More impact: Teenage Dream or 1989

[Axelios]

2 hours ago, Junipero said:

I think the general public in general doesn't know any song off a popular album besides the singles.

1989 is one of the few exceptions given how huge the album was.

[Inhwan]

I think they are equal. Just I prefer 1989.

[collin]

1 hour ago, Jjang said:

Am I the only one who feels neither albums are particularly influential? 

Nope, it’s true.

[Brooklyn Baby]

1989

[PrettyHurts]

TD. The songs feel like actual classics. Whereas the 1989 songs were just big hits from their time 

[Bears01]

2 hours ago, FSXP said:

I’m not really seeing how either are that impactful. Neither really shifted pop. Both were created to be perfectly commercial and appealing to the massive. If any pop album is that influential last decade, wouldn’t it be Born to Die? 

^ ^ ^ this. Both were about as commercial, and “made to be a huge success” as it can get  I voted for Teenage Dream, but I’m convinced that Swifties, and every other Stan on this site would manage to do Olympic level mental gymnastics to say “insert era here, was more impactful than Tapestry or Nevermind or Purple Rain, because of their spotify streams!!!” If they really could 

[kimberly]

1 hour ago, Axelios said:

1989 is one of the few exceptions given how huge the album was.

this lie  the gp doesn't even know Out of the Woods, let alone something like How You Get the Girl or You Are in Love.

the same way gp doesn't know Not Like the Movies, Pearl or Who Am I Living For. so I'd say the two albums are pretty much even on that front.

[UnusualBoy]

TD. 

[naval23]

the poll being right  - ATRL showing class 

 

Teenage Dream is the blueprint - period! 

[Joyride]

1989 was influenced by Teenage Dream.

[Junipero]

7 hours ago, kimberly said:

this lie  the gp doesn't even know Out of the Woods, let alone something like How You Get the Girl or You Are in Love.

the same way gp doesn't know Not Like the Movies, Pearl or Who Am I Living For. so I'd say the two albums are pretty much even on that front.

Exactly; I don't care how "big" a celebrity or an album is; the general public probably will only recall the "singles."

Only gays seems to think that EVERYONE knows a song off an album from a "superstar" when in reality famous people are subjective and relative to the demographic that someone belongs to. Is someone who is a sports fanatic really going to be able to name a non-single from Teenage Dream?

 

It reminds me of being in elementary school thinking that my parents knew who all the famous people of 2008 were; when in reality they could not name any "superstar" of that year; and now I get it because even a few years after highschool my friends had already fell out of "it" and no longer listened to Top 40(because again, fame is relative); us on ATRL are the outliers though.