Taylor Swift stirred up the U.S. election, with the help of hundreds of millions of fans, whether Biden can succeed in wooing him
The U.S. election is approaching, but Biden's approval rating has not improved. In desperation, his campaign set its sights on America's hottest pop star, 34-year-old Taylor Swift.
Taylor is a veritable top-notch
To find out how popular Taylor is, look at a set of statistics: more than half of the adults in the United States are her fans, and 16% of them are "fanatical" fans, as MAGA is to Trump. On the social platform ins, Taylor has more than 200 million followers.
Since her debut, Taylor has released more than 200 million albums, making it no problem to circle the globe and win 12 Grammy Awards, which is one of the four major entertainment awards in the United States, along with the Oscars.
With such a huge fame and strength, Taylor can even single-handedly drive the development of the American economy, and her 2023 "Journey to the Times" global tour has generated a total of $5 billion in revenue, not counting merchandise and rights sales. What is the concept of $5 billion? That's more than the GDP of many small African countries in an entire year.
Economists have even named it "Moldy Economics" (Moldy is Taylor's nickname), and every time she toured the city, she pulled a wave of the local economy. With fans from all over the world, not only hotels and restaurants are making a lot of money, but taxi drivers are also getting a lot of work.
Taylor on a world tour
On the last day of 2023, the music documentary "Taylor Swift: Times Tour" produced and starring Taylor was released in Chinese mainland, and the box office exceeded 50 million in less than a week, and as of the end of last month, the total box office in mainland China has exceeded 90 million, becoming the highest-grossing music documentary in global film history, and the last record holder is "Michael Jackson: That's It".
The good news is that Taylor has been selected as the 2023 Time magazine "Person of the Year". As we all know, most of these people of the year are "great men" in the traditional sense, such as a certain political figure or industry giant, so they are often men, such as the 2022 person of the year is Ukraine's "war president" Zelensky.
Taylor's ability to break gender and industry biases and become the only singer to be selected as the Man of the Year alone also reflects how influential she is, even Western politicians who are in the limelight in 2023 can hardly match.
The same goes for the Biden team's attempts to woo Taylor, who has enough followers to make any presidential candidate tick in the heart. According to the aforementioned estimate that "more than half of the adults in the United States are Taylor fans", the number of Taylor supporters with voting rights in the United States is close to 137 million, accounting for 6% of the total votes of Biden and Trump in the last election.
The posters are all made, and it's really interesting
When she first debuted, Taylor didn't talk about politics, but as she grew in influence in recent years, she also began to express her opinions on some political topics that women care about.
For example, during the 2018 midterm elections in the U.S. Congress, Taylor openly "shot" Republican Senator Martha Blackburn on social media because he did not support LGBTQ and racial equality, saying that he could not vote for such a racist, and called on others to "play the role of their votes", which eventually received more than 2 million likes.
Taylor's public support for the Democratic Party made then-President Donald Trump unable to sit still, to which he responded that his love for Taylor's music had dropped by 25 percent. If Taylor continues to side with Biden, the former president may have to remove her music from the playlist.
In the Republican Party's view, it is not only Taylor who can boost Biden's approval ratings, but also her boyfriend, Travis Kells, an American professional football player who will play in the Super Bowl finals next Sunday.
Taylor and boyfriend Kells
The average ticket price for this game has been speculated to about 9,800 US dollars, equivalent to more than 70,000 yuan, an increase of 70% from last year.
It is undeniable that the "Super Bowl" itself has a strong ability to attract money and commercial value, according to data published by Forbes, it is worth more than the Olympics and the World Cup combined.
But this year, the ticket price has risen so high, and Taylor's relationship with her boyfriend has also contributed a lot. When they first announced their relationship, Taylor's appearance at the "Super Bowl" game also greatly increased the ratings, bringing huge income to the organizers. Now that her boyfriends have made it to the finals, the topic will only be hotter.
As the finals approached, so did the conspiracy theories about Taylor. Some say she's a Pentagon spy and is preparing to support Biden's re-election, while others say she's pretending to be in a relationship with Kells to promote the Super Bowl.
Trump supporter and host Mike Crispie previously claimed that he had foreseen what would happen next: Kells' Kansas City Chiefs team reached the Super Bowl final, and then Taylor would appear on the halftime show and endorse Biden with his boyfriend.
Trump is also the top in the United States, and it is not certain who will win or lose
This prediction is indeed a bit fanciful, but it also reflects the mentality of some Republicans, who have already put Taylor in the Democratic camp, and some conservative media outlets have even claimed that this presidential election will be a "showdown" between Trump and Taylor.
It is not uncommon for show business figures to stand on the stage of presidential candidates, and in the 1920 U.S. election, Harding won the election with the support of Hollywood. In the 2008 election, the fledgling Obama also gained fame with the support of the famous American host Oprah, winning Hillary Clinton in the primary election.
If Biden can really get Taylor's traffic, maybe it will be stable.