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@alexandergold: How many people do you think Taylor Swift has killed? And how many people do you think she's killed while controlling the body of another?
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The ever so credible internet "news" agencies are reporting that Taylor and Lorde went to the bangerzz tour based on twitter retweets of some miley accout saying their Paradise Cove picture was them going to it.
Now watch the gossip blogs and radio people and major newspapers spread that lie as if it's gospel truth.
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Happy Birthday to me 
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Poetrydude66's comments on the "dad literally bought her albums" conspiracy theory on analyzingtaylor@tumblr
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I have heard this theory about Scott Swift making Taylor’s career by spending money buying copies of her album, and I actually traced it to one of Taylor’s high school classmates on a music board. I think the theory is laughable. Even if it is 100% true, it did not affect Taylor’s outcome even 1%. There were much bigger forces at work, which I will explain.
The hallmark of a good conspiracy theory is that is surrounds itself with lots of facts, usually taken out of context. The appearance of a factually based argument does much to give the theory credibility. Unfortunately, this Scott Swift conspiracy theory is notable for the fact that it has no facts. It is always presented as a very vague and slanderous slam against Taylor, her talent, and her dad. Spend just 20 minutes checking facts and you will see why this theory is just stupid.
Taylor’s first album was released in October of 2006. What made the early success of this album was Taylor’s very successful release of the first single “Tim McGraw” in June of 2006. It’s important to note that the video for “Tim McGraw” was already at number eleven in the GAC Top 20 by August of 2006. So two months before Taylor’s album is even released, and before Scott Swift would even have a possibility to buy an album, Taylor had made a Hail Mary pass releasing “Tim McGraw” so early, and that pass was caught. The song was a hit from a total no-name artist working for a brand new no-name label. This is the moment in time you should mark, because this is where Taylor’s career as a major sensation officially begins.
Taylor did something incredibly smart following the success of “Tim McGraw”. She and her team started to aggressively call radio stations, and she did a radio tour that lasted many months, straight through the release of the album. Most radio tours last weeks, not months. So clearly Taylor (and her poor chauffeur Andrea Swift  ) worked their asses off to promote and build on Taylor’s “Tim McGraw” success. There is an old wisdom that success requires hard work. In my experience, that is not exactly correct. The truth is that life presents you very few opportunities that are monumental. For most people, hard work has low payback. But when one of those rare opportunities presents itself, you must correctly identify that magic moment, and then you must exploit it for the short timeframe it is there and work your ass off. To her credit, Taylor saw her moment. She always works hard, but she correctly understood that this was the moment to work even harder. The payoff was that people started calling into radio stations who didn’t even know her name, saying things like “Could you play that cute little girl who sings the Tim McGraw song?” Taylor received for her hard work the thing that every recording artist craves and only rarely gets: FREE distribution. Hundreds of radio stations are saying your name, making people curious about you, and playing your music, without charging you any advertising cost. This is a good thing, because Scott Borchetta and Big Machine did not have the money to advertise. In the music business, that kind of free distribution is liquid gold.
Credit Scott Borchetta for holding up his end of the deal and using his industry contacts to arrange publicity on national TV the weeks prior to - and after - the album release. About two weeks before the album release in October 2006, Taylor said on MySpace that she was going to New York to be on Good Morning America and talk to Diane Sawyer. So by the time her album is released, Taylor is climbing rapidly on the video charts, getting free airplay all over the country on radio stations, and appearing in personal interviews with national celebrity reporters on prime time TV.
Taylor’s album went on to be very successful because her lyrics are great, and her music is very strong. She was up to the test, and all that free publicity just poured rocket fuel on the fire.
Ultimately, Taylor went beyond the mold of a successful music creator and has become a very big deal in the music business and as a celebrity. Some of the reasons for this are:
* Taylor’s target market - at least for the first four albums - was sub-20 females who believe in romance. Surprisingly, this is an underserved market. Taylor is one of the only artists who writes deep and creative lyrics, and then sings those words with total sincerity, straight to the hearts of this market. Her competitors are boy bands singing sloppy and mostly meaningless lyrics written by other people. So Taylor has filled a big niche and her industry fails to understand the market or how to serve it. The proof of this is that the major labels do not try to find any acts that effectively target her market. One of the reasons I think Ed Sheeran will be a massive success in the music business is because he is playing to the same target audience.
* Taylor is the archetype of an American girl with big dreams. People just cannot help but be attracted to her because she comes across as an unassuming person with big talent and big dreams, which is classic Americana. She behaves modestly, and she is very careful to not put herself into any situation where there can be even the appearance of bad behavior. Being an archetype makes her a role model. Commercially, that means that the parents of her fans - instead of taking the one 12 year old fan to a concert - take their entire family. The thing about role models is that people cannot get enough of them or their images or their promotional products. All of this builds on Taylor’s talent just with simple desire for her image, persona, aspirations, and effort. It’s a virtuous cycle of success.
In the day’s before Taylor Swift’s album ever went on sale, her career was a Saturn V rocket ready to lift off. Do I care if Scott Swift bought 30,000 copies of his daughter’s album in the first week, to juice the statistics? He might as well have been giving a push to a Saturn V as the main engines ignite. The forces at work here had scale and were huge, and were beyond the reach of an individual to significantly influence. The Scott Swift conspiracy theory does not need to be false, because in the bigger picture it is just irrelevant.
P.S., I don’t know why I bother to write the above on a post that has less than 10 Notes on it. Obviously, no one on Tumblr is doing much reading or thinking. But - hey - someday I may turn this post into a series of GIF images of cats having a conversation with each other between paw licks and yawns, and on that day I will have my revenge.
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Our good sis dragon probably holds that record. He is yet to receive any warning points
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Happy birthday bluemoon 
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Happy birthday Bluemoon sis! 
