{"id":26284,"date":"2025-01-06T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=26284"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:29:40","slug":"dropping-the-needle-taylor-swifts-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/01\/06\/dropping-the-needle-taylor-swifts-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping the Needle<\/em>: Taylor Swift\u2019s era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift\u2019s The Eras Tour has come to an end with her last three shows at BC Place in Vancouver. It\u2019s impossible to ignore the tour\u2019s unprecedented impact on music and culture. And with this, it\u2019s time to talk about where Swift stands as one of the greatest pop artists of all time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Eras Tour broke all kinds of records in its historic two-year run. The tour became the highest-grossing tour of all time in December 2023, grossing over US$1 billion in revenue. Moreover, Swift became the highest-earning female musician of all time, and also set a new single-day ticket-sale record.<\/p>\n

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Dropping the Needle<\/em> is a column appearing in every issue of Nexus<\/em> (photo by Santiago Vazquez-Fuertes\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before we get to determine whether or not Swift belongs in the conversation about the best pop stars of all time, we need to discuss how she stacks up with the artists in her generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of artistry, it\u2019s hard to argue that Swift is above Beyonc\u00e9 and her 32 Grammys, the most ever received by an artist. However, when it comes to star power, no one even comes close to Swift, which evens things out. It\u2019s hard to choose between these two artists for the best pop star in the 21st century, but there\u2019s no doubt they are the top two, with Rihanna and Lady Gaga behind them.<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s time to stack these two stars against the so-called King of Pop, the one and only Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s Thriller<\/i> remains the best-selling album of all time to this day. There is no question of the overall impact that this man had, not only in music but in culture. It\u2019s hard to fathom what his impact would have been like if he could have taken advantage of social media like Swift and Beyonc\u00e9 have.<\/p>\n

However, both Beyonc\u00e9 and Swift have emerged as the most influential pop stars of the 21st Century. Beyonc\u00e9 has made history with her Grammy wins. Swift has 14 Grammys and has a commercial success perhaps bigger than anyone in history, only comparable to The Beatles and Jackson.<\/p>\n

So, while Jackson\u2019s status as the King of Pop is unlikely to be surpassed in terms of his cultural impact, given that Swift is still in her 30s, she has a lot of time to become the biggest pop star ever\u2014especially if she capitalizes on the fame she\u2019s gained with her latest tour. For now, Jackson remains king, however, his throne is no longer unchallenged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift\u2019s The Eras Tour has come to an end with her last three shows at BC Place in Vancouver. It\u2019s impossible to ignore the tour\u2019s unprecedented impact on music and culture. And with this, it\u2019s time to talk about where Swift stands as one of the greatest pop artists of all time.\u00a0 The Eras […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-january-6-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26286,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions\/26286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}