TAYLOR SWIFT IS NOT COUNTRY !!!
Yeah, I heard about Taylor Swift being “dissed” by “Kanye” at some contrived MTV awards show. The fact that anyone capable of growing pubic hair would watch that garbage is beyond me. I rolled up to CNN.com this morning, and even though we have two wars going on, are in the midst of one of the biggest economic crises in our generation, and are fighting a very important battle over health care that might change the identity of our country, THIS is what CNN decided was the most important thing to report on.
MTV is an abomination of Western Civilization and an insult to intelligence. Whatever went down last night was a program FOR children, BY children. I won’t be rope-a doped offsides by overanalyzing some orchestrated, premeditated moment drummed up by millionaires so they can draw even more attention to themselves. Instead I’d rather forget all that nonsense and say:
TAYLOR SWIFT IS NOT COUNTRY !!!
I need to apologize to you all. For the last year or so, I honestly thought that Taylor Swift was yet just another fabricated pop country starlet douche who’d have a few hit songs and be spit out of the other end of the Nashville machine broke with a bad cocaine habit once she stopped being “hip.” I guess there’s still a chance that may happen, but in the meantime, Taylor Swift has sold 10 MILLION ALBUMS this year, and has been nominated for multiple CMA Awards. Who cares, right? I do. Country music is my music, our music, and I’m not going to let someone hijack it to abscond with millions of dollars.
All of a sudden, Taylor Swift is a serious matter, more serious than any of these other pop country celebrities we like to hoot on. It is true, Garth Brooks was the beginning of all of this pop country mess. But though it pains me to say it, what Garth Brooks did, however commercialized and in bad taste it was, was still some version of country. What Taylor Swift is doing has NOTHING to do with country. The “country” of Taylor Swift is strictly a marketing term, plain and simple. That is why we all have to put our foot down and say:
TAYLOR SWIFT IS NOT COUNTRY !!!
What Taylor Swift symbolizes is taking the damage that Garth Brooks did to country to the next level. Garth dumbed down country to make it appeal to classic rockers and soccer moms. Taylor Swift’s puppetmasters want to completely eliminate any country elements from the music to make it appeal to every last human on the planet, with the aim of getting a dollar from them.
There will be some that say we shouldn’t worry about what Taylor Swift and other pop country people do. I understand that notion, but I want to make sure that when future generations look back at this era in country music, they know that there were people that put their foot down, and stood up for what they believed in, that didn’t just stand idly by as their culture was raped and ripped from their hands.
So lets shout it at the top of our lungs, make T shirts, paint billboards, march with signs, all that say:
TAYLOR SWIFT IS NOT COUNTRY !!!
I am in full out defiance.
Somebody just sent me this image. Wouldn’t it be great if it spread out over the internet like a bad rash.
Expect more, lots more blogs about the Taylor Swift sham in the coming weeks. Her and her handlers are square in my crosshairs. And my aim is true, without any reservation. I didn’t get the name for nothing. That’s right Taylor, you are now #1 on my shit list.
— Triggerman Out.
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September 14, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
[…] ETA: Triggerman over at SavingCountryMusic.com has his own, rather lethal point of view on last night here. […]
Serialkiller
September 14, 2009 @ 8:54 pm
Fuck Taylor Swift and Garth Brooks. Get out of the way and let Hank III do his thing without your puppetmasters trying to change him.
Hanachan
September 14, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
Only a person who has never been a teenage girl could write something like this. You are defending an adult attacking a teenage girl. To do so is sexist and ageist. You may hate her music, but to turn this incident into prompt for you to campaign to strip Taylor Swift of her voice in the music industry (and no matter what you say about puppeteering, Ms. Swift does in fact write her own music and lyrics, and has since she was an unsigned artist with a MySpace). She is one of the few voices out there who is a teenage girl writing songs for teenage girls. You even mention that the VMAs are for a younger audience. It’s safe to say that Ms. Swift is too. You aren’t supposed to like her music, it’s not aimed at you. Stop demonizing a teenage girl, it is sickening.
Kennith Schjoth II
January 5, 2011 @ 8:10 am
Nobody is trying to strip taylor of her voice, she is just not Country Music, George Jones is country music, Johny Cash and Hank williams are country music, Taylor swift is not. Ask yourself what does Taylor Swift and Rodeos have in common… Oh thats right NOTHING
TheFireflyspirit
July 10, 2011 @ 9:16 pm
No one is “demonizing” Taylor Swift. We are criticizing her music, and that is totally fair game. She puts her music out there, for either enjoyment or critique.
