In what reality is Taylor known for making bad music?
I don’t really listen to her stuff, but I’ve heard it and none of it sounds off-putting. I’ve also never heard anyone who likes music complain that her music is unpleasant to listen to.
People love to hate on popular things for the sake of them being popular. It has happened with other artists and will continue to happen with more artists until the end of time.
She’s not my thing, but she’s definitely talented. However, there is no storage of people who love to try to dunk on anything that’s popular. They’re just pizza cutters.
I get it, that was me in the 90s and 00s. I missed a lot of cool stuff because of it.
Can you think of the coolest thing that you found out about later that you’d dismissed while it was popular?
I can’t think of something I actively talked down, but I remember watching Star Trek (TNG) for the first time in my mid thirties (about four years ago) and thinking, “Boy, if I’d known about this while it was on, I’d probably have been obsessed with it.”
Maybe not the coolest because honestly I hated almost anything popular or mainstream, especially if it was aimed at women, but one I absolutely fell in love with was Event Horizon. I love horror. I love scifi. You’d think that would have been a no-brainer.
Here’s the most embarrassing one. I met Bowling for Soup at a Chili’s in 1998 and really enjoyed their music until they were nominated for a Grammy. I immediately stopped listening. I denied having liked them. Then a couple of years later I laughed at how stupid I was and enjoyed them again.
The only song by her I actively dislike is “Look What You Made Me Do”. Makes my toes curl up, it’s so bad. Like, I have a literal, physical reaction to it.
Other than that, her music is pretty inoffensive to me, some songs I even find quite catchy.
Although she should back off trying to sue people for tracking her plane by using publicly available data. Not cool, Taylor. Not cool.
How have you gone most of your life not listening to Taylor Swift and what changes do I have to make to get to that state? I feel like weekly Taylor Swift is mandatory in most public places.
I definitely hear it from time-to-time. I often probably hear it without knowing it’s her. I heard that song “It’s me… HI. I’m the problemitsme. It’s me: Hi. everybody agrees…”
As you can tell, it kinda got in my head from repetition a few times, and I didn’t know it was hers until long after I’d heard it.
But I don’t listen to much music overall. I sometimes pick up CDs from the library to burn to my computer, but I don’t listen to Spotify or the radio, so I miss a lot of stuff.
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