I've seen a lot of Taylor Swift fans who seem more invested in the streaming numbers and chart placements rather than the music itself. At this point I feel like I've engaged more with this new album than some fans and I didn't even like the record all that much. Just a reminder, the value of art is not determined by numbers, but by the value individuals get from it.
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i get the point but its just sorta defeats the point of art, because if you’re only getting value from its chart performance and not its actual contents then at that point you’re just getting value from the fact the artist is popular rather than anything they’re expressing through the art itself.
I know, what im saying is that in some situations, the numbers itself could also be the art (not that I think this is one of those situations)