I guess what surprises me is that I was under the impression that kids these days didn't buy albums anymore, I thought it was all about just downloading individual songs. On the other hand I suspect young people have more buying power these days then ever.

Great point. An with albums costing upward of $15 there must be a lot of "kids" with spending money.

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How are downloads counted? I heard something on the radio about this, but, wasn't paying close attention. What I do remember is the comment that it is both easier and harder to reach Platinum status. Harder b/c kids do not buy entire albums like they used to. Easier b/c they do not have to travel to a brick and mortar store to buy them and can get them instantly. There was something about down downloads are counted, but, I do not remember it.

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From Billboard:

If you buy a whole album at one time (for example, using the "Buy Album" button on iTunes), it counts as one album sold. If a consumer buys one or multiple tracks from an album separately, those count as a "track purchase."

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That makes sense. I know that a lot of artists release singles prior to the album release. Don't some albums come out electronically in album form only?

Given that Microsoft is selling the entire 1989 album for $0.99, it is not too surprising that she sold so many full albums.

http://www.billboard.com/...icrosoft-music-deals

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To sum it up, Taylor Swift is HUGE. She's the number one selling artist who has started his/her career since 2006. Rhiana is slightly ahead (as of the wikipedia update) but started in 2005. Swift has sold more albums than Metallica. Emenim and Mariah Carey are the only other artists ahead of her that started in the 90s. Everyone else has had decades and decades of time to record and sell albums.

As stated earlier, there's two ways to look at it. Fewer people buy albums than they used to, but if they want to buy it, they can easily get it the say that it comes out.


Oh, also, I find her insanely hot.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxtf4kFd2rg

Meh. She is also batshit crazy, by most accounts. You wouldn't want to date her. You would just end up the subject of one of her songs.

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I'd be willing to take that chance. ;)

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The platinum category has only been around since the mid-70s. Usually it takes awhile to sell a million copies. I think the first certified platinum album was the Eagles greatest hits album.

I don't know that it's so surprising for her to be the first to have three separate albums sell more than 1 million copies on debut (i.e. in the first week after release). That's a shit ton of album sales for a single week.

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Meh. No front court. No back court. No curves. No muscle tone. She's a lovely woman with abundant talent, but, nothing special.

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Aren't they all, to some extent? ; )

what is one of he best songs, as in shows her singing talent. I am not familiar with her work, but just watched Shake Out and her singing in that song is not spectacular. BTW to put this in perspective some friends were talking about a song called 'Happy' and I had never heard it or heard of it.

She definitely has the type of boney body that looks bad in certain clothes (like the one you posted). Its more about her eyes

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I would describe her as stunningly beautiful more so than incredibly hot. I do agree that she has beautiful eyes.

Really?

She kind of reminds me of a 16 yo version of Boy George from Culture Club. Although, I think he had more fashion sense and a better ass.

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Cover her face and that could be the body of the 12 year old girl. But, hey, whatever trips your trigger ... ;-p

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There is a reason that Cover Girl uses her face - and that's because she has beautiful features.

As for you preferring Boy George's ass to Taylor Swift's. I guess that's up to you, not that there is anything wrong with that. :)

Taylor Swift is to someone actually hot as Desert Storm is to WWII. No tits, no ass.

Well played.

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Have you ever seen those Brazilian best-ass competitions where they judge the ass-tasticness without being able to see the rest of the woman? (If not, get thyself to google, stat.) I'm saying that Taylor Swift would fare poorly in that competition and would likely not beat out the likes of Boy George. I'm not saying that he would do well in the over-all competition. Just that he'd beat her.

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Never thought I'd see the days when tall leggy young blondes went out of style

Did I accidentally long onto FastTwitch.com? =)

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This is what happens when people are allowed to think that this is hot.

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And we wonder why the womens' stress about their looks.

Tough crowd.

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I do agree that she is too skinny (for my tastes). I prefer a woman with some womanly curves, especially in the booty. If given a choice, I'd take great butt and so-so boobs over great boobs and flat butt.

See, the tall, leggy, young thing needs to have a couple more attributes in order to be attractive (admittedly, I'm a brunette kinda guy so the 'blonde' part doesn't help her cause). TS just ain't got it. She's a walking twig on stilts, with mediocre plastic-like facial features. I'm a bigger fan of the likes of Ariana Grande.

P.S. Is FastTwitch.com an actual thing?

