gets more royalties, and her fanbase tend to associate themselves with her story like lyrics. plus she supported many well known acts and toured a lot in support of her first album, and did meet and greets and lots of one on one promotion with radio and tv
to her young female fanbase, her early tracks in particular could be seen in a similar way to oasis songs from the first couple of albums appealing to their core young male audience, with similar basic chords and catchy verse chorus verse structures
her first couple of albums had a country pop feel, but her more recent material has a much more typical chart pop style, and her videos are aimed for an mtv/youtube audience
she's the youngest person to get a grammy, and she has a bunch of awards, such as 7 grammys, 15 AMAs, 7 CMAs' and 12 billboard awards, and a string of artist of the year and best new artist awards, such as winning the CMT artist of the year 4 years in a row. she's also got world records for fastest selling digital album and single, so as well as commercially, she's obviously doing something right
i'd suggest checking out her second album, which she started writing when she was 15. it's considered by many to be her best work, and quite different to "shake it off"
Carrie Underwood, The Band Perry, Julianne Hough, Laura Alaina....C/W has a quite a few young pretty faces.
Taylor Swift has had a lot of crossover success. Her dalliances with a string of well-known and not so well known boyfriends and the kiss and tell songs she has written about them must resonate with her fans.
I love her, anyway. She's down-to-earth and lovely
What you mean people like things I don't? Why this is mind blowing information.....
No it isn't. Of course, I understand that other people like her and have different tastes. I'm asking WHY they do. And it's not just a few people..like the album sold a million in its first week. That's pretty major success.
The point is what makes this girl so different from any of the others out there. She's by far the blandest of all the female singers imo. Maybe that's why?
But I have to admit that some of her songs are actually quite good and some are guilty pleasures of mine. I Knew You Were Trouble and Shake It Off are good examples of that.
She has become very popular outside of the US, as she has charmed her way into the affections of a fair few people.
It's not complicated.
LOL. That's the persona she puts out.
country prom girl thing to get whilst she's so successful.
Beyond that songs like Shake It Off speak for themselves. The video to that great song is very cringe but she is obviously taking the p!ss out of herself.