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Originally posted by honey827
I agree somewhat that country purists and the mainstream pop audience haven't taken an interest in her but I think there is a prejudice against her in the tone I get from some reviews and the feeling she is for a younger crowd. I don't think it would hurt her at all to move past Love Story and You Belong With Me and build more of an older audience base/identity . The success of Fearless was definitely due to her making inroads in pop and while they tried to do the same with Speak now it was not as successful. It is a really delicate balance for taylor because i think she was punished a bit on Speak Now at the ACMs and CMAs for not being country enough. She has a choice to make and I hope you are right about quality because I think she could really succeed if she went with a Dixie chicks sound ala their Taking The Long Way album, a bit of Miranda Lambert and Mumford and Sons would also be good to shake things up and I feel if the songs were good enough she could make some inroads in pop and with country purists. Come On Over sold 40 million albums worldwide and opened countless roads for females in the country music industry so if Taylor could combine the sales and the legendary album aspect I would not complain. Unfortunately you can't plan these things so I am just going to wait and see and hope she just made an album she can be proud of again.
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I don't think it's a big secret that one of the reasons Taylor doesn't seem to get the respect she deserves is because of her fanbase. People have a preconceived notion of the stereotypical "swiftie." They categorize Taylor with the Disney crowd and think that her fans are only 12-year old girls who write 13 on their hands and all that stuff.
I don't think it's right to judge an artist solely be a fanbase, especially one like Taylor's. While there are people like that in the fanbase, it's much more than that too. I'm a 19 year old guy and I love her. I've seen her four times and each time there is a pretty good mix at her concerts. Yes, the majority are younger girls, however, there's many other types of people there too.
I know this is besides the point but what I'm trying to prove is that Taylor is very talented but people tend to classify her as a teeny-bopper artist and don't actually look at what she produces, which saddens me.
I'm hoping that LP4 really changes the way that people view her because she has a lot to offer. I like the Mumford and Sons idea- I want her to try something a little like them. Maybe a few folk-type songs. Also, I want her to get a bit back to her country roots. I feel as though Speak Now was pushing it, as stated before, and I think academies and award voters took note of that and snubbed her due to it. I don't mind the balance between country and pop, but I feel as though Speak Now ventured almost solely into the pop category which may not prove a good thing in the long run, as country music is where she is most successful.
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