In the 2010s, she became its savviest power player.
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This is such a great year in music.
The new artists are insane, she declared in her acceptance speech, with big-sister gravitas.
That night, she finally outgrew that Who, me?
Swift cut an imposing adult figure up there, because somewhere along the line shed become one.
Few artists have made royalty payments and the minutiae of entertainment-law front-page news as often as Swift has.
And Im so sick and tired of having to pretend like I dont mastermind my own business.
Taylor Swift is something like the Sheryl Sandberg of pop music, Hazel Cillswroterecently in Jezebel.
The only A-plus-list musician who saturated the market as steadily as Swift did this decade was Drake.
Like, gazillions of them.
At least for those mere mortals who were not an all-powerful being named Taylor Alison Swift.
Is female empowerment any different from the hollow, materialistic promises of the late 90s girl power?
Is female power inherently different or more benevolent than its default male counterpart?
This was a side of herself she celebrated in her AMA performance.
I thought it was going to be we can still stick together, just like men are allowed to.
Maybe she would have gotten where she was quicker if she were a man.
Art has its own kind of power sneakier and harder to measure than the economic kind.
Have you ever watched her in interviews when she gets asked about her actual songwriting?
She becomes that kid whos really into the science fair.
Forget Jake Gyllenhaal or John Mayer.
Thats the sort of observation that would bring Goliath to his knees.
Because theyve been there all along, and they rememberalltoo well.
