#TaylorSwift made her debut 20 years ago and is the undisputed #1 Artist of our generation, a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon who redefined music itself and whose cultural impact transcends eras...💪🐐👑🤍
She is the #1 best-selling Artist of the 21st century with 270 equivalent album units sold, the #1 Billboard 200 Artist of All Time with the biggest album debut in Billboard 200 history (4M units), the only Artist to have 8 albums debuting on the Billboard 200 with over 1M units each, the Artist with the most Hot 100 No. 1s of the Century (15) and of the Decade (10), the Female Artist with the most Hot 100 debuts (9), the only Artist to occupy the whole Top 10 (3 times), Top 12 & Top 14 simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100, the Solo Artist with the most No. 1s on the Billboard Global 200 (7) and the Artist with the most No. 1s on Digital song sales (32)! She is the #1 most-streamed Female Artist in Apple Music history & the most streamed Artist of all time on Spotify (126.5B) with the biggest album debut in history (314.5M)! She's the artist with the most Album of the Year wins in GRAMMY history (4)! She's the #1 highest-grossing touring Artist of all time with the highest-grossing Tour (Eras Tour, $2.1B! She's also the youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the only musical act to be named TIME’s Person of the Year!
A visionary songwriter, business powerhouse, and Global Icon, Taylor, the Legend, doesn’t just break records and make history, she rewrites the rules!
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Sorry to go on about Taylor Swift, but I keep seeing "Let your daughter be an Erika Kirk, not a Taylor Swift.
Fuck that!
Here's a little about Taylor Swift.
She is GENEROUS.
She gave her crew for the Eras Tour 10% of the revenue. That's $197 million.
She donated enough money at EVERY venue to top off food banks for a year.
She gives money to random GoFundMes. She gave $100,000 to the family of a fire fighter who died.
She gave another $100,000 to a toddler who had cancer.
She gave away well over $200 million last year alone. And that's just what we KNOW about.
She is KIND.
She identifies fans and each year, sends a set of them Christmas presents. She looks at their Social Media to figure out what they want and buys them hand-selected gifts.
Then she WRAPS THEM HERSELF and mails them packages.
When she gave her crew bonuses, she didn't just have her accountant take care of it. She gave each of them a hand-written, personalized note.
That shows a kind of humanity that is really touching. She doesn't see employees. She sees people. You can't fake that at the end. You have to take the time to notice people and appreciate them individually throughout the year, and there were over 100 of them.
That is quite a capacity to care. Can we honestly just appreciate how big of a heart that takes? To take moments every day to NOTICE things.
I once had a venue manager tell me that when she performed at their venue she went around and introduced herself to every one of them.
She is the only act they'd ever seen do that.
She is ACCOMPLISHED
She is already one of the most successful recording artists in history, and she's only 36.
I don't care if you like her music. Her fans do. She knows her audience.
I'm a 58-year-old Gen X dude. I'm not her target audience. I can live with not everything having to be made for me.
I'm a classic rock guy. I honestly don't even know what Swift's songs are. I don't feel the need to listen to her entire library to defend her though.
She's got the receipts.
Grammys, album sales, concerts, streams--any way you want to look at it, she is one of the tops ever with years ahead of her.
She is FIERCE
And in spite of all that, she took on the MUSIC INDUSTRY and WON!
She stood up for herself, she didn't back down.
I man, you have to really appreciate what it takes to do that--especially as a woman. She literally changed the industry.
I won't go into trying to belittle Erika Kirk. There's no point in that. If you find something in her to aspire to, go for it.
But that doesn't make Taylor less of a person.
If you have a daughter who has the character of Taylor--the generosity, the kindness, and the ferocity to stand up for herself against a titan and WIN, then you have one hell of a daughter, even if she never sells an album.
If you need to drag someone down to lift someone up, that says more about you than either of them.
Happy 36th birthday to the iconic Taylor Swift.
The 14x Grammy-winning superstar, who debuted in 2006, has taken the world by storm era after era, and record after record. Her impact has ranged from her songwriting talents, which landed her a Songwriter Hall of Fame nomination in her first year of eligibility, to the phenomenon of the Eras Tour, which is the highest-grossing tour of all time. She is the first artist in history to hold the entire Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 multiple times, which no other artist has done once. She was named TIME’s Person of the Year in 2023 and, this year, broke the record for biggest album opening in Billboard 200 history when her twelfth studio album opened at four million units. She also gained ownership to her first six albums and now fully owns her entire discography, which boasts four Album of the Year wins — the most for any singer ever.
Taylor Swift is more than a pop star. She’s a great songwriter who proves that mass appeal and lyrical subtlety can go together, writes Harvard English professor Stephanie Burt.
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