Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024) Album • Page 119

Probably because she knows how much money she can make not caring about other people's perceptions of her lol, and I don't mean that in a necessarily bad way. She knows how to get that bag and sell herself.

 

I think she just doesn't care because she's transitioned to a legacy artist and building that legacy is all that matters now. She's already eclipsed everyone else by light-years. When her lists of broken records and achievements get read off years from now, nobody will remember or care about all the variants.

I just still am baffled at who continues to buy them. Surely it's a minority of diehards that need every variant. Maybe it's just consistent streams and purchases that keep her #1 because I feel like the amount of ppl buying every variant has to be fairly miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Or I'm just super naive.

 

I definitely think the variants are a pretty small piece of it. They’re just preventing her from going #2 if it’s super close

 

I mean, Taylor is still going to have 28k in actual album sales this week, versus about 14k for Chappell. And their streaming equivalent unit numbers were about the same, so these digital variants 100 percent made a difference.

 

There are probably 10-15k fans who buy all of these, and that’s enough to sway the numbers.

 

From what I’ve seen, some of the fans who buy the variants have decently large followings. They then post downloads for the extra songs once they are no longer for sale. They themselves are actually making money off of doing this if they have the blue check mark.

 

grim state of affairs

 

That's honestly more than I expected so I'm gonna say I'm just naive lol. If you asked me I'd have guess there were like... 7 people

 

London boy hahaha

 

You're thinking of book bans

 

Took me a while to realize this was 2020 and not today

 

What was that capital one post about? Anything for Era tickets at this point

 

sweepstakes for tickets i think

 

I think we will see a Kamala endorsement from Taylor sooner rather than later now after this.

 

Not to get political in a non-political thread, but man, if Swifties end up being the ones to put the nail in the coffin for Trump, I would find it very funny, and be very happy.

 

I think Kamala's social media team is already doing that really well haha, but boy would a perfectly timed Taylor endorsement to get out and vote speed things up

 

A couple years back, didn’t something like 136k people register to vote in one day because of her post?

 

I have a feeling she is working behind the scenes with the Kamala campaign on when to endorse and maybe has a special way of endorsing planned but just a guess.

Some Swifties I’ve seen say that they don’t think she will endorse at all because of the political climate (this was after the Vienna terrorist attack) and I just don’t buy that. I think she knows the optics of not endorsing and I think she genuinely wants her voice to be heard this election cycle. Also it would be kind of awkward if every other pop star came out and endorsed Kamala except for Taylor.

 

Very relevant page of the book I just read to my 2 year old for bedtime

 

Given how in her doc she said she wished she'd spoken out sooner I'd be surprised if she didn't endorse Kamala. But idk

 

Send in proof of vote for a new digital variant of TTPD

 

Jack Antonoff just came out with her during the acoustic secret song section, so that's cool. I wonder if she's gonna announce anything tonight. It's the last night of her London shows...