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Originally posted by Rei
Changing genre IS a risk, it doesn't matter if it's from country to pop or viceversa. Take Nicki Minaj for exmaple, she changed to pop and it was a risk that resulted in her receiving backslash from the urban community.
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True! And that's true what Hugamari said about You Belong With Me having pop appeal, but in this case, Nicki had pop airplay with Super Bass. So I don't think some crossover hits indicates guaranteed success for a 100 percent genre change.
In Taylor's case, I suppose we all just should've expected her to be a massive success anyway, but not because of the genre change. Going pop was a risky proposal, but it was one that paid off, mostly because she has one of the most dedicated fanbases ever. Also, personally, 1989 is the first album of hers that I bought, soo...
It seems that most of her fans since the beginning haven't been "country" fans; they've been Taylor fans.