everything sounds the same to me in the pop scene, might just be me

1989 was a great album for any era … she’s also had some really solid chill albums recently which are for the streaming era where her fans listen while “tuning out” and doing other work / chores. I think she has brilliantly managed the business of her music and stayed incredibly consistent to who she is at her core WHILE capturing the dynamism of life and growing up and situations.

I think “Lover” was a miss but still captured the cultural weirdness of the late twenty-teens (“peak functional fiat culture”) and I am not a huge fan of this recent Kelce storyline / NFL marketing development. BUT, I thought what she has done to manage in business AND keep her music relevant was incredibly tough and she knocked it out of the park. Better than any other artist of the last 20 years, by far. True “excellence” despite the fiat system she operates in.