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All Hail Taylor Swift, Person of the Year!

God I can't wait to here about how many people don't care about this.
 
8enotto said:
Shake it off, worse choices were possible.
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I have no problem with Taylor being chosen as Person of the Year. I think it's a case of not just worst choices were possible, there isn't a better one.

A brief look back shows Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Zuck, Putin and Dubbya (twice) all have been made person of the year this century.

In that company, TS is positively a saint.

She's also a woman who has stood up for her principles at the expense of alienating some of her core fans. Pro-LGBT, pro-democracy, anti-Trump... I think she's a great pick.
 
Taylor Swift and Hitler, yet another thing they have in common! It's getting quite alarming.
 
Who?

Seriously, I somehow managed to escape the pull of this Black Hole - I'm sure I heard plenty of her songs without knowing who the singer is - and when someone tells me, I forget almost instantly.
 
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Time magazine editors are trying to stay hip as they heard that their grand daughters were listening to Taylor Swift on their CD players in their retirement homes. It was a toss-up between her or U2 with their ground-breaking residency in Las Vegas.
 
theprestige said:
She made millions of people happy, while literally doing nothing wrong. It's hard to imagine a better candidate for the title.
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"Taylor Swift is a better person than Hitler" is the implication. Yes, I think that's about right. Well done!
 
theprestige said:
Taylor Swift is a better person than probably the majority of people who have received the title.
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Her particular station in life limits the bad she can do, so it is an uneven playing field for other candidates.
 
Samson said:
Her particular station in life limits the bad she can do, so it is an uneven playing field for other candidates.
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"Challenge accepted!" thought Taylor Swift, perusing the forum in her disguise. "I shall wreak a terrible destruction, one that will devastate the souls of all who consider it! Oh, my, yes."
 
Samson said:
Her particular station in life limits the bad she can do, so it is an uneven playing field for other candidates.
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What the **** are you talking about? She has a massive, massive following on every social media platform she decides to be on. She started dating an NFL player and THEIR ******* SALES WENT UP. She's stood up to recording studios, including re-recording her entire catalog to get out from under their thumb, and she's philanthropic as well.

All around she's an amazing person and everyone that hops in and is like, "Who? Don't know, don't care about some pop person" is doing the same thing you're doing. Dismissing her because of one facet of her life, which admittedly made her wealthy. The fact you saying "lets hold off on the celebration" is WAY too late. The choice has been made and no one involved in it gave a flying ******* what Samson has to say about Taylor's views. Nothing to debate.
 
William Parcher said:
That song is forgettable.
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Tons of songs are forgettable if you aren't a fan of the music. It's fine if you're not. The fact is she's dripping with accolades from her music career. I don't like country or classical music, but as a musician I recognize the talent and skill it takes to create that music.
 
Samson said:
Her particular station in life limits the bad she can do, so it is an uneven playing field for other candidates.
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Having tons of money and followers limits the bad she can do?

How clueless can you get
 
King Charles was apparently one of the other finalists, so I support this choice. He's pitchy as hell.
 
"Blank Space" is legit one of the better pop songs to come out in recent years.

Not a personal fan but have zero against her.
 
William Parcher said:
I've never heard a Taylor Swift song.
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Yes you have.

TragicMonkey said:
I've heard worse music. She's no Taylor Dayne, but she gets by.
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Yeah, especially her "Taylor's Version" albums, where in order to get out of a constrictive recording contract, she fully re-recorded her old albums from scratch so that she could retain creative control over the music.

And they're actually really good. You might not be into the genre, that's a matter of taste, but it's hard to deny that the songs are good.
 
lobosrul5 said:



If somehow, someway, you don't know any women under 40 or girls, and hadn't actually heard that song but just didn't know who it was... there ya go.

I mean I've heard that from people's phone ringtones.
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OK. If that's typical, then it is possible that I've never heard one of her songs before either.

Weird. I was assuming that I would have heard something.

However, my various radios have been on classical music stations for decades, so I guess there's not much opportunity for me to hear her work.

I recently found out about Katy Perry because of an advert for a food delivery service, I think this demonstrates that I'm as far out of touch with 'bubblegum music' as it is possible to be.

Other than the announcement, what does the 'person of the year' do?
 
She's helped me out in several quizzes, her and her mate Ed. Any musical questions about a female my suggestion is always Swift, any about a male and my answer is Ed. For some reason my team mates don't turn to me for answers to music questions.
 
novaphile said:
Other than the announcement, what does the 'person of the year' do?
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Not a lot. It's just Time magazine's recognition of the person they deem most influential in that year. They don't have to be a good person, just influential. In 1938, the Person of the Year was Adolf Hitler.

So it's more or less completely irrelevant. Time is a large and influential periodical - or at least it has been for most of its history - so in terms of celebrity status it's pretty influential. But it doesn't really mean anything other than that.
 
novaphile said:
I recently found out about Katy Perry because of an advert for a food delivery service, I think this demonstrates that I'm as far out of touch with 'bubblegum music' as it is possible to be.
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I'm outraged that Katy Perry has never been Time's person of the year. I mean, her cat was named Kitty Purry. She deserves recognition for that alone.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift's cats are Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button. I'm sure she's a nice person and all, but that's nothing.
 
Technically speaking I am a, I believe, 3 times Person of the Year Winner and I believe I can safely report that the office carries little in the way of official duties.
 
One more for the Not my cup of tea but she's undeniably talented camp. And you have almost certainly heard one of her songs. Also, this is the most press Time has gotten in decades.
 
ahhell said:
Also, this is the most press Time has gotten in decades.
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Yep. It's like earlier this year when Sports Illustrated put transgender singer Kim Petras on one of the alternative covers and people were like "Will this confuse the children" and I'm like "I mean nobody under the age of 20 even knows what 'Sports Illustrated' or 'a magazine' is at this point."
 
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