Honestly Derec, you should consider why mostly young women love Taylor Swift.
Because she likes to bitch about men in her songs?
I don't know her music that well, but isn't that pretty much the meme about her music?
You talk about feeling as though Democrats do not care about 'your demographic' (I am not certain what demographic that you mean, tbh. Clarification?)
White straight cis-men who are not Muslims and child-free.
I think her tickets are obscenely expensive and do not understand how her demographic affords them, including my nieces and their friends who adore Swift.
I think that is in general the case with music. Keeping the tickets cheaper has limited utility - it just encourages arbitrage (aka scalping).
The real reason it costs so much to go to a concert
The gist is, as so often, supply vs. demand. Supply is limited because music is extremely top-heavy - there are a relative handful of superstars in every genre at any given time. The concert goers provide the steady demand, but mostly for a limited number of famous acts. That results in high prices.
That Taylor Swift demographic: young women have been left out of political consideration by the GOP for decades, really, forever.
Can't the same be said for young men and Democrats? Isn't that why so many are of them are into Trump, as well as influencers such as Andrew Tate?
The current GOP candidates for (pick an office but let's start with POTUS/VP) tell young women that they are only valuable for their ability to produce and raise infants, that their bodies are under the control of the government and that they should not hold office, have jobs outside the home or do anything aside from raise their husband's children.
Other than emphasizing marriage and having children, I have not seen Trump or Vance say that women should not work, hold office or do anything other than raise children. [citation needed]
And as far as having children, Dems are also gunning for the natalist vote with the $6k child tax credit and other such ideas.
Indeed, POP culture has largely left women out altogether, except as accessories and victims and of course, prostitutes.
Are you kidding me? Many pop-culture icons are female. In music, in movies, on TV. They even made The Doctor female!
And what do you mean by "and of course, prostitutes"?
It has only been very recently when my local movie multiplex has shown more than one, and often, zero films with female cast members as anything other than background, if at all.
You must live in a geographic oddity. I checked out the website for
a movie theater chain. Of the movies currently showing, most have at least one woman featured on the poster/thumbnail and many have only women/a woman on it.
Men lost their minds over the Barbie movie,
Barbieland or whatever it is called is a rather sexist place. Also, a horrible palette.
and the re-boot of Ghostbusters with a mostly female cast.
Unimaginative gender-flipped reboot. It made female cast into a gimmick better suited for a SNL sketch than a feature movie. But most importantly, it was a bad movie.
There are whole genres of music that feature heavily misogynistic lyrics, often quite popular with young men or just men.
Do you mean hip-hop? Yes, lyrics can be quite misogynistic, but there are also many prominent female rappers. Like Cardi B with her WAP.
Turns out that there is a market for female singers who appeal to young women, as Swift and Beyonce well know.
Of course there is a market for those, even if their music sucks. But that is not an excuse for Dems only catering to those demographics.
Also, as I said before, usually billionaires are treated as public enemies #1, except for TS, Oprah etc.. Why?
Not only that but Swift famously gave everyone on her crew for her ERAS tour, to the tune of $55M, including $100K to each of the truck drivers. Compare and contrast how Amazon workers are reportedly treated or Musk's employees who are suing for harassment and gender discrimination.
A lawsuit doesn't mean the claims are necessarily true. And a tour is a very different business than a huge logistics operation.
Lots of people are still angry over Hillary's basket full of deplorables comment. I am, as well and she was not talking about me. How many years ago was that? I totally get that. It hurts to be reduced to one disrespectful offhand comment by someone powerful. Women have put up with that for eons. It is not surprising that they turn out in droves to hear people who lift them up instead.
And then you can also understand why I am disappointed that Dems seem so dismissive of the likes of me.
Which may have been an attempt at humor but trust me, is very, very creepy.
It was kind of funny though. And obviously he was not serious about it.
