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Besides listening to her when she is on the radio from time to time, Taylor Swift was forever carved in my mind when she agreed to have a (now classic) duet with a goat.

She's been an industry plant since the beginning of her life, her parents were both rich and her dad was already in the music industry.

She was one of the few singers who appealed to love-crazy teenager girls a couple of decades ago.

Because she's not only good at producing the right music, she's good at business and has the right connections to launch them.

I went to a Daddy-Daughter school dance with my kid a few weeks ago, she's in Kindergarten, so it was just a new experience for her going to a dance, we had a good time. However, it's been a while since I've been to any sort of dance function at all (in school or out), but I'm pretty sure that more than half the songs were all Taylor Swift songs. I don't know if that's indicative of white people dance music selections in general, or if this was specific to that function and who they thought the girls wanted to listen to, but her music apparently gets played alot.

I think her popularity might be tied to her relatively clean image. Apart from the serial dating, the racist boyfriend thing, and the wasteful jet planes, she's still fairly clean in the eyes of popular America, she apparently hasn't had a big sex scandal or nude photos leak. Hell, when fake photos of her started spreading everywhere recently, that's when politicians started talking about reigning in and regulating AI Art, and that's been around for years now (even photoshopping images has been a thing for ages).

Funny enough though, my daughter actually hates Taylor Swift.

Why did so many 12- year- olds buy Batman T-shirts in 1989? Other T-shirts were surely available?

I honestly don't know. What I do know, though, is that her fanbase is weird and likes putting curses on people. No joke.

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