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Happy birthday, again, Bluemoon sis!
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Happy B'Day Bluemoon
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Happy birthday bluemoon!!
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OMG Boyswifty
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Happy birthday sis! 
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Gurl BlueMoon  happy birthday  enjoy your day!
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Happy Birthday, Bluemoon
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Poetrydude66's comments on the "dad literally bought her albums" conspiracy theory on analyzingtaylor@tumblr
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I have heard this theory about Scott Swift making Taylor’s career by spending money buying copies of her album, and I actually traced it to one of Taylor’s high school classmates on a music board. I think the theory is laughable. Even if it is 100% true, it did not affect Taylor’s outcome even 1%. There were much bigger forces at work, which I will explain.
The hallmark of a good conspiracy theory is that is surrounds itself with lots of facts, usually taken out of context. The appearance of a factually based argument does much to give the theory credibility. Unfortunately, this Scott Swift conspiracy theory is notable for the fact that it has no facts. It is always presented as a very vague and slanderous slam against Taylor, her talent, and her dad. Spend just 20 minutes checking facts and you will see why this theory is just stupid.
Taylor’s first album was released in October of 2006. What made the early success of this album was Taylor’s very successful release of the first single “Tim McGraw” in June of 2006. It’s important to note that the video for “Tim McGraw” was already at number eleven in the GAC Top 20 by August of 2006. So two months before Taylor’s album is even released, and before Scott Swift would even have a possibility to buy an album, Taylor had made a Hail Mary pass releasing “Tim McGraw” so early, and that pass was caught. The song was a hit from a total no-name artist working for a brand new no-name label. This is the moment in time you should mark, because this is where Taylor’s career as a major sensation officially begins.
Taylor did something incredibly smart following the success of “Tim McGraw”. She and her team started to aggressively call radio stations, and she did a radio tour that lasted many months, straight through the release of the album. Most radio tours last weeks, not months. So clearly Taylor (and her poor chauffeur Andrea Swift ) worked their asses off to promote and build on Taylor’s “Tim McGraw” success. There is an old wisdom that success requires hard work. In my experience, that is not exactly correct. The truth is that life presents you very few opportunities that are monumental. For most people, hard work has low payback. But when one of those rare opportunities presents itself, you must correctly identify that magic moment, and then you must exploit it for the short timeframe it is there and work your ass off. To her credit, Taylor saw her moment. She always works hard, but she correctly understood that this was the moment to work even harder. The payoff was that people started calling into radio stations who didn’t even know her name, saying things like “Could you play that cute little girl who sings the Tim McGraw song?” Taylor received for her hard work the thing that every recording artist craves and only rarely gets: FREE distribution. Hundreds of radio stations are saying your name, making people curious about you, and playing your music, without charging you any advertising cost. This is a good thing, because Scott Borchetta and Big Machine did not have the money to advertise. In the music business, that kind of free distribution is liquid gold.
Credit Scott Borchetta for holding up his end of the deal and using his industry contacts to arrange publicity on national TV the weeks prior to - and after - the album release. About two weeks before the album release in October 2006, Taylor said on MySpace that she was going to New York to be on Good Morning America and talk to Diane Sawyer. So by the time her album is released, Taylor is climbing rapidly on the video charts, getting free airplay all over the country on radio stations, and appearing in personal interviews with national celebrity reporters on prime time TV.
Taylor’s album went on to be very successful because her lyrics are great, and her music is very strong. She was up to the test, and all that free publicity just poured rocket fuel on the fire.
Ultimately, Taylor went beyond the mold of a successful music creator and has become a very big deal in the music business and as a celebrity. Some of the reasons for this are:
* Taylor’s target market - at least for the first four albums - was sub-20 females who believe in romance. Surprisingly, this is an underserved market. Taylor is one of the only artists who writes deep and creative lyrics, and then sings those words with total sincerity, straight to the hearts of this market. Her competitors are boy bands singing sloppy and mostly meaningless lyrics written by other people. So Taylor has filled a big niche and her industry fails to understand the market or how to serve it. The proof of this is that the major labels do not try to find any acts that effectively target her market. One of the reasons I think Ed Sheeran will be a massive success in the music business is because he is playing to the same target audience.
* Taylor is the archetype of an American girl with big dreams. People just cannot help but be attracted to her because she comes across as an unassuming person with big talent and big dreams, which is classic Americana. She behaves modestly, and she is very careful to not put herself into any situation where there can be even the appearance of bad behavior. Being an archetype makes her a role model. Commercially, that means that the parents of her fans - instead of taking the one 12 year old fan to a concert - take their entire family. The thing about role models is that people cannot get enough of them or their images or their promotional products. All of this builds on Taylor’s talent just with simple desire for her image, persona, aspirations, and effort. It’s a virtuous cycle of success.
In the day’s before Taylor Swift’s album ever went on sale, her career was a Saturn V rocket ready to lift off. Do I care if Scott Swift bought 30,000 copies of his daughter’s album in the first week, to juice the statistics? He might as well have been giving a push to a Saturn V as the main engines ignite. The forces at work here had scale and were huge, and were beyond the reach of an individual to significantly influence. The Scott Swift conspiracy theory does not need to be false, because in the bigger picture it is just irrelevant.
P.S., I don’t know why I bother to write the above on a post that has less than 10 Notes on it. Obviously, no one on Tumblr is doing much reading or thinking. But - hey - someday I may turn this post into a series of GIF images of cats having a conversation with each other between paw licks and yawns, and on that day I will have my revenge.
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Who's this Poetrydude66, we need more people like him (I assume it's a male based on username Poetrydude66) and less lazy journalist. I remember someone said analyzingtaylor whose blog he commented to, also wants to join this base, right?
Happy 26th Birthday, BlueMoon!
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