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IMO, Taylor Swift needs to show she isn't just some down-to-earth, country girl, that she has demons and problems like everyone else, that she can channel her inner anger into something less like "Innocent" to something like this:
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Have you even listened to Fearless and Speak Now? As if love and the
loss of innocence that she spends the entirety of those albums discussing aren't "problems like everyone else."
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Originally posted by Orsay
Exactly, this is pretty much what I meant by her status in the industry.
Taylor Swift appeals to a strict fanbas, pre-teen American girls, and for that reason she will forever be a one-trick show. If she tries to branch out of the getting over a breakup, i'm-a-victim-of-penis type songs that those girls can relate to, she knows she'll find no success.
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I can't even imagine the origin of such ignorance. Taylor has an extremely broad fanbase, and it certainly doesn't consist of only teenage girls. Teenage girls don't sell 7 million copies of an album in the US.
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Originally posted by Ryou Itaru Hou
you make sense and I agree with most of your post.
I watched some video of her daily life and I can see that she has the inner badass attitude. But she doesn't want to play it in her music.
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She does both -- see Better Than Revenge or The Story Of Us or Should've Said No. She has illustrated some bitchiness and badassness on multiple occasions in her songwriting, but is also more focused on providing a more intimate entry into her feelings.
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Why is it that Adele can spend an entire album moaning about her relationship problems and she is cherished by you people, but because Taylor does it -- complete with a happy persona and angelic image -- you act like she's a child? She has made it very clear that she has problems just like everyone else: in fact, those problems are the changing subject of her entire discography (yes, her songwriting and outlooks have changed drastically throughout her catalogue) and the reason she is as successful as she is.
Her evolution is so apparent that it's mind-boggling to me that people can claim that she's producing the same thing repeatedly. Her first album and third album are hardly even in the same
genre of music. The entire theme of her albums has moved from a childish outlook on relationships coupled with the search for the right place in the world to understanding the lasting implications of relationships and dealing with her transition into adulthood. She progressed from seeing all the problems in others in each of her relationships (Taylor Swift) to seeing the problems she brings into relationships and in general (Speak Now).
So what if she has a lot to say about relationships? It's sure as hell not all she's saying.