Did You Ever Think Gaga & Taylor Swift Would Be The Last Females Standing?

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Go back to 2010 or 2011, would you have thought that Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift would be the only 2 female artists from that era to still be relevant (to a major degree) in 2025?

 

 

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Personally if you aked me in 2010/2011 id have said Lady Gaga and Katy Perry

 

In 2013/2014 id have have said Katy Perry or Adele and admited defeat for Gaga

 

I would not have guessed Taylor Swift at the time to be the biggest all this time later, and I would not have guessed Katy Perrys career was gonna evaporate and boil away so fast

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[Evan Peters 10,751]

katy was always going to end up where she is because nothing about her art is authentic. she clings to faded trends and her team is more worried about virality vs quality of the music 

[Mister Gaga 22,932]

Beyonce is still there, though she kinda from the Britney/Xtina generation. 

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17 minutes ago, Zombiecat said:

"To a high degree" i said

 

Her last album had only 1 moderate hit and it didnt even sell that much tbh

 

I didnt say there arent other relevant women but I mean really popualr and Beyonces current pace of streams, sales and buzz have not been that of a real IT girl, just that of a legacy artist 

 

Also shes not really from the same era exactly. Shes closer to Xtina and Britney generation than Gaga, Swift, Perry, Adele, Ke$ha, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus etc

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2 minutes ago, Mister Gaga said:

Beyonce is still there, though she kinda from the Britney/Xtina generation. 

Well that too. I said "from that era"

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4 minutes ago, Evan Peters said:

katy was always going to end up where she is because nothing about her art is authentic. she clings to faded trends and her team is more worried about virality vs quality of the music 

She got her karma when she released a remix of her singles featuring an artist and then discounted them to lock in 5 #1 to match MJ’s Bad album. 

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8 minutes ago, Evan Peters said:

katy was always going to end up where she is because nothing about her art is authentic. she clings to faded trends and her team is more worried about virality vs quality of the music 

Taylor has felt basic and calculated for ages and going after numbers yet it seems to work for her just fine.

 

Tbh i still found Katies music and videos and performances more interesting than Taylors revenge breakup music

 

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not really, to be honest i thought Gaga had peaked already and i had no idea Taylor could get as big as she did.

if you asked me 14 years ago i would definetly say Rihanna would be the biggest popstar in 2025, she was on a roll with hits and just kept pumping successful albums every year, GP never got tired of her. who knew she would just... quit music lol

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21 minutes ago, Economy said:

"To a high degree" i said

 

Her last album had only 1 moderate hit and it didnt even sell that much tbh

 

I didnt say there arent other relevant women but her current pace of streams, sales and buzz have not been that of an IT girl

 

Also shes not really from the same era exactly. Shes closer to Xtina and Britney generation than Gaga, Swift, Perry, Adele, Ke$ha, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus etc

I can be very critical of Beyonce (well, critical of her fans), but Beyonce is on the level of gaga/swift, Cowboy Carter didn't have many hits but that's not always everything, and she still managed a cute hit (and it pains me to say that it peaked higher than abra), her album numbers are still impressive, cowboy carter did 407K first week, not to mention the power she still holds in touring, she does numbers and moves people.

And her streams are not really horrible, they are just bad compared to the numbers gaga has been putting out this year, but generally they aren't too bad.

I'd say right now from the "legacy" acts, the main ones are only Gaga, Swift and Beyonce, and Beyonce being in this list is even more impressive because she's been in the game for longer.

Now, Beyonce fans dont get bold because if I hear even one gaga comparison I will clock you with numbers 

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[AVeryGagaHolyDick 25,956]

I had no idea Taylor Swift was even successful until like 2014-2015, so no

I definitely always expected Gaga to remain successful though 

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2 minutes ago, kimeow said:

not really, to be honest i thought Gaga had peaked already and i had no idea Taylor could get as big as she did.

if you asked me 14 years ago i would definetly say Rihanna would be the biggest popstar in 2025, she was on a roll with hits and just kept pumping successful albums every year, GP never got tired of her. who knew she would just... quit music lol

True I forgot about Rihanna for a sec. I could have thought her as well

 

Tbf she never started flopping she jjst quit so who knows. She could have continued to slay hits for all we know (same goes for Adele, she takes so long between releases its hard to know what her full career potential woulda been)

 

I agree with Taylor. She was just another A-List celeb at the time competing with Gaga, Ke$ha, Adele, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus etc. She was kinda on par with those names but not bigger. Compared to Gaga and Katy Perry Taylor Swift wasnt even fully on par id say, she was close but slightly less popular tham them during their peak

 

Id never have guess almost 2 decades in she was gonna be bigger than ever. Its a true phenomenom. Even Madonna did not reach a major peak this huge this far into her career. She achieved a second major peak in the 90s a decade and a but after becoming famous but not a huge all time peak 17 to 18 years in. Thats truly unsual and virtually unprecendented and not normal in a pop career at all!

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9 minutes ago, lastpopicon said:

I can be very critical of Beyonce (well, critical of her fans), but Beyonce is on the level of gaga/swift, Cowboy Carter didn't have many hits but that's not always everything, and she still managed a cute hit (and it pains me to say that it peaked higher than abra), her album numbers are still impressive, cowboy carter did 407K first week, not to mention the power she still holds in touring, she does numbers and moves people.

And her streams are not really horrible, they are just bad compared to the numbers gaga has been putting out this year, but generally they aren't too bad.

I'd say right now from the "legacy" acts, the main ones are only Gaga, Swift and Beyonce, and Beyonce being in this list is even more impressive because she's been in the game for longer.

Now, Beyonce fans dont get bold because if I hear even one gaga comparison I will clock you with numbers 

Ok fair but even so, in my OP i did say from that era so... Beyonce still doesnt qualify. As u said urself, shes from before

 

She would be the Britney, Christina, Pink, Jenniger Lopez, Gwen Stefani and Hilary Duff era

 

Edit: Omg I thought 2008 to 2011 produced a lot of big women names but late 90s to early 2000s was huge too

 

Mid 2000s i can only think of Rihanna, Nelly Furtado and Avril Lavigne

 

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I always knew Gaga would last. I didn't know that she would repeak again and again but I never saw her fading away.