She’s been around a pretty long time. We’ve all heard about the concert ticket fiasco last fall. She just started her tour those tickets were for. People are just nuts for her. I’ve listened to some of her music (even watched a fan’s video from the tour opener concert), and I just don’t get it.
Her songs are very similar to each other, mundane, absolutely no musical innovation or originality. I don’t know any of her lyrics, so perhaps the “stories” she tells in her songs are her secret sauce(?). She seems to have her fans hypnotized, and she’s certainly making a mint in her career. I mean…good for her, but can someone explain what exactly about Taylor Swift resonates with her fans?
She’s a good songwriter who puts a lot of her personal life into her songs, she first broke big as an early teen (my mother saw her do a free concert at Sea World when Taylor was 13) who was sort of the antithesis of the manufactured bubblegum pop star, and she’s always had a great band and good producers behind her. She’s very intelligent and has done a great job of managing her own career and controlling the rights to her music in a way that many pop stars over the years haven’t been able to, and despite being richer than God at this point she’s managed to maintain that “gosh I’m just a regular girl from Pennsylvania who’s gone through all the same stuff you have” vibe to her.
I’m pretty much the antithesis of the typical Taylor Swift fan, but I fell in love with her music when I first heard Love Story on the radio in 2008, and saw her live several times before her shows got too big and expensive for me to shell out for. (I even got close enough to high-five her at one of those shows!)
I didn’t have much regard for her at all until I happened to notice that she has some really clever lyrics. So I listened to odds and ends and it’s pretty good pop music. Of course I am in her target demographic, 70 year old males.
How do these two things reconcile? You know enough about her songs to determine that they are all “mundane” and “unoriginal” but don’t know any of the actual words to any of them?
Isn’t really the sum total of the OP. The rest of the OP, which includes lines like “Her songs are very similar to each other, mundane, absolutely no musical innovation or originality” and “She seems to have her fans hypnotized” demonstrates to me that the OP doesn’t quite understand that different people like different things.
If you’re not willing to actually pay attention to one of her songs to find out what people like about her, then I don’t think your question is capable of being answered.
I feel like ultimately this is just a pitting of (those hypnotized) Taylor Swift fans, and is in the wrong forum. But that aside, I like both the lyrics and the music.
The good news is that I hadn’t listened to Folklore in a while, and I am right now, and I’m enjoying it!
