Instant Karma and Live and Let Die would have been way more massive if they were Beatles tracks.
Taylor Swift is the most jimmy rustling artist of old men of all time.
Her brand of pop is leagues above Sugar Sugar, or literally anything that made #1 in the seventies.
It has soooo much more depth than ‘Tell me what you want, what you really really want.’
The tepid backlash against her is lame AF.
She brings joy.
She made the Southern Stand shake on its foundations.
She sold 96,000 tickets and there was Still a party outside the ground. Just listening.
Ohhhh but she doesn’t write her own songs….
But…she does though…
Boys Of Summer…written by Mike Chapman for Tom Petty… and had the tempo changed because Bob Seger said people dig a higher voice…
That’s a farkload more interference than Swift ever had, and do we call that inauthentic?
No.
No, we don’t.
It’s freaking Sad that anyone has a negative opinion on these joyful, friendship bracelet swapping kids.
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This is like your third or fourth go at this isn’t it? It’s really wound you up hasn’t it Wimm 
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Genuine question. What’s your favourite track @wimmera1 ?
I’m not a convert, but we have a household full of them. But you can’t deny the culture and connectedness that she and her fans have created.
He’s just upset that he’s outed himself as the only swifty on the forum and now has to justify why he is one at all
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Swiftie…
Swifty
It really friggin has.
I don’t Get it.
She’s not corporate, she’s Anti-corporate.
She’s stuck it to the man by re-recording all of her albums under Better artist conditions and her fans have backed her.
For that alone…she’s a freaking trail-blazing anti-corporate hero.
She does Not put out thirty different versions of Never Gonna Give You Up, and to suggest she does…shows…
a) a complete lack of musical knowledge, and
b) something far more sinister
Calling that much of the population sheep, says waaaaaay more about you than you’d like to think.
Weirdest thing is…teens to twenties have NFI what you’re on about.
They’re just vibing.
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taylor swift is the john worsfold of pop music
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I honestly don’t have one.
I’ve been listening because I have to.
I get that Blank Spaces is black humour… but the joke doesn’t land with me.
I have serious issues with ‘Look what you made me do.’
That’s…abuser talk, and it doesn’t sound any better coming from a woman.
Most of her other stuff just makes me sad. But I can hardly be a Cohen fan and throw out that criticism.
Her music isn’t For me.
My point is that it’s weird as Fark to hear Pearl Jam fans go so hard on this.
She’s…fine.
Really.
She’s okay.
There’s no reason to hate her.
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What’s weird is that the only person on the forum who seems passionately one way or the other about is the person who writes 200 word monologues about her every day.
That’s weird.
The people who don’t actually consider themselves fans of her, who are being in any way critical, it’d pretty much nearly all be due to one thing I reckon, overexposure.
I just find it funny that you’re apparently so ambivalent about Tay Tay but also so fired up about her and the way people talk about her
Would it help if I said that I like pop?
That I will always fight for pop?
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I like pop too. Gets a bum rap. I’m not particularly fond of Taylor Swift though.
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When one goes on a rant, it is often a good idea to post factual information!!!
“The Boys of Summer” is a song by the American musician Don Henley. The lyrics were written by Henley and the music was composed by Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
It’s factual.
Petty didn’t want it.
Henley recorded it at a much slower tempo.
Seger overheard the recording and said…you can make this better.
So they did.
Edit: my mistake. Chapman/Campbell
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It’s not factual as you stated it was written by Mike Chapman…it was in fact, Mike Campbell 
Nice edit 
True edit.
Factual correction.
Doesn’t change the argument.