Dtknuckles
Well-Known Member
Don’t get me started on the uptown NY jazz scene!!! . Fucking traditionalists!
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I like the new profile pic btw
Same applies to the TS stans who all of a sudden appreciates indie rock and the likes of Big Red Machine and its affiliated bands because she is featured on two songs.
Or a 10+ minute one…
Yeah I don’t go out of my way to complain about Taylor Swift, and I almost enjoy some of her songs, but I don’t really care enough about her or any artist to like study her life history to try to understand why she’s still upset about relationships from so many years ago, and it seems like that might be a key factor in enjoying her music. I could be wrong, but the impression I get is that many of her songs seem self-congratulatory and/or have heaps of bitterness towards specific people in a way that just feels petty and uninteresting. Like I get Kesha writing a song about Dr. Luke because that situation was on another level of serious trauma, but even that song has lyrics like “I hope you find your peace” that are striking and sobering. I think Taylor has a good sense of humor when I see her in interviews or on snl, but so many of her songs just seem really specific to her and her life experiences and relationships and not really as broadly universal as the songs that Adele or Katy Perry or many other artists sing.
I think for me that’s the main problem, the songs feel musically generic but then the sentiments expressed aren’t easy to latch onto either. There’s just a lot of negativity about other people’s behavior without an equal dose of self-awareness.
Or a 10+ minute one…
I guess I’m unfamiliar with how the press treated her 10 years ago, but she’s 32 now.Yeah no, just no. Don’t do tabloid culture, never did, never will. Every heartbreak song ever written is about the person that broke that persons heart. The press treating a young woman in her late teens and early 20s toxicly has no relationship to weather or not I enjoy her music.
I really really hate that take too. Taylor had credibility long before her affiliation with The National or Big Red Machine. Her credibility has NOTHING to do with them.it is only now ok to like her because they've imbued some kind of bullshit credibility on her.
If you're attempting to rile up Joe Mac you might as well lean into it and say you prefer Adam's cover of "Wonderwall" to the orginal...I really really hate that take too. Taylor had credibility long before her affiliation with The National or Big Red Machine. Her credibility has NOTHING to do with them.
It came from Ryan Adams.
*ducks*
If you're attempting to rile up Joe Mac you might as well lean into it and say you prefer Adam's cover of "Wonderwall" to the orginal...
To which Joe will probably reply something along the lines of, "That twat Ryan Adams can have it. "Wonderwall" is a trash song to begin with that no real Oasis fan would enjoy".
I spend too much time on here.
He said it, not me
The only one that can save me is Dewsbury Hall.If you're attempting to rile up Joe Mac you might as well lean into it and say you prefer Adam's cover of "Wonderwall" to the orginal...
To which Joe will probably reply something along the lines of, "That twat Ryan Adams can have it. "Wonderwall" is a trash song to begin with that no real Oasis fan would enjoy".
I spend too much time on here.
I went to the Joshua Tree tour in 2018-ish and it was FABULOUS. That album is stellar.I don’t give a fuck, The Joshua Tree still rules.
He said it, not me
Brian Eno.
U2 were far better as a post punk act before he came and Eno’d the whole thing up.