TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

I don't personally like her music a great deal. But I know most of it. I work in the music industry and she's unavoidable. Everyone I do work with has worked with her. She has several points going for her:

1. She's actually an artist that writes her own songs and if you throw an instrument at her and ask her to sing something she can do it at the drop of a hat. She's a true musician.
2. She's really and truly a kind person by all accounts. Imagine most people achieving her level of fame. She sits and has lunch with the crew that's hanging the lights for her concert (or similar). Just one of the crew. She's a pretty normal person for being a near billionaire.

That said, I don't get all the attraction to her physically. She's just not hot.

She's someone I respect, though I don't gravitate to her music whatsoever.

lurkingdirk said:

I don't personally like her music a great deal. But I know most of it. I work in the music industry and she's unavoidable. Everyone I do work with has worked with her. She has several points going for her:

1. She's actually an artist that writes her own songs and if you throw an instrument at her and ask her to sing something she can do it at the drop of a hat. She's a true musician.
2. She's really and truly a kind person by all accounts. Imagine most people achieving her level of fame. She sits and has lunch with the crew that's hanging the lights for her concert (or similar). Just one of the crew. She's a pretty normal person for being a near billionaire.

That said, I don't get all the attraction to her physically. She's just not hot.

She's someone I respect, though I don't gravitate to her music whatsoever.

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She also has self awareness and can make fun of herself. After getting criticized by everyone for how many exes and relationships she had she came out with this song.

BrutulTM said:

I guarantee if you live in the US or Europe and participate in culture in any way you would recognize at least 10 Taylor Swift songs even if you don't know that they are.

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Define "participate in culture in any way".

I watch a few dozen movies a year, a number of TV shows, and plenty of YouTube videos, and read a handful of novels. I don't listen to much new music, though. Does that count? Do you think your claim applies to all age groups? I'm sure there's people who have no idea what Game of Thrones is even though it felt pretty goddamn ubiquitous for a while. I would bet that I've not been exposed to 10 of her songs in anything I've watched unless she's licensed it to a lot of commercials but I still wouldn't actually recognize them. No one I know in real life listens to her that I'm aware of but we all watch our fair share of media.

However, I will amend my earlier claim. I have heard of the title Shake it Off after someone mentioned it here. I played the video and I definitely don't know it, though. I guess now I can no longer say I haven't intentionally listened to a Taylor Swift song. It has 3.3 billion views, so that's pretty crazy.

Ossoi said:

What part of "I have no shame" didn't you understand

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The beat is good, however once she opens her mouth the song is ruined.

Mist said:

So that's why you're a fucking weirdo

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That's certainly ONE of the reasons.

As I have stated before, I have actually MET Taylor Swift. Sorta. She was sleeping in bed with the door open while we did an estimate on a bathroom in Nashville for her mother who used to control every aspect of her life. I think she had just turned 18 back then but already a rising country star. I still wonder how much of her money her parents Britney'd before she escaped and switched to slut music.

Chukzombi said:

at least you're waking up to the fact at what a global phenomena she is. i think she is the highest grossing (female) musical artist in history.

Taylor Swift is first female artist to hit 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify

The surge in listening figures will be undoubtedly linked to fans getting excited for her live shows - as the superstar prepares to release another re-recorded album.

news.sky.com

How Taylor Swift crafted the most lucrative world tour in history

Banking US$13 million a night, The Eras Tours is set to be the first billion-dollar tour in the history of music – how did Tay Tay do it?

www.scmp.com

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I already knew she was the biggest pop star since Michael Jackson with something like a 2 billion dollar tour. I've read news articles about that and her rabid fanbase. That doesn't change my level of interest one way or another. It's just not a genre I'm going to actively search out, like horror films or fantasy novels. It's just not my bag, even though I'm sure there's probably at least a song or two I could find catchy.

Chukzombi said:

You were accusing me of hyperbole earlier in the thread because I said this was going to be a massive hit with potential of being top movie of the year. And now you're realizing that I wasn't talking out of my ass. Look, I don't get it either, how she is so monstrously huge just from rehashing her old hits and having a super expensive world tour. But whatever she did, it's captivated the world and pop culture. I have no doubt this movie will produce unheard of numbers for a concert film. Or perhaps any film this year. A movie about a Barbie doll is number one right now. All bets are off.

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You're 100% still talking out of your ass. That never changed. I will still do an avatar or ban bet that it doesn't even sniff Barbie's domestic gross. I already explained the reasons why, which you completely ignored. It's going to play for a grand total of 16 days at a three hour run time. It's simply not mathematically possible unless they extend the showings.

It will be the number one concert film of all time but it won't even be the #6 movie of the year. Fucking weird ass fan.

DickTrickle said:

It's just a fact that I haven't. You're bleating about how no one could ever not know her music is fucking bizarre to me. You just live in an entirely different world that you can't even imagine the possibility of someone not knowing her music. It's not about being masculine and all this other shit you're projecting about that I never said or alluded to. I listened and liked plenty of Madonna in my day (who seems like a reasonable comparison).

You're a self confessed fanatic (as clearly shown in your initial post in this thread) so I don't think you have much objectivity on the topic here. Talking about insecurity when you're trying to rationalize your obsession by thinking no one in the world could escape her seductive charms. Stick to simping and jerking off to her.

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"Knowing" her music is entirely different then pretending like you've never heard a single song she sings or that you don't know even a single lyric of hers, despite "accidentally" knowing that she "sings about her exes". And then your pretzel logic for knowing this is that you "saw it in a snippet". Interesting that you'd remember an off the wall "snippet" about somebody you supposedly know nothing about, don't care about, etc.

It's just fucking weird. It's like the dudes back in '98 pretending like Leonardo Decaprio was a "fag" and a "shitty actor", because all the girls swooned over him and they were insecure/jealous about it.

Your whole quip comes off as a dude trying WAAAAY too fucking hard to convince the world of how "cool" and "tough" he is because he supposedly barely even knows who someone is that is literally everywhere. She's all over media in every facet - TV, movies, YouTube, social media, etc. and you're sitting here pretending, "Taylor who?". Interesting that for someone you've barely heard of besides in passing you're seeing "snippets" about though. Very interesting..

I think country music is absolute GARBAGE and never listen to it. Does that prevent me from knowing who Garth Brooks is or some lyrics from some of his hits? You think if "Thunder Rolls" came on I'd be sitting here going, "Huh. Is this Dr. Dre singing this right now? I've literally never heard this guy!". Give me a break dude.