Godspeed my friend as you fend off the angry mob of swifties coming your way. I for one hope you get a cameo as one of her haters in the next album drop.
@@RedSectorAndy Would make sense for her to do it since she would get royalties every time its sold/bought, whereas with Vinyls she doesn't. Would give her a bunch of extra $$
Never forget how she tried to lambast Tina Fey for not being supportive of other women. The woman who's made it a feature of her career to help other women through comedy and media, told by Taylor Swift she's going to hell for not supporting other women. Sure
@ADoseofBuckley Even funnier she said that in response to a joke Tina made about Taylor needing some personal time instead of jumping from boyfriend to boyfriend which was actually some pretty decent advice.
Taylor Swift seems like she'd be truly miserable to know. You'd have to be constantly walking on eggshells because any slight, perceived or not, will be punished with the resources available to a billionaire and a rabid audience that thinks she's a saint. The "Taylor Swift is the mean girl" joke was true over a decade ago, but as she gets older, it gets more and more sad.
Oh big time. If you're Ice Spice or Sabrina Carpenter right now, you just have to kiss her ring (and I don't mean one on her finger) and thank her for the opportunity at all times, anything less and you'll be in the crosshairs.
Everyone is coming for Taylor these days. Even Trumpistan is turning on Pol Pop. They miss the days of rebel singers like Miley Cyrus. When they could judge a book by its cover.
Well yeah of course Taylor Swift is that petty. She made a career off of whining about her exes in the most passive aggressive songs you will ever listen to.
I genuinely don't think that she realizes that she comes off like a spoiled 12 year old girl having a strop in her diary because the cute boy down the street who she's got the hots for told her he doesn't like her because she's an unlikable bitch.
I refuse to believe Inspector Gadget is obscure enough that most people in your audience won’t get it. I am young, fresh and snappy and have not aged a day
Honestly, I don't think main character syndrome is the reasoning behind all this behavior, it must be the addiction to money and power. Being a billionaire has corrupted corrupted basically every mind of the people who can call themselves that
The problem many people have is not so much Main Character Syndrome as it is Showrunner Syndrome. It's one thing to see yourself as the main character in your life. That's normal. It's quite another to see others as characters who are yours to do with as you please. It's not the Ariana Grandes who create mischief. It's the Dan Schneiders.
I already had multiple instances of references I've made to my step kid result in me explaining a tv show to him. I no longer feel anything hearing Inspector Gadget is an obscure reference
It’s funny you mention her collaborations with other female singers - oftentimes they don’t have actual verses, they’re just in the background vocals. The song she did with Lana Del Rey was like that - so disappointing to the point where Lana’s fans (who are crazy in their own way - I’m one) complained enough that Taylor of course released a version called “with more Lana Del Rey.” Her song with Colbie Caillat way back when also just barely has her voice in the background. The song with Haim was also the same. I was so surprised that her new song with Florence + the Machine (infinitely more talented than anything Taylor will do) actually gave Florence a real singing part.
Honestly that's the only song on the album that stood out. It was interesting and dynamic, actually a very good song. It was definitely because of Florence.
I've always thought this too. Not a woman but I always found it weird how her collab with Ed Sheeran in 2012 'Everything Has Changed' only has him singing half a verse (two lines) solo. Always bothered me. Her releasing a version of Snow on the Beach "with more Lana Del Rey" is one of the pettiest things I've seen an artist do.
Taylor doesn't just hate other women, she hates other people period, why else does she have a monopoly in the mainstream with music that was done way better by the like of Shirley manson, p!nk and avril lavinge? (or lily Allen for a female artist Buckley likes that I don't)
@@aandwdabest Yes, you basically need to be clairvoyant, you get fired on the spot for so much as looking at her. which is super great to be losing people in the middle of trying to unload 6 trucks of steel for a stage set.
I also don't understand how fans act as if there is absolutely no way to get access to the multiple bonus tracks and rarities without having to buy the album 10 times. Buy it once and rely on the magic of the internet for the rest 🤷🏼♀️😂
They say that people who get famous stop mentally developing at the age they got famous. Taylor swift was 16 and still in high school when her first album dropped, so the “still acts like she’s in high school” comment is probably pretty spot on.
I’m interested in seeing what the comment section will be like on this video, swifties will always come after any TH-camr who dares to criticize their queen.
Taylor really just thesaurus'd up the Dead Poets Society into her own album title lol. It screams deviantart kiddies making their own barely distinguishable fan characters with an 'OC DO NOT STEAL' in the description.
In all fairness to Billie, she at least released the full album with each of her variants. The fans could just choose the color they wanted, but each version had the full album. Taylor released variants but each variant had a different bonus track, so to get the full album, you have to buy all the variants. Billie also at least admitted she was guilty in the past and said she was going to do better and has taken steps to lessen her impact with her tour.
Yeah, several artists do the different variants game, but often that just means the record is a different color. No new tracks, no new pics. While unnecessary and it may lead to some fans play the collect every color game, I definitely don't think there's the same interest in that. Swift plays the game way more: there's 4 versions of midnight that are the same, but you get different pictures and if you buys them all, they form a clock; now there's versions of midnights with bonus tracks, and none of them have all tracks, they're all incomplete, so if you want them all, you have to buy at least a couple of them. At least, that's been my experience from when I accidentally stumble onto stan culture. I've never seen anyone saying "I got all the colors of Happier than Ever/GUTS/30", but I've definitely seen the "I've got all midnights/1989/TTPD variants" more than a couple of times
i like her music, enough to have listened to every album and own a CD of fearless (i'm old). i've even gone to the eras tour for a reasonable price because i'm not based in the US. i don't understand why a lot of people are so obsessed with her? why buy the many variants and pay insane amounts for a ticket? why defend everything she does? she's just human like the rest of us.
The part that you said that all her opening acts don't chart on the hot 100 because her fans don't want to support other women is so true!! Also so many of them hate Olivia Rodrigo for being remotely similar to Taylor Swift's style, they don't want her to steal her spotlight! Not just that, technically Taylor Swift shouldn't have been able to copyright Olivia for her stylized shouting singing part on Deja Vu (because it was just a form of stylized singing), but still managed to get 50% credits of that song( which is a huge portion for such a small part of the song, let's be honest), while Hayley from Paramore didn't really want the credits because she thinks Olivia just did a rookie mistake. Also Elvis Costello, who she also plagiarized from, said this is how rock and roll works. Both chill & down to earth people with less money than Taylor Swift and not behaving like her!!
Taylor Swift is literally Regina George. All we need is other singers to be Gretchen, Karen, Cady etc. and we can have the TRUE Mean Girls Musical movie 🤣
Bowling for Soup still has their timeless song "High School Never Ends." Maybe the names of the celebrities who fit in each role has changed since the song came out, but the message still holds true.
Though at least Regina George got her karma (getting hit by the bus and injuring her spine) and is doing something in the end by joining the girl's lacrosse team as a means of anger management, and at least has made peace with Cady. Taylor is a grown-ass woman and she's *still* the mean girl.
My life as a non-Swiftie, working class American who currently cannot afford life-saving medication while billionaires like Taylor Swift keep getting wealthier by basically doing nothing: 😢[insert noose emoji]
Taylor Swift only cares about herself. That should surprise no one at all, in the history of ever. It's how she got famous, after all... writing tons of sad songs about relationships that went awry. No doubt, in the half of her life where she and fame have been best buddies, that she's found ways to leech money from her fans. In the same vein, it's not surprising that she would do petty stuff. In a way, it would be mirroring her past romantic relationships, only that she's the one doing the screwing over in these cases. And she also gets tons of fame for her relationship with Travis Kelce. And Taylor knows she can get away with it because, well, all that money...
