Tom started this thread to help us analyze what is popular with the young set today and I think the exercise is useful, especially to Tom who is working with Justice.

Taylor is very talented and outgoing. If that soundtrack was really her playing live on the bus (with a little added reverb!), it is obvious she can play and sing at a very respectable level. If she really writes her own lyrics and melodies (I have no reason to think otherwise), she is very talented in that arena too. Anyone who says otherwise is full of sour grapes or is jealous. I am pretty sure she doesn't care. Is she hot? Of course - what in the hell is wrong with that?

Is it country? The judge of that is the people who buy her music. Are country music fans buying her music? Evidently so. Does she sound like a country singer from the sixties? No. Should she? No. If you want to listen to Patsy Cline, go buy Patsy's CD.

Finally, would I rather listen to Taylor than rap or hip-hop or death metal or other modern radio air pollution? Darn right I would.

Colin

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