Why isn't there a black version of Taylor Swift?

[Crayola Coyote]

Cause majority of black women of all shades listen to hip hop. You don’t see black men out here making country rap for other brehs

 

[RammerJammer]

only because she is a veteran at this point. Get any gen z girl to make music like that and she wont be successful

Olivia Rodrigo already does that and Taylor is still successful

 

[Dave24]

If she hadn't died/Kellz never tainted her it would have been Aaliyah in terms of cross over appeal and Stan Base

She was everywhere on Top Of The Pops in UK and we so racist we don't even like our own Blacks



Aaliyah was the 1

 

[010101]

sell the most records with no sex appeal ha*

 

[Chrishaune]

Because the black community has a lot of loud vocal Jezebels and Ahabs.

If you buck against it you're the enemy to them.

 

[Yehuda]

Fans are constantly buying 4, 5 copies of the same album so they can figure out what her next diary entry is or for bragging rights ...etc...kudos to her tho

Her team hit the jackpot with this idea.

 

[King Static X]

I don’t even understand what a “black” Taylor Swift means

A Jordin Sparks-type.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

“Why can white woman do what black woman can’t?”

This shouldn’t be 5 pages

 

[FluffyEyes]

Just get behind an artist like H.E.R. in the same way you’d get behind these female rappers. Sometimes it’s not that serious, you just need folks to get behind certain artists.

A certain segment is not interested in HER. She is seen as boring to them. The crazy thing is HER has had the industry push and support but the wider audience has not taken to her in any significant way.

 

[FluffyEyes]

CxH didn't make pop music

It definitely wasn't straight R&B either. Every project before Ungodly Hour was a mix of different genres and sounds. UH was when they leaned more R&B.

 

[Easy-E]

This is the perfect thread for this thought I've had;

There's no way women are actually inspired by The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

All these City Girls ain't bumping pretty much a gospel album

That album would flop in 2022

• Songs about infautation with a man
• Anti fake hair and nails
• Anti sellout
• Religious
• "Positive"

I give this album shyt because she never followed up and didn't give her writers proper credit (check the Source on this), but, it was a great album

 

[Coolin']

A certain segment is not interested in HER. She is seen as boring to them. The crazy thing is HER has had the industry push and support but the wider audience has not taken to her in any significant way.

A lot of people negatively view her as an “industry plant” too.

 

[Jazzy B.]

Because black women obviously aint interested or trying to support that

 

[Roger king]

They prefer music and artists being a bad/boss bytch, talking about how no nikka can fukk with em without top dollar and other type of nonsense and degeneracy. There isnt an audience for a black taylor swift, to them taylor is ''submissive'' and they are strong and independent women who dont need no man to tell em what to do. In no sane society should folks like megan the stallion be paraded all over cameras and tv as someone to look up to

 

[Mike the Executioner]

My fault for barging in on your convo, but I agree. Britney had already started to fade with her third album so I’m sure she wouldn’t have lasted even without her very-public mental break and struggles.

Britney was the biggest star in the world before Taylor was even an idea. And she continued to sell in the late 2000s and early 2010s even with her personal issues. Blackout, Circus, and Femme Fatale were all successful albums.

More than you think.

Bigger question is how many black artists have the writers that Taylor does.

Taylor really doesn't have writers. These days, her main collaborators are Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, but her pen game has been verified.

Even back in the day, Black artists faced backlash for doing "safer" music....from Black people


Al Sharpton called Whitney Houston "Whitey" Houston when she first became big in the '80s. Whitney was also boo'd at the 1989 Soul Train Awards because some people thought that her music was "too pop", "too white" and that she was a "sellout".

Whitney straddled that line her entire career even though she was an ICON.

There was a great thread here back in 2019 that talked about this. Whitney was exactly what this thread wanted and she was hated for it. Clive Davis had a lot of control in her image and wanted her to appeal to white people. She wasn't traditional enough for the older audience and she wasn't cool enough for the younger audience.