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Executive Director, SPECTRUM, Oscar Short-listed Executive Co-Producer of Union (2024), winner of Special Jury Award for the Art of Change at Sundance.
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A crash course on Swift songs

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By Alexander Carpenter
| St. Catharines Standard Verified
In 2023, Forbes published an article about Taylor Swift that included the following mind-boggling statistic: 53 per cent of adults in the United States identify themselves as Swift fans. In the wake of her recent epic world tour — which drew 10 million attendees and earned billions of dollars — Swift has clearly emerged as a modern singer-songwriter whose success and renown has no equal.
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Musicologist says the secret to Taylor Swift’s success is hidden in her songs

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By Alexander Carpenter
| Aol Verified
In 2023, Forbes published an article about Taylor Swift that included the following mind-boggling statistic: 55 per cent of adults in the United States identify themselves as Swift fans. In the wake of her recent epic world tour — which drew 10 million attendees and earned billions of dollars — Swift has clearly emerged as a modern singer-songwriter whose success and renown has no equal.
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Understanding how Taylor Swift constructs her songs helps explain her phenomenal popularity

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By Alexander Carpenter
| Inkl
The same article reports that 73 per cent of those surveyed insisted that “Swift’s music is a driving force of their support of her.” But the abundant discourse surrounding Taylor Swift in the popular press, academia and online seems to be about everything but her songs. At this moment, Swift resides at the very apex of modern celebrity culture. Ironically, this makes it especially tricky to engage with Swift as a musician, which is the very basis of her fame.
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