Gen Xers - Do you find Taylor Swift’s music bland?

[Anonymous]

Love Taylor
Why because she makes so many people happy and excited
Unlike everything else around us right now
She’s just fun

If she’s not your cup of tea musically I get it .

However my year old friends and I love her concerts . I just took one of myneices the joy she had priceless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Older Gen-X here. Plenty of terrible bland music from my high school years that was immensely popular: Asia, Belinda Carlisle, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Toto, etc etc

Will not tolerate Belinda Carlisle bad talk.

[Anonymous]

Gen Xer here who listened to a lot of bland music.

I think what's different is that I'm not hearing Swift's music at that pivotal age of 11/12/13. I could see how if I started listening then, Swift would have felt like the soundtrack to my life as I grew up.

I liked a few artists like that. And now when I read their lyrics I cringe just a little, but still enjoy the song.

So I can't get into Swift fully because I'm older, probably too cynical for her. But objectively some of her music is very entertaining and of better quality than what I used to listen to and she's a better musician and (to my real joy) a much better business woman. So, go Taylor!

[Anonymous]

At her absolute best, she’s equivalent to Carly Simon. Which is huge praise. But…there is basically never anything memorable to her songs except her voice and lyrics (not true about Carly Simon). And she’s a million times more successful, so it comes across as being inherently overrated. She deserves the radio-play frequency of a Carly Simon, but instead she’s “a monster on the hill…slowly lurching toward your favorite city.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen x and really like her music

You all are jealous. Plenty of men singers who are boring and bland. But you never call them out.

Name a man singer with a fan club that is constantly in the media. (Bonus points if that fan club is very male).
The Beatles? Elvis?
Drake or Kendrick?
Insane Clown Posse?

Harry Styles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't think of a single Taylor Swift song that I have heard or can name. But maybe one has been on the radio as I'm driving and I didn't realize it was her.

However, I'm in my 50's, not exactly her target audience.

Same.

I only know Shake It Off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen Xer here who listened to a lot of bland music.

I think what's different is that I'm not hearing Swift's music at that pivotal age of 11/12/13. I could see how if I started listening then, Swift would have felt like the soundtrack to my life as I grew up.

I liked a few artists like that. And now when I read their lyrics I cringe just a little, but still enjoy the song.

So I can't get into Swift fully because I'm older, probably too cynical for her. But objectively some of her music is very entertaining and of better quality than what I used to listen to and she's a better musician and (to my real joy) a much better business woman. So, go Taylor!

+1, I can’t stand the ‘poem’ put to some notes that is her music style. I know she is know for her lyrics, but I can stand listening to the monotony of her melodies long enough to get to the lyrics.

Having come to age during the grunge explosion Taylor Swift is the biggest musical sell out I have ever seen.

Although, I cringe a little at the explicitness of her lyrics I am finding I LOVE chapelle roan. She is like Cindi lauper just fun.

[Anonymous]

1971 here. Yes, absolutely. But I still think she is amazing.

[Anonymous]

I’m an older millennial and I don’t dislike her or anything it I find her music very boring and I’m bewildered at how popular she is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love Taylor
Why because she makes so many people happy and excited
Unlike everything else around us right now
She’s just fun

If she’s not your cup of tea musically I get it .

However my year old friends and I love her concerts . I just took one of myneices the joy she had priceless

I feel similarly. I’m a deadhead and I have to say that her concerts have the same joyous vibe.

[Anonymous]

I love her country songs. I am as Gen X as it gets, always harping about the lack of lyrics or melodies in today's music.
But Love Story, Our Song, Picture to Burn, Fifteen, and You Belong with Me, I love those songs.
I do not care or know any of her other songs.

[Anonymous]

You know that Dua Lipa basically copied 80s and 90s songs?

[Anonymous]

Agree OP- but I certainly appreciate that she has managed her career to perfection. I like a few of her songs on most albums but don’t get the level of fandom.

Glad that she didn’t go the way of most young talent and stayed family friendly for the most part (unlike Miley/Brittany,etc).

I do think there are other bands that I think are equivalent to her multi-decade popularity, even world-wide but their fan base seems different- U2, Rolling Stones, ABBA. TS has the monopoly on young females which IMO usually followed the young boy bands. (Yes, of course she has older fans but she continues to hold the next gen tween crowd.)

[Anonymous]

I thought Gen X prided themselves on being too cool for this generational divide nonsense.

But I tend to think someone is an idiot whenever they focus on whatever generation they/others are. Why all the focus on this lately?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree OP- but I certainly appreciate that she has managed her career to perfection. I like a few of her songs on most albums but don’t get the level of fandom.

Glad that she didn’t go the way of most young talent and stayed family friendly for the most part (unlike Miley/Brittany,etc).

I do think there are other bands that I think are equivalent to her multi-decade popularity, even world-wide but their fan base seems different- U2, Rolling Stones, ABBA. TS has the monopoly on young females which IMO usually followed the young boy bands. (Yes, of course she has older fans but she continues to hold the next gen tween crowd.)

I find it confusing that so many people say "family friendly" about Taylor Swift's music. I enjoy it, and thankfully she doesn't curse as much gratuitously as Olivia Rodrigo, but there's a lot in there I wouldn't want young kids picking up on.