Mate again you’re generalising (a lot) on a number of factors.
a) You need to realise that American culture or art isn’t just a few popular shows or music that you don’t like. That is a massive conflation.
b) You don’t determine what is authentic or not or what is “good”or what is “bad”. Nobody does btw. By the way, the argument about authenticity has been had for centuries and it is still a wanker argument.
c) You’re speculating massively as to why people follow things. Are there some posers - sure. There are also by laws of probability a whole lot of people who like things which may be popular or may not be popular because they simply like it. I know that blows your mind and all but not everything is black and white like you think it is. Most people get over that s*** in high school
d) You are still acting like a pretentious wanker with the whole my tastes are real and formed from preference whereas everybody else’s is because they are sheep nonsense. It’s risible that you called me a snob when what you are doing is the definition of being a snob.
e.) Lastly who f****** cares. Why would anybody care if somebody likes listening to Taylor Swift if it doesn’t affect them directly. You don’t have to listen to it same as I don’t have to listen to nasally voiced untalented musicians like John Williamson singing True Blue (who is by the way still less talented than Taylor Swift and I don’t like her music at all)
You don't have a f**ken clue.
The record labels don't promote artists based on their talent. They take the ones they think can be marketed as sex symbols, put them in overly sexualised music videos, have them shake their arse and tits, then put it on MTV for teeny poppers to gawk over. Meanwhile, the truly talented artists who aren't marketed like this are ignored and never get to have their music played on the radio.
If you think Taylor Swift is more talented than John Williamson then you've got some shit taste in music. She is everything I just described. A dumb little bitch who parades around in overly sexualised videos and performances in front of teeny boppers and perverts. She's no different to other hacks like Madonna and Britney Spears who couldn't sing for shit.
Have you noticed that the artists who arr pushed by the record labels are dumb and easily led?
Look at Elvis to see my point. He was a hillbilly who didn't have a clue and died on the dunny. Nothing great about his voice. Most of his songs were shit. But he was handsome and marketed as a star, so women rocked him to see him and scream. The Beatles and The Monkees are another example. A recent example is that shit Pommy band Oasis.
Before Elvis there was a Jew with an awful voice that was the biggest star in the early 20th century. His name was Al Jolson. Go listen to his horrendous voice on YouTube.
Do you think people were there to listen to his fart-pitched vocals?
I have no doubt that if Taylor Swift was a Latvian artist then no one would know who she is. That's the point I'vebeen trying to get across. I get sick of seeing American hacks make it while truly talented artists from smaller countries are ignored.
The f**ken Australian media were talking up Taylor Swift as if she was Jesus. There was talk about building an oval stadium in Brisbane just to get her to play. It's insane.
