Photo: Taylor Swift | By Hanna Seariac, Deseret News | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was something of a rock star in his day. While classical music is usually not chart-topping in the 21st century, Mozart stood out from the crowd in his day because of the breadth and mastery of his music.
Though he “was not a revolutionary musician,” as Britannica editors wrote, he “wrote in all the popular genres of his time, and he excelled in every one.”
Mozart’s legacy lived on in his successor, Ludwig van Beethoven — another one of the “greats.” Both these musicians escaped being cursory footnotes in the history of music and instead, they propelled forward as icons.
There are plenty of stars who this could apply to, like Tina Turner or Journey, but for our purposes, we are looking at three musicians whose careers have or perhaps will fit this bill: Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Taylor Swift.
Using these three artists as a case study, we asked the question: what makes a star larger than life? Here’s some patterns we saw.
> > > > > > > > >
If in 2014, Bloomberg could run a piece with the headline “Taylor Swift is the music industry,” then now, in 2023, several albums later and one of the biggest tours in contemporary music history, it may be safe to say her timelessness is on the horizon.
Read the rest of this full interesting informative, and educational article here:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/making-megastar-makes-artists-elvis-030300498.html
Photo: Taylor Swift (from Facebook)
The Making of a Megastar: What Makes Artists Like Elvis, the Beatles and Taylor Swift Iconic
