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Have given her discography a closer listen. There's a single or two and a few lesser known songs I like, not love. However: what I do admire is the overall way she carries herself, her writing and sovereignty over the direction her career has taken, and the stacks of of business/marketing cards she and her team have played right for the long haul. It's a study in success for the ages. And they clearly learned to avoid the pitfalls of artists of stature before her. It's also a testament to America's continued cultural 'soft power' domination around the globe despite it being in decline in just about every other area.
1 posted on 05/16/2024 11:03:56 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
She was slowing down a bit.

Enter Kelce...

2 posted on 05/16/2024 11:06:40 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Unless people outside the U.K. are traveling there for the concerts, there is no boost to the U.K. economy. If anything, it’s a loss as she’ll take the money they give her back to the U.S.


3 posted on 05/16/2024 11:06:50 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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She has good management. She “takes care” of her customers. They like her product.

I wonder how much of this Billion pounds is going to be on plastic. Money from nothing…or something like that.


4 posted on 05/16/2024 11:07:50 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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Music doesn’t add to the economy, because it doesn’t produce anything of objective, measurable value.

Now if you want to make the subjective argument that music lifts our spirits and indirectly makes us more productive, I’m listening. But you can’t put a number on it with any credibility.


6 posted on 05/16/2024 11:10:03 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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How is giving a of money to someone who will be taking it with her when she leaves the country boosting the economy.


7 posted on 05/16/2024 11:13:22 AM PDT by PTBAA
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I hate this kinda bullshit published by politicians’ puppet-masters. This will not add one red cent to the GDP of GB, since every last pound spent on Taylor Swift will be a pound not spent on soccer matches, beer, drag shows or facial glitter. Nothing is created by her show.


8 posted on 05/16/2024 11:34:55 AM PDT by dangus
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“What's all this nonsense I hear about Taylor Swift's ears?"

10 posted on 05/16/2024 11:48:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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It is much harder than most people realize to write simple, catchy pop songs. There’s a reason that people who do it well and consistently are quite wealthy.

She’s a good model for artists as regards keeping control of one’s career, rights, putting the record labels in their place, and focusing on her job- entertaining fans.


11 posted on 05/16/2024 11:48:37 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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Well, she won’t get a nickel from me for any of her insipid tunes about first world problems.


15 posted on 05/16/2024 12:17:09 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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I wonder if she’s miming her songs and not actually singing?

Don Henley (eagles) recently was clearly exposed for his vocal miming his concerts (2023-2024).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ6DbH-X-L0&ab_channel=WingsofPegasus


16 posted on 05/16/2024 12:24:52 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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Idiots cant do math. The money was already in the UK economy and a huge chunk of it is exiting and going to the US.


18 posted on 05/16/2024 12:38:03 PM PDT by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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It seems she’ll be removing lots of cash out of their economy, where it will sit.


29 posted on 05/16/2024 4:09:58 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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what a waste of a billion pounds.


30 posted on 05/16/2024 4:59:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The only time I’ve ever seen any financial impacts projected like this are from fictional bands like “Disaster Area” from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Dethklok” from the animated television series “Metalocalypse.”

Both band were described as of major importance to the galactic or world’s economies.


31 posted on 05/16/2024 5:06:39 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Agreed on the marketing & career management / direction, but, her WRITING?

OMG...


32 posted on 05/17/2024 3:46:31 AM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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