Proving every point made in the previous post about the state of the entertainment business today is this tidbit, from Matt Belloni’s Hollywood newsletter, “What I’m Hearing”: Ah, 2014, when Taylor Swift, champion of artists everywhere, withheld her
being an old fogey who has quite deliberately avoided exposure to very few (if any) "new" recording artists, I've been at least a TAD skeptical about ANY claims for ANY recording artist being significant heroes. just a reflex.
everything I've seen of TS, she seems like a nice girl whose heart is in the right place. and she hasn't demonstrated any obvious evidence of being cheap or nasty or even especially temperamental. and of course, I love that politically, her heart (or, at very least, her rhetoric) is in the right place. her music is not my thing, but I get that the music represents a piece of how she connects to her god-knows-how-many fans. still, it's just not my idea of what this late incarnation of...I dunno...country rock, perhaps? I guess I'm put off by the idea of using songs as autobiographical revelations. but that's just me. still, from where I'm sitting, TS strikes me a "net good."
obviously, this opinion (such as it is) is subject to revision. but the flesh can be relied upon to occasionally show how weak it really is.
TA, have you tried to find out Swift’s side of the story? If not, this is just a nasty piece of marshmallow harangue. And it’s unfair.
You’re better than that.
Keep bashing the people who deserve it. Taylor Swift? She’s not crushing our souls and livelihoods. She pays her taxes. She’s generous to her workers. She’s not crippling Congress. She’s not destroying our Democracy. WTF!!!!
Doesn't it always come down to money? I wouldn't know her voice if I heard it. I stopped listening to top chart music almost 20 years ago. If she's already worth a billion, then it's just greed. I feel greed has destroyed our Earth.
I share Mr. Levine's assessment, but would add that it's been like dining on delicacies to watch the right wing media soil themselves over her success and broad influence. I have to thank her for that as long as she never goes all Ayn Rand as so many do when they start inhaling rareified air.
oh well.
being an old fogey who has quite deliberately avoided exposure to very few (if any) "new" recording artists, I've been at least a TAD skeptical about ANY claims for ANY recording artist being significant heroes. just a reflex.
everything I've seen of TS, she seems like a nice girl whose heart is in the right place. and she hasn't demonstrated any obvious evidence of being cheap or nasty or even especially temperamental. and of course, I love that politically, her heart (or, at very least, her rhetoric) is in the right place. her music is not my thing, but I get that the music represents a piece of how she connects to her god-knows-how-many fans. still, it's just not my idea of what this late incarnation of...I dunno...country rock, perhaps? I guess I'm put off by the idea of using songs as autobiographical revelations. but that's just me. still, from where I'm sitting, TS strikes me a "net good."
obviously, this opinion (such as it is) is subject to revision. but the flesh can be relied upon to occasionally show how weak it really is.
Taylor Who?
TA, have you tried to find out Swift’s side of the story? If not, this is just a nasty piece of marshmallow harangue. And it’s unfair.
You’re better than that.
Keep bashing the people who deserve it. Taylor Swift? She’s not crushing our souls and livelihoods. She pays her taxes. She’s generous to her workers. She’s not crippling Congress. She’s not destroying our Democracy. WTF!!!!
Doesn't it always come down to money? I wouldn't know her voice if I heard it. I stopped listening to top chart music almost 20 years ago. If she's already worth a billion, then it's just greed. I feel greed has destroyed our Earth.
I share Mr. Levine's assessment, but would add that it's been like dining on delicacies to watch the right wing media soil themselves over her success and broad influence. I have to thank her for that as long as she never goes all Ayn Rand as so many do when they start inhaling rareified air.
Since I'm deaf, I have no comments on the music industry or its peoples.
You’ll notice that guy’s column is called What I’m Hearing, NOT What I’m Reporting…
Something’s happening.