I hadn't seen the Billie Eilish interview before today, and as a certified Swiftie since middle school, man am I glad someone with a platform called that shit out (even if Billie's done it too). It's incredibly frustrating watching other fans fall for this, essentially, scam. I've seen a few fans call it out but it seems like the majority either don't care or eat it up. Like, with TTPD, she had announced several different editions if the album BEFORE it even released. And then it turned out to be a surprise double album, so if you bought a special edition of TTPD, tough luck, your bonus song was on the Anthology version anyway, open to everyone on Spotify. And that's not even going into her insanely overpriced merch. Love her music, have since I was a kid, but the celebrity worship in the Swiftie fan base has been old for YEARS. It's why I typically just listen to her music on my own and don't post about it lol.
Same, I like Taylor's music and have been here since debut, but I just don't understand how rabid fans and Swifties can turn the act of enjoying to music so unbearable. I'll take my Folklore and Evermore records and run far away from Swiftie and their critic bloodlust
@@JanieLaneI wouldn’t even call her music “unbearable”, it’s the quality of store-brand white bread eaten straight out of the thin plastic bag - what’s unbearable is that it’s talked about and treated like it’s pizza from New York. Hell, even my state’s pizza doesn’t have a cult-like fanbase that’s ready to accuse you of being another Andrew Tate, or throw homophonic and transphobic slurs at you (…speaking from personal experience) the moment you say anything negative about it.
I used to be the biggest swiftie when she started out country roots and all, but as the years progressed and the more I learned more about her, her business practices, the things she says and does while reacting to things and around friends, I sort of fell out of love with her. I still bop her music to this day, I just don’t like her much as a person or follow any news about her. I feel for her now the same way I do for Kanye and Chris Brown. You can like the art without liking the artist. But even for artists I do like, I wouldn’t blindly defend their questionable actions if there’s proof of shady behavior. Just weird how some fans can’t accept that you can admire someone and still hold them accountable..
I think that you are correct. I think that you stop developing once you get famous and she got famous at 16 lol so yeah she's probably stuck in the absolute worst possible phases of high school can't get out and I'd feel bad for her but you know.
I didn’t really get why it was such a big deal when Tool dethroned Swift on album sales back in the day. But learning more about her obsession with staying on top, it’s hilarious to me that the beer gut, balding dads of the world caused the Swiftie hive mind so much angst back in 2019.
TBF the previous Eilish album was on recycled vinyl as well. (which isn't always the best option if you care about audio quality. My black copy plays fine) Most artists release different pressings of albums on coloured vinyl, but Taylor goes a bit overboard with the releases. (by releasing a million different colours at once, and then selling empty collector's boxes for them. (Did I mention you need multiple of them for a full set...) Sure thing it's fun to buy an album in a cool colour, but Taylor is literally encouraging people to buy a dozen copies of the SAME album.
Tbh record sales aren't even comparible to those classic era of modern music (early 60s to early 80s) When the Beatles were around the worlds population was 2.5 billion people with most of the world outside the West still living in what was even deemed then destitution. Now music is a click away and vinyls, whilst an actual decent sized investment are being purchased by an demographic in population alone over triple the size of the one during the (golden oldies) time. Let alone other factors at play like better and more liberal measurement of units sold. So no, it doesn't surprise me that people like Rhianna and Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are slowly but surely beating the records of The Beatles and Pink Floyd etc. What is surprising is with all these modern benefits at play its taking them so long to do it.
It's as you said because there's so many other avenues to obtain these songs. You can listen to entire albums for free on your phone, you can choose to download specific songs that you like for a dollar rather than purchase an entire album. Back during the beetles hayday you had to buy their album if you wanted to listen to them outside of live shows. And radio, i forgot about radio
@@barnaby4232 Not exactly, when even listening to music for free on TH-cam contributes to a sale, its going to be pretty straight forward for an established artist with an internatonal fandom.
@@barnaby4232 Except people do buy vinyls too. You didn't make which metric you were discussing clear like mentioning vinyls. Since 2016 we have literally been through whats been referred to as the vinyls revival. My city went to having one record shop to more than 2 dozen. It went from dated to trendy in the space of a year. You can even find them in tech stores now. Vinyls have been selling the best in the last decade than they have since the early 80s. Endless River and AM broke records and the news for selling records in the tens of thousands in 2014 because no one had bought records in that number in years. Vinyl sales have been booming ever since. I own over 50 myself. With more than triple the world population and all the aforementioned factors at play, I am surprised it took musicians that long to beat records set half a century ago.
Let's not kid ourselves, if it was a major male act releasing an album she would have done the same thing. She's obsessed with numbers and having all kinds of different records. She's not going to release that top spot for anyone if she can help it.
She did blocked BTS years ago. Did the same to Sza last year and Olivia Rodrigo a year before that. I'm just glad people finally see her cunning scheme
The only caveat I can see in this theory (a MUSIC INDUSTRY Theory!) is Sabrina Carpenter. She has opened for Taylor Swift on her latest tours, and she still managed to snag a Top 5 song with Espresso. Seems like she's on the rise without being shut down by T-Swift. Maybe it's only a matter of time?
It’s for sure due in due time, Sabrina opened when she wasn’t as big and well known as she is now. The popularity from last year to this year so far makes me feel like Taylor will turn the tables on her soon, seeing her as a threat now.
And remember the only reason she brought Sabrina Carpenter was to shade Olivia Rodrigo because she felt threatened by Olivia. So it's funny how it's kind of backfired on her now. She may not have expected Sabrina's career to take off like it did.
Will never forget how a Taylor Swift fan told me "Clearly you've never experienced something traumatic enough to understand this song, you should consider yourself lucky" bc i didn't like one of her new songs lol
I like Taylor Swift's music, I would even go as far to say that I love it, but I cannot get behind her queen capitialism behavior. She has made it so very clear that she doesnt care about her fans, she just wants money. She's a BILLIONAIRE for crying out loud. You dont get that money from being a good person, or ethical business practices that's for sure
Not an obscure reference. I believe Buckley did a video on that this year. (If not a main channel video, then it was an Extra Dose, available on his Patreon.)
I admire your brutal honesty and agree with the majority of your points here, with only one exception: I think Sabrina Carpenter's recent commercial success is because of her being the opener for Taylor Swift (I'm not dismissing Sabrina's new label's marketing tactics though). However, she's also on the fence of crossing the die-hard TS fans' mental barrier: having a billboard #4 song and sponsoring Kim K's new clothing line WHILE the TTPD album is just being released ... curious about how that'll play out.
I think we need to remember that Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish are not merely individuals. They're entire companies full of people competing against each other. None of this is personal. The more money the "Taylor Swift" company makes, the more money her marketing dept, dancers, etc. makes. I wouldn't be surprised if they have programmers working for them on their websites and such. But yeeeah it's silly to call Taylor Swift an "ethical billionaire". She might have good intentions, certainly better than the CEOs of health insurance companies or major conglomerates involved with modern slavery, but it's impossible for billionaires to avoid violations of ethics.
I've been saying it since the relationship with Kelce began. It's all about her. She knew that KC was the most televised team in the NFL. What's the most watch TV event of the year? The Super Bowl. Something Travis had a high likelihood of playing in. If Mahomes wasn't already married she'd have 100% docked her cart to him.
I’ll never not hate Taylor Swift for how much environmental damage she’s done with her private jets (yes, plural!) and crazy tours. She’s an entitled brat with mediocre music, there, I said it. Great analysis, Buckley!
there’s no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants. you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
Also funny how you don’t call out people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who are doing much worse harm to the environment, or Leonardo DiCaprio who preaches about climate change while having a yacht and a private yet. At least Taylor has never claimed to be a climate activist
there's no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants. you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
there's no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants, but you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
there's no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants. you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
In fairness to HAIM, their album "Women In Music Part 3" was nominated for Album Of The Year. All 3 sisters were in the movie "Licorice Pizza" with Alana Haim being nominated for Best Actress. They've had success albeit niche. You're right in general tho. Love their song "Don't Wanna".
