How did they make this mediocre country girl into such a star?

I'm not even a big rock 'n' roll fan, but it has had me wondering what has happened to rock 'n' roll and the like. Where's the energy, the rawness, the passion, the rebellion? Gen Z is supposed (?) to be so into protest and fighting the system, but this Swift music is SO vanilla. Do people not have or desire any "edge" anymore?

It's as if people want things so "safe," so impervious to any sort of controversy or disagreement, that they have found in Swift some kind of unassailable goodie-two-shoes that does all the "right" things, no matter how boring that is.