She has the power to shake the earth, is the generation’s voice, and is the first in history to earn over a Billion Dollars from the tour. She has something magnificent in her which gives us a feeling that God is by her side, turning the so-called unlucky number 13 to be a lucky number for her and breaking this myth, her actions, personality, thinking, and smile spreads a positive vibe.
How come she is so bold and fearless, standing boldly with what she felt was right even after knowing that she might end up losing almost half of the fans and money but finally gaining a bigger fan base? Yes, we are talking about sensational Taylor Swift and in this blog, we are going to DECODE Taylor Swift.
By “Shake the Earth” we are talking about the record-breaking seismic activity which was equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake (or we can call it a Swiftquake) recorded during her Live Show in Seattle
Swift’s Eras tour with 60 tour dates was able to sell 4.35 million tickets earning a total of $ 1.04 Billion, and as per Pollstar predictions the next tour will also be earning more than $ 1 Billion, which means Swift will bring over $2 billion throughout her tour
You might think that she is lucky but we believe that she is bold
Swift stated in an interview, “I was born on the 13th, I turned 13 on Friday the 13th, my first album went gold in 13 weeks. Also, my first song that ever went number 1, it had a 13 second intro, I didn’t even do that on purpose! And every time I’ve ever won an award at an award show, I’ve either been seated in the 13th row, or row M, which is the 13th letter. And when I won the Horizon Award at the CMA awards, the producer came up to me when I was sound-checking and he said, ‘Alright, we’re gonna go in 13 seconds!’ There are so many numbers!“
Taylor performing with the number 13 on her hand (Image source: https://taylorswift.fandom.com/wiki/13)
Unlike many other articles and blog on the Internet talking about the life, success story and gossips around Taylor, we will try to decode the reasons why Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift, which includes her mindset, upbringing, beliefs, character, and other such aspects, so let’s get started
Clarity of Thought
Confused thoughts create a confused life and a clear thought creates a life of clarity, people like these have a clear sense of purpose, and having a mentor in life is a blessing, Taylor was lucky to have her first mentor and inspiration in her life as her maternal grandmother the famous opera singer and popular television personality Marjorie Finlay who inspired Taylor to pursue a music career by introducing her to the world of music.
Little Taylor Swift with her Grandmother Marjorie Finlay (Photo Credit: @taylortbacks/Twitter)
On December 25th, 1997, Taylor Swift got her first guitar and that’s how her love story with guitar began, Taylor still considers her first guitar to be the best gift of her life
Little Taylor Swift receiving her Christmas Gift (Source – YouTube)
The Life becomes more beautiful when you know the purpose of your life and when you know the purpose and you work for it, you surely become more confident, once you are confident you are fearless too, this is true in the case of Taylor Swift
When Taylor was 11 years old, she started knocking on the doors of big music labels, she started singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a basketball game and also started writing her own songs. Practice and actions are the seeds of confidence that Taylor has started planting.
Been able to do all this in childhood all because of the initial guidance and path shown by her grandmother
Business Sense
Taylor Swift suddenly pulled her entire library from the music streaming platform Spotify before the release of her album “1989” back in November 2014, she said “Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.”
Later, Spotify had to agree to her demands (we will not be going deep into the story of Taylor Vs Spotify). Also, Taylor is brilliant when it comes to marketing and understanding the business, do you know why Taylor is a brilliant Entrepreneur, the reason lies in her name.
Taylor Alison Swift is named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor, her mother gave her this name as she believed that if she had a gender-neutral name it would help her forge a business career and people would not deny her application based on her gender, her father was a stockbroker and her mother was a mutual fund marketing executive and her father also had an 11-acre Christmas tree farm, so from the childhood she was able to see how business and economies work, so the reason why Taylor Swift is a pro when it comes to the business.
Being Original and Honest
Born and brought up in a humble family, Taylor has never been too worried about how she will look, or what people will think if she does this or that, but she has always been confident about herself and her beliefs and that’s what people always love, her music is inspired by her real-life and people do relate with this. A lot of people have faced bullying and an inferiority complex in their lives, Taylor’s music video “You Belong with Me” showed her in a similar role and the audience was able to connect with her which made her song a massive hit.
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Reaction to the Insult and being generous
It was the year 2009 at the VMAs by MTV, a 19-year-old teenager Taylor was on the stage to accept the award for Best Video by a Female Artist for her hit “You Belong with Me.” As she was giving her speech, suddenly out of nowhere Kanya West came up and snatched the mic from the hands of Taylor and said “I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!”
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This was a huge insult for a 19-year-old girl who had grown up listening to Kanya’s songs. Taylor did not react anything to this and that’s the best thing she had done, her calmness won the hearts of the nation for her attitude in handling the situation with grace, she focused on her work and kept going, this video of her shows her mindset where we can understand that her focus was not on the bully (Kanya) but she was focused on her performance which was in the next 5 minutes and we can also understand that her fans are her top most priority.
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Later Kanya apologized
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Taylor wins the heart by not reacting, and not losing her gracefulness and calmness even in the worst of times. She is known for her generosity and this makes her a great role model. During the tough times for the truck drivers, Taylor gave $100,000 USD as bonuses to the truck driver who pulled up the almost impossible task of logistics of the eras tour.
Taylor has never revealed her political stance till the year 2018 because an influencer of her level may lose lot of audience and may face huge financial losses but in 2018, she felt it to be important now even if that mean losing 50% of her audience and money from her shows ticket sell, this bold step taken by her actually helped her win an even bigger audience base and she felt very light after taking this step which she felt was important. In life, many of us don’t happen to find enough courage to make some bold decisions, and that courage will mean making life even more beautiful.
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Why is Taylor successful? One of the answers is that she has a lot of courage and she is not afraid to lose and the person who is not afraid of losing can never lose.
Taylor also practices Self Talk, which is one of the biggest success recipes
Taylor’s speech while accepting the Woman of the Decade award tells a lot about her as a person and way of living her life
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Personalities like Taylor are like once in a generation and we should not only appreciate their stories but we should also understand the core reasons behind their success, we must adopt the good things we learned from Tayler to uplift our lives.
We hope you like our effort of Decoding Taylor Swift, Thank You.
