Taylor Swift is awful (and her music isn't even very good)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Taylor also has the BEST production team, which helps her a lot. She should get on her knees to thank Jack Antonoff.

Oh come on. Good producers help every artist.

Yes! Hello all Brittney fans! We all know she cannot actually sign.

Straw man argument. Butch Vig helped Nirvana. Nigel Godrich helped Radiohead. Producers help everyone.

Because you can’t read what you’re responding to… PPP said “Good producers help every artist.”

Precisely. Not just artists that don’t have a lot of talent on their own. So bringing producers into it is kind of irrelevant.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can say what you want about Taylor Swift but she’s a crazy prolific songwriter. She writes all of her own songs.

Courtney Barnett writes all her own songs and, even more impressive, her songs are good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can say what you want about Taylor Swift but she’s a crazy prolific songwriter. She writes all of her own songs.

Courtney Barnett writes all her own songs and, even more impressive, her songs are good.

I like both artists.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You need to calm down.

thank you

You’re welcome.

Like, can you just not step on our gowns, OP? We see you over there on the internet, comparing all the girls who are killing it

+1 She's pretty in a "perfect shade of lipstick, all dresses look good on a skinny body + fake blonde hair"kind of way. Plus she's rich and famous, and her songs are singable. So she's doing 1,000 better than the rest of us on DCUM. I am not a "Swifty" but I don't understand someone wasting their time hating someone like her. Not liking pop music, fine. Hating Taylor Swift? Something about you.

Why is Taylor Swift’s “whiteness” and blonde hair so central to any discussion of her? We don’t continually reference Rihanna’s skin and hair color, imagine the invective if we did!

Who mentioned her whiteness?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You need to calm down.

thank you

You’re welcome.

Like, can you just not step on our gowns, OP? We see you over there on the internet, comparing all the girls who are killing it

+1 She's pretty in a "perfect shade of lipstick, all dresses look good on a skinny body + fake blonde hair"kind of way. Plus she's rich and famous, and her songs are singable. So she's doing 1,000 better than the rest of us on DCUM. I am not a "Swifty" but I don't understand someone wasting their time hating someone like her. Not liking pop music, fine. Hating Taylor Swift? Something about you.

Why is Taylor Swift’s “whiteness” and blonde hair so central to any discussion of her? We don’t continually reference Rihanna’s skin and hair color, imagine the invective if we did!

https://www.essence.com/hair/hair-color/blonde/black-celebrities-with-blonde-hair/

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me laugh how everyone here who thinks TS is soooo terrible is not able to produce an answer of what music they think is good.

OK, I will: Patsy Cline. Crazy, Walkin' after midnight.

Okay, just the female singer/songwriters:
Johnette Napolitino,
Lauren Hill,
Grace Slick,
Billie Holiday,
Kate Bush,
Allison Krauss,
Dolly Parton,
Amy Winehouse,
Missy Elliot,
Adele

Taylor Swift is okay, but she just scrapes by compared to many great female singer/songwriters

I like many of the singers you listed but can’t say I’m as familiar with most of their discography, other than Alison Krauss whom I love but she does not write her music. You clearly prefer strong (singing) voices and Taylor herself would say her voice is not the best. Taylor’s strength is her songwriting.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me laugh how everyone here who thinks TS is soooo terrible is not able to produce an answer of what music they think is good.

OK, I will: Patsy Cline. Crazy, Walkin' after midnight.

Okay, just the female singer/songwriters:
Johnette Napolitino,
Lauren Hill,
Grace Slick,
Billie Holiday,
Kate Bush,
Allison Krauss,
Dolly Parton,
Amy Winehouse,
Missy Elliot,
Adele

Taylor Swift is okay, but she just scrapes by compared to many great female singer/songwriters

I like many of the singers you listed but can’t say I’m as familiar with most of their discography, other than Alison Krauss whom I love but she does not write her music. You clearly prefer strong (singing) voices and Taylor herself would say her voice is not the best. Taylor’s strength is her songwriting.