They've been successful, sure, but when the BIGGEST musician in the world is giving you the rub, that should translate to much bigger numbers. The fact is that these people just don't listen to anything else. If they did, if they put Haim in their Spotify playlists at even HALF the frequency as they put Taylor in there, there'd be some movement on the charts.
The vinyl collecting side of this is crazy to me. I heard about what happened to Record Store Day last year. The people (mostly scalpers, lets face it) who show up extra early had to fight through a crowd of Swifties at every mom & pop record store. They were camping the night before and just overwhelmed every store. Kids who grew up on iPads are buying physical media, that's how much pull TS has
On the plus side, I suppose that's good. People buying physical media that is. Perhaps it will breed a lifetime of wanting to do that, although again, since most of these people live in such a cultural black hole, they likely won't do it once they get over their Taylor Swift obsessions.
The percentage of likelihood that a concerning amount of these people who storm the record stores for these vinyls don't even own a record player and/or have no plans of buying one isn't zero...
@@JumpTossCatch A survey was done about 6 or 7 years back that suggested about half of vinyl collectors don't actually listen to the vinyl or own a record player to do so if they wanted to. I don't know if that's changed much but yeah, no different I suppose than the comic collectors who buy the graded nonsense and don't actually READ comics. They just think what they're buying will be worth more than they paid for it some day.
She's currently doing a competition where if you pre-order the new album you're entered into a draw to win the opportunity to buy tickets to one of her UK concerts. That's right - you can win the CHANCE to buy tour tickets by pre-ordering the album. I enjoy her music, but I do think that a lot of her marketing tactics are exploitative of her fanbase, both for their money and the exposure it brings her. One day it will backfire
@Metzli I'm just saying her over charging a record with just 1 bonas track is the same as a game company reselling an entire game but adding 1 mission to the game for the resell.
@@Argos-xb8ek I know what a DLC is and I understood the analogy. But it has nothing to do with gender. When a gaming company pulls out one of these tricks, I don't hear anyone say "Men and their DLC's, lmao, am I right?"
@Metzli you're being obtuse if you think my comment was limited to game DLCs. You were up in this thread crying about how it's wrong to make one woman's crime the crime of an entire gender....yet that's literally what feminists do to men. In fact, you probably are one and you're just gaslighting rn
Iron Maiden fans seem to have the same reaction towards opening acts and Led Zeppelin is the king of reissues. Swift has just been taking notes including those with J-pop and K-pop marketing. Adele tapped into that Taylor Swift market and made a lot of money so other artists can do the same thing. As far as timing goes, there seems to be an industry standard because look at how many top artists launched their albums from mid April to all of May. It has been album bomb after album bomb for the past 6 weeks.
I was wondering about that too. I don't know much about the industry but was thinking it might be like how all the big movie blockbusters come out at certain times of the year, people go quiet for months and then up they pop around the same time to promote stuff
Quite a few people have accused Taylor of being calculating. It may very well be true, if so, she’s a masterclass of manipulation. I’m old enough to get the inspector gadget reference too, sadly ;)
As a conservative myself, I can confirm that no one likes Pearl on our side of the spectrum. Not the moderates, not the MAGA Trump supporters, not the traditionalists, no the libertarian right wingers, and not the heavily religious folks either. She is a clown and a half and sadly makes some of the left's criticisms of us valid.
Taylor's fandom scares me. Some people I know jumped on that bandwagon, and they can't shut up about how awesome she is. It's just like with Beyonce's fanbase back in the day. But scarier, somehow. By the way, these "timed digital exclusives" feel like a horrible practice. One of my favourite bands did that recently, and I thought it was kind of disrespectful to the fanbase. People leaked it after the time have passed, and I don't even blame them. Taylor is rich and popular as hell, she doesn't even need these tactics to keep her position in charts.
When you feel a little bit of shame or guilt over your stamp- or comic collection or dump a bit too much money on that Star Wars Lego kit, just remember there are people who buy the same Taylor Swift album multiple times, digitally
Great video. In my opinion, there is very little overlap of Billie Eilish fans and Taylor Swift fans. One group is looking for a completely different message and style of music than the other. I wouldn’t discount either of them in their lane, but there isn’t much when it comes to listening to both. It’s unfortunate that such feuds are huge “news“. In our world of social media, this is another example of it being unsocial.
Sure, but the overlap isn't quite the concern here, simply that she's getting her audience to rebuy the same album they just bought in order to have it outsell someone else's album. It's not that she's making them spend on either HER or Billie, and they're choosing Taylor... it's that Taylor's basically saying to the 2 million people who just bought her album "buy it again for one extra track! Or buy it three more times for three tracks!"
About the 'streaming isn't wasteful' statement: Have you ever considered how much energy is needed for all the cloud servers and online libraries? It's definitely way more than making physical albums people can play over and over again for years. So, buying physical records is way more eco friendly than streaming it over and over again.
You're also seeing this in the WNBA vis-a-vis Caitlin Clark but with that case as well you can make the argument that in a patriarchal system, there's a "scarcity" dynamic at play where women feel a woman having success/being at the top is a zero sum game where if that woman wins, you lose. This is particularly true for someone like Taylor who, in her mid-30s, knows that that she past the age where her replacement should be taking over (indeed, arguably, if it wasn't for the pandemic and the "folkmore" records, she was already on a kind of natural decline. Someone in their documentary (Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, or Billie Eilish) said that unlike for the men, the top women in the music industry aren't really close friends with each other despite literally being the only people on the planet that can relate to what they're going through.
I wish I'd seen that WNBA thing from The View a few days before this. I could have used that as an example. But yeah, the woman from the view calling out Caitlyn Clark (I may have spelled both those names wrong) for "Pretty privilege" and "White privilege", no one can just be happy that the WNBA is actually getting some press and some viewers? Absolutely a "woman hating women for doing it wrong" moment.
Eh. It never bothered me back in 2012! And I think the day I'm afraid of a Taylor Swift fan is the day I start crossing the road in fear of girl scouts.
There were only 5 distinct package (so like, 1 package contained pictures 1 - 12, second package contained pictures 13 - 24, or whatever it was) so it wasn't QUITE as bad as booster packs, but yeah basically. There were definitely people who would have bought 10 copies of the album to get all 5.
I think it’s weird to blame Taylor swift for all of Billie’s poor album performance, because her promotion was weird. I guarantee none of her fans play fortnite. She didn’t bother releasing any singles for the album. I still haven’t heard a song from it. I keep seeing Twitter ads for it, and that’s it. If all Taylor swift had to do was release 3 voice memos for 6 hours to ruin her album rollout, then I think Billie’s team failed her.
Since the three voice memo editions were only available that Thursday and the chart week runs Friday-Thursday they don’t even fall into the same chart week as Billie’s album.
It’s not doing poorly! Billie’s album reached number 1 in countries (pretty much just US) in which Taylor didn’t do those new variants! It’s actually her biggest debut!
I believe the rumor she was intimidated a bit by Olivia's success then apparently released a new "special" vinyl varient (probably more than that)of one of her albums that came out after the deja vu situation. It seems extremely weird but i also agree thats why she "got" the good 4 u royalties for haylee Williams and probably a factor why she chose Sabrina carpenter to open for her. Despite her not having a top 10 hit at the time. It sounds ridiculously petty but clearly she is so i believe it 😂
3 versions of an album with a different bonus track. Big reason torrents exist lmao. Won't be surprised if your average die hard Taylor Swift fans buy all three.
what's really cool is that the next in line to Taylor Swift crown as Queen of Pop is Sabrina Carpenter who is Nancy Cartwright the voice of Bart Simpson's niece.
