I am puzzled why Taylor Swift gets all this acclaim. There must be hundreds if not thousands out there who are just as good if not better at writing and performing in a similar way to her. A star should be extremely talented, unique and way head and shoulders above the rest not just a carbon copy and a poor one at that of what has been done before. It is a sad reflection of the times that so many people with average or very limited talent get to sing karaoke on TV progs and are hailed as international mega stars.