Tag: Taylor Swift
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by Michael McCarthy I’m getting really tired of older rock musicians taking shots at Taylor Swift—and, more broadly, acting like the success of younger pop artists is somehow evidence that music has gone to hell. The latest is Todd Rundgren, who recently called Swift the “apotheosis of mediocrity” and said there’s an argument to be…
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As you can see and hear above, Father John Misty has covered Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” But where Ryan Adams said he was covering Taylor in the key of The Smiths, Father John Misty has done Taylor in the key of The Velvet Underground, singer Lou Reed in particular. And he sounds almost exactly like…
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To some, it was a surprise that Taylor Swift opted to go the pop route on her new album 1989, named after the year she was born, but most of her longtime listeners saw this coming a mile away. After all, Taylor’s singles have been remixed for the pop market ever since she started her…
