Music used to be the other, that was its magic. Meanwhile, musicians want to sell out the same way, tying up with the same corporations.
Everybody wants to be famous, everybody wants to be an influencer and rich. The truth is today people only care about themselves.
Everybody knows that Kanye is certifiably insane, just let it roll off of you! Meaning, no one cared about the knives thrown at Swift until she kept responding to them, then it became theatre of the absurd and we all couldn’t stop watching the movie. Isn’t this how the Kardashians made all that money? Which they most certainly did, but unlike Swift they’re completely vapid, there’s no there there. The truth is, no one cares about the disses and the feuds, it’s all about selling ads online. But she just does not seem to be educated. No one will argue with the fact that Taylor Swift is smart. Carrie Underwood does not get excoriated to this degree, because she stays in country and is a nincompoop. She canned Liz Rose and then worked with the hitmakers du jour and was vulnerable to the same blowback as any other pop act/celebrity. They channeled the ethos and angst of teen life better than anybody, especially awkward teen life, with its anxieties and crushes and goofs and…īut then Swift needed to be the biggest act in the world. Who cares?īut I did care about Taylor’s first two albums, they were brilliant. That’s right, Taylor Swift has an album called “Red,” and that would have never happened if we didn’t have that phone conversation wherein I told her to listen to “Blue,” which she’d never heard of. Hell, isn’t this how Joni Mitchell ended up writing “Blue”? If she were smart, she’d do a mea culpa and travel like the hoi polloi for a year or two.
You could say she’s using people, but the truth is she’s myopic, in her own bubble, she has no knowledge of the world outside her window. From the feuds and the songs about them, to the faux friends, to the overmarketing, to the sudden LGBTQ stance.
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Meanwhile, hip-hop acts put out free mixtapes, post to Soundcloud to drive interest for their projects when they’re released on paid services, they’re bonding their audience to them. Would you really mind if people came to steal your couch by the millions if it was replaceable for free? Of course not! Because this is how you build a fan base. Sure, no one would want people to invade their house and steal their couch, but a couch is physical, not digital. Do you really think that Metallica is hurt by its anti-Napster stance today? No way! Then again, if Taylor Swift were smart, she’d shut up, let this kerfuffle pass, as they all do. What kind of bizarre world do we live in where fans take the side of the man instead of the artist? One in which you portray yourself as a victim when it’s your own damn fault. Sure, Swift can now respond to Borchetta, but there’s no upside, the tide has turned. Can you say Metallica? Can you say Bruce Springsteen? It’s truly about your fans, they’re the ones who keep you in business, the label will drop your ass as soon as you stop earning them coin. Which is why acts that are fan dependent, as opposed to hit dependent, always try to keep prices low. And like Michael Jackson lost the plot when he started calling himself “The King of Pop,” Taylor made a mistake by spreading the story how much she made via slow ticketing on her last tour. It’s all about the cold hard cash.Īnd forget the cash, everybody thinks Taylor already has enough. But there’s no crying in the music business. So I don’t think we can blame her attorney, but how about her father/management, were they asleep at the wheel? It looks like Taylor made a bad choice and now wants a do-over. Word on the street is Taylor Swift makes all the decisions. Maybe that’s what happens when you grow up on stage and don’t go to college. It’s kind of like Madonna, but no one ever said Madonna was unsophisticated when it comes to business. In other words, Taylor should have thought twice before airing her dirty laundry in public.īut this is what she has done again and again, played the poor little rich girl and the tide has turned against her, only her true fans follow her into the wilderness, everybody else shrugs. And fans get mad at athletes asking for more money even though the owners of the teams are usually billionaires, profiting quite handsomely. Yokels don’t care about Scott Borchetta or Scooter Braun. Justin Bieber Defends Scooter Braun After Taylor Swift’s Criticism: ‘What Were You Trying to Accomplish?’
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