Viking Dan
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FIFY.It’s a cult..
FIFY.It’s a cult..
Which gets to my point is there really a backlash here?
I’m confused as to how I don’t like Midnights equates to I don’t like Taylor Swift. I bought the damn thing. You know what I don’t have in my collection? Any FJM, because I actually don’t like him.No but equally I don’t think it’s an outlier to say that Midnights wasn’t a disastrous album and if an artist feels they are in a rich creative vein why should they stop? Shouldn’t they mine it and enjoy while they can? A creative block always happens soon or later.
This idea of fatigue of an artist you don’t like it’s vaguely comical and ridiculous to me, why do you care? I mean what would these people have been like in the 60s when there was a new album every 6 months.
Any FJM, because I actually don’t like him.
I’m confused as to how I don’t like Midnights equates to I don’t like Taylor Swift. I bought the damn thing. You know what I don’t have in my collection? Any FJM, because I actually don’t like him.
This is why Swifties get jokingly called a cult, that’s an insufferable attitude… the exact same kind of shit you get annoyed at when people try to shove Pink Floyd down your throat.
The second is more about how frankly ridiculous the whole conversation around this today has been. It’s so easy to ignore stuff you don’t like in the 21st century, there is so much content. It’s not like people are stuck with broadcast tv and the radio anymore!
I forgot what thread I was in for a minute, but I think the biggest thing Swift has going for her is that she manages to make music for teen girls and their dads at the same time. It's the consumer double whammy.
Also, I think I tune out a lot of pop culture because I don't see her discussed that much or pop up other than in passing ads anywhere except here and the football headlines.
For the last couple rsds the line at my local was full of dads and daughters. It was nice to see them get excited over the same thing.Literally my dad and two sisters have gotten really close by connecting over swift
I disagree with you here, if anything I think it’s harder to avoid stuff now a days since everything is so interconnected. I personally avoid her the best I can she is unavoidable. Any conversation her fans can connect back to her. Hell look at the past football season where she was the center of attention, or even politics she is intertwined with. I wish I could blacklist celebrities so I would never have to hear about them again but being on the internet in any capacity you will see countless mentions of her
I think of that scene in The Bear where Richie is driving home after figuring shit out at the front of the house and he celebrates by jamming out to his Daughters Taylor Swift album.I forgot what thread I was in for a minute, but I think the biggest thing Swift has going for her is that she manages to make music for teen girls and their dads at the same time. It's the consumer double whammy.
Also, I think I tune out a lot of pop culture because I don't see her discussed that much or pop up other than in passing ads anywhere except here and the football headlines.
I disagree with you here, if anything I think it’s harder to avoid stuff now a days since everything is so interconnected. I personally avoid her the best I can she is unavoidable. Any conversation her fans can connect back to her. Hell look at the past football season where she was the center of attention, or even politics she is intertwined with. I wish I could blacklist celebrities so I would never have to hear about them again but being on the internet in any capacity you will see countless mentions of her
I’ll have to disagree with you there as I’ve been able to avoid the entire post Oasis discography of Noel Gallagher.
And also the entire career of Miley Cyrus.
Yeah, I don’t run with media that is inundated with Taylor Swift music. TBH, I hear the majority of her, Olivia Rodrigo, BTS, Billie Elish, Dua Lipa music in TV commercials. I don’t seek it out or listen to top 40 radio. None of my IRL friends care about pop music and I don’t spend much time around people younger than like 35 or children so my exposure is very limited. I am more likely to hear a Guided By Voices or Horsegirl song in my day-to-day life than I am ever likely to hear a Taylor Swift song.Man I remember the 90s. If you hated a song you were stuck leaving the tv and radio off until it ran its course.
Maybe I’m just good at tuning out things I don’t want to pay attention to…
Neither of them has ever been outside of the music/tabloid news cycle.I’ll have to disagree with you there as I’ve been able to avoid the entire post Oasis discography of Noel Gallagher.
And also the entire career of Miley Cyrus.
I think my IRL brain has some kind of protection circuits. As soon as the talk goes onto shit tv or music or whatever my ears go into selective hearing mode. If I’m on the Netflix or the Spotify their existence doesn’t offend me, I just scroll past them onto the thing I want.
Neither of them has ever been outside of the music/tabloid news cycle.
Taylor has dominated this year. Movies, check, the Bear, check, album sales, check, politics, check, football, check, sticking it to the man, check, plus all the tabloid circus from all of that and being you know Taylor Swift.
Imagine if Madonna had started dating Joe Montana at the height of her ubiquity.
Neither of them has ever been outside of the music/tabloid news cycle.
Taylor has dominated this year. Movies, check, the Bear, check, album sales, check, politics, check, football, check, sticking it to the man, check, plus all the tabloid circus from all of that and being you know Taylor Swift.
Imagine if Madonna had started dating Joe Montana at the height of her ubiquity.
I guess it’s just confusing to me that people get offended or upset when someone is injected into a news cycle. It’s so easy to just move along IMO.I disagree with you here, if anything I think it’s harder to avoid stuff now a days since everything is so interconnected. I personally avoid her the best I can she is unavoidable. Any conversation her fans can connect back to her. Hell look at the past football season where she was the center of attention, or even politics she is intertwined with. I wish I could blacklist celebrities so I would never have to hear about them again but being on the internet in any capacity you will see countless mentions of her
This idea of fatigue of an artist you don’t like it’s vaguely comical and ridiculous to me, why do you care? I mean what would these people have been like in the 60s when there was a new album every 6 months.
It’s so easy to ignore stuff you don’t like in the 21st century, there is so much content. It’s not like people are stuck with broadcast tv and the radio anymore!