Grammys

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My screen suddenly went blank while I was reading that.

 

[Batman]

Taylor's album is filled with wonderfully crafted pop songs. She's not a great singer, but they are her work.

If I had a daughter I'd rather that she here lyrics like this from "Forever" than the nice songs Taylor sings:

I used to have hood dreams Big fame, big chains
I stuck my deck inside this life until that bench came
And went hard all fall like the ball teams
Just so I could make it rain, all spring
Ya’ll seen my story, my glory
I had raped the game young, you could call it statutory
When a nibbler blow up, they gonna build statures of me
Old money, benjamin button, what!? nuttin
Now superbad chicks giving me Mclovin

That totally sounds like something Taylor Swift would sing.
Or the Jonas Brothers.
Could be either.

 

[Boom_70]

Taylor's album is filled with wonderfully crafted pop songs. She's not a great singer, but they are her work.

If I had a daughter I'd rather that she here lyrics like this from "Forever" than the nice songs Taylor sings:

I used to have hood dreams Big fame, big chains
I stuck my deck inside this life until that bench came
And went hard all fall like the ball teams
Just so I could make it rain, all spring
Ya’ll seen my story, my glory
I had raped the game young, you could call it statutory
When a nibbler blow up, they gonna build statures of me
Old money, benjamin button, what!? nuttin
Now superbad chicks giving me Mclovin

That totally sounds like something Taylor Swift would sing.
Or the Jonas Brothers.
Could be either.

Bing Crosby used to sing it

 

[Wenders]

I like some of Taylor Swift's songs, but she went through a phase of releasing songs where she talked more than sang. I liked her when she filled in for Seacrest on the weekly countdown.

But she lost me when she sang live on the Haiti telethon. My status update from that night: "really hopes Taylor Swift never does a live album. Holy heck, she may be the biggest studio creation among singers whom people seem to think are actually talented. She sounds HORRIBLE."

From comments here, sounds like she was no better tonight.

I didn't mind Taylor Swift and her pop music (I refuse to call it country) at the beginning. But good god, don't ever listen to her live. Those are some amazing doctors in the record studio, making her sound like that.

You should have seen the CMAs. She was almost a full step FLAT on EVERYTHING she sang AND they gave her two spots to rupture my eardrums.

Plus, the whole, "you like me, you really really like me!" schtick is so old. Please, drop it honey.

 

[spnited]

The censors have dumped about 1/2 the Eminem Lil' Wayne song so far.

That's the good news.

The bad news is they didn't dump that whole forking debacle.

Total garbage.

 

[spaceman]

I am watching this on the Left Coast now. Sorry, but the cats in the alley sound better than Taylor Swift.

 

[jlee]

I am watching this on the Left Coast now. Sorry, but the cats in the alley sound better than Taylor Swift.

I think what makes it worse is that she's standing between Stevie Nicks and Butch Walker. It's like if I were writing a column while Mike Royko and Grantland Rice were doing the agate page.

 

[Chef2]

Taylor Swift? This is the best album of the year?

A big heaping pot of fail with shredded cheese.