Taylor Swift is Time Magazine’s person of the year, a choice that makes perfect sense. Swift’s Eras Tour ison track to break global records for tour earnings. A concert film also smashed records for that genre and provided the AMC movie theater chain with its highest single-day ticket sales ever. She was Spotify's most-streamed artist globally for 2023, following three years in which Bad Bunny took that title. Swift’s romance with NFL player Travis Kelce hasincreased ratings for Kansas City Chiefs football games while sales of his jersey spiked by 400%. She is as dominant a figure as they come these days—exactly what Time’s person of the year is supposed to recognize.
Prominent far-right influencers are very unhappy. “And just like clockwork,@taylorswift13 (as I warned you all about) is being further activated by the media and the Democrats to interfere in the 2024 election,”Laura Loomer tweeted, tying it back to her earlier just-asking-questions conspiracy theory: “Has@taylorswift13 made a deal with George Soros and Alex Soros to get the rights to her music back in exchange for getting Zoomers registered to vote Democrat against President Trump ahead of the 2024 Presidential election?” (This is a particularly odd theory given that Swift has spent years rerecording her early albums to reclaim ownership.)