In a completely self unaware moment by JD Vance, he said this:
“We admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans, whether they like her music, are fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans,”
What's more, why is JD Guyliner even in his current position?
The support of a billionaire. JD is as "disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans" as any Senator. His "hillbilly" background is questionable at best, and he is a tool of the elites. He got to where he is because of money, and if his recent performance is any indication, it has nothing to do with his innate political skills or charisma.
Swift was born to well-off parents, and they moved to Nashville to support her career, but unlike Vance - who went to Yale - she went to a much more competitive "school." The Nashville music scene. She earned a major label development deal as a teenager, and when that deal didn't work out she went back to writing songs and playing showcases around Music City. Talk to any aspiring country artists in Nashville if you want to know how tough that is. It was at one of these shows (which is basically an "audition" for record execs who may or may not wander in) that she impressed Scott Borchetta, who signed her as the first artist on his fledgling Big Machine Records. It wasn't because her parents had money or because she had connections. It was because of her talent. I know this because I've talked to Borchetta about what attracts him to the artists that he signs. It isn't "is her daddy well-off" or "what university did she attend."
He felt (rightly) that she was a talented songwriter and performer. But that's not always enough. I know people who've worked at Big Machine for years, and met many of the very talented acts that they signed. There's a long list of artists that were on Big Machine (and their subsidiary "imprint" labels) that never took off. Scott was big on Steel Magnolia, Kate & Kacey, Tucker Beathard, Emerson Drive, and a whole bunch of others I met that you've never heard of. It's not that they weren't good, but success in the music business is very hard. Swift has a couple of other things going for her. One, she is
very smart. Talk to her for 5 minutes and it is obvious that she's a lot more than some kid who wrote some songs about a guy she liked in school. The other thing is that she's basically a marketing genius. There is no "billionaire behind the curtain" pulling the strings to make a talentless hack famous. She is very much in charge of her own image and career.
She isn't exactly a "dirt poor hillbilly who made it big." That'd be Dolly Parton. But Taylor is successful because of her talent and savvy, not because - like Vance - she had a venture capitalist backing her, or like Trump who inherited his daddy's real estate empire (and virulent racism). She understands the "American Dream" more than Spray Tan Man and Couch Boy ever could. I suspect she chose this time to endorse Harris precisely because she knew it would make the most impact.
