It's a cultural thing. We're surrounded by black culture, hip hop is the biggest genre, and we think "black shyt" runs the world but in reality white girls have always run shyt. They like Beyonce and Drake and Rihanna but...they LOVE Taylor Swift. She's transcended a level we don't see often anymore, and I think some black people are shocked or mad because it disproves everything we're told about who the biggest stars are. It ain't Beyonce folks. She's not on Taylor's level.
She's the most powerful artist since Michael Jackson and Prince. People can get mad at that if they want but it's true. She has moved mountains with the album re-release shyt, bundles, vinyl, forcing Spotify to make payout changes, etc.
The thing that makes it so strange and hard to buy is because musical lens can be extremely stratified.
Like if I listen to my old radio stations I would NEVER hear this chick.
Like that anti-hero track posted above, I've never heard it before.
Or much of anything by her outside of the Shakeitoff one from a few years ago that was played in Target.
It just seems super weird to hear a bunch of people going "So n So's the best!" And you're like "Who?".
Very easy to miss this chick if you're not surrounded or adjacent to whiteness.
And when you do see her, it's like this?
This is the biggest star in the world? No edge, no weirdness just milk n cookies in a pop package.
man, that's a cold hard truth that many of us choose to not accept.