Yes, she writes her own songs, and they are awful They are trite, trivial and predictable. Also, she’s not a great singer.
She is yet another crap fake-Country artist that is taking true Country down into the gutter.
That is “demonizing” her; that is criticizing her.
Denise
July 11, 2011 @ 7:41 am
Well there you go. Real country music is timeless, ageless and not aimed at a specific age group to increase record sales and trophies. Maybe POP country should divide itself into age groups: kiddie country, pre-teen country, teenage country and not quite twenty one country.
The Triggerman
September 15, 2009 @ 12:37 am
Who is defending Kanye? Certainly not me. And I think you forgot to add that Kanye was also potentially being racist, though I have strong suspicions that the whole thing was contrived, as MTV has a strong history of doing such things.
I am very glad and impressed that Taylor writes her own pop songs. But they are pop, not country, that is my only point. Country songs ARE aimed at me because I am a country fan. Pop songs are not, because I am not a teenage girl, and as you pointed out, never have been. I have no problem with Taylor Swift, pop music, or her songs, except that they are mischaracterized as country.
And don’t worry, my “campaign to strip Taylor Swift of her voice in the music industry” will fail, mainly because she swings a much bigger stick than I do, teenage girl or not.
And as sick as I’ve made you with my silly words, this is the same type of sickness I feel when the Nashville industry parades around a “teenage girl” like a trollip. If I had a teenage daughter, I would never allow her to do this:
I appreciate your comment. Thanks for standing up in what you believe in.
Nanhut
August 27, 2012 @ 2:20 pm
Triggerman,
This is late in responding, but I agree with you 100%. I am not against Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and so many others who are using Country as their ticket in…but they ARE NOT Country. If I wanted to listed to pop, I’d listen to pop. But when I turn on the country station, I expect to hear country not the music that is being played often by the country-wanabees.
Hanachan
September 15, 2009 @ 6:04 am
…wow, self, way to post at three in the morning! Anyways…
I admit, I wrote this comment with another person in mind, someone who showed me this link, who was defending Kanye, and my mind, in three o’clock daze, misread the post. I’m sorry about that ^^;
I actually agree, Taylor Swift’s songs are mischaracterized as country. And I found that Def Leppard performance to be rather tough to watch.
(And I strongly dislike Garth Brooks’ music too (; )
Big A
September 15, 2009 @ 6:40 am
Taylor Swift is not my cup of tea. She is the Shania Twain for teenage girls. I choose to turn her songs off when they come on the radio, but then again nowadays I choose to turn most pop country songs off.
Not to defend Taylor Swift, but I think a positive that is often overlooked is that artists falling on the border of two genres do bring new fans into country music. Just like Hank III brings punk/metal kids into the fold. Just like Garth Brooks brought a generation of Abercrombie kids into the mix.
The Def Leppard thing though, ouch.
Pete Berwick
September 15, 2009 @ 7:36 am
Hacks like Swift are what gave the creation and need for savingcountrymusic.com.
The name of this site stands on it’s own. “Saving Country Music.” And as Triggerman states, in this article and the whole philosophy of this site, he want’s his music back, as the good name of country music has been hijacked by not only this barbie doll embryo in a dress, but many other posers and phonies who are as much country as I am an opera singer. It was the Garth brooks explosion that persuaded me to give up on Nashville in the 90’s and move away. It was all over after that, because once music row saw that it could rake in gazillions by clowns and hacks who people would rather see swing from ropes and wear the biggest cowboy hat, that’s where the industry turned and what path it continues on to this day. When my 11 year old daughter, who hates real country music, likes Taylor Swift, I realize that the title remains but the music has been changed to protect the brain dead. The great artists who pioneered and made country music what it became, would not be able to get a record deal today. Real true country music, for anyone old enough or informed enough to understand, was all about pain and suffering, paying hard dues, experiencing the hardship and frustration which life dumps on most of us. No, it wasn’t all about your dog dying and losing your pickup. Those inane and sarcastic statements are reserved for the musical illiterate. Country at one time was the white man’s blues. Today it is the college kid’s bankroll. There was a time when most country artists came from the farm or the hills or the cotton patch. They wrote about what they knew, and as a result the music was sincere and real, not always pretty, but real. Hard and grizzled troubadours such as Willie Nelson,Kris Kristofferson, Faron Young and Roger Miller drank hard at lower Broadway dives in Nashville and traded war stories and song ideas. What was born from that great era were the most amazing classical country songs ever written, and that never will be again.
