re: Serious Taylor Swift question

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She did write her own songs.

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I've always been deeply skeptical of this.

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I don;t know how much of the lifting she does know on writing?

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I can't imagine it's more than contributing a lyric or two. Seems inconceivable she writes the backbeats or melodies (you know, the actual hard part.)

False God
Exile
Coney Island
August
The 1
Style
All too well

Writes every song……

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She apparently 100% writes the vast majority of it,

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I'm impressed if it's true, but still have a hard time believing it. Why hasn't she written for anyone else if she's that good?

They try this shite with Adele too. The guy from Semisonic is her big writing partner. And by that, I mean he comes up with all the melodies and most of the lyrics and then Adele writes one line.

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She's the female Ed Sheeran and that's not a compliment.

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Obviously, a lot of y’all don’t like to dance, but guess what? Some people like music to dance to and Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, Shivers, Dancing With My Eyes Closed… all fun as hell to dance to. Taylor’s Cruel Summer has its danceable moments, as well. Some music is just for fun.

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My question to you is, who else?

I don't really disagree with you. This is a music vacuum now.

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What actually happened to Beyonce?

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I have pulled up her top ten songs on YouTube and have yet to hear one even remotely decent interesting catchy tune.

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You’re listening wrong. Swift’s catalog is catchy as hell, especially the 1989 record. She’s one of the few artists working today who could’ve hung on the pop charts in the 1980s.

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I know the name, but no clue about any of his songs

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Outside of “Shape of You”, he has some really solid songs. “Perfect”, “Thinking Out Loud”, “Castle on the Hill”, etc. He’s really entertaining live, as well. He’s like a jonathan edwards from the 70’s or Sting in the 90’s. He’s a singer/songwriter making soft rock ballads with an acoustic guitar.

A lot of pop musicians, like Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billy Eilish, Shawn Mendes, etc are making catchy simple songs that connect with an audience. Let’s not pretend most classic rock is more complicated. 90% of “dad” rock is just a riff on 12 bar blues or a 4 chord song (Pachelbel’s canon).

Some people make songs about f$&kin, some make songs about love, others make dongs about how cool they are, their addictions, the places that are special to them, trains, some about how sad they are, or how strong they are, or how they see our world needs to change. There’s plenty of room in music for silly little love somgs and breakup songs. Everyone falls in and out of love, so those kinds of songs will always have a place in music.

Her fan base is 12-30 year old girls. It’s not grown men. Grown men are standing outside waiting for their daughters to come out.

A big part of her fame that may be overlooked is that her music is safe for commutes with the kids in the backseat. That's rare, these days.

She's all too happy to fill this void in a world filled with WAP and things of that nature. Good for her.

I work in the school system were I live. Now granted, I'm only exposed to a few schools in one city, but young girls of ALL races and ethnicities love her where I'm at.