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I don't know anything about her. Was she born wealthy? That could explain a lot of the success.
According to wikipedia:
Not an emerald mine, but at least upper middle class.
~~Her father also owns Swift trucking. So every truck you see on the road with a big "Swift" on it? His company.~~
Way higher than just upper middle.
Edit: Sorry, I was lied to by a friend. He owns Swift Group, a financial advisory group. Net worth of $5 mil.
https://zacjohnson.com/scott-kingsley-swift-net-worth/
Hum, that is not what wikipedia says:
Also
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Transportation
Yep, you're right. I was lied to by a friend.
I think I need to stop trusting them with factual tidbits.
She was. She basically bought her way into the music industry. In her early years, a lot of her hype was manufactured and astroturfed. Notably she did write her early songs herself, (the vast majority of pop songs are ghostwritten,) but didn’t have enough appeal to actually break into the industry. So her rich parents basically bought her a record label contract.
She has managed to turn the original millions into over a billion. So that is absolutely notable. But she wasn’t born poor, and it’s not a rags-to-riches story. Even without music, she never would’ve had to worry about rent or groceries.
Turning a thousand dollars into a million is infintely harder than turning a million dollars into a billion.
Looks as if she grew up in a comfortably upper class family. Maybe not mega rich, but they had money, a giant house, and land, and seem to have been able to use money to get her seen in the right places.
Regardless, she clearly has talent far beyond simply coming from an affluent childhood.
We have different definitions of mega rich. Stockbroker money, giant house and land... what other boxes need to be ticked?
CO2 with her jet flea jumps may be
She has huuuge... tracks of land!
Wow people are sensitive about your comment.
Because it's quite ignorant. In no world is an upper class daughter of a stockbroker not filthy rich.
Sure she has some songwriting talent, but would she be as big as she is without that generational wealth backing her from birth?
Maybe? Dolly Parton had relatively humble beginnings. My wife's school had a random band that made a decent splash in the industry with radio play time and record sales. Not Parton or Swift level, but still; they seemed decent enough but didn't see anything to know why a label went for them over a bunch of other similarly decent acts.
Celebrity can be weird sometimes. Sometimes you see someone pour all sorts of resources in trying to be 'popular' and fail, and sometimes you see someone come randomly out of nowhere.
Well to do with parents who were shockingly willing to bend over backwards to give her a chance at success. She's still remarkably wealthy given where she started but it's no rags to riches story.