1st Move: Genre Shift
What was the first genre of music Taylor Swift was creating in 2004?
What is Country Music?
What is the term that is the final sound files of a song, the rights to which she initially did not own for her first six albums?
What is a master?
What is Taylor Swift's initial social media platform where she enageged directly with fans by sharing personal details and lyrics in the early 2000s?
MySpace
What was the name of the tour that Taylor Swift did that expanded to five continents?
What is the Eras Tour?
What was the streaming service that Taylor Swift pulled her music off of because of contract disputes?
What is Spotify?
Where was the location where Taylor Swift Moved to start her music career?
What is Nashville, Tennessee?
What company did Taylor found in 2009, which managed critical aspects of her career independently, thereby creating a unique brand image?
What is 13 Management?
What are the private mini-concerts, held before album releases like 1989 that involved inviting loyal fans to listen to the album and meet her in person called ?
Secret Session
How many shows did Taylor Swift have during her Eras Tour?
What is 149 Shows?
What recent event/ activity did Taylor Swift use to improve her fan base and break into a new, diverse audience?
What is the NFL, Kansas City Chiefs?
What was the first album Taylor Swift made in the pop genre in 2014?
What is 1989?
What did Taylor do to regain some control over her previous six albums?
What is re-recording them?
Fans created { blank } to accessorize during the Eras Tour, sparked by a lyric in " You' on your own, kid"?
What is a friendship bracelet?
What is the label given to the music industry due to its low barrier to entry and intense competition?
What is the Red Ocean?
How many listeners and records did the Midnights Album capture on release?
What is 1.14 million copies?
What track in the 1989 album was on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for four weeks?
What is "Shake it off"
What is Republic Records?
Who does Taylor Swift use to advertise her music, and whom does she also call her brand ambassador?
What is Swfities?
How much money did Taylor Swift make from the Eras Tour?
What is 1 billion dollars?
What method does Taylor Swift use in her music to connect more deeply with her audience and to connect back to her country roots?
What is lyrical storytelling?
Or sharing her trials and tribulations?
The celebrated pop producer with whom Swift partnered to ensure her genre shift was smooth and successful?
Who is Max Martin?
In 2020, what "magical" family owned the masters of Taylor Swift's six previous albums for $ 420 million?
What is the Disney family, aka Shamrock holdings?
Taylor Swift uses easter eggs in her music video to keep her fans engaged. In the " Look What You Made Me Do." music video there's a bathtub filled with diamonds with a single [ blank ] symbolizing her lawsuit victory.
A dollar bill
How many years before the Eras tour did Taylor Swift have to wait to re-record her albums, according to a standard clause in her contract with Big Machine?
What is three years?
In 2016, who created a controversy with Taylor Swift that questioned her truthfulness and damaged her reputation?
Who is Kanye West?