Today we have children like Taylor swift who has never had a pretty hair out of place writing songs about her boyfriend troubles on her pink satin sheets in her bedroom. Now that country music has become country pop, or new country, or whatever the hell name the bankers and bean counters will impose on us,it is probably just a matter of time until Hanna Montana also joins the genre. What next? A Madonna country album? There is sometimes a backlash. I really do not know if it is too late to save country music, as we live in a modern time where a musician is more interested in leaving their house with their blackberry and cell phone than their guitar. In the days gone by real artists wrote wherever they went, always on the lookout for a new song idea, or a willingness to live the hard life so as to better write about it. Today were more focused on our myspace ‘friend’ count. Swift, and other phony music industry creations are a reflection of these shitty times. nothing is real anymore. We have become one with the technology and instant push button gratification which gives us an attention span of 12 seconds and as zombies are driven to listen to and purchase whatever has the most marketing pushing it.
Real country music has long ago earned it’s rightful place in the annals and history of American music. As for this new brand of swill, it’s going to have to find it’s own place because it has no business sharing the same museum.
The Triggerman
September 15, 2009 @ 8:58 am
It’s funny Pete, everywhere I go, everything I listen to (podcasts, some radio programs), everyone I know takes it as a gimmie that country music has become a joke. Yet we still have people who will defend people like Taylor Swift, who act like we have no idea what we are talking about. I truly do understand that pop has its place in the world, and that it will always have at least some place in country. But the pop country fans have to for at least a second walk a mile in our shoes. This is a full out cultural war being fought over country music, and they can’t continue to pretend that we are a bunch of whiners, and that is all. This fight is only going to become more contentious, and the sides more divided as country continues to become more pop.
Kennith Schjoth II
January 5, 2011 @ 8:23 am
I think that pop and country should not mix on any level, either you are country, or your not. You either where a pair of boots, work a farm, work 9 to 5 just to make a living, or your from out in the boondocks where the skeeters are at you neck all day. I have met Taylor Swift fans who say “Yeah I like Country, I love Taylor Swift” and I always reply “You like Country music, cool, Do you know who Hank sr. is… No okay, how about George Jones, George Strait, David Allen Coe, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johny Cash? oh youve herd of Johny Cash, do you know any of his songs?? No, well then I guess you don’t like country music after all.” Country is about the twang, pain and crazy things us God fearing folks deal with in our life, not the same old lame childish love song over and over
Tom
September 15, 2009 @ 9:38 am
I don’t mean to knock on Taylor Swift, she’s got talent. She writes her own music, which is rare for the Nashville crowd and I kind of respect that. But it’s still not country music.
My 7 year old loves her music. But I tell her all the time, it’s not real country music. Then she says, “But Hank is real country, huh dad?” That’s when I know I’m bringing her up right.
Cornstalker
September 15, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Damn … can’t believe anyone reading this site would be pissed that you called out Taylor Swift as not country?!?! She exemplifies what is wrong with country music today. If it ain’t her, pick someone else (how bout Carrie Underwood? Same thing). Also, if you have a video on MTV with rappers and rockers, you ain’t country.
The truth (IMHO) is that Real Country music (as you and I know it) is alive BUT not well. The problem is that it has been relegated to “indie” music status and receives very little record company support and therefore large live venues rarely support it either (i.e. catch 22).
Real country music is now called “Americana”, “Western”, and everyones favorite catch-all “Alt-Country”. So, country music is being segmented into multiple categories (Pop Country being one). I think this is natural and has been underway since the 80’s. I believe Rock music went through something similar in the late 60’s and 70s when rockers like Steely Dan, Rod Stewart, Wings, etc. would be went “Pop” and groups like the Stones, Cream, Aerosmith, etc. got into bluesy rock, even while others like Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc. created the genre of heavy metal. At that time, sales were strong enough to support all these styles of music. Today, with music sales slumping, the record companies invest in the musicians that get the most sales.
So, for me, I’m almost willing to give up the term “Country music”. I’ll take “Country & Western” or anything … frankly I don’t care what you call it. I’m more concerned about the development of our music through live venue support and record company support.
