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Originally posted by Hazard
26-28 is a huge and monumental period in life and Taylor Swift's changing image makes a lot of sense.
Some examples :
When Beyoncé was 26 she married Jay-Z, when she was 27 she released "Single Ladies".
When Lady Gaga was 27 ARTPOP happened, when she was 28 Cheek to Cheek came out.
Britney Spears was 26 in 2007, turned 27 in the last month of the year ; Circus came out when she was close to 29.
Rihanna was nearing 27 when she stopped the yearly releases, when she was 26/27, there was messiness in her career and what followed were under performing singles, "FourFiveSeconds", "Bitch Better Have My Money", "American Oxygen".
When Mariah was 27, she and Tommy Mottola filed for divorce, in the middle of Butterfly, then she came back with a new image and new sound.
There are more examples but you get the idea...Taylor Swift turns 27 in December...could be a rocky road but her image is going to change a lot by the time her next era comes...it's already doing so...no coincidence.
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This is true, and it's called the Saturn Return (Hey Gurl Hey also mentioned this earlier in the thread). Here's a bit more about Saturn return:
http://astrology.about.com/od/advanc...turnReturn.htm
Saturn takes 29 years to return to position it was when you were born and the return of Saturn brings energy that makes people reflect on their lives and make changes, grow/evolve into the next phase. It's a very frustrating time where you see your "youth" sorta slip away and you become very aware of your own mortality. You have a lot of realizations about life and yourself.
I imagine it's even worse for musicians because they realize that their prime time is almost up (as we all know in popular music, it's a lot harder to remain relevant and popular after you turn 30.) Some famous musicians who died at age 27 include: Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Robert Johnson, Richey Edwards. (more about this here:
http://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4237...mythology-club)
No Doubt also made an album called Return of Saturn about this because Gwen was going through her Saturn return at the time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_Saturn
During Gwen's saturn return she dyed her hair pink and got braces....there seems to be some sort of an initial resistance that people have to this life stage so they act out often in juvenile and/or destructive ways, which is why a lot of them don't make it to the other side of their saturn return....they take it too far. It's also a time when people make big decisions that will impact them in good or bad ways during their next life phase.
When Michael Jackson was around his Saturn return it was right after his Pepsi accident where he became addicted to painkillers and started getting a little intense with the plastic surgery. He also bought the Beatles catalogue around this time, which many say was the main reason why he was killed. Again, big life decisions that really impacted his life/career.
When Whitney was 27 it was around the time she was trying to change her image to be less "good girl" and more grown/sexy and she met Bobby around this time and we all know how that turned out.
I'm sure there are other examples but those just popped in my head.
The second return of saturn happens around age 58-60. Prince, for example, was just nearing his second saturn return when he passed this year at age 57.
I'm sad that Glamazon is banned now because a lot of what they said was posted was really interesting....especially when people kept thinking **** would happen at the VMAs and pop awards in terms of big deaths/sacrifices, when it turned out the big sacrifices were really not in the current pop world at all but had a much larger impact on the world as a whole (Bowie and Prince especially, but also Scott Weiland, Lemmy.)
The one thing that did stick out for me at the VMAs last year was Nicki calling out Miley in that way, it seemed like it almost woke Miley up out of something because she's been so different since. I don't know much about the illuminati and I do think some of this is just entertaining and not the truth, but there was something about that moment that really stood out. Also Nicki and Taylor's feud IMO is one big thing that made the tide turn on Taylor for many people.
Taylor of course is not going to join the 27 club, since she is more of a longevity figure like Madonna, Beyonce an has been prepped for stardom since she was a child etc. But she was due for a breakdown and being around her saturn return it makes sense that parts of her controlled facade would crumble. She reminds me so much of Madonna honestly, I wish she would embrace the bad bitch and stop trying to be "nice" but who knows, maybe that's what all of this stuff is for....
As a Britney fan, a lot of the stuff posted about her in this thread rings very true to me, which is why I want to protect Britney at all costs! The foreshadowing of certain themes in her music well before her breakdown and then her trying to get out her message and her truth in "mona lisa" and "rebellion." That stuff is so creepy to me.