Just when I thought it wasn't possible for me to roll my eyes even harder, that "tweet" praising Taylor Senpai proved me wrong. So Taylor Senpai's the "only ethical billionaire" because she doesn't have a makeup brand? Well, I seem to remember another singer with a MASSIVELY popular, cruelty-free, and inclusive makeup line...I think her last name rhymes with Slendy or Trendy or something like that... ...nah, nope. Taylor Senpai's The Only Ethical Rich Person because of her "talent" in re-branding her usual "woe is me, I'm not like other girls, no I'm totally not a teenager in a grown woman's body" to her little rabid fanbase who will never realize that their Senpai will never, ever notice them.
I wonder how "ethical" it is to make other musicians give her songwriting credits (which gives her more royalties for songs she never had anything to do with) because a song was "inspired" by her... gonna guess her fans think that's fine too.
If I was Taylor swift at this point, I’d just stop trying to make money from concerts and just do them for the bare minimum price. You’ve got enough money, just have fun and make people happy.
@@NJGuy1973 maybe not a billionaire but I am well on my way to millionaire status. At least at my age. Maybe you’re right though. I’m caring enough to give $100 a week to my disabled best friend. If I didn’t do that I could invest the money. I wonder what swift had to do to make this happen.
If there's enough demand for it, it will be exploited. It's just simple business tactics. Sure, people can bitch & moan all they want about how unfair the ticket pricing is, but the bottom line is if they're constantly selling out, then there's no real incentive to wanna stop. No point in trying to bring moral high ground into it, lol.
The Nala Se reference isn’t too far off. Swifties are insane enough that they would likely execute Order 66 if Taylor told them to. They wouldn’t need the chips either.
So you are basically saying that all this media drama that Taylor Swift keeps finding herself in might be slightly, possibly, even conceivably of her own making?
Jay Z did something similar with Tidal. Initially when he launched that it was the only place to stream his music as well as big artists associated with him like Kanye West and Beyonce
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Those limited time extra tracks are some AAA gaming industry levels of scamming your fans.
HA!
I literally thought the exact same thing lol
Don't let WB get any ideas
@@EMdemo Dont worry WB is allergic to money
Loot boxes in music albums now.
"Taylor Swift DLC" is a concept I didn't expect, but here it is.
And they deserve to get jacked of their money
Godspeed my friend as you fend off the angry mob of swifties coming your way. I for one hope you get a cameo as one of her haters in the next album drop.
I've been making fun of her, and them, for several years, I don't mind. They can come and say hello.
"Spare a buck, Lee" - Taylor Swift
Every interaction raises him in the algorithm.
Worse he's pissing off swift and eilish fans. Both hive minds are psychopaths
I see her calling you buckles
The three albums having a unique songs for each gives me NFT vibes lol.
Except, and thankfully, you don't have to pay $10K to get it.
Yar har fiddlety-dee
It's the most neoliberal way to sell music.
Since they're making vinyls, why not release those songs as single on 45s?
@@InkAndPoet Just wait. It'll happen.
@@RedSectorAndy Would make sense for her to do it since she would get royalties every time its sold/bought, whereas with Vinyls she doesn't. Would give her a bunch of extra $$
Never forget how she tried to lambast Tina Fey for not being supportive of other women. The woman who's made it a feature of her career to help other women through comedy and media, told by Taylor Swift she's going to hell for not supporting other women. Sure
I wasn't aware of that, but that's funny. Yeah Tina's done more for women's careers than Taylor ever has.
Wait, when did that happen? What did Tina supposedly do?
How was this comment 16 hours ago?
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@ADoseofBuckley Even funnier she said that in response to a joke Tina made about Taylor needing some personal time instead of jumping from boyfriend to boyfriend which was actually some pretty decent advice.
Taylor Swift seems like she'd be truly miserable to know. You'd have to be constantly walking on eggshells because any slight, perceived or not, will be punished with the resources available to a billionaire and a rabid audience that thinks she's a saint.
The "Taylor Swift is the mean girl" joke was true over a decade ago, but as she gets older, it gets more and more sad.
Oh big time. If you're Ice Spice or Sabrina Carpenter right now, you just have to kiss her ring (and I don't mean one on her finger) and thank her for the opportunity at all times, anything less and you'll be in the crosshairs.
@@ADoseofBuckley I don't think it's possible to not read that comment in your voice
i dough it look what she did for sophie turner. Am not a fan of her but she seems ok
@@jameslight4391 Look what Taylor did for Sophie Turner? I don't know what that means. Sophie Turner became famous because of Game of Thrones.
@@ADoseofBuckley I never said she because famous become of her. I was talking about how Taylor helped her through her divorce
"billie ran her mouth, now taylor will run her over!!" thanks for making me laugh every week Buckley
"You're wasteful"
"You're WASTED"
😂
That'd be the only time I'd ever see either Taylor or Billie.
Everyone is coming for Taylor these days. Even Trumpistan is turning on Pol Pop. They miss the days of rebel singers like Miley Cyrus. When they could judge a book by its cover.
@@catkin-z8g "Pol Pop" is a delightful little moniker😂 Kudos to you, homie
I'm tired of people comparing her to michael jackson.
They both went after kids. Google Conor Kennedy and the other teen boys she dated in her twenties.
Classic monster truck, "You'll pay for the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!"
Pop artists talking about who is morally better while being terrible themselves is unsurprising.
Chloe Grace Moretz once said the same thing. This seems to be well established fact.
I looked it up and yeah Chloe saw the forest for the trees.
Tine fey and amy poehler too
And she refused to join Taylor squad. Smart.
Who? Some washed up nobody? 😂
@@syckles Cool attempt at a burn, bro.
Well yeah of course Taylor Swift is that petty. She made a career off of whining about her exes in the most passive aggressive songs you will ever listen to.
Those songs are HORRIBLE!
Yeah i dislike it when she makes the song about her exes. Its like we are her therapists or something. Girl, shake it off
In 2020 the whole world paid the price of normalizing narcissistic abuse.
She thinks parroting criticism sarcastically negates it, mental stuff
I genuinely don't think that she realizes that she comes off like a spoiled 12 year old girl having a strop in her diary because the cute boy down the street who she's got the hots for told her he doesn't like her because she's an unlikable bitch.
Taylor Swift is rich financially but morally,she's as bankrupt as a politician.
"Toilet paper's department"😂😂😂
Say that again.
I refuse to believe Inspector Gadget is obscure enough that most people in your audience won’t get it. I am young, fresh and snappy and have not aged a day
"yeah, good reference idiot. Everyone will get that." About Inspector Gadget was hilarious! Great start to my weekend
Wowzer!
Honestly, I don't think main character syndrome is the reasoning behind all this behavior, it must be the addiction to money and power. Being a billionaire has corrupted corrupted basically every mind of the people who can call themselves that
The problem many people have is not so much Main Character Syndrome as it is Showrunner Syndrome.
It's one thing to see yourself as the main character in your life. That's normal. It's quite another to see others as characters who are yours to do with as you please.
It's not the Ariana Grandes who create mischief. It's the Dan Schneiders.
Its the fame for sure. Yes
The edge of your seat joke at the end was just chef's kiss. He never misses
Wha- what do you mean inspector gadget is considered an obscure reference? Oh no, oh god oh no!
I hate that my childhood entertainment has now become nostalgia for bored 40+ people...
Consequences of aging.
