Taylor Swift’s Public Relations Management
Taylor Swift and Image Management 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.
Social Media
Taylor Swift currently has 73 million followers on Twitter and about 65 million on Instagram. She certainly seems to use these tools to better her public image. This student has seen first-hand on Twitter and Instagram why she is such a likeable person. During the 2014 holiday season,
Whether or not she wants to be, Taylor has proven herself to be a very devoted person to what she feels is important or to
Taylor Swift likes to invoke a lot of emotion into her music and includes several things she has experienced in her life. One major recurring theme in her songs is love.
Also, Swift has especially influenced young girls. Her song lyrics capture the misfortunes of her teenage years; this is relatable for many young girls (Mesfin 1). They look up to her because they think if Taylor Swift went through all the tragedies of teenage years and survived then they can too. This shows how Swift impacted the society. She has changed the way in which people think of themselves providing them with a sort of medicine to ease their pains.
Many people know Taylor Swift as the fun and adorable semi-pop and semi-country singer, but many people did not expect her recent letter towards Apple. What spawned her unexpected outspoken response? Apple decided to give users of iTunes a three-month trial period for their newest streaming system. What was the catch? Well, for customers, there wasn’t one. We simply got three free months of great music that we chose. However, for musicians, Swift saw a large injustice.
Over her 10 years of being in the music industry Taylor Swift has won 271 awards.
Taylor Swift surprised all her public with her recent album "1989" that was release on October 24,2014.. Not a lot of musical artist would dare to reinvent their sound so drastically. Taylor Swift's new album "1989" was made in a very different way apart from the country style Swift has on her past songs. Although she is still singing about relationships and love songs, this album is a definitely the end to her country style.
Taylor Swift, a pop icon and polarizing figure, is often known for her empowering music, feminist attitude, and meaningful lyrics. Many of her fans praise the feminist messages some of her songs deliver, however others say she comes from a position of privilege and only advocates for white women. Still, a common perception of Swift is that she has evolved from an innocent country singer into a more controversial and sometimes provocative pop singer. What is ignored though, is that despite this perception, themes depicted in “old” Taylor’s music still displayed highly problematic concepts about gender, just in less obvious ways. Particularly in her music video for “You Belong With Me,” the audience if presented with a fulfilling love story involving a nerdy girl getting the popular. On its surface, this concept may seem normal, but the narrative of this video unintentionally conveys significant gender issues in today’s society. Thus, through her 2008 music video for “You Belong With Me,” Taylor Swift ironically presents herself as the ideal nerdy girl next door who gets the guy when she suddenly turns beautiful while demonizing a cheerleader, revealing problematic notions of how women are supposed to look and behave in society, as well as reinforcing negative female stereotypes.
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
Taylor Swift really knows how to have hidden messages and secrets throughout her lyrics and music videos. Taylor Swift also likes to trash talk other celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry. Which gives a viewer a good chance to critic her lyrics and videos.
Attention material: She is the most popular female artist since 2006 when she started as a country singer; she has won many Grammy Awards, Kids Choice Awards and People’s Choice Awards with her incredible talent. She is generous, creative and successful; this could be no other than our beloved Taylor Swift.
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, making her 26 today, she grew up in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, she had an interest in musical theater at the age of nine and took vocal and acting lessons in New York. At 14 Taylor moved to Nashville, Tennessee attempting to pursue her music career. Shortly after the move, being the youngest person ever, she got signed by Sony/ATV music publishing house. Taylor’s songs that she writes are based on her personal life experiences and are mostly pop and country, she also plays many instruments including the piano, guitar, and banjo. Swift’s second album, Fearless was her Album of the Year winner in 2009 and claiming that Grammy made her the youngest Album of the year winner ever. In 2014 with Taylor’s second album, 1989 lead her to be the first ever to have 3 albums that sold 1 million copies within 1 week in the U.S.A. 1989 also lead her to claim the Album of the year award for the second time in her career making her the first women and fifth overall to win the Album of the Year Grammy twice.
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 took to stage at her pre-Super-Bowl show on Saturday night and later said that she does not have any plans to perform for the rest of the year, reports Huffington Post. According to the publication, the 27-year-old songstress performed to the loud cheer of the crowd for the DIRECTV show in Houston and then stated that as far as she knows, she is only doing one show in 2017 and as far as she knows, this is that show.
In today’s popular culture a big topic of discussion is pop singer, Miley Cyrus. She was a former star on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana and now we have all seen her transformation from a girl to a woman. To avoid fading away like many other celebrity teen stars as they aged, Miley decided to reinvent herself as an adult musician by pushing the limits. Many people only see Miley Cyrus for her unadulterated VMA Performances and her frowned upon behavior, which most individuals don’t care to get to know. There is another side of Miley that has made a huge impact on society and has reached new levels in giving back to the community. Miley has dedicated herself to feminism, improving society’s image of women, leading the fight against LGBTQ discrimination, charity work, and using social media to expose societal issues.
Award/Grammy-winning singer & songwriter Taylor Swift is a world-famous artist, having roots in the world of country music. Taylor Alison Swift, pop’s top recording artist, was born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Wyoming. Named after country singer James Taylor, due to her parents admiration for country music, her legacy was already set and stone. She was to become a country singer and she realized that at very young age.