Taylor Swift Research Paper

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“Taylor Swift is the music industry”, a phrase coined by journalist Barbara Walters in 2014, is one that has aged beautifully in light of Swift’s overwhelming musical success in the past decade. Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter who began her career at the age of fourteen with her first single titled “Tim McGraw,” which is the song that kick-started her musical career, earning her a contract with Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Records (Donica). As of today, Taylor Swift has fourteen Grammys to her name and is the first artist to win “Album of the Year” four times. She has also broken many attendance and ticket sales records with “The Eras Tour” (Viswanath). In light of her recent feats, the public has been wondering, “What is it about Taylor Swift that makes her so successful?” Taylor …show more content…

After months of this treatment, Taylor Swift disappeared entirely for over a year in 2016, deleting all of her social media accounts and not being spotted by anyone except those she was close with (Sharma). A situation like this, by itself, is already one that will have a lasting effect on a person’s mental wellbeing. Years later, when Taylor opened up about how she was affected by this chain of events in her Netflix documentary titled Miss Americana, her fans gained a deeper insight of the true extent to which she was affected. She states that her whole belief system and sense of self was built on receiving validation (“getting people to clap for you”, as she says in the documentary) for her music and hard work. The reason this is significant is because the entire crowd of people started booing after Kanye interrupted Taylor at the VMAs, and Taylor assumed–since Kanye was a much bigger artist at the time–that they were booing her. She calls this a “pretty formative experience”, and rightfully

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