Dave Grohl vs Taylor Swift

[Anonymous]

People saying that Dave was misquoted – well you can watch the clip for yourself. Why did he even try to compare one concert to another, why even bring Taylor up in the middle of your own concert – but anyway if there’s something that’s been misconstrued….Why hasn’t he spoken out and just be like move on guys nothing here?

[Anonymous]

There is nothing here, people. He said something. She responded. What will be telling is if this gets dragged out by everyone but the two people involved. Fans if either party don't NEED to say anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny that any thread about Taylor becomes overrun with the Matty fan club.

That’s because women are always the downfall of men. It’s always the woman’s fault in our society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People saying that Dave was misquoted – well you can watch the clip for yourself. Why did he even try to compare one concert to another, why even bring Taylor up in the middle of your own concert – but anyway if there’s something that’s been misconstrued….Why hasn’t he spoken out and just be like move on guys nothing here?

Why is TS at the peak of the music world immune from a competitive snipe?
Why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One day, TS won’t be this popular and that will be a very hard time for her.

I think she’s already reached her peak. Her latest album was a disappointment. Her fans are getting older and will naturally develop more sophisticated tastes. It’s great that she’s had so much success, but the music industry is fickle.

Her latest album is breaking all sorts of records. Personally, I like it the most out of her entire discography. But Daddy I Love Him, Fortnight, Peter, Guilty As Sin, Down Bad, My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys and TTPD are on repeat at home.
I suppose I should say thank you, Matty Healey, for inspiring these beautiful songs, along with my favorite Halsey album.

[Anonymous]

I like Taylor, but (some of) her fans have this bizarre need to portray her as some sort of underdog or victim, and it’s just silly. TS is a worldwide superstar at the top of her game. She doesn’t need her fans going after Dave Grohl and/or his daughter (or anyone really) for saying something critical.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - BTW the more and more I am reading about Taylor Swift the less I like her. I think she is emotionally stunted (a la Britney Spears) and has a touch of the mean girl tendency. At the minimum she values profit over anything. She could easily reach out to her Swifties and tell them to stop bullying people but she doesn't want to push back on the people who buy her stuff.

So a man has to offer his opinion about a woman in his industry for no reason (he doesn't work with her) and she's the mean girl?

Methinks a lot of men are threatened by women like Taylor Swift. Dave Grohl is a legend, but he didn't hold up our economy last summer.

OP - sorry not saying the mean girl comment is related to Dave Grohl. I think the mean girl comment is more about the the running commentary about how Taylor likes to push her music out when she knows other women are putting out their albums. Maybe its just coincidence however it seems too coincidental that every time another big woman artist comes out (for example Billie Eilish) Taylor decides to re-release some tracks/album.

Why are we even talking about mean girls? Both Taylor and Britney have had massive success. I mean, is there any other way? Why aren't we calling men who have had outsized success mean boys? It's a complete double standard.

In book publishing, authors have releases the same day. I'm not really a fan of anyone mentioned in this thread, but there are schedules and it seems silly to suggest that people ask everyone when to release. Especially when it's often reduced to a single day of the week. That's 52 days for huge industries.

+1 It's beyond BS that this isn't even a blip on the radar of male musicians. NEVER discussed.

Don’t you think that if a male fan started attacking and giving death threats to others, they would be in jail for stalking? I mean aren’t her fans getting away with it BECAUSE they are women and aren’t being taken seriously?

I was talking about the release of albums and the timing and the "mean girl" aspect of timing. But to your other point,.... what? The death threats are absurd, but they occur hourly on the internet. But more specifically, to answer your question, no I don't think a male fan attacking others would be in jail for stalking. Not for one hot stinking minute do I think that would happen.

I think she is a “mean girl” for many other reasons, or at least I wouldn’t want to know her as a friend. There is too much posing with the posse (drawing attention to her in-group), tearing down men she dated, and general insecurity about her that is off putting. She definitely wants to cultivate an in group fan presence (Easter eggs, secret parties for “cool fans”) adn that is mean girl like.

+1. She is fame and self obsessed, which is why all these men left her. Only a fame-hungry ball player would put up with that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Disappointed in Grohl. Why randomly go after a young woman performer? Thought he was such a nice guy.

Agree - just makes him come off sad and pathetic.

He comes off as jealous + sexist. Entitled white man.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Funny that any thread about Taylor becomes overrun with the Matty fan club.

That’s because women are always the downfall of men. It’s always the woman’s fault in our society.

Exactly. Some women consume and imbue the misogyny and parrot sexist remarks.

[Anonymous]

Taylor is a grown woman in a cutthroat business. She's fine handling herself with a nonissue like this. Her fans should stand down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People saying that Dave was misquoted – well you can watch the clip for yourself. Why did he even try to compare one concert to another, why even bring Taylor up in the middle of your own concert – but anyway if there’s something that’s been misconstrued….Why hasn’t he spoken out and just be like move on guys nothing here?

Why is TS at the peak of the music world immune from a competitive snipe?
Why?

What? Your take is that its ok for a grown man to spread a false narrative/dig about a fellow artist because the female performer at the peak of the music world?

There is absolutely no competition between Dave Grohl and Taylor Swift. Completely different markets and they both sold out a show on the same night same city. This is not a "competitive snipe".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like Taylor, but (some of) her fans have this bizarre need to portray her as some sort of underdog or victim, and it’s just silly. TS is a worldwide superstar at the top of her game. She doesn’t need her fans going after Dave Grohl and/or his daughter (or anyone really) for saying something critical.

This. He was punching up. Taylor fans need to get used to the idea that Taylor is, at this point, "The Man." She can't be a victim of this kind of stuff anymore. She's at the level of Paul McCartney or Madonna or something-- music royalty. She's the one everyone will chase now, even someone as successful as Dave Grohl. She's got the money and the sales numbers and the followers and all the awards and accolades. There is no "unfair attack" at this point and she and her fans need to get used to it.

[Anonymous]

I still don’t understand. Is he right? Does she lip sync? If not, to make this allegation without facts or evidence is pretty BS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still don’t understand. Is he right? Does she lip sync? If not, to make this allegation without facts or evidence is pretty BS

Like pretty much all pop shows with a lot of dancing and other performance elements, Eras uses backing tracks fairly extensively especially on the big dance numbers like Shake it Off and Bad Blood. This is just the nature of these shows and not unique to Taylor.

Which is why I don't even view this as Grohl "taking a swipe" at Taylor specifically. Sure he was referencing the Eras tour because it was playing London on the same night. But he was really just talking up what makes a Foo Fighters show special-- it's just a rock band on a stage playing hard for three hours. It's not a big production with a bunch of elements. It's some guys with instruments and voices making music. Eras is a totally different thing and everyone understands that and Grohl was just talking up what he likes and is proud of with his own show-- it's more raw and free wheeling and stripped down.

[Anonymous]

I like Dave a lot but it was an unnecessary comparison. These two shows are very different things. Also, Taylor’s band does play live every night. Idk. It was uncharacteristic of him.