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Non-Swifties may not know that Taylor Swift wasn’t discovered by some music executive. Nope — she and her mother, Andrea Swift, with brother Austin Swift in tow, hustled hard so she could get her foot in the door. “My mom waited in the car with my little brother [in Nashville] while I knocked on doors up and down Music Row,” Taylor told Entertainment Weekly in 2008.
Andrea then leveraged her marketing background to help Taylor make a splash on the internet. Per People, she was formerly a marketing manager at an advertising agency, so she had the know-how to create buzz. Taylor’s former manager, Rick Barker, dished that the singer already had a polished online presence way before she released a record. “The parents already had her MySpace and her website up and running,” he recalled. “The mom and dad both have great marketing minds. I don’t want to say fake it until you make it, but when you looked at her stuff, it was very professional.”
There are also fans who speculated that Andrea was behind some of Taylor’s career decisions early on, including the choice of “Tim McGraw” as her debut single. Per TikTok user @self_wife, it was likely Andrea’s idea to name the song after a country music legend to draw attention to Taylor’s brand. “The reason it was called Tim McGraw was so that every single time Taylor Swift — brand new artist on the country scene — was written about, Tim McGraw’s name would be in the headline too,” she said. “It’s a very smart strategy that came from her mom.”
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