careful you don’t drop something
The Taylor Swift damage control team is in full on defense mode in response to the negative backlash following that train wreck Grammy performance. The CEO of her record company, Scott Borchetta felt compelled to say this to the Associated Press-
“This is not American Idol. This is not a competition of getting up and seeing who can sing the highest note, This is about a true artist and writer and communicator. It’s not about that technically perfect performance.”
It does help however, to be incredible when you are introduced as such. Something Borchetta apparently fails to realize.
Borchetta first responded to the backlash in The Tennessean, where he said: “Maybe she’s not the best technical singer, but she’s probably the best emotional singer because everybody else who gets up there and is technically perfect, people don’t seem to want more of it. … She’s an extraordinary songwriter and her vocal performances are getting better. Everybody is not perfect on any given day.”
Yeah, whenever I hear a “technically great singer” the first thing that comes to my mind is “Please, stop it.” How delusional is this guy?
Borchetta said Swift had a technical issue Sunday night. “We had a volume problem in the ear. So, she was concerned that she wasn’t able to hear everything in the mix,” Borchetta said. “That’s just part of live TV. … You’re going to have difficulties on occasion.”
I would almost be okay with this explanation had Ms. Swift not sung flat the week before during the Haiti Telethon.