260 Million Followers” – The Trajectory of the World’s Diva, Taylor Swift, and Her Ability to Communicate without Fear of Taboos

Last Updated on 08/10/2023 by てんしょく飯

Taylor Swift is a popular singer-songwriter with an astonishing 260 million followers on Instagram. We take an in-depth look at the career and personal life of Taylor Swift, who will perform in Japan in February 2024 for the first time in five years!

■The girl who revolutionized the music industry in her early years

Born on December 13, 1989 in Pennsylvania, Taylor Swift became interested in musicals at the age of nine, performing in local stage productions such as “The Sound of Music. She went to New York to study voice and acting in earnest, but struggled to make it to the top, and it was during this time that she became fascinated with country music.

Nashville, Tennessee, the sacred land of country songs, was Taylor’s hometown. She told Time magazine, “I was into watching Faith Hill and Shania Twain biographies at the time, and I found out that they were both going to Nashville to start their careers,” revealing that at the age of 10 she felt the need to move base and began convincing her parents.

After that, she made steady efforts, going to record labels one by one and handing them demos, and finally at the age of 13, she moved her base and embarked on a full-fledged singing career.

■A Diva Who Appeared Like a Comet in the Country World

One thing that has been consistent in Taylor’s career is that she writes her own lyrics, writes her own songs, and sings her own songs. Of course, there are collaborations with great artists, but she never stops writing songs, no matter how busy she gets.

After a fateful encounter with a label that understood this direction, he released his first single, “Tim McGraw,” in 2006, which made the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the Top 10 on the country music charts. Her debut album, “Taylor Swift,” released the same year, also topped the country music charts, selling more than 61,000 copies in its first week of release.

Music magazines also praised Taylor, and she became the center of attention. She continued to release new songs one after another, and established a unique image of Taylor as a guitar girl with her trademark blonde hair and one-piece dress, as well as her musical talent.

■Total of four Grammy Awards

In 2008, her song “You Belong With Me” reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, her best ever. She became the first country singer to win an MTV Video Music Awards.

In 2010, she won a total of four Grammy Awards, including Best Album for her second album, “Fearless. Taylor, who was 20 years old at the time, made history as the youngest artist to win a Grammy for Best Album. She went on to win the same award in 2016 for “1989” and in 2021 for “Folklore,” making her the first woman ever to do so.

■Becoming a true influencer who is not afraid of taboos

With 260 million followers on Instagram, Taylor has tremendous power and influence.

In 2014, when music distribution services began to spread, she excluded her own music from distribution, citing a lack of remuneration system for artists. Although they have since been made available on distribution services following changes in the rules and regulations, without the countermeasure of her most profitable, the artists’ rights might have remained neglected.

Taylor is sending out a message to change the world for the better. Her influence is immeasurable.

■The “Taylor Army,” the most powerful in history, reigns supreme in the celebrity world!

Taylor, who boasts an unparalleled ability to express herself, also works as an actor, making her film debut in 2010 as a cheerleader with a crush on her boyfriend in the romantic ensemble drama “Valentine’s Day.” In 2014, she appeared in the sci-fi adventure “The Giver,” starring Meryl Streep. She plays the role of Bombalina in the musical “Cats,” opening in 2019.

Taylor, who is active in many fields as well as the music industry, has many like-minded friends who have survived the tumultuous entertainment industry. Her friends include Selena Gomez, Blake Lively, Zoe Kravitz, and Gigi Hadid, and she is so popular that she has been nicknamed “Taylor’s Army” by the media.

The music video for “Bad Blood,” released in 2015, features a full lineup of this “Taylor Legion,” as well as gorgeous actresses such as Jessica Alba and Ellen Pompeo. It is natural that like-minded hardworking people would gather around Taylor, who has achieved many great things in her career and is trying to create a positive movement.

■Her lyrics are a tirade about her ex-boyfriends and her love life, which she has sung about nakedly.

It is a familiar phenomenon that songs about love, in particular, often lead to guesses as to who she is singing about.

In “Forever and Always,” Taylor admits to singing about her 2008 boyfriend Joe Jonas, and fans enjoy picking up clues scattered throughout the song to decipher Taylor’s feelings. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a secret conversation with fans, so to speak.

Ex-boyfriends include actor and singer Joe Jonas and Oscar-winning actor Jake Gyllenhaal, and although she was in a relationship with successful DJ Calvin Harris for only about a year, they were featured as the most profitable couple, ahead of Beyoncé and Jay-Z.

More recently, actor Taylor Lautner, with whom she dated in 2010, appeared in the music video for “I Can See You. He also made a surprise appearance on stage with other performers on the tour, creating a buzz.

■Announcing an album blitz during the lockdown

When the world was shut down by a pandemic of the new coronavirus, Taylor’s songwriting did not stop, but rather she saw it as an opportunity to try something she had never done before in a new environment.

The “Folklore” piece, which was blitzed by the Corona disaster, was produced remotely with co-producers Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff. The first face-to-face performance of the song was recorded as a documentary in “Folklore: Long Pond Studio Sessions” (available on Disney Plus), which discusses the song’s production process.

In the documentary, he says, “I started working on the new album unexpectedly. I was just writing songs while I was on call at home, and it turned into an album in no time and turned out amazingly beautiful,” says Taylor.

With this album, I let go of the need to write about my experiences for the first time. I spent a lot of time watching movies and reading and thinking about other people’s lives, which also inspired me,” she says, revealing that she took a different approach to songwriting.

Taylor is scheduled to perform in Japan for the first time in five years for “THE ERAS TOUR.” She is scheduled to give a four-day lecture from February 7 (Wed.) to 10 (Sat.), 2024, making her the first foreign female artist to perform at Tokyo Dome on four consecutive days. We can’t take our eyes off of Taylor’s future activities as well as her performances to see what kind of entertainment she will deliver to her Japanese fans.