I've seen a lot of Taylor Swift fans who seem more invested in the streaming numbers and chart placements rather than the music itself. At this point I feel like I've engaged more with this new album than some fans and I didn't even like the record all that much. Just a reminder, the value of art is not determined by numbers, but by the value individuals get from it.
comments
Facts. Numbers ≠ Artistic Value
My girlfriend is a Taylor listener and she found this album to be completely uninspired in both production and lyricism. She claims it's the worst thing that Taylor has ever released.
i decided to sit through the whole 2 hour anthology version for a joke, and it was miserable, its basically her previous album midnights b-sides for half of it and then folklore b-sides for the rest of it with some of her worst writing i’ve heard, be ready for me to complain about it on tnc lmao
what if you get value from the numbers tho
assigning numerical or quantifiable value to art of any form is useless and nearsighted, art at its core is about personal expression and the emotional connection between the work, the artist, and the viewer. the numerical value of it is entirely artificially constructed. that being said I would love it if people artificially determined my stuff is worth 1 billion dollarinos
however, numerical or quantifiable value itself can be seen as art
fr statistics and data collection is absolutely fire sometimes
except when its for a grade
da-ta collection 
pov art is artficially constructed
i get the point but its just sorta defeats the point of art, because if you’re only getting value from its chart performance and not its actual contents then at that point you’re just getting value from the fact the artist is popular rather than anything they’re expressing through the art itself.
I know, what im saying is that in some situations, the numbers itself could also be the art (not that I think this is one of those situations)