I would hit it, and then i would not quit it.
Yeah, but I’m not sure Taylor can dance like Brittany. And Anguilera can sing well enough to not have to ever know how to do anything else. (Not a Christina fan, but that is one voice on that woman.)
I think of her as one of the nicest celebrities. I like some of her songs. Others I really don’t like. I would say I’m slightly less than neutral, on the positive side.
And I’m not particularly interested in hitting that.
I know nothing of her musically, but the general entertainment board I hang out on constantly ridicules the fact that she’ll date some celebrity for a very brief period of time, get dumped, use them for fodder for an upcoming song, and then publicly name in the media. Every single time. And apparently, Witt the exception of one song, she’s never at fault, but always the poor, young girl who has been taken advantage of. just another take.
Personally, I think she’s very pretty, talented in the fact that she writes her own music and plays the guitar, and that she is indeed a good role model who treats her fans well. If I dug country, I’d give her a listen, heartbreak exposés or not.
Silly photo but, yeah, Neko Case is awesome. I don’t care what she looks like; few singers can send chills down my spine like her. Wait, this is a Taylor Swift thread. Sorry for the hijack…
Her music isn’t my cup of tea, but I saw both the 60 Minutes interview and read a rather long-ish article about her (in Marie-Claire, I thnk?) and came away from both impressed as hell.
She’s a marketing prodigy. She convinced her parents to take her to Music Row in Nashville when she was around 10 or 11 so she could pitch herself to the producers there. Everyone turned her down. IIRC correctly she kept doing this until she landed a recording contract, which she walked away from after a year. She joined forces with an unknown-at-the-time producer, and there you go.
She knows exactly what’s she’s doing. She not only has the musical talent (please, there was plenty worse singers than her out there) and the looks, but she also has the business acumen. She’s made herself her own brand and she works hard always enhancing it. To be able to that that so successfully at her age, to me, is mind-blowing.
She’s kind of a hero in my old neighborhood. A school down the block from me in Alexandria, VA won some contest to have her perform a concert very early in her career. She did it and she rocked.
I teach 12-year-olds English in Korea and punctuate the down time in my class with music. Taylor Swift is the only American singer my girl students have ever asked for by name.
She gets dealt pocket aces in every hand and manages not to misplay them, which not everybody is capable of doing.
I broke down and, out of sheer curiosity, went through her Facebook/Twitter pages one day. She can spell and punctuate, and as far as I can tell it is actually her doing all the typing – she posts a lot of candid cell phone snapshots while traveling and getting ready for concerts that would be difficult for a random PR flunky to stage for her. She seems genuinely grateful to her fans, and has a particular fondness for fan gifts like bracelets and brooches, which she often wears on stage in live shows. The array of other albums she mentions listening to suggest that she does actually know something about pop and country music. She talks a lot about her cat.
Other artists who’ve worked with her professionally don’t seem to complain. She’s hosted SNL and been on a lot of daytime chat shows, and she’s reasonably witty when she talks, and willing to make fun of herself in public. She shares the stage well, which some celebrities don’t.
Outside sources quote her as saying she was picked on a lot in school for liking country and being gawky; she’s still very young and not so far past that, which may explain why she still writes like she thinks she’s an underdog. She also puts her money where her mouth is. She has donated a great deal of time, a lot of PR, and great gobs of money to a wide variety of charities. I don’t think she’s a particularly soft touch, but when she runs into a cause she likes she just plonks down and writes them a check. Her self-driven efforts as a spokeswoman are kind of naive – see: lyrics to “Mean” – but she seems to genuinely mean well.
All in all, I can think of worse people to be shoveling money at. She seems very sweet. Her image is probably very stage-managed and marketed in general, but I think she makes it easy by actually being pretty much as nice and well-meaning as she appears.
She’s cute, her music is pretty good for pop-country, she writes plenty of it herself (now up to three chord progressions!), she seems like she’s doing a good job of staying down to earth, and I just want to be there to comfort her after her inevitable next breakup.
Luckily, the girlfriend has given me a free pass to date, then dump Taylor Swift. I’m hoping to make the next CD with a ballad dedicated to our short time together.
For what it’s worth, my brother was a roadie on her last tour. He said she was nice.
(That’s the extent of my knowledge of Miss Swift).
She’s pretty smart and she can write music. She’s not got the best voice and isn’t the best live but who can sing live anymore (ever heard Katy Perry live?). She knows exactly who her market is and if she’s not one of the nicest people around then she’s a fabulous actress because it’s hard to find anybody in the industry who doesn’t say nice things about her.
As far as getting famous goes, she really worked at it. She pounded the pavements until Sony signed her at 14 to a writing contract and then left them to record when they wanted her to wait until she was 18.
Sure her songs are either sappy love songs or sappy my BF left me songs but at least they’re clean enough for preteens and I doubt you will ever see her flashing the audience. There will always be a market for her kind of songs. Also, she apparently can play an instrument.
(As far as being brilliant at marketing; her first single was Tim McGraw, which of course inspired Tim McGraw fans to buy it and got her name out there. Her management is pretty good and I suspect she has a lot to do with it).
Adele.
Bruno Mars.
I don’t see it. She has one of those vixen faces, but a shitload of eye makeup and scrawny legs don’t make for sexy. For me, anyway.
Bob Lefsetz. I know that guy. Grew up with him. Comes from money and always had an inflated sense of himself and the value of his opinion. Lefsetz Letter