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Lets see, fast twitch, would refer to sports full of people with fast twitch muscles. The name itself is a scientific term that would be a good marketing term toward nerds and geeks.



I'm going to say no.

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See, the tall, leggy, young thing needs to have a couple more attributes in order to be attractive

Ok I can understand you not thinking she's "The hottest" or "Amazing", but really, you think she's "Not attractive"?

I'm a bigger fan of the likes of Ariana Grande.

Maybe I'm missing the right pic or something but AG does not appear to be very "Curvey" either. Their body types are fairly similar except TF has longer legs. Personally I find both attractive but neither particularly more attractive then the other.

~Matt

Word. Love tall, lanky womens.

Wait, is that pervy of me since I have sons older than her.

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She's tens time better looking in that picture than all the other ones when she's got on way too much make-up. I didn't think she was all that pretty until this picture. Still agree with others, she's not got enough curves for my tastes.

Other women stress women, not men :)

Two things I dislike about her, careerwise

Built her fan-base in Country Music; then [when people found out she was from Pennsylvania: "Hey y'all, why's she talk funny?"] quickly had to become a Top 40 Pop Star

Bat-shit crazy real-life break-up songs are nothing new, but she acts like she invented the genre [although, she may have perfected it]

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Hey LorenzoP we are all down here

Maybe in her choice of men, but she is very loyal and nice to her fans. And everyone she has toured with only has good things to say about her. This was this past weekend here.

http://www.tennessean.com/...-portraits/18718813/

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I just checked out this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM - almost 1/2 billion hits and how did I miss that. Anther data point is that I never saw an episode of Friends. But then I didn't miss stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQyPVBtLXk0 which is far more interesting.

Fact is her whole image is a marketing marvel and taking it all to the bank.

AAAHhhhhhh nightmares of GRE coming back!

My littlest kid loves her to pieces because she is pretty. My older two cannot stand her because they don't like her music. Me? I am no judge of what men would find hot (me being a girl and all), but I think she is quite beautiful and appears to have her head on straight. I appreciate that she is consciencious of her image being portrayed to girls like my 8 year old. It took me a good 5 months to get rid of the Monster High doll programming.

She's definitely not all about the bass, or treble.

Meh. No front court. No back court. No curves. No muscle tone. She's a lovely woman with abundant talent, but, nothing special.

Don't worry, I bet those grapes are probably sour. =)

Interestingly, I just found out this evening that there is a campaign to buy Taylor Swift a butt:

http://www.avclub.com/...wift-new-butt-211829

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Sounds like a worthy cause.

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Ok I can understand you not thinking she's "The hottest" or "Amazing", but really, you think she's "Not attractive"?


Sorry, she doesn't do anything for me. I do love this music video of her though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbdT3J2H1tA

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I've seen better curves in China.

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Why do you hate the "Me Too" campaign?...

He hated it before it existed.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Not really a fan of her music but have to say her MTV Crossroads w Def Leppard was a fun watch. Photograph was good and the facial expressions on the guys when she tells them her mom loved them when she was younger is priceless

For those who were wondering, this thread got revived from a couple years ago because a new user posted a link to a service to convert YouTube to MP3 files. That post has since been deleted, but the thread stays alive.

Anyway, for the Taylor Swift fans, Google her new video for a song called "Ready for it" apparently she's wearing a nude bodysuit. The video is supposed to be released Thursday but clips from it have been released on her Instagram. Or so I'm told.

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Is that anyone here? I enjoyed hearing her original style. Latest techno-pop-electronica is not my style of music.

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BarryP thinks she is "insanely hot", so yes there is at least one.

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F- me. I agree with Barry. And earlier today I've agreed with Ken. It may be time for an intervention.

However, finding her attractive does not make me a fan of her music.

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2008, so she was still Country = Tennessee Glam [they address this at 9:40]

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I'm in the same boat as you on this one. She's very attractive. It's some combination of youth & beauty (the only things that matter in this life, after all), her drive to be successful, her talent, her seemingly girl-next-door charm in public interactions with fans, at least what appears to be a tight family life, what seems to be a clean lifestyle, and what appears to be just enough crazy/drama to keep her more interesting but not dangerous or insane.

The video is a mess. There some “Ghost in the Machine” in there with the kind of bodysuit, some Thor with ligtening and thunder, some sci-fi nonsense with shape shifting robots, etc.

Not the best looking I’ve ever seen her, but her body looks pretty decent in the Tron/Ghost suit.

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