Taylor Swift “influencer” for Paul McCartney

And Taylor Swift rediscovers herself musical “influencer”.inviting fans to listen – or rather, stream – the new album of one of his colleagues. Not an artist of his generation, but a legend of pop-rock music: Paul McCartney. Swift, 273 million followersshared among his Instagram stories a call to action to listen to “The boys of Dungeon Lane”, the album that last Friday marked McCartney’s return to the scene, 5.1 million followers on Instagram, that is one fifty-third of those of her colleague.

“I will never stop being inspired by this eternally exceptional artist,” Swift wrote in the story. A short sentence but enough to transform the endorsement into an immediate media case, relaunched by fan pages, music accounts and international media.

It was 2020 when Taylor Swift interviewed Paul McCartney for Rolling Stone USAfor the series “Musicians on musicians” (musicians who interview other musicians): that was a very broad conversation between the two about songwriting, creativity and life as musicians. The interview quickly went viral among fans of both.

Over the years, McCartney has repeatedly praised Swift’s ability to write songs and express emotions in a direct and contemporary way, while Swift has often cited the importance of the Beatles in her musical education, implicitly recognizing McCartney’s central role in that story. Only a few days ago the former Beatles said in an interview, regarding his colleague: «The worldwide fame that Taylor Swift has is similar to the one we had. But I honestly don’t think he needs advice.”