re: Someone younger than me: Explain the infatuation with Taylor Swift?

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Have you never been around a teenage girl? She caters to that crowd and it’s a pretty big market.

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LOL. Her market, while primarily female, extends from 8-9 year olds to 40+.

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he was talking about mental age, not physical age. There are PLENTY of 40 yo women who think and act like teenagers.

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I mean, she does. It’s a verifiable fact. She has producers and co-writers, of course, but she writes the overwhelming majority of her own music in stark contrast with most other pop singers.

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You guys are taken...hook line and sinker by a basic white chick with no arse. Too damn easy. She's the typical pop star, all flash no substance. No matter what you heard in your fan group.

Shout Out to The Boat. Coming through with the gospel truth.

I've never heard a Taylor Swift song and I could not name one.

She does have nice thighs.

The greatest female singer is Linda Ronstadt .

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Lacks any ounce of sexuality.

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hornball boomers having no clue why people are famous are hilarious

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I mean truthfully I don’t want my daughter to be in her 30s and still single with a full baseball squad lineup of failed relationships

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that’s fair.

BUT, but as a parent of boys would you tell them not to like a superstar QB or shortstop because of off the field dating patterns? Just playing Devil‘s Advocate

It doesn't matter what guys think. There are 30 year old women who say she is the voice of their generation and they probably associate a lot of their growing up and relationship BS with whatever is in those songs. Plus, as a few other people have said, they can now take their daughters to the shows.

Decent looking, super leftist, and you cannot make sense of what teenage girls like on any given day so there's no point in trying to understand. Her 'i'm the problem' song is decent and that's about it. I hope she makes money and makes girls happy. As long as we don't listen to her for advice on how to run society, I think we'll be ok.

Things that resonate with teens - totally unpredictable. It is what it be.

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ETA and her net worth is probably more than you entire family.

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Her net worth is more than the LP

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Max Martin is co-writer on most of her biggest hits. You know, the guy who wrote pretty much every boy band or Britney Spears hit of the 90s and 2000s. Taylor Swift is just a continuation of that plus social media.

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Max only did co-writes and production on 3 of her albums well after she was already famous (1989, Red, and Reputation, all released between 2012 and 2017). He was a co-writer on 4 of her #1 hits, though.

Max definitely contributed to her success, but she’s been a prolific songwriter before and after him.

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doesn’t have solo writer credits on anything these days. Which says a lot.

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Actually, it doesn’t say as much as you would think. The way modern music is produced, writing credits are given out to a lot more people involved in the process than they were in previous decades. If a producer pulls a beat or an effect out of their bank to use on a song, the creator of that beat gets a songwriter credit, and the producer often does too, even if it was just layered in for atmospherics and does little regarding song structure and lyrics. This is an industry overreaction to the litigation spawned by the endless ripping off of one-another artists, studios, and producers were involved in during the 70’s and 80’s especially.