Her popularity and success is amazing, and I applaud her. But where the actual music is concerned -- I fall into the camp that believes her songs are merely passable pop and nothing more. I’ve nodded my head to a tune or two, but on the whole almost everything I hear from Swift is quickly forgettable. That’s simply an opinion, of course,…
Her popularity and success is amazing, and I applaud her. But where the actual music is concerned -- I fall into the camp that believes her songs are merely passable pop and nothing more. I’ve nodded my head to a tune or two, but on the whole almost everything I hear from Swift is quickly forgettable. That’s simply an opinion, of course, and clearly I am not going to be as deeply connected to the music - and the aura of TS - as those fans, for example, who made the trek to see her on her worldwide, world-conquering concert tour. 😀
Swift is a very good lyricist and that’s perhaps what many of her fans are responding to, as much as to the tunefulness of her songs. She’s also perhaps our best rhymer since maybe Dylan.
Her popularity and success is amazing, and I applaud her. But where the actual music is concerned -- I fall into the camp that believes her songs are merely passable pop and nothing more. I’ve nodded my head to a tune or two, but on the whole almost everything I hear from Swift is quickly forgettable. That’s simply an opinion, of course, and clearly I am not going to be as deeply connected to the music - and the aura of TS - as those fans, for example, who made the trek to see her on her worldwide, world-conquering concert tour. 😀
Swift is a very good lyricist and that’s perhaps what many of her fans are responding to, as much as to the tunefulness of her songs. She’s also perhaps our best rhymer since maybe Dylan.