Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action.
On Tuesday (19 September), hours after the pop star, 32, called on her US fanbase to register to vote in honour of National Voter Registration Day, Vote.org’s communication director, Nick Morrow, announced that “our site was averaging 13,000 users every 30 minutes”.
“Fun fact: after @taylorswift13 posted on Instagram today directing her followers to register to vote on @votedotorg, our site was averaging 13,0000 users every 30 minutes,” Morrow wrote on X/Twitter.
“13! Let’s just say her reputation for being a mastermind is very well-earned.”
Earlier that day, the “Anti-Hero” singer had posted to her Story, asking followers: “Are you registered to vote yet?
I don’t listen to her music, not a huge fan in that regard - but I love this woman none the less for having a voice loud enough in the current political climate.
Now if she’d just leave the personal jet in it’s hangar.
Now if she’d just leave the personal jet in it’s hangar.
Definitely not a fan of elites flying in their private jets to whatever luxury location.
But can you imagine Taylor Swift flying in a public airplane? She’d be harassed endlessly, even in first class.
Some people are just too well known, unfortunately.
There was a video I saw a while back of a look-alike getting swarmed by fans, fans who were bawling about meeting her, it’s just fucking nuts. I saw Harrison Ford once from a distance, and I was like “hey cool, I saw Harrison Ford”, but some people just go apeshit.
Well let’s be hoping she doesn’t turn weird like JK Rowling. It seems there’s something in the air that makes billionaires turn rather right wing
I’ve avoided saying things like fascist, nazi, bigot, because there’s been a history of JK Rowling litigating people who call her a fascist, transphobic, bitch and I don’t want to do that yet
I think a comment I saw recently makes this make sense.
A lot of people have told me as you age, you get more conservative. I have not noticed this happen, but I think an entire generation did. Boomers. As they aged they had so many advantages the entire generation acquired things. Things they don’t want to lose because they feel like they earned it. In some ways they did earn it (eg, pursued that promotion, bought that house after “a whole summer of working OT!”)… they just don’t recognize they started on third base and did not in fact hit a home run.
So if an entire generation can be as awful as they are, I think it must be a general glitch in human psychology. As long as you FEEL like you earned something, you will fight to protect it. I think that’s what happens to billionaires. And aging republicans. There will always be exceptions, but I think in general humans will just tend to be this way.
There has been research along those lines. If you give someone twice the starting money in Monopoly, they’ll still say they won due to skill.
Humans are ridiculous.
I thought her fans were mostly young girls, as in, not yet able to vote.
Still cool, not sure it’s newsworthy though.
Her 5th studio album came out nearly 10 years ago. Plenty of her mainstream fans have grown old enough to vote by now.
Wow, it’s been that long? I guess I figured most people moved on some years ago, and most of her current fanbase is still 13 or whatever.
That’s not how music works bud. It is usually generational and rides on nostalgia.
To some extent, sure. However, I also think people grow out of music as well, at least I have.
For example, I used to love Dashboard Confessional, Plain White Ts, and Modest Mouse as a kid (went to concerts for the first two), but these days I rarely listen to any of them, and certainly not Dashboard Confessional. These days, I’m into very different music, like The Interrupters, The Hu, and apparently a lot of classic rock (from before I was born, and after my parents’ generation).
I’m pretty much right in the age range for Taylor Swift (I’m in my 30s), but I and pretty much everyone else I interact with (professionals in an office setting) don’t listen to anything from the era we grew up in. I even have a sizeable CD collection that I haven’t touched in over a decade that sits in storage with my other things from childhood.
My parents listened to music from their era all throughout my childhood and through to today, but I guess I never got nostalgic for it and listen to anything from the 50s to today, though I have trouble finding any pop music from any era after Michael Jackson that I actually like anymore.
It’s a bit of a downer but being in my 40s now, and talking to my siblings and peers, the almost universal call of nostalgia doesn’t really hit until after you’ve lost people, and depending how close they were to you = duh.
I can’t listen to Led Zeppelins Physical Graffiti without thinking of my dad the entire time. Same goes for Pink Floyd’s Meddle and The Final Cut. All three albums I listen too from front to back, at minimum once a year, on what would be his birthday.
My experience is far from singular, in my circles apparently the norm, so theres something for you to set aside for later.
Some of the tropes about aging are true. I AM more patient, understanding and forgiving now, and I’m grateful for all that as well.
I am not however, and if anything I’ve swung hard the other way, growing more conservative. I was raised on the lie of Meritocracy, the looting from economic Neo-liberalism, Orwellian language from deceitful institutions (Department of Defense instead of War - they changed it in 1946, Department of Justice - as much as you can afford anyway, “Protect and Serve” - the property owners, not the community, or guarding food laden dumpsters during the pandemic so people can get free food. Fucking EVIL). I’ve watched everyone get more poor and normal social reinvestment, think infrastructure, slow to a crawl and now everything is falling apart. Inflation is a lie, it’s a tool used to destroy any savings we might have stashed away from the greedy, cancer class.
Retirement is a carrot in a stick. We won’t have it, if this round of inflation doesn’t make that obvious. Idk why my parents and then Gen X aren’t up in fucking arms that bc if inflation their hourly now is most likely the same value or less their wage when they started working. How do you go your whole life without a raise? Just to get your retirement stolen inches from the end?
Better to die on your feet than live on yr knees. My retirement is dying in the revolution.
I hope to watch it all die a swift, permanent and unresurrectable death.
Lol. I clearly missed the growing more conservative memo. Like, if we were to start over, from scratch, almost no part of society would we remake how it is now. That’s all the surmising I need.
I wonder how many voters have registered so far as a result of that. Assuming it’s been 24hrs since her post, and assuming an average of 13,000 every 30min for the full 24hrs, it’d come out to 624,000 people!
That’s a lotta voters
I’ve never been a fan of her music, but I’m kinda becoming a fan of her as a person.
Her music is so neutral that not being a fan means you are actively opposing her.
She isn’t my cup of tea, but she has a couple songs I vibe with.
if you aren’t a fan you are against her.
You literally just tried to make it that deep when it comes to Taylor Swift bro.
They’re not going to vote for Republicans I hope. I don’t really follow Swift but I assume she’s not, like, a deeply horrible person.
Lemmy’s favorite billionaire, I’d warrant.
Well given that her fans skew young and female, why would they? The Republican party is just 3 world-ending death cults in a trenchcoat and their staunchest supporters openly brag about abusing and oppressing women.
Fuck I’m going to laugh if Taylor Swift takes their guns though.