Muddyna
September 15, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
Well….for me, I don’t like Taylor Swift’s music. But I think there are many branches to Country music, the way there are many branches of Rock music. I will listen to Social D, White Stripes, The Who, Pink Floyd, etc, but not so much of The Rolling Stones—or even crap by Kid Rock that has crossed into several genres, including some people who have called him country. That doesn’t mean they don’t fall into a genre. I very much enjoy outlaw country & that’s fine for me, but I’m not going to say that Trace Adkins isn’t country, because it is very country, even though it’s not my style, and those aren’t the albums I’m out paying my hard-earned money on. I’m just saying that just cuz her music sucks pretty bad, doesn’t mean she’s not her own style of country (that happens to crossover into crappy pop, too). Sometimes, even you, have to admit there are many branches of every genre, the good, the bad, and the down-right abhorent!
The Triggerman
September 15, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
Well I agree Muddyna, every type of music has it’s different flavors, and almost every type of music has its pop variant. I could call Trace Adkins pop country, or Toby Keith, or Tim McGraw, and though they not be my style, doesn’t mean that they don’t have their place in country music. But when i hear Taylor Swift, I don’t hear anything that even resembles country, except for token gestures here and there in the songs. It is pop music, which there is nothing wrong with, unless you start misrepresenting it as country. I personally can’t see any wiggle room on this issue. Yes, there are a lot of pop country acts, but Taylor Swift is not one of them, she is pop, PERIOD!
Muddyna
September 16, 2009 @ 3:19 am
Funny thing happened tonight. I was listening to the local “pop country” station while at work & I heard the new Taylor Swift song come on the radio. The more I listened the more I wanted to take back my lengthy defense of her place in country music! Ha! Yeah, she’s got the crap-pop think DOWN, doesn’t she?! Ate my words with every note she sang.
Cornstalker
September 16, 2009 @ 2:50 pm
Triggerman … Now I understand you better. You weren’t saying that her music is not “real” country … but that it isn’t even “pop” country. It’s a fine line between pop and pop country. The record companies place her in whatever category they think she best fits. When she broke into the biz she was probably too young to slut-it-up for pop radio. Now that she is 19 (googled that one), she’s old enough to lose the innocence and go pop. Maybe that’s why she’s on the VMA’s.
Carla
September 17, 2009 @ 2:18 am
It hit me at 3am this morning. The realisation that I had never heard a Taylor Swift song prior to her performance on the VMAs but I’d HEARD that song before. Somewhere. Aha – Avril Lavigne! That was my 3am revelation. What did bring me some solace (in regards to Taylor being hailed as a ‘country singer’) was remembering that when young Avril burst onto the music scene in 2003 with the song “Complicated” she was hailed as a “Punk Princess” At the time us old punks tsk tsked and said “Comeon, that ain’t punk!”. It’s pop music, pure and simple. Same deal with Taylor Swift: pop music being sub-genred into a category it clearly doesn’t fit into. My question is: if Averil’s song is ‘punk’ why is Taylor’s ‘country’? They’re the same goddamn song! Seriously, I am attaching both of them here, have a listen.
Averil Lavigne ‘Complicated’
Taylor Swift ‘You Belong With Me’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXYAJoDWCk
Carla
September 17, 2009 @ 2:22 am
No idea why that didn’t work, try again:
Averil Lavigne ‘Complicated’
Taylor Swift ‘You Belong With Me’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXYAJoDWCk
The Triggerman
September 17, 2009 @ 1:55 pm
Despite the link drama, I totally get your point Carla. There is a great bit of similarity between Averil and Taylor. They both write their own songs, and they both are living on the pop side of things, and piggy-backing off of other genres for attention.
My next Taylor blog is going to be analyzing her songwriting. But I’m gonna put some space between me and Taylor for a bit. The natives are getting restless.
YOGOTTI
September 18, 2009 @ 12:47 am
SHUT UP DUDE MUSIC IS MUSIC LET HER DO WHAT SHE WANTS, AND IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS POSTED ABOUT CMT ON CNN THAT WAS A BIG DEAL I BET YOU WOULD TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY, THEN MAD THAT THEY WERENT TALKING ABOUT MORE IMPORTANT THINGS LIKE WAR, AND ECONOMY. BECAUSE THE MAIN TOPIC WOULD BE WHAT HAPPENED ON THE CMT AWARDS, SO IT WOULD BE THE SAME THING AS EVERYONE MAKING A BIG DEAL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON MTV AND YOU JUST DONT SEE THAT. SO LET TAYLOR SWIFT BE COUNTRY LET HER SING OTHER MUSIC, CAUSE SHE IS REALLY A COUNTRY SINGER, BUT SHE SINGS OTHER STYLES.
