gdt5016 said:Thats ridiculous, she was huge before that whole thing.
Slizz said:She has cornered the TWO best music markets, or should I say most profitable. She is a hybrid, half-country half-pop similar to Miley Cyrus but she actually writes her own music(and isn't as over-exposed). I think the Kanye thing exposed her to the people like you a little more, but I feel she was already well known. Hence why she won the award over Beyonce.
whotjonnybryce said:All of these things have been planned (her appearances). She was a superstar before Kanye. Sure, the hype and publicity helps but it's the not the reason she's on talk shows or SNL.
She was already largely known by anyone who listens to the radio or watches tv. She ruled country and infiltrated the Top 40 mainstream stations with a handful of hits. She was already made before this.
Fidelis Hodie said::lol
Yeah, that's not true. Her stuff is solid pop fodder and all, but she writes her music just as much as Miley does.
Medalion said:I know it's cool to put down any young starlet that is overexposed on MTV and Radio, but what proof do you have that she doesn't have some creative input in her music writing?
Fidelis Hodie said::lol
Yeah, that's not true. Her stuff is solid pop fodder and all, but she writes her music just as much as Miley does.
Stabby McSter said:whot
Salazar said:They are trying to launch a solo career for the Australian girl who was 'the guitarist in the Michael Jackson film 'This is It'. It's more than a little lame.
Salazar said:They are trying to launch a solo career for the Australian girl who was 'the guitarist in the Michael Jackson film 'This is It'. It's more than a little lame.
The award she won was specifically for girls.Teh Hamburglar said:She WINS the damn award but thats not the reason shes famous? Its because of Kanye?
Girl can't win. Ever.
I actually like Kathy Griffin's standup, but good lord that woman has gone overboard with the plastic surgery. Her eyes are almost on her forehead.kitchenmotors said:Chris, did you watch that new Kathy Griffin comedy special? :lol She talked about the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7kaF9TBO_M#t=3m10s
D4Danger said:In America maybe but nobody else listens to country music.
Fidelis Hodie said::lol
Yeah, that's not true. Her stuff is solid pop fodder and all, but she writes her music just as much as Miley does.
.Milk Lizard said:Well I sure had no idea who she was before that.
Teh Hamburglar said:and before you say "Her name is listed under writing credits" if a person adds one word to a song they're given that title.
*Not saying she doesn't have creative input. Now that shes won an award I'm sure she'll be given more creative license than before*
Medalion said:I know it's cool to put down any young starlet that is overexposed on MTV and Radio, but what proof do you have that she doesn't have some creative input in her music writing?
Fidelis Hodie said:Took a producing class that showed her "writing her songs". She walked into a group of writers and they asked what she wanted to write today.
:lol
Not saying some of it isn't hers, but overall it's not like that.
EDIT:
And you know, I'm not really hating. I much prefer her as a starlet to any of the other choices in the day and age, regardless of her spotty live vocals, it's just the notion that she's miss writer when she's really not. You think there aren't ghost writers and producers pushing her music to be exactly what they want nowadays?
As a person, she seems really sweet and honest. Any girl making it in my home town (nashvilleeeeee!) is cool.
Fidelis Hodie said:Took a producing class that showed her "writing her songs". She walked into a group of writers and they asked what she wanted to write today.
:lol
Not saying some of it isn't hers, but overall it's not like that.
EDIT:
And you know, I'm not really hating. I much prefer her as a starlet to any of the other choices in the day and age, regardless of her spotty live vocals, it's just the notion that she's miss writer when she's really not. You think there aren't ghost writers and producers pushing her music to be exactly what they want nowadays?
As a person, she seems really sweet and honest. Any girl making it in my home town (nashvilleeeeee!) is cool.
Medalion said:You still haven't answered the question, how do you just pin this girl as someone who doesn't write her own songs? Because as a blonde teenage girl, they automatically = no talent?
:lol not trueD4Danger said:In America maybe but nobody else listens to country music.
The Blue Jihad said:I don't care either way about the whole "she does/doesn't write her own songs" nonsense, but I will say this.
The one song they've been overplaying on the radio lately? The "You belong with me" one? It has some of the most bland, trite and uninspired lyrics I've ever heard. If she writes her own songs, and in fact wrote that piece of trash, I don't know if defending her writing ability here is such a great idea.
The only reason Swift is marketable is because she's tall, pretty, nonthreatening, and inoffensive.
I mean, if she weren't a tall, waify, pretty blonde teenager and was instead, say, a short, chubby, goth-y, pierced freak...that song sure as hell wouldn't be getting the same kind of airtime. Especially when you'd realize the lyrics of "You belong with me" wouldn't even have to change for her to go from bubble-pop to just-one-mistake-away-from-cutting-yourself.
JGS said:The main ones who lie about writing their own stuff are rappers.
recklessmind said:I mean she won a VMA... like the most prestigious award evar.
claviertekky said:I actually am not a fan of Taylor Swift.
Her teenage-angst songs are supporting the stereotype what women should be like: clingy and very wishful.
It annoys me when I hear her sing Love Story (alliterations don't make sense) and You Belong With Me (do something about it you stupid girl and stop being wishful. Just shut up already.)
Medalion said:You weren't attacking her authenticity to write her own songs, now you think the songs themselves are trite if you believe she wrote them and you don't like her because she represents a music market you don't identify with.
SolidSnakex said:As Slizz pointed out, the best thing to happen to her was bridging the gap between country and pop music. So she's now one of the biggest artists in the US. Kanye might've made her well known to people that somehow manage to ignore mainstream music entirely, but she was still very well known before that.