Taylor Swift's Fans Belong With Free iPhone App
For celebrities, iPhone apps can be a blessing and a curse. They promise all kinds of up-to-the minute info right at your fingertips, but they are not without their flaws. Sometimes they are just slow to load. Other times they cost a few bucks for the exact same technology that you can get on the Internet for free. So when there's some real value added, it feels like a step in the right direction. Like with this new Taylor Swift application from iTunes, you'll get new music, videos, photos, the very latest tour info and the must-have Facebook and Twitter connections. So if she tweets, you find out immediately. But what I think sets this one apart from some other artist apps is that it will allow fans to connect with other fans and share pictures and stories on the Fan Wall. Right now, that consists mostly of fans telling Swift what's on their minds ("My 3-year-old loves you" and "U inspired me to keep goin and keep my head up even if times are hard!"), but I think it will come to be a kind of virtual meeting place for like-minded people. I also like how Swift took a page out of the Kenny Chesney playbook and made her app totally free.
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galpal says:
oh please-unbelievable! This is newsworthy?
S says:
Just as soon as I heard that Kenny Chesney had an iPhone APP I knew Taylor would come out with one. Since Kenny has a 3D movie coming out in April I’ll bet it won’t be long before Taylor has one too.
whataboutthemusic? says:
Watch it galpal. They’ll jump on you for saying what you think, even though the “about the blog” description tells you to do just that.
S says:
On the first page of the blog section there are two blogs about Taylor. One is about an iPhone App and one is about how much we know about Taylor. Do you want to know what I know about Taylor? I know she’s very overexposed and very overrated.
Sis says:
I know right.
Joe says:
tim mcgraw, kenny chesney, and george strait have one..I got all 3….Where is the news on their Iphone Apps?
lifetime says:
that’s great and it’s free…way to go taylor
whataboutthemusic? says:
There you go. Exhibit A.
Netteo says:
Smart phones are great. But with the new android phones you don’t pay for most apps. Just got a few new ring tones for my phone for FREE. (Yes - I am babbling - but that is what all these blogs about TS do so I thought I would try it myself!) Love smart phones - couldn’t care less about TS and anything she does, sings or writes.
Netteo says:
BTW - the 3 year old comment in the blog is right. About the only people who can tolerate the over saturation of the over rated, under talented TS.
NOT HAPPY says:
WHO CARES??????????????????????????????????????
dowhat says:
Android is an open platform, which means you don’t have to jump thru hoops to add an app, you can even write your own. I’d like to see someone write an android app with some type of game, or interaction revolving around her EGO AND INABILITY TO SING!!!
Sugarland Express says:
Captain Booger maybe those spikes in auto insurance will be due to the ’stupid phones apps’ of Tim Mcgraw, Kenny Chesney, and George Strait’s iPhone apps? According to Joe they have one out to. LOL
I for one am grateful for the blog. Thank you Alison for letting me know. I’m off to go download mine. walking away whistling….
S says:
No thanks. I see enough of her face on this web site. I don’t want to see her on my iPhone too.
Barney Northrup says:
Oh, my god! She’s so awesome! She always thinks about her fans first!
D Trotter says:
Definition of “Cynical”: having a world view that is characterized by pervasive suspicions of the motives of others; believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in the selflessness of others; a skeptical, scornful or pessimistic attitude; a jaded negativity.
Some people will look at people doing nice things as something positive and admirable. Others — cynics — will see the same apparently positive action and believe it has “hidden” motives… that it is something devious, sinister and manipulative … even when there is not one iota of evidence to support such ideas.
Taylor seems to inspire her fans to be generous of heart, cheerful and optimistic — like herself — but she also seems to inspire cynics to new levels of suspicion and jaded negativity. Go figure.
McKenna says:
She has no vocal ability. Does that make me cynical? No, it proves I have good hearing.
D Trotter says:
No, Mckenna, that statement only makes you sound over-the-top negative, especially when applied to someone whose albums have sold more than anyone else in the Country the last 2 years, whose live concerts have sold out the nation’s largest arena’s in minutes, and who has won a batch of Vocalist of the Year awards. “NO” ability???
D Trotter says:
Galpal, “suspension of disbelief” is a term invented by Samuel Coleridge (the Greeks had a similar idea) to justify the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in works of fiction; in modern times, it is applied to the READER of fiction as a device used in order to enjoy the story (e.g., in order to enjoy the Spiderman movies, one must “suspend disbelief” in the laws of nature).
It has nothing to do with cynicism, which is looking at apparently harmless actions and then reading sinister motives and meanings into such actions, even when there is no actual factual basis to do so, simply because you are inclined to do so.
You claim she was made into a money-making machine by her father, but that directly contradicts the documented facts of her career and how she made it. There is not one single verified fact that her father did anything other than encourage and support her dreams.
You claim she only donates her time to causes for the publicity. Yet this whole page could be filled with a list of all the worthwhile causes to which Taylor has contributed her time, effort and money — in this year alone — often without any press around, and in little, out-of-the-way places. Want me to list some??
The only relevance the term “suspension of disbelief” has to your comments at all is that the readers of your posts have to suspend their knowledge of every ACTUAL FACT they know about Taylor and believe in your totally fictitious SUSPICIONS that everything she does is manipulative and devious.
No, thank you! Keep your fiction. The truth is: Taylor is one of the most positive, decent role models that younger fans have ever had, and trying to besmirch her character without any factual basis says much more about your character than her’s.
McKenna says:
No D Trotter - my statement is negative to you because you don’t agree. It is my opinion. But from what I gather, the only opinions allowed here are yours.
D Trotter says:
No, Mckenna, I haven’t told anyone NOT to post their opinion, I merely characterized your statement — correctly, I might add.
You apparently don’t understand the difference between positive and negative.POSITIVE vs NEGATIVE is not simply a difference of opinions.
POSITIVE is discussing the good, or praiseworthy, aspects of a situation … e.g., “Taylor’s recorded vocals are lovely and her albums have sold better than anyone’s … and her live concerts, which sell out the largest arenas in the Country almost instantly, have received overwhelmingly positive critical reviews and have been non-stop scream-fests for her fans”. See? These are POSITIVE statements. (By the way, they are also FACTUAL statements and can be verified by cold hard numbers).
NEGATIVE is discussing the bad aspects of something … being critical of someone or something … e.g., Taylor’s live singing has been flawed on occasion.
You could be constructively critical, with sound advice or suggestions; or, you could be “over-the-top” negative, e.g., “Taylor has NO vocal ability”. As in none, nil, zilch. Which, frankly, sounds like she is a mute maybe. In any event, it is a truly NEGATIVE statement, based on subjective opinion rather than fact, and which allows “NO” explanation for the many good live performances and concerts Taylor has given.
See? Nobody’s picking on you, just correcting you. And what’s with this “only opinions allowed are yours?” I always expect that people who rip a sweet 20-year-old girl so bluntly, and often rudely, must be pretty tough-skinned themselves. But the moment someone gives cyberbullies just a taste of what they so easily give out, suddenly there’s a lot of whining about freedom of speech. Go figure.
GalPal says:
D Trotter-it appears you like blogging. It’s truly sad that you think only what you say counts. Your research is phenominal-puts you in high school right? Keep up the good work-you will be graduating to bigger better things.
TayLover says:
Of course this is a great app! It is where I found the concert tickets! I mean, anything Taylor Swift is great, right!
catherine says:
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you’re my idol.!
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