YOU ARE REALLY MAKING A VERY BIG DEAL SHOULDNT YOU BE WORRIED ABOUT MORE IMPORTANT THINGS, GO TRY TO STOP THE WAR OR SOMETHING, OR MAKE A VERY GOOD COUNTRY SONG, YOU CRYBABY…
MUSUC IS MUSIC,AND YES TAYLOR SWIFT IS COUNTRY
THANKS…
The Triggerman
September 18, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
You make a splendid spokesman for pop country YOGOTTI.
I hope CNN wouldn’t take anything that happened on the CMT Awards seriously either, because they are possibly worse than the MTV Awards.
And yes, this whole post was really a guised anti-war rant. You caught me.
I shall go cry now, because I’m a crybaby.
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September 30, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
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LogicalPerson
April 3, 2010 @ 10:35 am
To say Taylor isn’t country would be the equivalent of saying Kenny Chesney isn’t either because all his songs are about beaches and paradise, Keith Urban whose majority of songs are articulate and not about drinking and/or being a redneck, Brad Paisley who write songs about how the world is changing to a multicultural melting pot, Lady-A and all their love songs, etc. The point is, Taylor is NO LESS country than any of those folks either.
In fact, with all the country music garbage that has been released in recent years, country fans should be kissing Taylor Swift’s butt for keeping the genre of country music remotely relevant in mainstream America. Although there are some people that like hearing young boys sing songs like George Straight would, most people are grossly turned off by that. So, for the people wanting to preserve old school country, you need not diss those that are actually attracting an audience. People like what they like and old school country like Easton Corbin and similar acts are simply not “cool”, despite they are excellent artists in their isolated sub-genres.
Acts like Swift that border on pop and other genres are country music’s saving grace, as much as it pains me to say that. Although I can personally appreciate old school country, most people cannot. It’s the bitter truth for old school country fans.
The Pillsbury Dough Boy
April 3, 2010 @ 6:03 pm
Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban etc that you named, are not country either. It’s all the same “happy happy”, “yippy skippy” garbage. Traditional country may not be the most lucrative genre of music to get into, but if that’s what you’re about you shouldn’t be in music at all. There is a ton of people who like Traditional country, so to say that Taylor Swift is keeping country alive by making a mockery of it, shows your complete lack of intelligence. ————————————– Your time would be better spent learning how to tie your own shoes, or reading “See Jane Run” , than arguing about things you read on this website……Trust me.
Joe Martinez
April 17, 2010 @ 1:05 am
I totally agree that Taylor Swift is not country!!!!
Trace Adkins, Toby Keith, Kenny Chesney and Tim Mcgraw are Pop-Country stars with a singing country accent. Even Garth Brooks has some country in his music. Taylor Swift’s songs has NOTHING to do with country. My sister thinks Taylor Swift is country and she wants me to listen to her POP music. I said hell no, I would never get into Taylor’s Pop garbage, I’d rather stick to traditional country artists like George Strait, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, Ricky Van Shelton, Hank Williams Jr., Merle Haggard, Charlie Daniels band and Wade Hayes. Taylor Swift is destroying country music.
Texascowboy
April 17, 2010 @ 1:10 am
Taylor Swift did so much damage to real country music.
God it’s awful.
Texascowboy
April 17, 2010 @ 1:15 am
Trace Adkins, Toby Keith, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw are country-pop stars with a country singing accent. Even Garth Brooks has some country to his music. Taylor Swift’s music has NOTHING to do with country. Taylor Swift is actually destroying REAL Country music. God it’s awful.
Cattleman
April 19, 2010 @ 10:34 am
Taylor Swift isn’t country at all. I noticed that other so-called country stas such as Brad Paisley, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney has also lost their country sound too.
Blake shelton’s music also lost the country sound. Blake used to play good country music and even wore his cowboy hat and western shirts. Seems like Puppetmasters in Nashville control today’s artists. Look at traditional country singers like Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, Kevin Fowler, Ricky Van Shelton, Wade Hayes and Clay Walker. None of these true country artists ever get the publicity on CMT like Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisely, Keith Urban,Blake Shelton and Taylor Swift gets. What Nashville is doing these days is forcing their fake country music which is really pop-rock down our throats. No THANKS Nashville, I’d rather listen to REAL Country music singers like George Strait, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, Hank Jr, Mark Chesnutt,Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam,Wade Hayes and George Jones.
