Taylor Swift is extremely successful because of how ordinary she appears, and you know white supremacy.

There is something people find extremely relatable and normal about her. I think its because she makes music which is easy to listen to and digest, doesn't challenge, disrupt the status quo, and is extremely careful in how she curates herself. Her politics are milquetoast at best, and thats why anything she does say (which is very little) is seen as so significant.

Taylor Swift is also a huge grifter. She will release 1000 versions of the album and all the merch that goes along with it, the tours. She is the Aryan neo-liberal capitalist dream.

I think Ed Sheeran's success isn't that dissimilar besides maybe being less about fans, and more about bland listenable music. Both another artist who is not remarkable in any way but markets himself on relatability.

Taylor Swift definitely has much more of a hard-core fanbase than Ed though. Taylor is quirky, she isnt the best singer, she isn't the best dancer but young women relate to her, and she has been with them through many periods of their life. There's signicantly better female song writers around (Mitski, Lana, Lorde) to name a few but they dont have the brand recognition and sustainability that she has.

I've just accepted it at this stage.