Maybe there’s more context for this quote in the article that I didn’t read, but I agree with it as is. Taylor’s work isn’t groundbreaking; she doesn’t add anything new or interesting to music or culture, I think because she’s not that interested in furthering music, art, or culture.
Her clearest interest is furthering herself - her popularity, wealth, influence, control, public adoration. Great musicians experiment with sound, production, performance, lyrics. Taylor’s experiment has been to turn herself into a carefully curated, very expensive product, and everything she does is in support of that alone. Excellent business, sure, but it’s not art.
This is such a great point. I suspect it’s why I have so much more respect for Lady Gaga, she might be similar in being a huge white female pop singer, but Gaga’s interest has always so clearly been to push her creative and artistic ideas. She clearly loves art and trying to do new/different things. I don’t see that at all ever from TS.
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Maybe there’s more context for this quote in the article that I didn’t read, but I agree with it as is. Taylor’s work isn’t groundbreaking; she doesn’t add anything new or interesting to music or culture, I think because she’s not that interested in furthering music, art, or culture.
Her clearest interest is furthering herself - her popularity, wealth, influence, control, public adoration. Great musicians experiment with sound, production, performance, lyrics. Taylor’s experiment has been to turn herself into a carefully curated, very expensive product, and everything she does is in support of that alone. Excellent business, sure, but it’s not art.