Ben Gonsioroski
May 23, 2010 @ 5:28 pm
Country Music defined by Ben Gonsioroski
Whether or not someone is country, is hard to define now days. Language with its many definitions is constantly changing and is being re-defined everyday. Country music started out as a WAY of life not some genre or style of music. Country music was born from America”™s backcountry rural farm and rancher type people, not city folk. The roots of country music came from hard working people who were generally poor and had little or no entertainment but to sit in the shade after a long hard days work on the front porch or wherever and express his or her soul of ordinary country life lived everyday in the form of music. Most of the instruments used back then were homemade guitars, fiddles, banjos, mandolins, and what not. Over a period of time, music of this nature developed into a genre or style and became very popular. The genre, “Country Music” was born.
Now days just because someone produces a certain sound or style, they feel they are country. The problem is”¦ that certain sound has evolved over the years into something entirely different than it”™s roots, not only the music but also the lyrics. Country music is no longer clearly defined as country. There has always been a rift and lack of understanding between country people and city people. Country people feel they are more closely in touch with the land and therefore feel more of a simple down home connection with nature and the earth with it”™s way of life. City folk commonly do not have the same connection with the country way of life and therefore do not feel or express their souls with the same style of music. Consequently, Country music and city music have been mostly very different in lyric style and musical score. Now that most feel it”™s all about the style or genre instead of a way of life, the true definition of country music has been lost. Genre”™s and musical categories are subject to constant change”¦not so with the country way of life. The country way of life and its people change very slowly if at all.
Because of this, the genre or style of country music has changed dramatically as more and more city people have gained access to the country music industry. It takes lots of money to produce music and push it over the airwaves. City people seem to have more of the green stuff so naturally the style of country music has been altered by people who were born in the city and have very little real connection with the original grass roots country music sound. Like it or not, this is the TRUE definition of COUNTRY MUSIC!
Listen to my music and tell me I ain’t country! I’m so country, people don’t even know how to take me.
Olivia
June 4, 2010 @ 9:20 am
I think that Taylor Swift is a type of country. She may not be traditional country, and she may also be considered a pop-country corssover artist, but she is a form of country. Think about Conway Twitty. He was a country arist, but he also was a rock and roll artist and sometimes a pop artist. He is often considered to be one of the greatest country artists. If it was okay for Twitty to cross over, should it be different for other artists?
Country music is a collaboration of stories told through song. Taylor writes about her life as a young women just as others write about their lives. I think Taylor is still country!
Nika
November 13, 2010 @ 7:35 pm
Sorry i have to say Taylor may not be completely country, but alot of artists like to mix genres, its just like alot of ppl are not strictly black or strictly white or Mexican etc.And i dont think “Country Artists” should have to Squeeze themselves into strict categories. a person cant just be one thing all the time. if you describe yourself as sarcastic it doesnt mean that your always sarcastic, sure sometimes youll get angry, or be sympathetic and such. So i really think its not fair to hate someone because they dont fit into the little box you made for them -.-‘
Denise
November 14, 2010 @ 7:06 am
All those photographs and award ceremonies where she holds all those little trophies say she is country and such.
Janelle
January 2, 2011 @ 10:07 pm
Who cares if she is or if she isn’t? She writes her own music, and girls can relate to it. That’s why it’s popular. Country or not country…it doesn’t matter, she’s still better than this entire disagrement you’re presenting.
Kennith Schjoth II
January 5, 2011 @ 7:57 am
Is there somewhere I can buy this T shirt, size medium. With Hank didn’t do it that way, on the back. I agree play your damn pop on the pop stations and keep country pure!!!
Jaz
February 8, 2011 @ 11:55 am
Im really worried, because… somebody really believe that its country music? i think she is really pretty, but the songs are not!!
guard dog
February 20, 2011 @ 9:32 am
I hate to say this, but it is true. Do some research on who runs the music biz.
Nashville is Hollywood.
Who runs the music biz? Zionist Joos.
Who runs the runs the air waves and radio stations? Zionist joos.
who runs the Tv news? zionist joos.
Who runs the satellite tv programs? zionist joos.
Who runs the hollywood movie biz? Zionist joos.
Who runs wall street? zionist joos.
Who runs the big banks? Zionist joos.
Who runs the US gubbamint? zionist joos.
Who runs the world? Zionist joos.
Im no nazi, but these pigs are running EVERYTHING, and they are running it all into the ground.
This is why the country scene has been dealt a death blow, because Taylor Shift, Hootie and the Blowboys, Uncle Crapper, and Carrie Underpants is what the zionist joos want you to buy. It is because they made shitty deals with these so called artists in their other genres, which they failed in, and now they have to get them to put out their studio crap under a different genre to salvage their contracts.
There is nothing country about these posers.
