Taylor Swift continues to prove what a powerhouse she is in the music industry.
The 33-year-old “Bad Blood” pop titan has further cemented that she is in a class of her own with the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version). On Friday (October 27), her latest re-recorded album dropped, and she has been breaking streaming records on Spotify since then.
And showing us all even more that she is in a different league altogether, the only person that she is dethroning as she breaks records and sets new ones on the platform is herself.
In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Spotify, the streaming giant revealed that Taylor was again “the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history.” And there’s more – 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is also “Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2023 so far.”
With this latest achievement, Taylor has quite literally dethroned herself. She snatched the record with the release of Midnights back in October of 2022.
In other Taylor news, she also seemingly shut down rumors about her sexuality on the prologue of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), writing:
“The voices that had begun to shame me in new ways for dating like a normal young woman? I wanted to silence them. You see – in the years preceding this, I had become the target of slut shaming – the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and called out if it happened today. The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath. The media co-signing of this narrative. I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt.”
She went on:
“It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with. If I was seen with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with guys, dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian era.”
Taylor then wrote these powerful words:
“Being a consummate optimist, I assumed I could fix this if I simply changed my behavior. I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships.
If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize of sexualize that – right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.”
