Parental support is useful, but not sufficient. If parental support was sufficient a lot of people would be s lot richer now. Taylor is where she is because of

Parental support is useful, but not sufficient. If parental support was sufficient a lot of people would be s lot richer now. Taylor is where she is because of an extraordinary amount of hard work (not sufficient by itself) an extraordinary amount of writing skill (not sufficient by itself), supporting parents who moved etc to maximise those skills (not suffcient by itself), an understanding of her audience (not sufficient by itself), some element of luck (persistence) and so on. Its not one thing that makes you stand out in music, its everything.