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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So.Many.Words.

As always, I'm very impressed that she's able to write these complicated, interesting lyrics.  But at the same time, it's such a word dump!  I love TS but as another poster said, I feel she's really becoming overexposed.  How many albums does she need to put out?  And the constant revenge/pining theme isn't healthy for young girls to internalize.  [/quote]

I disagree. I’m 48 and only now getting in touch with my rage as a woman. I was taught to be a real people pleaser, always be glass half full, and I stuffed so much inside and I don’t think that’s healthy. Maybe it’s not healthy to go too far the other way, but I think her generation is trying to balance some of that and I appreciate it.

I mean, look at what is happening in our own country with women’s rights. I think it’s OK for girls to internalize some bad stuff, it’s not sunshine and roses.[/quote]

I’m 47 and Alanis, Tori and Sinead were my musical rage women. I agree that women need to be in touch with their anger, but they also need to learn to speak it, and act on it (not with aggression, but as a sign that their rights/beliefs are being violated in some way). I don’t think Taylor does the second part well.  She can point out her rage and then sit on stage in front of her fans giving a glitter sparkle performance in a mask.  The singers of our generation were better about being honest about their feelings on and off the stage.  [/quote]

Sure, maybe not. Taylor is definitely not Alanis. But she is who she is and fans seem to be responding and rather than pick it apart and try to force her to be what she’s not it’s so curious why people can’t let it be. [b]I just don’t remember people picking apart alanis Morissette or any of the other artists you just named. They were who they were and their genre is their genre and yet we want Taylor to be everything to everybody[/b] when she’s not, we get really up in arms about it. It’s very strange.

Taylor is angry but not angry enough. She writes great pop songs but they don’t appeal to everyone like middle aged men so she’s failed because great pops songs should be universal I guess.

She writes about heartbreak but she writes TOO MUCH about heartbreak.

Just from the last dozen posts alone I gather this. [/quote]

Regarding the bolded: Taylor gets more criticism because she's vastly more popular and successful. Also works in a genre-- pop -- without a lot of pretentions, but chooses to layer them in anyway. All those other artists were more niche and always had smaller audiences. Plus their music had pretentions from the start, it's what they are known for.

It's inevitable that someone as big as Taylor is going to get more criticism. And the fact that she chooses to focus on lyrics, and their meaning, over the stuff most pop musicians focus on (hooks, broad relateability) will draw more criticism because she's reaching beyond the usual confines of pop music. I mean, she embracing the idea of herself as a poet. That's very pretentious! You can get away with that a bit more in indie or alternative rock, but that's not Taylor's milieu,by choice. She is working in a genre known for churning out hits and getting played in huge arenas. She knows people are going to criticize.

There is a parallel universe where Taylor has a career more akin to Phoebe Bridges or Lucy Dacus, or Lana Del Ray, and she gets less criticism but also is a nowhere near as financially successful or well known. That's how it works. The bigger you are, the more people pick you apart. If you don't like it, step off the arena stage. There are lots of artists chomping at the bit to replace her.[/quote]

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