Taylor Swift on SNL

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 17 Jan 2009 1:19 pm

AAAHHH HAH!

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 17 Jan 2009 4:36 pm

I feel bad saying anything negative about Taylor.
I think if she'd been on American Idol singing like she did on SNL & other live shows they would have said NO! I'd agree 100 %

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 17 Jan 2009 5:10 pm

Kevin Hatton wrote:There are dozens of people with more talent waiting in line with more talent and are more deserving of development. She does not deserve to be where she is. Another Corporate creation.

Kevin, as her star has risen perhaps "corporate types" have jumped on the bandwagon to cash in - you will get no argument from me there. But if the show Stu and I watched the other night wasn't all fiction and mostly the truth, then this kid has paid her dues. She played every funky county fair and karaoke contest she could to get somebody to notice, and marched up and down Music Row in Nashville when she was younger with a demo CD and they all gave her the bum's rush. The label she signed with, whose name escapes me, didn't even exist yet. The guy that saw potential in her worked in the music biz, and actually started his label just to sign her as his first artist. Even though Sony liked her as a young staff "after school" songwriter, they blew her out of there when it was time to give her a recording contract.

Hey - I'm probably in the top 2% on this Forum as far as someone who has listened to the least amount of "today's hot country" radio stations in the last 10 or 15 years - most of it makes me want to hurl. It hits me that the vast majority of today's mainstream "country" artists are mostly playing and singing a combination of the Eagles and Skynyrd from the 70's, with a little bit of steel and fiddle thrown in. And some of the singers may have grown up in a northern state, but they sign a recording contract and mysteriously develop a southern accent. And it's become the new mainstream music for a lot of people because there really isn't "rock music" as we knew it anymore.

I'm coming to Taylor's defense because she may be a number of things, but she wasn't created by a bunch of corporate types in an office conference room in Nashville.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 18 Jan 2009 10:24 am

...then this kid has paid her dues.

Mais non. Barely 19, she's (maybe) old enough to have started "paying dues", but clearly she still owes a lot to be considered a "journeyman".

So she writes songs?! (Her and 12,000,000 other wannabee kid stars.) Big deal. So she's written a couple hit songs? Big deal.

It's still a long, long way from Taylor Swift to somebody like Carole King or Cindy Walker.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 18 Jan 2009 1:38 pm

OK, I give up...let's all just march down to her place in Nashville, and yell from the front lawn her music is crap and that she doesn't deserve success.

And forgive me for my choice of verbiage - perhaps I should have written that Taylor has paid some dues! Let's ask Carole King what she thinks of the kid.

Jeezsus Jones!

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 18 Jan 2009 2:16 pm

"Her parents have money". That answers it. Somebody had to.