Dear lord. like 95% of this post is a bunch of outright inaccuracies.
Single Ladies outsold all of those songs on a WW scale (9-10 million WW)
IASF outsold Red
Taylor is bigger than Beyonce in the UK?!?!?! Ok now it's clear you are just talking out of the ass. How is Taylor is bigger in the UK when she doesn't have an album anywhere NEAR as big as IASF there? Hell, even "4" outsold EVERY Taylor album in the UK
There's a reason why Taylor's tour barely grazed Europe while Bey's tour was able to slay all of Europe....TWICE.
The ignorance. Not only is Beyonce absolutely a musician , but she's a damn good one at that. The vocalists can very much musicians. Beyonce uses her voice like an instrument and her vocal musicianship demolishes any (questionable) talent Taylor may have.
How the hell are you gonna argue that she's not acclaimed as an artist when her most recent album that came out last than a year ago was met with UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM. Beyonce did not win 17 Grammys for performing, nor does Taylor have a song anywhere near as acclaimed as Crazy in Love.
Taylor's music is graded on a much lower scale than Beyonce's. She gets acclaim because the music she writes is good for demographic that she writes for.
Multiple industry insiders? More like D-list blogs. The whole song stealing thing only exists on the internet. No songwriter that she's worked with has ever said a bad thing about her so...
Love Story 8M
Single Ladies 7.7M
according to the list of best selling singles
IASF selling 6M since 2008 < Red selling 6M since 2012
Well that may be be true Taylor has multiple platinum singles while bey hasn't had even one in 6 years I did not know she slayed UK so hard that era. good for ha still local to the anglosphere
i knew you were gonna say that. vocalists are not musicians they're vocalists. bye.
You sure about that?
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Winner
Halo
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Winner
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
Winner
At Last
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Winner
So Amazing
2003 - 46th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Winner
Dangerously In Love 2
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Winner
The Closer I Get To You
etc.
smh @ you not knowing what your own faves grammys are for .
You means that demographic that still buys albums? yeah they seem pretty satisfied
Quote:
People like to fixate on Taylor Swift's youth, as if to say, yeah, she's pretty good for her age. But that just begs a question: Where are all the older people who are supposedly making better pop records than Taylor Swift? There aren't any. In a mere four years, the 20-year-old Nashville firecracker has put her name on three dozen or so of the smartest songs released by anyone in pop, rock or country.- Rolling Stone
John McLaughlin, Neyo, Frank Ocean, Linda Perry and Sia come to mind. all respected songwriters and definitely not D-list bloggers
where there's smoke there's surely fire
Love Story 8M
Single Ladies 7.7M
according to the list of best selling singles
IASF selling 6M since 2008 < Red selling 6M since 2012
Well that may be be true Taylor has multiple platinum singles while bey hasn't had even one in 6 years I did not know she slayed UK so hard that era. good for ha still local to the anglosphere
i knew you were gonna say that. vocalists are not musicians they're vocalists. bye.
You sure about that?
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Winner
Halo
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Winner
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
Winner
At Last
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Winner
So Amazing
2003 - 46th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Winner
Dangerously In Love 2
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Winner
The Closer I Get To You
etc.
smh @ you not knowing what your own faves grammys are for .
You means that demographic that still buys albums? yeah they seem pretty satisfied
John McLaughlin, Neyo, Frank Ocean, Linda Perry and Sia come to mind. all respected songwriters and definitely not D-list bloggers
where there's smoke there's surely fire
Single Ladies has sold far more than 7.7 million copies.
IASF has sold 7.5 million copies, not 6 million.
Yes Bey hasn't had a platinum single in the UK yet she was able to outgross and outsell her without one. That says a lot don't you think? Bey is huge in the UK and is pretty big in most of Europe, so I don't know who told you otherwise. She's also big in Asia even though her latest album flopped.
(Good) Vocalists are musicians and that is a fact. Your ignorant and close minded view on what a musician is isn't going to change that. And Beyoncé can sing far better than anything Taylor can do.
I never said that her demographic wasn't buying her albums, doesn't change the fact that more talented acts like Beyonce are held to a much higher standard than her.
and you think this Grammys are for live performances?!
John McLaughlin has never said anything about Bey. Linda has never worked with Bey before, and Sia, Neyo and Frank Ocean have done nothing but praise her so...
They're both kinda anglolocal. Beyoncé is not even a pop gal, she's an RnB artist. Seeing as Beyoncé hasn't come close to Taylor's first week sells - Taylor is the bigger artist. Beyoncé is easily the #1 performer ww tho.
You clearly don't have a diverse group of people around you because almost everyone I know of every age and race likes Taylor, sorry! She's been mentioned in two of my lectures this week! She's popular in real life not just on Buzzfeed and Tumblr