Where is Taylor Swift heading?
I need to talk about what the hell I think is happening in Taylor Swift's head right now. Complete speculation by the way. Obviously.Â
Personally, as a Taylor fan, I feel like her career leading up until and during 1989 was a solid natural progression. After she lost Album of The Year for Red, it seemed that she set her sights on making an album that was “sonically cohesive” and full of hits. She was really reaching for a grammy at this time and she did get one, so good on her. If you are a fan of Taylor then you will know that she loves an award, she lives for validation (as most celebrities do), and she likes to know that people give her music the critical acclaim that it deserves. This has served as some frustration to fans because they believe that when Swift doesn’t get any prestigious award nominations for a record, she completely disregards the album and labels it as a failure. Maybe she does focus too much on the grammys, but she is a singer at the end of the day, and they all do.Â
However, after 2016 and the cancellation of Taylor Swift, or “Snakegate,” as it was called, she seemed to veer off course. Maybe she wanted to be out of the spotlight, as she was all over the internet during the 1989 era, but it appeared she wasn’t after the same goals as she was in 2015. The album's reputation and lover, whilst being great albums, didn’t hit in the same way that 1989 did. This may be because 1989 was a cultural moment, it was her first full pop album and it completely transferred her from a country music sweetheart to a pop icon. I wasn’t sure if Taylor would ever be able to recreate 1989 because it was a huge shift in genre for her and resulted in so much more immediate fame and attention.Â
After rep and lover she entered into a different style of music for two albums, folklore and evermore, winning Album of The Year for folklore. Personally, I believe that fans enjoyed this new genre of music but welcomed the return of her autobiographical writing style in Midnights. I feel like for a while she was basically floating. She didn’t have as much direction in her life, and she was pretty much writing about how much she loved her (then) boyfriend. However, when Midnights came out and Taylor started The Eras tour, I felt like we were returning to 2014/15.Â
This will be the biggest tour, so far, in her career and is going to turn her a pretty hefty profit. She is selling out stadiums all over the world night after night and she is also currently putting out re-recordings of her old songs after they got sold out from under her. Taylor Swift is on a hot streak and is everywhere in the media right now.Â
Hmmm, remind anyone of anything?
These developments beg the question: Is Taylor Swift on a quest for world domination? She tried it once before but unfortunately stumbled when she was so close to the top, but now I can sense that she is climbing back up that hill. I mean, she is already one of the most famous artists in the world, that’s not the problem. It just seems that Taylor wants to constantly top herself, which must be difficult to do. So this leads me to believe that the real problem is not that she isn’t as famous as she was in the 1989 era, because she is definitely more well known now than she was back then. It is instead the fact that she has been reaching for the success and timelessness of the 1989 record ever since she put it out and she hasn’t quite gotten there yet.Â
However, with her recent breakup and massive tour she shows no indication of stopping for a rest on her way up the mountain. She currently has no distractions and is seeming to be very career driven, yet again another reminder of the 1989 era.Â
I am excited for what Taylor is going to pull out of her bag of tricks and I fully believe that with her current mindset and where she is placed in the public eye, she can and will achieve a level of success that will stretch higher than the 1989 era, and probably higher than any other artist has ever done.Â
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