She shares the crown with Katy Perry.

Nope. Changing her genre wasn't safe and atrl agreed in the numerous threads saying she'd flop or at least decline

and that chick on your avi

ATRL agreed that her transition to pop will abandon her country fans and she will flop during 1989 era. Now they're wrong. Is it risk? I guess yes

But... you all agreed that her going to pop would hurt her...

Now that she shattered your expectation it's not a risky move anymore?

Pathetic.

There are more popstarts that play it safer (not naming but obvious)

But ive always thought Taylor mainly sticks to the safe side. Her music is pretty much the same since 2008 (in terms of subject) and has also been a pop artist (whether you agree or disagree) since 2008. I do agree, making the full pop transition was risky but cmon guys POPULAR music. Thats not even a huge risk, if you ask me.

Katy is. Taylor can't offer anything else , i don't judge her .
Katy CAN offer though , but she puts success over art , so she prefers to play it safe and i do judge her.

Yes. Katy is kinda controversial (iKAG) whereas Taylor only is with her personal dating life.

But I thought by going pop she would lose her country fans in the process?
And she was releasing pop songs and country songs at the same time before 1989 not to mention she sent a Pure Pop song to country radio once. If that was not taking risk I don't know what it was

LOL. You say it like she changed to heavy metal or hip hop. She started doing pop music with the biggest hit maker of the latests years, so risky.

Safe as could be :S

No that title belongs to Katy .

Tayor never has played it safe with her career. When she was 15 she walked out of her record deal with Sony RCA because they wanted her to sing songs written by other people. The safe thing to do was to stay with one of the biggest labels in Nashville and get them to use their influence to make her smash singing songs provided to her by other songwriters. Instead Taylor backed her own talent and walked out. She then performed at various performance showcases and had several offers from other labels. She then chose to sign a brand new independent label as they would allow her to write her own material. Her success built up her record label, Big Machine from nothing into one of the most influential in Nashville today.

Taylor wrote all her material and based it off real events in her life. Even in Country Music such a diaristic approach to song-writing is very unusual. Pouring one's real emotions into your music is not playing it safe.

Taylor wrote a song about a little boy who died from cancer. This was based on a true story. How is that playing it safe, when performing it makes her cry? Taylor only performed it once for Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon.

Taylor wrote her third album entirely by herself. This showed that she could do it when very few do so these days. She won 2 Grammy's for Mean and the album is the 3rd best selling album this decade in the US. If she was playing it safe, Taylor would not have changed things up from Fearless, which was the most awarded Country Music album in history.

Once Taylor had conquered the Country Music scene she made a dubstep song! How is that playing it safe? She didn't hide this song away on her album but had the song as a single and performed it at major TV award shows! This could have backfired massively, but was instead a massive global hit.

Taylor made a pop album in 1989 and moved away from a genre that she had fully conquered. That's not playing it safe. She could just have made another Country Music album. Her first 2 singles from 1989 were songs about brushing off the haters and a parody of how the gossip media portrays her. That was not playing it safe. That could have massively backfired. Instead they were/are both smash hit songs.

Taylor could have played it safe and kept all her music on Spoitfy like the majority of artists do. Taylor has the power to take her music off it and so she did because she felt it was the right move for her. That is not playing it safe, when it clearly is hurting her chart positions in much of Europe.

If Taylor was playing it safe, she would not have walked out of the biggest record label in Nashville at 15 and joined an independent start up label. She would not have written songs inspired by her real life relationships. She would not have written a song about a boy who died from cancer. She would not have written a dubstep song. She would not have switched genres from Country. She would not have taken her music off Spotify.

Death at that essay.

What's so risky about doing dubstep when it was the sound that was hot on the radio? its not like her songs were 100% country anyway.

And as I just said, making music with Max Martin is playing safe as ****.

Her only non-safe movement is the Spotify thing, which is not even related to her music but to the marketing of that music.

Revel

I'd mean the fact she stood with her integrity and artisty to insist on making her own music instead of taking whatever record deal that was thrown at her is risky enough, how many of your faves can say the same?

I don't think so, she plays quite safe but I think that not the most
and why do you all act like playing safe is a bad thing?
Look where is Taylor now, look at all her 5 albums selling +5M WW, slaying with singles and tours, and now look where are your "risky" faves

She is enough risky to change a bit her sound with every album, so us, her fans, never get bored with them,
And that's great.

Yes. It's a bit telling that the most sonically adventurous thing she's ever done is go dubstep for a single song.

Even disregarding genre her music typifies "safe." But that's why she's been so successful.

Yep.