Guest Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 in the maintime Camille Paglia.... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/taylor-swift-katy-perry-hollywood-398095 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXL Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 ^ Camille is spot on re Taylor Stick As if flashed forward by some terrifying time machine, there’s Taylor Swift, America’s latest sweetheart, beaming beatifically in all her winsome 1950s glory from the cover of Parademagazine in the Thanksgiving weekend newspapers. In TV interviews, Swift affects a “golly, gee whiz” persona of cultivated blandness and self-deprecation, which is completely at odds with her shrewd glam dress sense. Indeed, without her mannequin posturing at industry events, it’s doubtful that Swift could have attained her high profile. Beyond that, Swift has a monotonous vocal style, pitched in a characterless keening soprano and tarted up with snarky spin that is evidently taken for hip by vast multitudes of impressionable young women worldwide. Her themes are mainly complaints about boyfriends, faceless louts who blur in her mind as well as ours. Swift’s meandering, snippy songs make 16-year-old Lesley Gore’s 1963 hit “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry if I Want to)” seem like a towering masterpiece of social commentary, psychological drama and shapely concision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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