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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think she is immensely talented as a songwriter, but it reflects the very narrow life experience of someone who became famous as a young teenager and has lived a curated, sheltered existence. For those who say she hasn't stagnated, part of that is her early success has afforded her the kind of creative partnerships and production that prevents this from happening, and I'm not convinced how much of that is self-motivated. Watching Miss Americana confirmed this for me. She's a huge brand and has competing voices trying to figure out her next steps, and sometimes her actual songwriting is the least of it.

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This, I think she needs like a "walkabout" or something -- to just check out of the music scene and Hollywood and go travel and not make music for a while. There is a very long history of this kind of thing in the music industry. Sometimes it's driven by a crisis in their personal life or a substance abuse issue, and I think Taylor is too straight arrow for those thing to ever happen. So she needs to just do it out of artistic interest. I seriously think she needs to just go pick a place far away she's sort of interested in, rent a place, make some new friends and "find herself." She never went to college or lived anything resembling a normal young adult lifestyle. I think it shows in her music.

(By the way, I think it shows in the music of artists like Beyonce and Katy Perry and Britney and all the other artists who started their careers in their teens, but none of them make as big of a deal of being songwriters and singing about their own experience, so it matters less. For Taylor this is part of her identity, so her lack of life experience just feels very glaring to me when listening to her music. I think THAT is why she is particularly beloved by HS/college girls, because she is singing from this place of "I'm just starting out, I'm naive and vulnerable." They identify. But as she has aged, it starts to feel like a put on and not an authentic voice because she's not just starting out, she isn't naive, and she isn't vulnerable, not in these same way.)[/quote]

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