taylor swift is the joyce carol oates of music

i'm thankful for that d, during a period this evening while i was preparing dinner in which i was trying to see if i could name her top musicians in order and get her to validate them as correct, as we grappled with h's recent comment to d that d, though billie eilish is definitively her #1 and taylor is definitively her #2, she's spent much more time listening to taylor than billie and what does that mean, she said "taylor swift is the joyce carol oates of music" and it really made me laugh.