OT: If I hear/see one more thing about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift........

superfan01

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Question for the old timers.

Is Taylor swift in her prime bigger then how Elvis was in his prime.?

Like the public and media obsession.
 

RUGuitarMan1

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Question for the old timers.

Is Taylor swift in her prime bigger then how Elvis was in his prime.?

Like the public and media obsession.
I wasn’t around when Elvis was big, but that was a different era. The 24/7 entertainment overload that is today is an entirely different thing. I would say Swift and Beyoncé are similar to Madonna and Michael Jackson back in the 80s. Typical main stream pop star stuff.
 

RUfromNJ

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So, it's not just me ?
Music Video Hello GIF by Taylor Swift
 
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RUPete

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I wasn’t around for Elvis or the Beatles arrival so I can’t compare. I will say that I don’t think I have seen anything like the whole Swiftie phenomenon in my lifetime. And that’s coming from someone who followed the Dead up and down the East Coast back in the day. 😄
 

Knight Shift

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Deion or Taylor take your pick 😂
Is this even a choice? I prefer women. But I do find Deion attractive in a lot of ways, and he definitely would be more fun to hang out with. Swift seems like she would be high maintenance. Plus the whole John Mayer thing was creepy AF.
 

MADHAT1

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I wasn’t around for Elvis or the Beatles arrival so I can’t compare. I will say that I don’t think I have seen anything like the whole Swiftie phenomenon in my lifetime. And that’s coming from someone who followed the Dead up and down the East Coast back in the day. 😄
The Beatles took America by storm and Beatlemania still is in effect for a lot of oldies that lived in that era.
Some felt threatened by them because with their arrival long hair became the fashion .
Besides music they had teenagers change hairstyles
The longer Elvis is gone the less people remember what kind of craze he brought to the teenybopper crowd and had the adult up in arms and going nuts ( not are you) trying to keep him off the air so their kids wouldn't be influenced by Elvis the Pelvis
You had to live through those days to understand
As for comparing the Taylor swift craze, probably close to Elvis and the Fab Four, every generation has musicians they go totally nuts ( again not are you)
over and can be compared to the ones that their parents and grandparents went totally over the top when trying to see them

Taylor Swift is a force now, years from now another entertainer will have people claim ( insert name) have a bigger and crazier following then she has now

But Taylor can tell Michael to beat it 😁
 
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Morrischiano2

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She is as big as the Beatles. Perhaps bigger.

Last October she had ten songs in the top ten slots of the Billboard Top 100, at the same time. No one has ever done that.

One thing about TSwift relationships is that she is at the Derek Jeter level of discression. She’s had a lot of high profile relationships with famous and somewhat famous men. No one EVER gossiped after the relationship ended.

Makes you wonder if her handlers are having Kelce sign a NDA. He’s a football player who enjoys talking s—- on social media and podcasts. She’s the most famous person in the world.

What ever this relationship is, everyone wins (TSwift penetrated the NFL media market, the NFL gets mindshare with Swifties, and Kelce penetrated….).
 

mdk02

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She is as big as the Beatles. Perhaps bigger.

Last October she had ten songs in the top ten slots of the Billboard Top 100, at the same time. No one has ever done that.

One thing about TSwift relationships is that she is at the Derek Jeter level of discression. She’s had a lot of high profile relationships with famous and somewhat famous men. No one EVER gossiped after the relationship ended.

Makes you wonder if her handlers are having Kelce sign a NDA. He’s a football player who enjoys talking s—- on social media and podcasts. She’s the most famous person in the world.

What ever this relationship is, everyone wins (TSwift penetrated the NFL media market, the NFL gets mindshare with Swifties, and Kelce penetrated….).


And before Elvis it was Sinatra, but with fewer media options and outlets. Time will tell if she ends up with a catalogue as large and high quality as they, particularly the Beatles, left .
 

cRURah

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elvis and the beatles were revolutionary. They were not only great musicians but culture changers. and yes I was around for both. As boys we collected baseball cards. the girls collected Elvis cards. Elvis appeared on tv and the camera could not go below the waist. today diva’s twerk without embarrassment i’m front on millions at the super bowl.
 
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MadRU

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Always found this quote funny and amazing:

George Martin quote on the back of the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl Album: My youngest daughter, Lucy, now nine years old, once asked me about them, "You
used to record them, didn't you, Daddy?" she asked, "Were they as great as the Bay City Rollers?" "Probably not," I replied. Some day she will find out.
 

Knight Shift

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She is as big as the Beatles. Perhaps bigger.

Last October she had ten songs in the top ten slots of the Billboard Top 100, at the same time. No one has ever done that.

One thing about TSwift relationships is that she is at the Derek Jeter level of discression. She’s had a lot of high profile relationships with famous and somewhat famous men. No one EVER gossiped after the relationship ended.

Makes you wonder if her handlers are having Kelce sign a NDA. He’s a football player who enjoys talking s—- on social media and podcasts. She’s the most famous person in the world.

What ever this relationship is, everyone wins (TSwift penetrated the NFL media market, the NFL gets mindshare with Swifties, and Kelce penetrated….).
Except for John Mayer.
 

Morrischiano2

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And before Elvis it was Sinatra, but with fewer media options and outlets. Time will tell if she ends up with a catalogue as large and high quality as they, particularly the Beatles, left .
As large, no. Those guys put out an album every year.

High quality is subjective. Objectively, Sinatra released over 50 albums. 5 albums topped the charts at #1.

Elvis released 40 studio and soundtrack albums. He had 8 #1 albums.

Swift has released 10 albums so far. 9 out of 10 have topped the charts at #1.
 
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Saint Puppy

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Have to say I do like her - she seems very genuine for the most part and seems as down to earth as possible for the mega-star that she is. And it was cool seeing her go crazy the first 2 or 3 times when Kelce scored - the other 97 times not so much. Dating her and potentially having a break-up song written about you has to be a deal breaker. I definitely have her sign an NDA too if I'm dating her probably mirroring the one she's having me sign and including no song being written about me when things go south.

It is kind of funny to see a super sensitive song writer enter the world of football - will be entertaining to see how this unfolds if things go south. NFL fans vs Swifties (a bunch of crazed teenage girls) - let the games begin!!!!
 

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I can't believe that Swift is as popular as Presley was. The media works to make Taylor Swift popular, whereas the media just captured the screaming maniacs fainting when Elvis Presley walked by.