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I still could not accurately identify one of her songs by audio if my life depended on it OR if someone offered me $100 million I'd definitely lose out on that
by racl101 3y ago
I still could not accurately identify one of her songs by audio if my life depended on it OR if someone offered me $100 million I'd definitely lose out on that money.
Yet, she is the biggest popstar on the planet.
It's weird, somehow she is everywhere in image and presence but the art she produces eludes me.
On the other hand, there are catchy songs like the Benny Hill theme that I know by heart, yet I could not name the proper name of the song nor who composed it. I just know it as the Benny Hill theme.
- omnicognate 3y agoYakety Sax by Boots Randolph
- WORMS_EAT_WORMS 3y ago> I still could not accurately identify one of her songs by audio if my life depended on it OR if someone offered me $100 million I'd definitely lose out on that money. Lies.
- rospaya 3y agoIf you don't listen to the radio, how could you hear them? I'm probably in the only demographic that doesn't have swifties, most people my age streams movies and uses adblockers so I honestly couldn't identify a song by her if I didn't write her name in Youtube just to see what the deal is. Music is so fragmented these days that there's no comparison to Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones days. M/30+/not the US
- racl101 3y agoThat's pretty much me to a T. Don't listen to the radio since I stopped working in the service industry, have adblockers, don't have cable. But you know what is probably the biggest factor for me: I am single and don't have kids. Save for commuting to work or the supermarket or the occasional outing, I almost live under the proverbial rock.
- kibwen 3y agoBoth this comment and the comment it's responding to are indicative of people living in their own bubbles. It's entirely reasonable that plenty of people just don't expose themselves to contexts where they would have had any opportunity to hear any given musical genre. This is easier than it's ever been since the invention of radio, thanks to the fracturing of culture via recommendation algorithms and the long tail that the internet facilitates.
- yakubin 3y agoAn even easier way to not be familiar with her: living in a country where she's not that important: <https://chartmasters.org/taylor-swifts-global-heatmap/ https://chartmasters.org/taylor-swifts-global-heatmap/>. So it's pretty easy in: Chile, Switzerland, Italy, France, Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, Netherlands, Southern America in general, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe... Lots of countries really. Living in a given country is not much of a bubble. Imagining that pop stars popular where you live are universally popular is very much a bubble.
- jedberg 3y agoIf you heard her most popular songs you would probably recognize having heard them before, even if you don't know they are hers. These each have multi-billion views on YouTube. I suspect if you listen you will recognize them. And if not, well here you go! Now you've heard Taylor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw
- racl101 3y agoThat's exactly my point. I never said I haven't heard her music. What I meant was that I cannot properly identify her particular music. Like I said, if I was in a game show scenario, maybe I could guess that a song is hers and win the money, but if you gave me a multiple choice and you put in songs with other artists who sound like her then there's a good chance I'd lose. Recognizing, isn't knowing.
- esalman 3y agoHow about Rich men North of Richmond?
- badosu 3y agoI don't understand why you're being downvoted, I share the same sentiment. I don't know a single Taylor Swift song and I couldn't for my life know for sure a song from her, I'd probably be thinking of her or Katy Perry.
- jsnell 3y agoI think it's being downvoted for the "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television" energy of it, basically a combination of being an irrelevant tangent to the actual topic and boasting about ignorance of pop culture.
- rayiner 3y agoThe only person I know who couldn’t recognize a Taylor Swift song is my dad, who is a 70-year old Bangladeshi man who listens to American country and Bangladeshi village music on YouTube.
- selimthegrim 3y agoYou should have him listen to “Bistirno Dupare” and “Old Man River” together and see what he thinks
- badosu 3y agoMakes sense, thank you
- taylodl 3y agoHer music isn't that hard to identify, even if you don't listen to it. It has a country-folk song structure, and a simple rhyme scheme. Listen to a few songs and you'll see what I mean. Meanwhile, I'm coming from the other side - I'm a musician and I've been wondering why is it I don't care much for the music of the biggest pop star on the planet? Usually when it comes to the "pop tarts" as I call them, they have something I like. Not so with Taylor Swift. I've listened to all her top hits. I've tried using AI to find songs I might like based off of other music I like. I've basically come up empty-handed. If there's a song where the music is interesting, it's ruined with her vocals or her simplistic rhyme schemes (I really find her rhyme schemes super annoying!). The most interesting song she has is Shake It Off. The use of a saxophone in modern pop music is welcome and I find the repetition in lyrics better than her usual rhyme schemes. No surprise it was co-written by Max Martin.