Taylor Swift has become a household name ever since she first started her career. The reactions to her can vary, some are positive and some are negative. The media loves to portray Taylor as a celebrity who loves bringing attention to herself and does not care about anyone else. Perez Hilton even said that Taylor was the reason that his Twitter account was suspended. I want to inform everyone that Taylor Swift has done some very important things in this past year that she has not gotten recognition for. After her hit album, “1989” was released and her world tour was over, the world saw less and less of Taylor Swift. This was caused by the media and how cruel they treated her. The drama with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian contributed to her time away. She told her fans that she was not sure that she could keep going with this lifestyle and that she was unsure she wanted to keep performing. No one heard from Taylor for nearly three years. That was until one day all of her social media was deleted and the announcement of the “reputation” era was released. She announced the first single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” was going to be released the next day. The single had over eight million streams on Spotify, breaking the previous record.
Fast forward a couple of months to November and her album came out. With almost no promotion the album sold 4.7 million physical copies in the first week, hence it became the second global selling album of 2017. With this success, Taylor accompanied the album with a tour. No one thought that anything would be different from any other tour because most artists tour their new work. However, the entirety of the tour was a stadium tour, which is very hard to sell out.
Taylor’s “reputation” stadium tour consists of fifty-three dates, forty of which are in the Americas, six European cities, five Australian/ New Zealand locations and two shows in Asia. The tour commenced on May 8th, 2018 in Arizona and will conclude November 21, 2018, in Tokyo. Critics were very hard to Swift during ticket sales saying how she won’t be able to sell out due to stadium size and asked rude questions about how many people actually liked Taylor Swift. There were clearly incorrect. Within the first leg of the tour, “reputation” shows grossed over $100 million. The tour broke stadium attendance records, beating out artists such as One Direction, U2, Metallica, and many more. She also became the first female artist to headline certain stadiums two, or in some instances three times in a row. “Reputation” beat the record for the highest grossing tour by a female artist in America, beating out herself for the top spot with her former “1989” world tour.
During the entirety of the tour, there was only one bad article written about it. That article was written negatively because the author simply did not like the confetti and the flashing lights. Basically, that reporter did not understand the aesthetic of Taylor’s concerts. While I am writing about all her successes, Taylor just now holds the record for most American Music Awards won with twenty-two AMAs and has won every category she was nominated for. She opened the show with the song “I Did Something Bad,” and the whole world finally heard her most iconic lyrics, “If a man talks shit then I owe him nothing.” This timing is perfect, as she just wrote an Instagram caption about voting her disapproval of the Republican administration. After the Instagram post about voting, over sixty-thousand citizens have registered to vote in Taylor’s home state Tennessee alone. Republican officials and supporters alike attacked this endorsement and attacked Taylor’s character. Of course, she is used to the online abuse and has not revoked that statement. So to wrap this up nicely, the world has been giving Taylor Swift shit for way too long. I guess it took her beating her own records, beating Beyonce in certain categories, and finally stating that she is in fact not a Republican for the media to start supporting to her.