I already had multiple instances of references I've made to my step kid result in me explaining a tv show to him. I no longer feel anything hearing Inspector Gadget is an obscure reference
It’s funny you mention her collaborations with other female singers - oftentimes they don’t have actual verses, they’re just in the background vocals. The song she did with Lana Del Rey was like that - so disappointing to the point where Lana’s fans (who are crazy in their own way - I’m one) complained enough that Taylor of course released a version called “with more Lana Del Rey.” Her song with Colbie Caillat way back when also just barely has her voice in the background. The song with Haim was also the same. I was so surprised that her new song with Florence + the Machine (infinitely more talented than anything Taylor will do) actually gave Florence a real singing part.
Honestly that's the only song on the album that stood out. It was interesting and dynamic, actually a very good song. It was definitely because of Florence.
I've always thought this too. Not a woman but I always found it weird how her collab with Ed Sheeran in 2012 'Everything Has Changed' only has him singing half a verse (two lines) solo. Always bothered me.
Her releasing a version of Snow on the Beach "with more Lana Del Rey" is one of the pettiest things I've seen an artist do.
Collabs in the recent half of her catalog have tended to be weird like that, regardless of gender. Post Malone on "Fortnight" is barely there.
Didn't realize she did a one with Colbie Caillat. Absolutely loved her at the time (still haven't been able to get into her current country music)
Fellow Lana fan here, I second the fact that we're definitely out there too
Taylor doesn't just hate other women, she hates other people period, why else does she have a monopoly in the mainstream with music that was done way better by the like of Shirley manson, p!nk and avril lavinge? (or lily Allen for a female artist Buckley likes that I don't)
I can’t believe I kind of miss the early 2010’s Swift that mainly only write about relationships at thus time
The General public should see how she treats stage hands.
@@eliward9150 how she treated stagehands then? Any first hand info?
@@aandwdabest Yes, you basically need to be clairvoyant, you get fired on the spot for so much as looking at her. which is super great to be losing people in the middle of trying to unload 6 trucks of steel for a stage set.
@@eliward9150 that’s pretty fucked up ngl - if what you said did happen of course.
Nailed it!
Swift is about as low rent as they come when talking morals and ethics.
I also don't understand how fans act as if there is absolutely no way to get access to the multiple bonus tracks and rarities without having to buy the album 10 times. Buy it once and rely on the magic of the internet for the rest 🤷🏼♀️😂
They say that people who get famous stop mentally developing at the age they got famous. Taylor swift was 16 and still in high school when her first album dropped, so the “still acts like she’s in high school” comment is probably pretty spot on.
idk, there's a lot of regular ass people walking around who never socially matured beyond their high school years.
Miley got famous way before that and seems pretty chill
Her mind got stuck at 19 when Kanye 'kanye'd' her at the VMAs lmao. She never grew at that point.
@@hisdarksecret Ye really did made her famous. He should've stay silent 💀
I’m interested in seeing what the comment section will be like on this video, swifties will always come after any TH-camr who dares to criticize their queen.
I'm anticipating more than a few demonstrations of psychosis lol
Nah. Buckley's been at her for years now.
They can’t mature fast enough is all my side can say
I swear they must search for it daily, looking for any excuse to defend her 😂
Taylor really just thesaurus'd up the Dead Poets Society into her own album title lol. It screams deviantart kiddies making their own barely distinguishable fan characters with an 'OC DO NOT STEAL' in the description.
She's released 4 more versions of the album since the 3 with the demos! Billboard needs to change the rules for stuff like this
In all fairness to Billie, she at least released the full album with each of her variants. The fans could just choose the color they wanted, but each version had the full album. Taylor released variants but each variant had a different bonus track, so to get the full album, you have to buy all the variants.
Billie also at least admitted she was guilty in the past and said she was going to do better and has taken steps to lessen her impact with her tour.
Yeah, several artists do the different variants game, but often that just means the record is a different color. No new tracks, no new pics. While unnecessary and it may lead to some fans play the collect every color game, I definitely don't think there's the same interest in that.
Swift plays the game way more: there's 4 versions of midnight that are the same, but you get different pictures and if you buys them all, they form a clock; now there's versions of midnights with bonus tracks, and none of them have all tracks, they're all incomplete, so if you want them all, you have to buy at least a couple of them.
At least, that's been my experience from when I accidentally stumble onto stan culture. I've never seen anyone saying "I got all the colors of Happier than Ever/GUTS/30", but I've definitely seen the "I've got all midnights/1989/TTPD variants" more than a couple of times
HAIM doesn't need to be the opening act for Swift, AFAIK. They're fine on their own.
Paramore doesn't need to either, but I can't fault anybody for trying to expand their fan base I guess
i like her music, enough to have listened to every album and own a CD of fearless (i'm old). i've even gone to the eras tour for a reasonable price because i'm not based in the US.
i don't understand why a lot of people are so obsessed with her? why buy the many variants and pay insane amounts for a ticket? why defend everything she does? she's just human like the rest of us.
I like her music too and I don't understand why more people can't admit how money hungry she is
The part that you said that all her opening acts don't chart on the hot 100 because her fans don't want to support other women is so true!! Also so many of them hate Olivia Rodrigo for being remotely similar to Taylor Swift's style, they don't want her to steal her spotlight! Not just that, technically Taylor Swift shouldn't have been able to copyright Olivia for her stylized shouting singing part on Deja Vu (because it was just a form of stylized singing), but still managed to get 50% credits of that song( which is a huge portion for such a small part of the song, let's be honest), while Hayley from Paramore didn't really want the credits because she thinks Olivia just did a rookie mistake. Also Elvis Costello, who she also plagiarized from, said this is how rock and roll works. Both chill & down to earth people with less money than Taylor Swift and not behaving like her!!
Taylor Swift is literally Regina George. All we need is other singers to be Gretchen, Karen, Cady etc. and we can have the TRUE Mean Girls Musical movie 🤣
Bowling for Soup still has their timeless song "High School Never Ends." Maybe the names of the celebrities who fit in each role has changed since the song came out, but the message still holds true.
Though at least Regina George got her karma (getting hit by the bus and injuring her spine) and is doing something in the end by joining the girl's lacrosse team as a means of anger management, and at least has made peace with Cady. Taylor is a grown-ass woman and she's *still* the mean girl.
Which one was the girl in the supermarket with the mask?
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValleyTo any cover artists, please take this on. I'd love to hear it.
didnt she have like a "girl squad" back in 2016 or whatever? i dont remember when but Selena Gomez was basically following her everywhere at the time
Sounds like she thinks the whole industry should be Taylor’s Version
My life as a non-Swiftie right now: ☺️🌄
My life as a non-Swiftie, working class American who currently cannot afford life-saving medication while billionaires like Taylor Swift keep getting wealthier by basically doing nothing: 😢[insert noose emoji]
Taylor Swift is the cheer captain, and Billie is the girl in the bleachers. Taylor has become the villain in her old song.💯
@@samuelfoster8615i mean, why else would she play both roles in the music video?
Taylor Swift only cares about herself. That should surprise no one at all, in the history of ever. It's how she got famous, after all... writing tons of sad songs about relationships that went awry. No doubt, in the half of her life where she and fame have been best buddies, that she's found ways to leech money from her fans.
In the same vein, it's not surprising that she would do petty stuff. In a way, it would be mirroring her past romantic relationships, only that she's the one doing the screwing over in these cases. And she also gets tons of fame for her relationship with Travis Kelce.
And Taylor knows she can get away with it because, well, all that money...
It's like the Pokemon Red & Blue of music, you gotta get both to catch em all
I hadn't seen the Billie Eilish interview before today, and as a certified Swiftie since middle school, man am I glad someone with a platform called that shit out (even if Billie's done it too). It's incredibly frustrating watching other fans fall for this, essentially, scam. I've seen a few fans call it out but it seems like the majority either don't care or eat it up.