And her persona. Not everyone can pull off being a star, no matter how good their songwriting or singing is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can say what you want about Taylor Swift but she’s a crazy prolific songwriter. She writes all of her own songs.

Most singer songwriters do. It’s part of the gig.

I agree that many singers and bands write their own material. However, most hugely successful pop stars do not. It’s basically Swift and Ed Sheeran.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me laugh how everyone here who thinks TS is soooo terrible is not able to produce an answer of what music they think is good.

OK, I will: Patsy Cline. Crazy, Walkin' after midnight.

Okay, just the female singer/songwriters:
Johnette Napolitino,
Lauren Hill,
Grace Slick,
Billie Holiday,
Kate Bush,
Allison Krauss,
Dolly Parton,
Amy Winehouse,
Missy Elliot,
Adele

Taylor Swift is okay, but she just scrapes by compared to many great female singer/songwriters

I like many of the singers you listed but can’t say I’m as familiar with most of their discography, other than Alison Krauss whom I love but she does not write her music. You clearly prefer strong (singing) voices and Taylor herself would say her voice is not the best. Taylor’s strength is her songwriting.

Not to everyone. I don’t find her songs interesting. They’re relatively interchangeable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You need to calm down.

thank you

You’re welcome.

Like, can you just not step on our gowns, OP? We see you over there on the internet, comparing all the girls who are killing it

+1 She's pretty in a "perfect shade of lipstick, all dresses look good on a skinny body + fake blonde hair"kind of way. Plus she's rich and famous, and her songs are singable. So she's doing 1,000 better than the rest of us on DCUM. I am not a "Swifty" but I don't understand someone wasting their time hating someone like her. Not liking pop music, fine. Hating Taylor Swift? Something about you.

Why is Taylor Swift’s “whiteness” and blonde hair so central to any discussion of her? We don’t continually reference Rihanna’s skin and hair color, imagine the invective if we did!

Who mentioned her whiteness?

OP in her opening post and also the linked article amongst the many other articles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes me laugh how everyone here who thinks TS is soooo terrible is not able to produce an answer of what music they think is good.

OK, I will: Patsy Cline. Crazy, Walkin' after midnight.

Okay, just the female singer/songwriters:
Johnette Napolitino,
Lauren Hill,
Grace Slick,
Billie Holiday,
Kate Bush,
Allison Krauss,
Dolly Parton,
Amy Winehouse,
Missy Elliot,
Adele

Taylor Swift is okay, but she just scrapes by compared to many great female singer/songwriters

I like many of the singers you listed but can’t say I’m as familiar with most of their discography, other than Alison Krauss whom I love but she does not write her music. You clearly prefer strong (singing) voices and Taylor herself would say her voice is not the best. Taylor’s strength is her songwriting.

And her persona. Not everyone can pull off being a star, no matter how good their songwriting or singing is.

Ok, but it’s fair to say that everyone who is a star is able to pull it off. Swift distinguishes herself from other music stars through her songwriting. Teenage girls related to music written by a teenager.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can say what you want about Taylor Swift but she’s a crazy prolific songwriter. She writes all of her own songs.

Courtney Barnett writes all her own songs and, even more impressive, her songs are good.

She has 3 studio albums to Taylor’s 9. And she’s two years older. So not exactly prolific.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can say what you want about Taylor Swift but she’s a crazy prolific songwriter. She writes all of her own songs.

Courtney Barnett writes all her own songs and, even more impressive, her songs are good.

now, lets compare Courtney Barnett's # of streams, album sales, sold out concert tours, etc. to Taylor Swift's...LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can say what you want about Taylor Swift but she’s a crazy prolific songwriter. She writes all of her own songs.

Courtney Barnett writes all her own songs and, even more impressive, her songs are good.

She has 3 studio albums to Taylor’s 9. And she’s two years older. So not exactly prolific.

Quality over quantity.

[Anonymous]

Taylor who? I don’t know any of her songs.