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by kibwen 1042 days ago
Both this comment and the comment it's responding to are indicative of people living in their own bubbles. It's entirely reasonable that plenty of people just don't expose themselves to contexts where they would have had any opportunity to hear any given musical genre. This is easier than it's ever been since the invention of radio, thanks to the fracturing of culture via recommendation algorithms and the long tail that the internet facilitates.
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An even easier way to not be familiar with her: living in a country where she's not that important: <https://chartmasters.org/taylor-swifts-global-heatmap/>. So it's pretty easy in: Chile, Switzerland, Italy, France, Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, Netherlands, Southern America in general, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe... Lots of countries really. Living in a given country is not much of a bubble. Imagining that pop stars popular where you live are universally popular is very much a bubble.