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5.21.2009

Taylor Swift kick in the ass

I think that every generation has it's music faux pas that they later come to regret, laughing about their once much loved disco or outrageous hair metal bands. Since music has become so broad over the last 15 years or so, with so many different versions even within a genre, what will be the thing that we look back on and laugh about? The short lived, but still admired time of ska, or the Beastie Boys, or perhaps wondering how anyone ever decide to allow Eminen to record. They may come up in conversation, however I think that they have served their time, and will remain out there in a sea of music, crashing back up on the shore every once in a while at tide. I mean is it really so wrong to fight for the right to party every so often?

But I have decided that there is one thing I can't let go of, even over the lazy hip-hop song writing (at least in the 70's and 80's people used very inventive and creative innuendos for sex. now you just describe it to a good beat? I mean 'you spin my head right round, when you go down'? Really? that's the best you could come up with? I don't even have to try to figure that one out.)

Dear Taylor Swift,
You are corrupting the American music culture. How dare you even suggest that you music is country. Just because you have convinced country stations that you are country does not mean that it is true - you are played on virtually every station, something that real country stars would fear. You have lost your street cred on this one. If we wanted another Tiffany, we would have asked. By the way, when do you plan on doing your next mall tour?

I need to ask, where is it that you get your inspirations for your songs? Because to me it seems that you go through your texts to/from your friends, and string them together, creating a conversation at a high school cafeteria, and "singing" to your guitar with it. Let me demonstrate the plausibility of my theory:

"So I sneak out to the garden to see you We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew..."
"He says, Baby is something wrong? I say, Nothing I was just thinking how we don't have a song"
"You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying"

So let me get this straight; you are in a daily situation, something happens for five minutes, you write it down verbatim and then make a melody-like thing, and people give you money for it? If I'd have known that, I would have kept all of the songs I wrote with my friends when we were 12 and so positive that we would really start a band. Damn! I didn't know those things were worth so much money!

- Angered Music Lover

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