Like, with TTPD, she had announced several different editions if the album BEFORE it even released. And then it turned out to be a surprise double album, so if you bought a special edition of TTPD, tough luck, your bonus song was on the Anthology version anyway, open to everyone on Spotify. And that's not even going into her insanely overpriced merch. Love her music, have since I was a kid, but the celebrity worship in the Swiftie fan base has been old for YEARS. It's why I typically just listen to her music on my own and don't post about it lol.
Same, I like Taylor's music and have been here since debut, but I just don't understand how rabid fans and Swifties can turn the act of enjoying to music so unbearable. I'll take my Folklore and Evermore records and run far away from Swiftie and their critic bloodlust
@@JanieLane Yeah, I agree
@@JanieLaneI wouldn’t even call her music “unbearable”, it’s the quality of store-brand white bread eaten straight out of the thin plastic bag - what’s unbearable is that it’s talked about and treated like it’s pizza from New York.
Hell, even my state’s pizza doesn’t have a cult-like fanbase that’s ready to accuse you of being another Andrew Tate, or throw homophonic and transphobic slurs at you (…speaking from personal experience) the moment you say anything negative about it.
I used to be the biggest swiftie when she started out country roots and all, but as the years progressed and the more I learned more about her, her business practices, the things she says and does while reacting to things and around friends, I sort of fell out of love with her. I still bop her music to this day, I just don’t like her much as a person or follow any news about her. I feel for her now the same way I do for Kanye and Chris Brown. You can like the art without liking the artist. But even for artists I do like, I wouldn’t blindly defend their questionable actions if there’s proof of shady behavior. Just weird how some fans can’t accept that you can admire someone and still hold them accountable..
@@flobwad It's a me, Mario. Wahoo...
Probably Taylor Swift still think she’s in high school. She even acts like a high schooler sometimes
literally said in the video
@@Vredesfull I commented before watching the video because I knew it would relate to her
That's it!
I think that you are correct. I think that you stop developing once you get famous and she got famous at 16 lol so yeah she's probably stuck in the absolute worst possible phases of high school can't get out and I'd feel bad for her but you know.
there's even a song on TTPD called So High School
I didn’t really get why it was such a big deal when Tool dethroned Swift on album sales back in the day. But learning more about her obsession with staying on top, it’s hilarious to me that the beer gut, balding dads of the world caused the Swiftie hive mind so much angst back in 2019.
TBF the previous Eilish album was on recycled vinyl as well. (which isn't always the best option if you care about audio quality. My black copy plays fine) Most artists release different pressings of albums on coloured vinyl, but Taylor goes a bit overboard with the releases. (by releasing a million different colours at once, and then selling empty collector's boxes for them. (Did I mention you need multiple of them for a full set...) Sure thing it's fun to buy an album in a cool colour, but Taylor is literally encouraging people to buy a dozen copies of the SAME album.
Tbh record sales aren't even comparible to those classic era of modern music (early 60s to early 80s) When the Beatles were around the worlds population was 2.5 billion people with most of the world outside the West still living in what was even deemed then destitution. Now music is a click away and vinyls, whilst an actual decent sized investment are being purchased by an demographic in population alone over triple the size of the one during the (golden oldies) time. Let alone other factors at play like better and more liberal measurement of units sold.
So no, it doesn't surprise me that people like Rhianna and Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are slowly but surely beating the records of The Beatles and Pink Floyd etc. What is surprising is with all these modern benefits at play its taking them so long to do it.
It's as you said because there's so many other avenues to obtain these songs. You can listen to entire albums for free on your phone, you can choose to download specific songs that you like for a dollar rather than purchase an entire album. Back during the beetles hayday you had to buy their album if you wanted to listen to them outside of live shows. And radio, i forgot about radio
Yes but people don’t buy music anymore so it’s far more impressive pulling the feat she did
@@barnaby4232 Not exactly, when even listening to music for free on TH-cam contributes to a sale, its going to be pretty straight forward for an established artist with an internatonal fandom.
@@jamesh4616 I’m baffled as to what your point is, the record was biggest vinyl sales week ever as in buying vinyls, pure physical sales.
@@barnaby4232 Except people do buy vinyls too. You didn't make which metric you were discussing clear like mentioning vinyls. Since 2016 we have literally been through whats been referred to as the vinyls revival. My city went to having one record shop to more than 2 dozen. It went from dated to trendy in the space of a year. You can even find them in tech stores now. Vinyls have been selling the best in the last decade than they have since the early 80s. Endless River and AM broke records and the news for selling records in the tens of thousands in 2014 because no one had bought records in that number in years. Vinyl sales have been booming ever since. I own over 50 myself. With more than triple the world population and all the aforementioned factors at play, I am surprised it took musicians that long to beat records set half a century ago.
Let's not kid ourselves, if it was a major male act releasing an album she would have done the same thing. She's obsessed with numbers and having all kinds of different records. She's not going to release that top spot for anyone if she can help it.
I imagine she's got a plan to kill Drake. I don't even like him but I think he's the only artist with more Platinum singles than her iirc
Isn't kendrick's not like us still outpacing her?
And if it was a male artist doing this, they'd get ripped a new one for being so petty.
She did blocked BTS years ago. Did the same to Sza last year and Olivia Rodrigo a year before that. I'm just glad people finally see her cunning scheme
@@Nakia11798 She DOES get ripped for doing this, though. It's dumb trying to turn this into a double standard thing.
The only caveat I can see in this theory (a MUSIC INDUSTRY Theory!) is Sabrina Carpenter. She has opened for Taylor Swift on her latest tours, and she still managed to snag a Top 5 song with Espresso. Seems like she's on the rise without being shut down by T-Swift. Maybe it's only a matter of time?
It’s for sure due in due time, Sabrina opened when she wasn’t as big and well known as she is now. The popularity from last year to this year so far makes me feel like Taylor will turn the tables on her soon, seeing her as a threat now.
Yeah I thought the same. She only got her first big hit after touring with her
And remember the only reason she brought Sabrina Carpenter was to shade Olivia Rodrigo because she felt threatened by Olivia. So it's funny how it's kind of backfired on her now. She may not have expected Sabrina's career to take off like it did.
@@samuelfoster8615 compare their careers side by side, and you'll see a lot more similarities than you might expect
Will never forget how a Taylor Swift fan told me "Clearly you've never experienced something traumatic enough to understand this song, you should consider yourself lucky" bc i didn't like one of her new songs lol
Fr one Swiftie send me tons of tweets about that when I said I didn't like her new album 😂
I know no life is easy, but...
What has Taylor actually gone through??? Is there a recent interview I don't know about??
@@lightningninja6905 A breakup
I like Taylor Swift's music, I would even go as far to say that I love it, but I cannot get behind her queen capitialism behavior. She has made it so very clear that she doesnt care about her fans, she just wants money. She's a BILLIONAIRE for crying out loud. You dont get that money from being a good person, or ethical business practices that's for sure
Who's still listening to Gayle? I thought she quit making music
At the risk of making a really obscure reference, The Eras Tour was basically every Ayumi Hamasaki concert tour since 2005.
Not an obscure reference. I believe Buckley did a video on that this year. (If not a main channel video, then it was an Extra Dose, available on his Patreon.)
Ayumi Hamasaki... it's been a hot minute since I've seen her name be mentioned. lol I used to listen to some of her songs.
I believe you're thinking of my Hatsune Miku video. I don't think I know who Ayumi Hamasaki is.
@@ADoseofBuckley oop, that's right. Shows how much I know about either off the top of my head
@@StephenShepherdOfficialI respect it.
Taylor saw the gaming industry and wanted in on that.
as a game developer I am APALLED
I instantaneously subscribed after I clicked on this video, well done bro!
