Rob Sheffield
Appearances
Apple News Today
Bitcoin has surged. Why it matters, even if you don’t have any.
Taylor is really, really fond of taking up impossible challenges that any rational, sane, sensible person would talk her out of. But she's just determined to do them.
Apple News Today
Bitcoin has surged. Why it matters, even if you don’t have any.
My last couple of books are about David Bowie and the Beatles. And some people have trouble with the idea of her being in that pantheon. But to me, she's right in that lineage.
Apple News Today
Bitcoin has surged. Why it matters, even if you don’t have any.
You look at what's popular in music in 2024, and it's all Taylor Swift's. You've got Sabrina Carpenter. You've got Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Chapel Rowan. You've got Charlie. It's this wide range of women who don't sound like each other, and none of them are copying Taylor Swift, but they're all operating in territory that she opened up.
Apple News Today
Bitcoin has surged. Why it matters, even if you don’t have any.
I think it's shown artists how much they can get away with, and it's made artists evaluate the value of their songbook and the value of their songwriting and their publishing. But for Taylor to adopt such an extreme artist's rights platform, and she did that before the re-records. She was always... talking about streaming and streaming revenues.
Apple News Today
Bitcoin has surged. Why it matters, even if you don’t have any.
And she was making that an issue years before that became a popular thing for stars to do.