{"id":13553,"date":"2016-01-14T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13553"},"modified":"2016-01-11T22:35:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T03:35:24","slug":"how-taylor-swift-came-to-dominate-the-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/how-taylor-swift-came-to-dominate-the-music-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"How Taylor Swift Came To Dominate The Music Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swift-Music-Industry.png\" alt=\"Swift Music Industry\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swift-Music-Industry.png 1139w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swift-Music-Industry-300x182.png 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swift-Music-Industry-768x466.png 768w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swift-Music-Industry-1024x621.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swift-Music-Industry-80x50.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ellie Woodward and Rebecca Hendin looked at the unfortunately sexist fall and, then subsequent rise of Taylor Swift:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rewind back to 2013. Taylor Swift was ranked 18<sup>th<\/sup> on the list of most hated celebrities and articles such as &#8220;Swift is a feminist&#8217;s nightmare&#8221; were frequently published.<\/li>\n<li>In part this was because she seemed to criticize other women by having songs revolve around negatively portraying a sexy woman who stole a boy away from an innocent girl.<\/li>\n<li>Then came her latest album, 1989, where the focus wasn&#8217;t on a boy or another woman \u2013 but Swift&#8217;s own relationship experiences and feelings.<\/li>\n<li>It includes songs such as &#8220;Clean&#8221; which discuss getting over a partner single and happy.<\/li>\n<li>It probably helped that during the album&#8217;s promotional period the country singer remained single.<\/li>\n<li>She also used the album to make jokes about herself. In &#8220;Blank Space&#8221; she mocks the idea of unstable serial daters, and in &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; she lampooned her own dancing ability.<\/li>\n<li>By owning the jokes, she robbed her critics of the ability to make the same attacks against her.<\/li>\n<li>And she seemed to spend more time with a &#8220;squad&#8221; of iconic feminist friends \u2013 some who make appearances at her live performances.<\/li>\n<li>She revamped her social media strategy by directly reaching out to some of her Tumblr fans and offering them relationship advice.<\/li>\n<li>The results speak for themselves. She is the most followed celebrity in the world after recording a 73% increase in Instagram followers this year.<\/li>\n<li>She has used her influence to change the industry. She criticized Apple&#8217;s music policies and forced them to implement changes.<\/li>\n<li>And her album sold five million copies in five months. Her previous album took 2.5 years to reach that mark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article is much longer and includes many more details. It discusses Swift&#8217;s scruffle with Nicki Minaj, the unfair pressure on her to remain single, how she eased back into having a relationship, and the privileged history that aided her success. You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/elliewoodward\/how-taylor-swift-reversed-female-opinion-to-become-the-most?utm_term=.smrzoDWeg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/elliewoodward\/how-taylor-swift-reversed-female-opinion-to-become-the-most?utm_term=.smrzoDWeg\">Buzzfeed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie Woodward and Rebecca Hendin looked at the unfortunately sexist fall and, then subsequent rise of Taylor Swift: Rewind back to 2013. Taylor Swift was ranked 18th on the list of most hated celebrities and articles such as &#8220;Swift is a feminist&#8217;s nightmare&#8221; were frequently published. In part this was because she seemed to criticize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swift-Music-Industry.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13567,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions\/13567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}