HA! NO SHADY BUSINESS?! I'm fuckin weak 😂😅 shes all shade all the time but im actually here for it lmfao
I admire your brutal honesty and agree with the majority of your points here, with only one exception: I think Sabrina Carpenter's recent commercial success is because of her being the opener for Taylor Swift (I'm not dismissing Sabrina's new label's marketing tactics though).
However, she's also on the fence of crossing the die-hard TS fans' mental barrier: having a billboard #4 song and sponsoring Kim K's new clothing line WHILE the TTPD album is just being released ... curious about how that'll play out.
I think we need to remember that Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish are not merely individuals. They're entire companies full of people competing against each other. None of this is personal. The more money the "Taylor Swift" company makes, the more money her marketing dept, dancers, etc. makes. I wouldn't be surprised if they have programmers working for them on their websites and such. But yeeeah it's silly to call Taylor Swift an "ethical billionaire". She might have good intentions, certainly better than the CEOs of health insurance companies or major conglomerates involved with modern slavery, but it's impossible for billionaires to avoid violations of ethics.
This is one of your all-time great videos.
“The Toilet Paper department” 😂😂😂
your black and white profile picture... is that a new album cover for the 32098417th edition of the toilet paper department?
I dunno what's worse. Taylor Swift being passed off as some genuine, struggling woman. Or Pearl being passed off as a conservative woman.
What are you on about lmao
Pearl calls herself conservative so...
@@im4ft622 People think Pearl is conservative when she ain't.
@@nataliekhanyola5669 yeah, she's lying/dumb (as per usual)
@@1tzyb1tzel what is she then, seems conservative to me
I've been saying it since the relationship with Kelce began. It's all about her. She knew that KC was the most televised team in the NFL. What's the most watch TV event of the year? The Super Bowl. Something Travis had a high likelihood of playing in. If Mahomes wasn't already married she'd have 100% docked her cart to him.
When they were going out the season hadn't even started. There was a very high chance KC wouldn't even make it. They barely got to the playoffs
It’s the fact that her fans have been attacking Travis’s ex for months and she’s said NOTHING, says a lot about her if you ask me
@@krombopulos_michaelThey really shouldn’t have. Now we live in a world where Kadarious Toney has two Super Bowl rings.
@@PrincessZaire100 it doesn't effect her so she doesn't care.
The NFL screwed my team over at the Superbowl this year just to accommodate Taylor Swift. I'll never forgive her for this.
I’ll never not hate Taylor Swift for how much environmental damage she’s done with her private jets (yes, plural!) and crazy tours. She’s an entitled brat with mediocre music, there, I said it. Great analysis, Buckley!
there’s no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants. you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
Also funny how you don’t call out people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who are doing much worse harm to the environment, or Leonardo DiCaprio who preaches about climate change while having a yacht and a private yet. At least Taylor has never claimed to be a climate activist
there's no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants. you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
there's no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants, but you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
there's no proof carbon emissions actually cause harm to the environment, infact they help to grow plants. you probably heard that from communists like jane fonda who also said nuclear power was dangerous yet its one of the most sustainable sources of energy
I busted a gut laughing so hard at the end there.
Bloody brilliant Buckley.
Flawless assessment, Buckley. Spot on.
i used to have no opinion on what kind of person taylor swift was. i just hated her fans. now i hate them both. she's just an awful greedy person
In fairness to HAIM, their album "Women In Music Part 3" was nominated for Album Of The Year. All 3 sisters were in the movie "Licorice Pizza" with Alana Haim being nominated for Best Actress. They've had success albeit niche. You're right in general tho. Love their song "Don't Wanna".
They've been successful, sure, but when the BIGGEST musician in the world is giving you the rub, that should translate to much bigger numbers. The fact is that these people just don't listen to anything else. If they did, if they put Haim in their Spotify playlists at even HALF the frequency as they put Taylor in there, there'd be some movement on the charts.
The vinyl collecting side of this is crazy to me.
I heard about what happened to Record Store Day last year. The people (mostly scalpers, lets face it) who show up extra early had to fight through a crowd of Swifties at every mom & pop record store. They were camping the night before and just overwhelmed every store. Kids who grew up on iPads are buying physical media, that's how much pull TS has
On the plus side, I suppose that's good. People buying physical media that is. Perhaps it will breed a lifetime of wanting to do that, although again, since most of these people live in such a cultural black hole, they likely won't do it once they get over their Taylor Swift obsessions.
The percentage of likelihood that a concerning amount of these people who storm the record stores for these vinyls don't even own a record player and/or have no plans of buying one isn't zero...
@@JumpTossCatch A survey was done about 6 or 7 years back that suggested about half of vinyl collectors don't actually listen to the vinyl or own a record player to do so if they wanted to. I don't know if that's changed much but yeah, no different I suppose than the comic collectors who buy the graded nonsense and don't actually READ comics. They just think what they're buying will be worth more than they paid for it some day.
@@ADoseofBuckleyTaylor should put out a collection of retro-'70s songs and release it on 8-track, just to see who'd buy it.
Taylor Swift to release her next album this Saturday just before the new Buckley vid.
She's currently doing a competition where if you pre-order the new album you're entered into a draw to win the opportunity to buy tickets to one of her UK concerts. That's right - you can win the CHANCE to buy tour tickets by pre-ordering the album.
I enjoy her music, but I do think that a lot of her marketing tactics are exploitative of her fanbase, both for their money and the exposure it brings her. One day it will backfire
This is a women's version of DLC
No need to insult an entire gender just because of one greedy one!
@Metzli I'm just saying her over charging a record with just 1 bonas track is the same as a game company reselling an entire game but adding 1 mission to the game for the resell.
@@Argos-xb8ek I know what a DLC is and I understood the analogy. But it has nothing to do with gender. When a gaming company pulls out one of these tricks, I don't hear anyone say "Men and their DLC's, lmao, am I right?"
@Metzli are you joking? You hear plenty of people say stuff like that and they tend to be feminists. Oh, and * you're * wrong if you object to them.
@Metzli you're being obtuse if you think my comment was limited to game DLCs. You were up in this thread crying about how it's wrong to make one woman's crime the crime of an entire gender....yet that's literally what feminists do to men.
In fact, you probably are one and you're just gaslighting rn
She’s very recently done again that same thing to Charli XCX on her new album release
“Nala Se’s half sister” 💀💀💀
"Available for 6 hours" disgusting
Iron Maiden fans seem to have the same reaction towards opening acts and Led Zeppelin is the king of reissues. Swift has just been taking notes including those with J-pop and K-pop marketing. Adele tapped into that Taylor Swift market and made a lot of money so other artists can do the same thing.
As far as timing goes, there seems to be an industry standard because look at how many top artists launched their albums from mid April to all of May. It has been album bomb after album bomb for the past 6 weeks.
I was wondering about that too. I don't know much about the industry but was thinking it might be like how all the big movie blockbusters come out at certain times of the year, people go quiet for months and then up they pop around the same time to promote stuff
Man, I don't think I'll ever get tired of Buckley's channel. I get a good laugh every week
Nala Se’s half sister is such an unexpected deep cut
Quite a few people have accused Taylor of being calculating. It may very well be true, if so, she’s a masterclass of manipulation. I’m old enough to get the inspector gadget reference too, sadly ;)
As a conservative myself, I can confirm that no one likes Pearl on our side of the spectrum. Not the moderates, not the MAGA Trump supporters, not the traditionalists, no the libertarian right wingers, and not the heavily religious folks either. She is a clown and a half and sadly makes some of the left's criticisms of us valid.
4:05 Wowsers!
Samurai pizza cats was the best😂 one of my earliest memories 😂
Thanks Buckley. You've reinforced that I don't give a damn about either one of those people.
