This seems to be the biggest conversation going on among people inside and outside the music industry.

One camp is that she is a slick marketing campaign, and nothing more than the "Machine" forcing it down our throats.

The other is she is good for the industry, a very intelligent young lady who was prepared, did something no one else was doing quite the same way and is reaping the benefits from all directions. Those tip their hats to her.

That is my camp. I have been in this business for a while and one thing I have seen is the courpses of writers, artists, songs, record labels, publishing companies, that felt that if they could just put enough money into something there was NO WAY it would miss.

And money was put into them. Tons of it. Marketing, promotion,you name it. And they fail. Many of them had good looks and talent too. They just didn't catch on.

Taylor has done something interesting and caught on. And people can play it down, denigrate it, complain about it. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion. That is fine.

My problem is when someone says "Everybody knows this is crap and I am just speaking what everybody else thinks." That is where I find it is nonsense.

And I see no value in just downing anything that is out there.

All in perception.

MAB