Taylor Swift Plans On Releasing Several More Singles Off "1989"

[Whispering 18,865]

We still do not know the exact sales for Teenage Dream to date, so trying to compare Teenage Dream & 1989 album sales is not valid.

We know enough from Billboard, the labels and IFPI to know that 1989 is outselling TD by a large margin...even though overall album sales have decreased significantly in the last four to five years. 

[darkchylde 14,857]

@VenusOddity gurl you're on fire 

I was giving it my all but I don't have the energy to fight these people, minions of a racist, homophobic women.

who also can't sing

[darkchylde 14,857]

OMFG

I'm very proud of that parragraph, not gonna lie.

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

We're on page 9 and KatyCats & Co. S.L. still haven't realized that Katy Perry could use Mother Mary as a ghostwriter and she still wouldn't be anything more than a mediocre bop-maker for white girls to bop at their 13th birthday party.

Taylor, otherwise, has accomplished things Katy wouldn't even dream of in her Wildest Dreams ™. A TIME Magazine cover with just her face on it. 7 out of 22 Grammy nominations won -we all know Katy's ratio here-.

Taylor's official debut in pop music has been more acclaimed than Katy Perry's career on it. Maybe it's the fact that Taylor didn't reduce LGBT+ people to plastic bags or the fact that her music doesn't sound like a racist women in her 30s trying to appeal cool to her kids' friends.

Taylor's been able to develope and evolve her sound from Speak Now (which sold +1M albums on its first week) to Red (which also sold +1M albums on its first week) to 1989 (which also sold +1.2M albums on its first week), Katy Perry's whole discography sounds exactly the same.

 

Stay pressed.

Your first "point" was the exact definition of Taylor & her music, actually. 

Don't even get me to pull out the receipts and facts and show you who dreams of accomplishing things that Katy has. Katy was called the "America's Pop Expert" by Forbes, and was the top paid musician of 2014-2015, and became the highest paid female artist in history. Baha Men, Kanye West, Paula Abdul, Lorde, Skrillex, Macklemore and The Black Eyed Peas have won GRAMMYs. Bob Marely, Lana, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Kate Bush, Freddie Mercury, Buddy Holly, and Patsy Cline didn't win and don't have GRAMMYs. I think that says a lot about the value of a GRAMMY. 

You actually think critical acclaim means anything? Critics are heavily influenced by what the media says with their reviews of an album or artist. Not to mention that critics do not like teen pop, girlie albums. Those kind of albums usually get mixed reviews from critics, and all of the sudden Taylor comes out with 1989 and she's praised to high heavens? Sounds fishy. Payments from record labels in exchange for good reviews still happen, and it does seem like that has happened with Taylor and critics through the years. Even Gawker pointed out how when critics are giving Taylor a review it sounds like they're reading a script while having a gun pointing on their heads. Critical acclaim does not testify or define an album's quality. A lot of critics are not as professional or genuine as we might think they are. Good reviews being giving to artists just because they're highly successful and/or are considered legends is not rare either.

Are you even serious? Katy did not brought the LGBT community down with the plastic bag lyrics. Firework wasn't even targeted only at LGBT. It was for people who feel down and hopeless, and feel like they are just some products of a wasteful system (which is what the plastic bag lyrics implies), but in reality they have so much potential, colors, light, energy, and power inside themselves that they show to the world and show who they truly are, and that there's a hope. How's that reducing someone? 

"her music doesn't sound like a racist women in her 30s trying to appeal cool to her kids' friends" again, I think you were describing Taylor while you were typing this. 