Taylor's fandom scares me. Some people I know jumped on that bandwagon, and they can't shut up about how awesome she is.
It's just like with Beyonce's fanbase back in the day. But scarier, somehow.
By the way, these "timed digital exclusives" feel like a horrible practice. One of my favourite bands did that recently, and I thought it was kind of disrespectful to the fanbase. People leaked it after the time have passed, and I don't even blame them. Taylor is rich and popular as hell, she doesn't even need these tactics to keep her position in charts.
When you feel a little bit of shame or guilt over your stamp- or comic collection or dump a bit too much money on that Star Wars Lego kit, just remember there are people who buy the same Taylor Swift album multiple times, digitally
Those artists have employees to plan these scandals, they don't even conceive of them themselves
Great video. In my opinion, there is very little overlap of Billie Eilish fans and Taylor Swift fans. One group is looking for a completely different message and style of music than the other. I wouldn’t discount either of them in their lane, but there isn’t much when it comes to listening to both. It’s unfortunate that such feuds are huge “news“. In our world of social media, this is another example of it being unsocial.
Sure, but the overlap isn't quite the concern here, simply that she's getting her audience to rebuy the same album they just bought in order to have it outsell someone else's album. It's not that she's making them spend on either HER or Billie, and they're choosing Taylor... it's that Taylor's basically saying to the 2 million people who just bought her album "buy it again for one extra track! Or buy it three more times for three tracks!"
About the 'streaming isn't wasteful' statement: Have you ever considered how much energy is needed for all the cloud servers and online libraries? It's definitely way more than making physical albums people can play over and over again for years.
So, buying physical records is way more eco friendly than streaming it over and over again.
You're also seeing this in the WNBA vis-a-vis Caitlin Clark but with that case as well you can make the argument that in a patriarchal system, there's a "scarcity" dynamic at play where women feel a woman having success/being at the top is a zero sum game where if that woman wins, you lose. This is particularly true for someone like Taylor who, in her mid-30s, knows that that she past the age where her replacement should be taking over (indeed, arguably, if it wasn't for the pandemic and the "folkmore" records, she was already on a kind of natural decline. Someone in their documentary (Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, or Billie Eilish) said that unlike for the men, the top women in the music industry aren't really close friends with each other despite literally being the only people on the planet that can relate to what they're going through.
I wish I'd seen that WNBA thing from The View a few days before this. I could have used that as an example. But yeah, the woman from the view calling out Caitlyn Clark (I may have spelled both those names wrong) for "Pretty privilege" and "White privilege", no one can just be happy that the WNBA is actually getting some press and some viewers? Absolutely a "woman hating women for doing it wrong" moment.
And now we wait for the Swifties to start sending Buckley death threats.
You know, since they're such well adjusted and good people. 🤣
Eh. It never bothered me back in 2012! And I think the day I'm afraid of a Taylor Swift fan is the day I start crossing the road in fear of girl scouts.
wow she did booster packs of marketing pictures
omg
There were only 5 distinct package (so like, 1 package contained pictures 1 - 12, second package contained pictures 13 - 24, or whatever it was) so it wasn't QUITE as bad as booster packs, but yeah basically. There were definitely people who would have bought 10 copies of the album to get all 5.
I think it’s weird to blame Taylor swift for all of Billie’s poor album performance, because her promotion was weird. I guarantee none of her fans play fortnite. She didn’t bother releasing any singles for the album. I still haven’t heard a song from it. I keep seeing Twitter ads for it, and that’s it. If all Taylor swift had to do was release 3 voice memos for 6 hours to ruin her album rollout, then I think Billie’s team failed her.
Since the three voice memo editions were only available that Thursday and the chart week runs Friday-Thursday they don’t even fall into the same chart week as Billie’s album.
It’s not doing poorly! Billie’s album reached number 1 in countries (pretty much just US) in which Taylor didn’t do those new variants! It’s actually her biggest debut!
I agree with Renan and Karen in this thread.
it’s actually doing very well! it’s her biggest debut and would’ve went #1 if taylor didn’t do anything more that week
@@Nicole-nc1gh did you buy the album? Or did you just stream it?
I believe the rumor she was intimidated a bit by Olivia's success then apparently released a new "special" vinyl varient (probably more than that)of one of her albums that came out after the deja vu situation. It seems extremely weird but i also agree thats why she "got" the good 4 u royalties for haylee Williams and probably a factor why she chose Sabrina carpenter to open for her. Despite her not having a top 10 hit at the time. It sounds ridiculously petty but clearly she is so i believe it 😂
I do think she chooses women or anyone that won't potentially outshine her
Toilet Paper Department got me cackling 😂😂😂😂😂😂
3 versions of an album with a different bonus track.
Big reason torrents exist lmao. Won't be surprised if your average die hard Taylor Swift fans buy all three.
what's really cool is that the next in line to Taylor Swift crown as Queen of Pop is Sabrina Carpenter who is Nancy Cartwright the voice of Bart Simpson's niece.
Didn't know this.😮
There's no way Taylor lets that happen. Sabrina will fall in line or else.
And this is why Tori Amos's Cornflake Girl still holds up well even until today. If you know, you know.
Pearl doesn't even live up to her own standards as to how a woman should be
Just when I thought it wasn't possible for me to roll my eyes even harder, that "tweet" praising Taylor Senpai proved me wrong.
So Taylor Senpai's the "only ethical billionaire" because she doesn't have a makeup brand? Well, I seem to remember another singer with a MASSIVELY popular, cruelty-free, and inclusive makeup line...I think her last name rhymes with Slendy or Trendy or something like that...
...nah, nope. Taylor Senpai's The Only Ethical Rich Person because of her "talent" in re-branding her usual "woe is me, I'm not like other girls, no I'm totally not a teenager in a grown woman's body" to her little rabid fanbase who will never realize that their Senpai will never, ever notice them.
I wonder how "ethical" it is to make other musicians give her songwriting credits (which gives her more royalties for songs she never had anything to do with) because a song was "inspired" by her... gonna guess her fans think that's fine too.
I saw that post on facebook! it was made by Olivia Johnson, her page praises Taylor as a goddess, is insane!
That seat thing is actually too crazy to be a part of real life...
If I was Taylor swift at this point, I’d just stop trying to make money from concerts and just do them for the bare minimum price. You’ve got enough money, just have fun and make people happy.
That's why you'll never be a billionaire. You can be satisfied. You can say "I have enough."
that's not how greed works.
@@NJGuy1973 maybe not a billionaire but I am well on my way to millionaire status. At least at my age. Maybe you’re right though. I’m caring enough to give $100 a week to my disabled best friend. If I didn’t do that I could invest the money. I wonder what swift had to do to make this happen.
If there's enough demand for it, it will be exploited. It's just simple business tactics. Sure, people can bitch & moan all they want about how unfair the ticket pricing is, but the bottom line is if they're constantly selling out, then there's no real incentive to wanna stop. No point in trying to bring moral high ground into it, lol.
The Nala Se reference isn’t too far off. Swifties are insane enough that they would likely execute Order 66 if Taylor told them to. They wouldn’t need the chips either.
On another note, Haim is such a great band!
Alana's my favorite. "Don't Wanna" is one of the best bass lines I have ever heard
@@bostonredsox49 100% agree
So you are basically saying that all this media drama that Taylor Swift keeps finding herself in might be slightly, possibly, even conceivably of her own making?
Taylor is now doing console exclusives?
I wonder if the musoc industry will ever copy the season pass
Musicians having their own streaming service has happened before (Neil Young and the PONO), maybe Taylor can give that a whirl.
Jay Z did something similar with Tidal. Initially when he launched that it was the only place to stream his music as well as big artists associated with him like Kanye West and Beyonce
was it opposite day when that person tweeted about taylor being ethical and not shady 😭
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