Familiarity breeds contempt -just look at the gifted Lady Gaga who has already felt the steady pitter patter of indifierence heading her way.
And we can’t tell hype from the real thing because both objects of our adoration are flickered into our imagination the same.
And teen sensations will never be taken seriously.
Which leaves Taylor Swift, who I thought was dreadful, fucked.
A great songwriter, the potential star of her genreation of songwriters, is stuck in a Vegas for girls revue where her great pop songs of fairy tales and life lessons is giving the brush up into bombastic disney pop.
As good as Fearless was the production was overdone and an album of winning songs whose slightest moments put Lady Antebellum to shame, is a touch too glossy.
But what are Taylor’s choicest?
Every single choice she has sucks but her first is to train her voice. SHe must learn how to sing better. In time, if she can’t learn how to sing better, she wan always become a professional songwriter .But given the circumstances, given her position as the voice of a certain strata of the girls of the world where not beinvited to the prom is a life threatening proposition, where does that leave her live musical performance?
Nobody is folling anybody. The last year changed the young singer to her very core. Mass adulation drives you insane and watching Taylor’s, intentional or not, a God walks among us mid-concert meet and greet is scary and sad and moving all at the same time.
It is, for its very weirdness alone, the best moment on the Fearless tour.
The rest of the set was a pre-packaged corn product and I wouldn’t mind, I really wouldn’t. Brad Paisley at MSG was the exact same thing. But the difference was this: Brad Paisley had the band and the voice to back it up and Taylor doesn’t.
The next album won’t sell as well. It can’t sell as well because a) the industry has evolved again and b) expectations will always hurt you. SO has Taylor peaked, already being muttered between her Grammy Awards performance and the excellent though fucked up productionwise “Today Was A Fairytale”.
So yeah, in 2011, when she probably begins dropping stuff off her third album, the world should be ready to pounce.
But they shouldn’t because Taylor WRITES GREAT SONGS.
There is nothing to beat a great songwriter and it is not an easy way to make living. A Carole King , a Conor Oberst, A Lennon/McCartny, a Joe Steinhardt: these people don’t come along all the time and Taylor deserves her name on any list of great songwriters you choose to place her.
But i have been waiting for the Fearless Tour (I was in the UK when she played MSG last summer, though Alix and Aly review it on rock nyc -and loved it)… I’ve been gagging to hear these songs live and now I have? I am still gagging to hear these songs live.