Ah there it is.

Peak alt-country

My theory is she went with bangs early in her career to hide the wrinkled forehead that she didn't even have yet. Cheaper and more effective than botox.

Almost all of my exposure to recent pop music is either from late-night grocery shopping or from the swim club a block from my house that has a DJ three or four nights a week during the summer. Unfortunately that's enough for all of it. I can even sing along to fucking Imagine Dragons.

People know that listening to music supports the creator, and they don't like supporting shitty people. There's tons of people making really good music, so you can satisfy both the desire to enjoy good music and support good people.

I don’t listen to a lot of her music, but the stuff I have heard was good enough.

Yeah, that's about where I am with it as well. After the umpteenth time someone was like, "No! It's genius! You haven't given it a chance!" I listened to a handful of what they said were her top picks. And yeah, it's not bad. In fact there's a lot to like about it: incredibly good production, use of all the things that make a song interesting (varied tempo and use of speeds, chord changes, dynamic volume, etc) but beyond that I found it kind of meh, maybe even just a tiny bit formulaic, and they started to blend on me.

And they all sound like Taylor Swift, which is objectively NOT a bad thing for an artist to create, but compare and contrast artists and bands that evolve so much they constantly have songs and albums that don't sound like themselves, not just over time but from one album to the next. This is my own preference and taste, and I think I got it from listening to a lot of jazz and/or jazz-inspired music created by musicians that take every limit and push it just a hair farther or in a different direction than expected.

No shade to Taylor fans at all, and I mean no disrespect. It's NOT bad music. I'm even a tiny bit jealous they have the fan community that they do because it sounds like a lot of fun. But the music just doesn't appeal much to me.

Her look, stage show, music is all the efforts of many people in a large, profitable corporation.

Every notice how female singers need to look like fashion models??

Thats just because you haven't heard the 100 better musicians who's daddy couldn't buy them into the business.

People whose only exposure to her music is the radio hits and people who were never a teenage girl are the ones complaining about her music. If you don't get it, that's fine. Its not for you. It's not for me.

Lady Gaga has done the same thing yet gets a fraction of the hate. Radio bangers fund the real artist.

For real. The sanctimonious bullshit of Lemmy is probably the worst part. Who cares if people like her music?

Honestly, the majority of famous musicians aren't that good of people. Shit, even Mozart and Beethoven were dicks.

Some separation of the music and the artists is needed.

People also love to hate famous people just because they're famous. Which is stupid and a waste of energy.

Everyone has talents many people could enjoy.

Only the rich have the ability to develop those talents without having to worry about everything else. This allows even the mediocre to become passable.

she’s a decent songwriter

Her early attempts to write songs by herself were her least commercially-successful albums. Her songs are good (if you like that sort of thing) because they're written by a large agglomeration of professional songwriters.

Damn it what happened with Andy

I'm not particularly surprised. A lot of people conflate family origins with personal identity.

"Kiss me, I'm Irish!"

"You're either with us or against us!"

"Axis of evil."

Race biases. Class biases. Gender biases. Etc etc etc, and most of it is unconsciousness and subjective.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl Jung

Please tell me this isn't true or I'll start to worry about my love, Joanna.

That is correct and very charitable on your part. There is a way in which sometimes the machine starts churning and suddenly the person is a billionaire.