The sad truth is, there is nothing you can do about it other than complain to your local stations and stop supporting this crappy new country music.
The only one with common sense
March 28, 2011 @ 8:02 pm
Jesus, motherfucking, god damn, Christ. What the fuck?!?!?!?! How in the fuck is Taylor Swift COMPLETELY pop?!?!?! Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are pop, you dumbass. IT’S CALLED COUNTY/POP.. GET USED TO IT!!! What the fucking hell do you want? Some old redneck, racist guy with a banjo? Music has changed. Learn how to deal with it. Really, here’s a fun fact about the electric guitar. It was invented in the 1920s/1930s. It took forever for it to take off. Every fucking band in existence has an electric guitar. Unless, your the racist guy with the banjo. Oh, which reminds me. In Taylor’s band, is a guy who plays a banjo!!! So…how many pop songs have a banjo? Don’t believe it? I got proof. Music videos, and sheet music. Seriously, I have the damn sheet music loaded on my computer, right now. taylor_swift_-love_story.MIDI
That’s the name of the file. It’s open in Notation Composer 2.2. INSTRUMENTS:
BANJO
ELECTRIC GUITAR (muted)
ACOUSTIC GUITAR (steel)
DRUMS
LEAD VOCALS (Clarinet)
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D G E B E B G B
(Intro to love story)
But, let’s be honest here. Is country the same as it was in 1950? NO!!!! You want some god damn 1950’s country music? I’ll get some, and play it. It will sound like shit, but I’ll do it. Why is the internet loaded with Taylor Swift haters? I don’t get it… But, what really pisses me off is when people have to start the personal attacks, like this. “Taylor Swift is a bitch. She’s a whore” OK, learn the definitions of those words before you use them. I didn’t see that in this rant, but I’m talking about elsewhere. I’m not accusing you (article writer), but the people that actually do this are retarded. If you don’t like someone, then SHUT UP! Ignore them.. It’s that simple. Really, if you don’t like it when she sings on TV, then get the motherfucking remote and turn it off. It’s not that hard. It’s so easy, a caveman could do it. I must be the only one on here defending Taylor. Hmm… I don’t give a damn. I will post this. Delete it. Go right ahead. But by doing so, you’re admitting that I’m right. I get the impression that everyone on this damn website has a confederate flag on their pickup, and I right? Fuck, saying “pickup”, reminds me, I should have got the overnight delivery on my guitar pickup. Never-mind, back to my point. You guys sound exactly like a bunch of old rednecks that are pissed because it’s not 1978. The fucking year is 2011. Get over it, move on. 1978 ended 32 years ago. Language changes. You can’t go back, all you can do is go forward. Get used to change. Besides, you’ll probably die soon. (Since you just a bunch of old guys bitching)
Real country? Define true country music! Try it… You can’t… There are multiple ways to describe it. Also, opinion has a lot to do with it. Also, if a CD is advertised as COUNTRY, then that means it qualifies as country. I know I’m contradicting myself, here. I’m ranting, it’s like a drunk guy talking. Not much makes any logical sense. I have WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 12 open right now. “Fearless” “Taylor Swift” “Country” “2008”
You say she’s bad at writing songs? Then I’ll tell you, what I told another guy who said the same. Go write your own song. When you done, send it to me. Do it… If your so much better than her, then prove it… What’s that? You can’t! But, you act like your so much better!
I what I said back…
Thank you, Janelle. You’re the only one on here with any common sense.
You know something, I’m a guy (go ahead, say something stupid, if it makes you feel better), so I can’t/don’t/ relate to any of her songs, but I still like them. Hey, she’s more talented than I am. I glad because I have the G string memorized on the fretboard. I’m sure she has the whole damn thing memorized. That’s more than 114 notes! (Depending on the guitar). She’s certainly more talented than most of you people. Here’s what I used to think. “I ONLY listen to country. Country only.” Then I realized, it doesn’t matter what the fuck genre it is, if you like it, then listen to it. I don’t give a fuck if it crosses into the pop genre.
The song, “I’m Only Me When I’m With You” <—-(That's a long name), is NOT really country. Yet, EVERYONE thinks that her first album is. The song is on that album. How is Picture to Burn country?
