re: Serious Taylor Swift question

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her father, a hedgefund manager,

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Not a "hedgefund" manager.

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but she had full major label support behind her before she'd recorded her first song. So many folks have to toil in obscurity for 5 to 10 years before they can get any industry backing or even attention.

She had it from age 15 right at the last period in time when there was a semblance of a mono culture, allowing her to become one of the last super stars before social media balkanized music audiences to such an extent that achieving true mass appeal became extremely difficult.

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The rest of this is pretty true. They've tried to spin it as rags to riches, but the dad made about as deliberate a gambit for her to have this career as was possible to be made.

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People notice something is different, but they don't know what it is. Their perception of one verses the other is different depending on which one they mostly grew up listening to.

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But this isn’t causing people to like or dislike Swifts music. Every genre of music has been recorded digitally for decades. And prior to that there was drum and synth programming along with drum triggers and pads. Drum machines and programmed drums have been used for over 50 years at this point.

Older folks don’t like Swift’s music (or any other pop music of the last 20 years) because it sounds boring, sterile, and bland to them. It sounds that way due to the lack of tempo and pitch variances which those older listeners were accustomed to in the music recorded during their youth.

Younger folks don’t dislike it the same way because they don’t notice anything missing at all as they’re accustomed to music always having perfect pitch and tempo. When they hear older songs, they’re often turned off because it sounds “cheap”. That’s exactly what I’m saying.

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Older folks don’t like Swift’s music (or any other pop music of the last 20 years) because it sounds boring, sterile, and bland to them. It sounds that way due to the lack of tempo and pitch variances which those older listeners were accustomed to in the music recorded during their youth.

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That’s a blanket statement, a complete assumption, and completely false.

I think Taylor Swift is mediocre in almost every way, but it’s not because of digital recording methods lol. At the same time I love artists like Lady Gaga that use the exact same production programs and techniques.

“Older folks(people with discerning tastes, age has nothing to do with it) don’t like Swift because she just isn’t very interesting to listen to. Has nothing to do with digital quantization.

So many bad takes and continual moving of the goal posts in here....

"Swift's songs aren't catchy" - no, you just like Frank Zappa-style weird stuff over pop music..and that's ok...enjoy what you like. But other people liking something you don't doesn't equate to them being wrong.

"Swift doesn't write her own songs" - she was winning songwriting awards in her teens

"well ok, maybe she writes her own...but she can't write for anyone else" - plenty to choose from, but "Better Man" recorded by Little Big Town may be among the best

"well....I just don't like her...she's ugly and a hoe" - ok pops, thanks for proving you have no actual argument