base talk Swiftie: "No one used the word 'era' before Taylor"

[Bubble Tea]

Madonna definitely began the concept of albums as "eras" by actually reinventing herself and her sound with each one. Taylor has never done that other than perhaps the folklore album, and I guess at a stretch the alleged move into pop for 1989 (even though Red was basically pop...).

[The Music Industry]

Obviously the word "era" was used before, but there is some truth to saying Taylor helped popularize it in the last 2 years. That's undeniable. 

[Blue Monday]

2 minutes ago, The Music Industry said:

Obviously the word "era" was used before, but there is some truth to saying Taylor helped popularize it in the last 2 years. That's undeniable. 

Edited May 31 by Blue Monday

[Hurem]

52 minutes ago, Blue Monday said:

Mind you, the biggest distinguishing factor between this lady's "eras" are whatever ex boyfriend she's whining about that album cycle 

*****

 

[The Music Industry]

1 minute ago, Blue Monday said:

What's shocking about that...? There's definitely an influx of people using "eras" as a term after Taylor/the Eras tour began. That's a fact. It doesn't mean that she created the word or that it wasn't used before

[ohjulia]

It was definitely a common word among the different fandoms, but I don't think it was used by artists until Taylor did and now even Avril uses the word eras. 

[commander]

Didn't they also say she was the Shakespeare of the modern age 

[JC.]

I don't really see how she popularized it. Stan lingo has been popular within the last few years. This is one I remember and it's from 2021

 

 

[XDNA]

11 minutes ago, ohjulia said:

It was definitely a common word among the different fandoms, but I don't think it was used by artists until Taylor did and now even Avril uses the word eras. 

Did Taylor even use the term Era before the Eras tour?

 

OT: No, eras was a very common among stans and in music history.

[LustSpell]

It's best not to entertain stupid ass Swifties, because it's tiring. We all know this isn't the case

Edited May 31 by LustSpell

[ttsmu]

Swifties live in a little bubble. 

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

Sure, she increased the term's popularity, that's a very fair/factual statement, but Swifties love to be hyperbolic and deify everyone she does to the point they make the heavy implication the term meant nothing before she brought it to the mainstream. The term was VERY much already a thing in music and stan culture on a lesser level prior to her using it. 

 

Swifties need to stop acting like she is the first to do things or the only thing in music that matters. No one likes cocky behavior but some Swifties really seem to not grasp this concept.

[Orsay]

Yass, scientists 100 years ago would have had no idea what to call the Mesozoic Era without TayTay her MASTERMIND 😍😍👏👏👏 invented the English language purr 💅🏻💅🏻

[Blue Monday]

33 minutes ago, The Music Industry said:

What's shocking about that...? There's definitely an influx of people using "eras" as a term after Taylor/the Eras tour began. That's a fact. It doesn't mean that she created the word or that it wasn't used before

And by "people" do you mean children reading at a second grade level? 

[Brooklyn Baby]

Are we just going to thread anything a random member of a fanbase says with 5k likes on Twitter?
 

[americanlife]

As a swiftie, referring to album cycles as "eras" started from stan twitter around 2016, and it wasn't swifties who started it.

Edited May 31 by americanlife

[SwiftLover]

how is this rando from twitter thread worthy? 
 

 

 

[Cardcaptor Sakura]

 

 

 

 

[SleepNoMore]

Omg this is so demonstrably wrong. 

[feelslikeadream]

1. This tweet is not viral, and what a single user writes on a social media platform is not threadworthy.

 

2. The tweet implies that Taylor popularized the term era, not invented it. The title is a complete misrepresentation of the tweet.

 

3. The thread is designed to attack a fanbase.

 

4. Finally, while the term era has been used for ages within pop fandoms, there has indeed been an increase in the use of the term (especially by non-stans) in the last two years, which is surely related to Taylor's record-breaking, pop-culture-dominating tour.