What development and evolution? If anything, Taylor devolved with 1989. She chose to be generic and people pleasing with 1989. And do you actually think sales determine an album's quality? I hope not. She lost everything which made her unique and interesting at the first place as an artist and songwriter with that album. It really does seem to me that you're just taking things out of air, without knowing what you're talking about. Taylor's songs thematically/conceptually, lyrically and sonically all sound the same, and her videography is not that diverse either. The album of hers which musically really is different is 1989. And I can't at your ignorance of Katy's discography. If you put all of Katy's albums (Katy Hudson, The Matrix LP, Katy Perry (A), One of the Boys, Teenage Dream + Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, and PRISM) & her unreleased songs together, you'll see and hear a very diverse, creative and evolved artist/musician who's constantly reinventing herself and is experiencing different themes, concepts, styles, sonics, genres and visuals. 

You should seriously do your research instead of just talking about things that you have no idea of. Your arguments are so flawed, it's not even funny. You try so hard to lie about and insult Katy and make Taylor look good, but you still fall short. Try harder and get a clue? 

 

@Pop as for your post regarding Katy failing to reinvent herself because she lacks creativity and charisma, you couldn't be more wrong.

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

We know enough from Billboard, the labels and IFPI to know that 1989 is outselling TD by a large margin...even though overall album sales have decreased significantly in the last four to five years. 

Really? Labels? If that's the case then Capitol reported that Teenage Dream sold 11 million copies WW. 

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

Taylor has referenced s-x in her lyrics multiple times, albeit with more subtlety and tact

 

"And I'll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands"

 

We all can't have the lyrical graces of 

 

"I wanna see your peacock-cock-cock"  

 

How are those even s-xual lyrics? And even if they are, shame on Taylor for playing it so safe and sugar-coating her songs. At least Katy is honest and straight up clear. 

[Creyk 17,819]

What has this thread become

I'm totally fine with whatever the next singles will be. Style and Wildest Dreams are all I ever wanted and the reigning queen of pop delivered

[Whispering 18,865]

Really? Labels? If that's the case then Capitol reported that Teenage Dream sold 11 million copies. 

5.7 is the latest number we have.

Link please, to the 11 million number. 

[Whispering 18,865]

I was giving it my all but I don't have the energy to fight these people, minions of a racist, homophobic women.

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Don't even try to argue logic with the illogical.

Who else, but an illogical superstan, would argue that critical acclaim, industry respected awards, the highest album sales of the last two years, consistentcy over a decade of music, and a massively successful tour...is somehow "not important". The delusion is so far out there, you just have to look at it for what it is. 

[BlondeQueenOfGGD 25,454]

How are those even s-xual lyrics? And even if they are, shame on Taylor for playing it so safe and sugar-coating her songs. At least Katy is honest and straight up clear. 

im with u! Lots of these people are just band wagoners

[Pop 4,541]

me rn: 

 

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

5.7 is the latest number we have.

Link please, to the 11 million number. 

Zoom on the plaque a little bit to see it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A7zCvQkCUAAdtP7.jpg:large 

[Pop 4,541]

Zoom on the plaque a little bit to see it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A7zCvQkCUAAdtP7.jpg:large 

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

sure

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

Don't even try to argue logic with the illogical.

Who else, but an illogical superstan, would argue that critical acclaim, industry respected awards, the highest album sales of the last two years, consistentcy over a decade of music, and a massively successful tour...is somehow "not important". The delusion is so far out there, you just have to look at it for what it is. 

You'd be very naive if you think critical acclaim determines an album's quality. Anybody who can read between the lines and use common sense can tell that a lot of critics are not unbiased. I even gave examples which proved GRAMMYs don't mean that much. They just manipulate and sell to the masses. They market themselves as the music's biggest night and music's most important award show, but do they actually award talent and quality? 

Exactly, Taylor has been consistent, loved, praised, and successful for almost a decade. She cannot keep this up much longer. This era has been her overexposure peak. It also has been her peak in almost all  other aspects. What happened to Madonna, Mariah, Britney and Gaga after their peaks can happen to Taylor, too, and it can even be worse. 

It's not delusion. It's the reality and the truth.

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

sure

When you have nothing else to say cause you've been proven wrong with receipts.