I REALLY like both of those songs. In fact, I'm going to play them both. Personally, I like "I'm Only Me When I'm With You better. But, I like a lot of her songs, so it doesn't matter. Guess what, I voted for her for the ACM awards. God damn it, she better win, too. Otherwise, it was rigged. It was fixed… It's a fucking rip off. Ok, but seriously, she needs to win more than that Carrie Underwood. I don't hate Carrie Underwood, but her songs are awful. God, that "Mamma's Song" or whatever, is the ABSOLUTE WORST SONG, IN THE HISTORY OF SONGS. For some reason it reminds me of a horrible version of "Mary's Song" (by Taylor Swift. And, that song is horrendous. (and Back to December). I don't know what Taylor was smoking when she wrote those songs. That doesn't make me not a fan, it just means that only 75% of Taylor's songs are any good. See, now Carrie Underwood's songs that meet my approval is less than 6%. Big & Rich.. THEY'RE COUNTRY? OMG!!!!! They're approval rate is 0%. Maybe -1%.
Why do people think that both the Fearless & Speak Now albums are POP? They sound nothing like POP. Lady Gaga is POP. And it fucking sucks. Taylor's songs have features of both country and pop. That's good. It works. ALL country hasn't been done since, IDK, 1985? It's fucking god awful, too. ALL pop, sounds like absolute shit. Like a squealing cat. Now, I wasted 30 minutes on this fucking rant. I'm going back to what I was doing. (Listening to some Taylor Swift song, and doing nothing)
Nathan38401
March 28, 2011 @ 9:05 pm
Music has not changed. Shit is still shit.
Ojaioan
March 28, 2011 @ 10:27 pm
…bet that guy that plays banjo for Taylor Swift is a “racist” too. Why…I’da never…
Csanrr
May 25, 2014 @ 1:22 pm
Short of the bad words, I agree with you. She’s not any different than the other recording artist, it’s big business running the studios , and the music industry, hollywood. it’s the way world is run like it or not. And instead of bashing her with stupid personal stuff derogatory stuff that has nothing to do with music it just makes these people sound even more ignorant. Not to mention really who devotes their time to a saving country music website when country music is still full of plenty “more traditional” artists out there. She has every right to do all types of music and just because her last album isn’t as country as the previous, doesn’t mean her next one won’t be different., more country, and all you haters just change the station for goodness sake!
Cindy
September 24, 2014 @ 12:11 am
I am so angry with your use of the English language. Who needs to hear the F”¦ word non stop? I hate this one the most. See if you can get my drift. I do believe and understand that there are many, many words in the Dictionary and Thesaurus. What, you don’t know what a thesaurus is. Why don’t you spend more time trying to figure out other words that say the same thing without all the atrocious language. You define ignorance to a T(abbreviation). As for Taylor Swift, she may write the melodies but who do think works on the percussion lines, keyboard music, all guitar parts along with some back up singers. I have a Master’s in Music Composing and writing a symphony with at least 15 to 20 instruments to write for and I do it all with no help from anyone. Yep, I went to college to get where I am without using any kind of cuss words. They were not, in the least bit necessary. Maybe you need to try growing up. You are definitely one of the most mediocre, idiots in this battle. Listen to what you want to and ignore the rest. Seems pretty easy to me. AND I certainly hope that you don’t have children. What a disgrace you are!
And, you think you are the only one with common sense. Stop your language. I could not read most of it because it made me sooooo sick to read it. BIG HUGE MISTAKE! Mr. common sense guy. You are a worthless person in my world!!!! GO AWAY AND FIGHT ANOTHER BATTLE WITHOUT USING ALL OF YOUR FAVORITE WORDS. Bet you can’t do it!!
Appleeeee
June 26, 2011 @ 11:53 am
thats beacuse shes POP country, ever heard of it? smartypants
christian
February 16, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
There is one point here and one point only. Plain and simple country music is a way of life. If you Sing country you should be country. People like this are ruining what music is.
rcarlman
January 7, 2015 @ 5:49 pm
I recently heard a song coming from a car radio. It was a countrified countryless pop song. As recent as the 1980’s, and even further back in the 1970’s country has been ending its love affair with its own myths.
So Taylor Swift, is not country. We know that. So many of the artists today in country row are simply using the genres available to quickly get their message out.
They aren’t realy embracing country as a whole anymore. Some Dwight Yokum, the sort of cool personae of country, Allen Jackson, they have country roots. But so many artists in Nashville now simply write songs, and are more modern and not really bringing the more beautiful and touching aspect of coutry music to the recording studios any more.
Took Ronny
May 9, 2019 @ 8:34 pm
The beginning of the end was when Johnny Cash hooked up with Bob Dylan.
Dale Gribble
November 11, 2020 @ 3:50 am
GO FUCK YOURSELF 🖕