🧸 wow, this is… no, this is seriously!! wow..
🐰 what, is this your first time seeing my stomach? you see it every day, why are you acting like it’s something new?
🧸 no, it’s not the same stomach i see every day!
Yunjin of LE SSERAFIM reveals that she used to run several fan accounts when she was in middle school, including BTS, Taylor Swift, My Little Pony and My Chemical Romance.
The Guardian credits Taylor Swift with setting the template for artists like Olivia Rodrigo to own their master recordings from day one, while actively championing the next generation of stars, including Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX.
The problem with this fandom is they want their fave to INSTANTLY be Taylor’s coequal (and even has delusions of surpassing Taylor).
To be the “most successful woman in the industry”, you need to be *the* most successful artist OVERALL on the planet. To be able to match (or even surpass) Taylor, you would have to surpass:
- Billie, Sab, and Ariana (ALL her *current* peers, not just one, and not just in a specific metric)
- Bruno, Beyoncé, *and* The Weeknd
- Morgan, Harry, *and* BTS (the 500K debut territory on Billboard 200)
- Drake *and* Bad Bunny
- Adele
- 800K debut territory
- 1M debut territory (which Taylor has *long* surpassed)
- 2M debut territory
- 3M debut territory
- 4M debut territory
You would have to be the singularity, *the* biggest star alive, the industry-shaping, era-defining, needle-moving figure that Taylor is, just to be able to match her. And you would have to OUTDO that if you ever wish to become “the most”.
Instead, this fandom wants a shortcut and couldn’t even be bothered to go through all these ladder steps they’ve yet to climb and instead secretly wish that Taylor would just pass her crown and willingly hand over the keys to the kingdom, to let their fave absorb the astronomical chunk of the pie that Taylor has cultivated throughout her career, as if it were an inheritance that they can demand for their fave anytime they want.
Know your place and put in the work, ffs. The music industry is not a charity.
Taylor Swift’s fifteen #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100:
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
• Shake It Off
• Blank Space
• Bad Blood
• Look What You Made Me Do
• cardigan
• willow
• All Too Well (10 Minute Version)
• Anti-Hero
• Cruel Summer
• Is It Over Now?
• Fortnight
• The Fate of Ophelia
• Opalite
• I Knew It, I Knew You
🚨 | Just two times in history female artists has debuted back-to-back at the #1 spot on billboard hot 100:
Mariah Carey (Fantasy) and Whitney Houston (Exhale)
Ariana grande (hate that I made you love me) and Taylor swift (I Knew it, I Knew you)