Taylor Swift possesses great power, and with great power comes great responsibility. She demonstrated this week that she could wield that power for good, when she went against Apple this week, and won. Even Samsung had some trouble accomplishing that. Swift’s ire was aroused when Apple announced earlier in June that it would launch a streaming music service - hoping to go head-to-head with Spotify (Taylor pulled her oeuvre from Spotify for a similar infraction). Apple’s streaming service would come with three free trial months of service and ah, there’s the rub. The all powerful Swift posted an open letter to Apple on a Tumblr post, “To Apple, Love Taylor”, thereafter. By nightfall, Eddy Cue, Apple’s media chief, had announced on Twitter
Recently, 24- year old country singer/popstar Taylor Swift released a music video “Shake it Off” which was I sort of introduction to her newest album 1989. The video received some backlash for it was seen by many as offensive, and stereotypical to African American Culture. In the video Swift dresses in what some may consider Hip Hop attire, attempts to “twerk” and even has a section where she partially sings as well as raps. She even uses talks about
Have you ever had those certain catchy songs that you just can't get out of your head? For me Taylor Swift is always at the top of my playlist. Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989 and has a family background of singing in her family her grandmother was an opera singer. Ever since Taylor started recording her albums she has always wrote and performed all of her songs. She started performing at a very young age. At the age of 11 Taylor Swift performed the national anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers NBA game. (??) The contributions to Music demonstrated by the career of Taylor Swift to prove beyond a doubt the Country Music Hall of Fame should induct this singer Taylors worthiness of this award is shown in her awards, charitable contributions and impact.
Most notably among these artists is Taylor Swift. Over the 8 years of her professional career, Swift has seen amazing success both in country and pop. Her upcoming release “1989” is her first official transition to the pop genre, so much so that she “won’t be pushing the new album to country radio at all” (Whitaker 1). Over the course of Swift’s last album or two, there has been a definite adjustment and maturing of her sound, gearing herself more toward pop. In an interview with USA Today about Taylor’s transition, the associate editor at Billboard, Jason Lipshutz, described her last album, “Red”, as being “based in country music, but [having] a lot of bubblegum pop in it” (Ryan, Mansfield 2).
Taylor Swift is the artist of the album Red. Taylor's music is mostly country in this album but she has some Dance-Pop songs. In her most recent album there is no Country. I like this album and I haven't heard some of the songs in this album until now. I think most people prefer her Dance-Pop music because when I was looking through her reviews most people picked her Pop songs over her Country music.
Taylor Swift dropped some jaws when she donated a whopping $250,000 to Kesha amid her battle with Dr. Luke and Sony Records. Although her generosity is genuine and not for show, it is now revealed that there is a major meaning behind her donation. Is she hinting that Kanye West is part of the reason?
The Blue Sphere, which is a California-based company, asserted that the 25-year-old Taylor Swift had actively broken the terms of its existing trademark.
The proof is in the pudding Taylor Swift is very influential. Taylor music influences everyone, but is more targeted at girls around the age of 16-24 year old. Taylor Swift has a fan base of almost 153 million people. That is almost half of the USA population. Taylor Swift has around 70 million Facebook fans, 27 million instagram followers, and 56 million Twitter followers. Now how is it that is a short 26 years did Taylor become one of the most influential people? Well, Taylor Swift was smart she surrounded herself with powerful friends. Which allowed her to grow in power. She is getting more fans everyday because she encourages them and if you are lucky Taylor will direct message you on social media. Taylor is super relatable and she knows it. In fact, she tries to make herself more relatable. She sets out a good image, Taylor is both kinds, but stands up for herself, which a lot of people look up to. Back in 2015 Taylor Swift used her power to fight apple and won. Taylor Swift was saying how it was unfair that artist and producers were not getting paid during an Apple music three month free trial. Taylor then decided to withhold her music from apple until things changed. Which they did. Know you know why I choose Taylor Swift as one of my artists to write
Famous for her relationship centered songs, Pennsylvania born singer songwriter Taylor Swift is unarguably one of the biggest living pop stars on the planet right now. All of her released albums have went platinum multiple times with her most recent one, “1989”, selling 1.2 million copies on its first week alone. In addition to that, Swift also has several sold out world tours and an Emmy award on her ever growing list of accomplishments. Swift is notoriously known for her goody two shoes image, and is even often labeled as “America's sweetheart”, but does Swift really deserve said title? When you're as influential of a figure as Swift is, it's natural that you're going to be asked what your stances are regarding certain social and political issues, one of the most hotly discussed topic for Swift was where she stands with
Billboard, a popular news source for music, interviewed the successful singer Sam Smith and he gave his opinion on another artist he has become quite fond of; he says, “ Taylor Swift is amazing… She's a role model. I really respect her. And she manages to sell a lot of records and make a lot of people happy financially, but also to keep that soulfulness, that honesty" (‘Sam Smith: Taylor Swift Is Amazing’). Taylor Swift was raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania where she had discovered her passion for music and started her music career at the age of 14 after moving to Nashville. She is currently a 25-year-old singer-songwriter who is famous for country and pop music. Having only been in the music industry for a short 10 years, Taylor Swift
Today’s music has also helped many go through the hardships of life. For example, Taylor Swift has help us all with the songs of her breakups. After seeing how she writes a song for every breakup she has had, makes the audience feel asure that they are those who have worse experience with relationships.
Both artists, Taylor Swift and Beyonce, have created exceptional music videos deserving of an award. However, Kanye West was wrong to interrupt the MTV Video Music Awards. As Taylor Swift deserved to win best music video by a female performer due to the high quality of ‘You Belong with
Since 16 year old Taylor Swift released her first album in 2006, she has grown from teenage country singer to pop superstar. With five albums, numerous awards, and even some movie roles, Taylor Swift has accomplished more at 26 years old than many people could dream to accomplish in a lifetime. She has been able to do this while maintaining a very good public image. Many other child singers such as Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, get to an age where they begin to dress differently, get tattoos, and start singing about topics that are no longer appropriate for the fan base they had. Taylor Swift has been able to stay relevant while still being a role model to every one of her fans. She has been a huge activist on social media, which allows her to maintain her public image with her 73 million followers. She has the ability to take a negative situation and use it to improve her image. Examples of this include ex-boyfriend controversy as well as feuds with rapper Kanye West. If all celebrities were able to manage their public relations the way Taylor Swift does, the world would be a much different place.
Not only that she's one of the most beautiful music artist and celebrity, but she has a lot of heart to give without any hesitation. Taylor Swift was known to be one of the most charitable celebrities today. In her latest donation, she gave $1 million to Louisiana flood victims combined. She divided the $1 million dollars to four charities in order to help the victims once and for all. The 26-year old singer who is behind the "Shake It Off" music made a pledge to herself by donating money to the victims. Even if she was a millionaire celebrity, her heart goes out to the ones who needs much more than her. According to a statement from a website called The Life of a Single
Time magazine is a popular magazine for young people, in one of their articles they talked about the "Power of Taylor Swift". Although Swift has power with her popularity in the music business and thousands of adoring fans this power does have a drawback. The article stated how Swift "If I’m not interested in undergoing that kind of debate and conversation... I just don't go out." so that shows how her popularity "power" can hold her back. The singer has so many fans and money and fame but she is also held under the paparazzis' judgement.
“I really enjoy pop music especially listening to Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber’s songs. I don’t know why they get so much hate, but putting aside their living lifestyle, they actually make pretty good music,” she said. “But still I got an eye roll and insults from others every time when I express my love for their jam.”