Yesterday, looking for Daily Fix links, I came upon an MTV news piece by James Montgomery titled “Why You Shouldn’t Hate On Taylor Swift.” Fair enough, Dear James; the hype cycle moves quickly these days and now is probably the opportune moment for someone to step up and captain the “backlash-to-the-backlash” train. But his argument is so off point I wondered if he’d picked this topic or if the unprovable thesis had been assigned to him. Because it’s a difficult point to prove.
Our many problems with Taylor Swift
"Swift's songwriting is as thematically ambitious as a 15-year-old's LiveJournal, which is to say, like a 15-year-old's LiveJournal, it never strives for thematic weight or challenges ideas not already covered by Sweet Valley High or The Children's Illustrated Bible.