Taylor Swift As Pop Rock Star: Four Things To Know

With a career spanning more than a decade and being a multi-awarded artist honored by hundreds of musical institutions worldwide, Taylor Swift is undeniably one of the biggest pop stars in the modern age. The singer, whose personal life has been criticized and celebrated, took advantage of such to build her career with songs that will inspire millions of young teenage girls about love, life, friendship, and hope.

Even if she is the biggest name in the industry, many things about the American singer-songwriter are still unknown. If you’re one of those with great interest in her work or planning to attend the next Taylor Swift concert, some of the things you need to know are:

1. She Has Ten Studio Albums

Beginning with her first self-named album, Taylor Swift (2006), the artist has since then released ten studio albums that captivated not only the hearts but the charts of the music industry for a long time. This includes her debut, sophomore album Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore and Evermore (2020), and her most recent, Midnights (2022).

Her discography can only be described as “diverse,” with Swift crossing genres from country to pop to rock or alternative; she has made songs that will forever go do in history as some of the most significant pieces of her generation. After a series of lawsuits regarding ownership of her work, she is now re-recording her old albums, giving ten studio albums, two re-recordings, and four Extended Plays.

2. Taylor Is Also Known To Be A Singer-Songwriter

Unlike other singers and pop stars, Taylor Swift is not known mainly for her diva-style singing. However, she is best celebrated as a master songwriter with her capability to write captivating, haunting, and poetic lyrics. Still, she can allow both her younger and older fans to relate.

Her earlier works have an inclination towards the younger masses, inspiring a whole generation of young Swifties (the term for her fan base). Her more recent works discuss love, friendship, dreams, adulthood, and heartbreak, which inspired many adults nowadays to cope with life through her music and poetry.

As of now, she is credited to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time, inspiring a new era of songwriters and artists. Her songs are even studied and assessed literarily in terms of writing style and how it catches the taste of the masses.

3. She Is Currently In A Long-Term Relationship

The running criticisms and jokes on Taylor Swift’s dating history have significantly affected and influenced her songs, with love and heartbreak reflected in the themes in her previous albums. However, since the social media backlash she faced due to celebrity drama, she has then kept her relationship private with her now boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, an English actor who starred in many Hollywood films.

The exciting thing about their six-year relationship is that he has also been credited as one of the songwriters in her recent works, helping and contributing to Taylor Swift’s current biggest hit songs. Though they still keep their relationship private, he has been credited and awarded by the music industry due to his recent contributions to the singer-songwriter’s works.

4. She Has An Upcoming Tour

After releasing albums and being unable to go on full tours due to COVID-19 restrictions, Taylor Swift is back with an all-out concert worldwide. The last time she made this was back in 2018, with her Reputation Tour. Now, she’s back with an all-out fest, with the sixth tour called The Eras Tour.

Swift will launch the Eras Tour in support of all of her albums, including her most recent, Midnights (2022). On March 17, 2023, Glendale, Arizona, will kick off the U.S. leg, which is scheduled to end on August 9, 2023, in Inglewood, California. The tour will be Swift’s ‘journey through all of my musical eras,’ as she put it.

Conclusion

Some random yet interesting facts about Taylor Swift as a pop-rock star are mentioned above: having ten studio albums, being a singer-songwriter, being in an inspiring long-term relationship, and having an upcoming tour.

These not only made the Taylor Swift that is currently leading the charts right now and selling millions of albums worldwide, but this is also the Taylor Swift that continuously inspires generations of people to love, live, and do things as unapologetically as they want with as much freedom as they can.

She allowed more dreamers to dream their lives into fulfillment one day, fall in love with life and a significant other, experience heartbreak, and be defined by the things they love.