Monday, November 10, 2008
Moving Pictures / National Skyline Taylor Swift & Def Leppard: Um, OK
Posted by Steve Haruch on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Gotta love the lede on this one:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A year ago, when the guys in Def Leppard heard that Taylor Swift wanted to do an episode of the Country Music Television show "Crossroads" with them, they had just one question: Who's Taylor Swift?
It strikes me as sort of retrograde, what with a bunch of old rocker dudes getting a young, attractive woman to sing their dudely song. ("I don't want a photograph, I wanna touch you"—sooooo dudely.) But then, I guess it doesn't strike me as retrograde when Joan Jett sings Gary Glitter's "Do You Wanna Touch Me?" (But it is gross that Gary Glitter was arrested in Vietnam for having sex with underage girls, and now that song is being used in a commercial for a touchscreen PC that's obviously being marketed toward, well, underage girls. But I digress.)
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terrible, and i actually have a bit of respect for swift since she writes her own songs. i've seen better performances by american idol contestants. and what's with the token "fiddle" player prancing around? why even bother?
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My sources tell me that the guys from Def Lep poured some sugar on Taylor Swift after the show and tried to convince her that they were all still in their 20s. They were later arrested, except for the one armed drummer who helped Taylor with her geometry homework. True story.
i mean.......are they making an album? thats what i am not hearing from this post. if my man mutt is making the record, and they all write it as a unit i would say sounds like mutt traded in shania for a newer model. with all those randall amps to get that def sound, this record could be better by far than the new mutt produced nickleback record. which by the way i think will be 333 times better than any previous attempt. but the question remains: where is the master? is he going to make those sparkles happen one more time, or will he pass on it and stay holded-up in his swiss castle? only cliff bernstein from Q-prime mnagement knows. and maybe william "billy" ocean. fingers crossed!!
this is so wrong, but that song always does it for me, even with that twit up there.
I don't like Taylor Swift. She's overreated. Her live performances are just awful, her voice is shaky and the moves she does on stage are just ugh. Her songs are about as dull as an episode of "Full House". There's about 3 different ways her songs go: 1) I love him, but he'll never know. 2)He done me wrong. 3) Happily ever after. Her attitude is not so much "country gilr", more "OMG! girl" Like you, know, the "oh my gosh, i broke a nail!" type. I think she's a good pop singer, horrible country singer. Although, her songs are catchy, I often find myself scolding myself for absent-mindedly singing her songs. I"m not trying to be a hater, or whatever, because you can put just as much effort into hating someone as loving them.
She didn't deserve those awards. Her producers and sound engineers did. The Grammys were for best recorded vocals and best recorded albums. Since Swifts voice was engineered to sound angelic on her records, she didn't do much to contribute to the vocal talent on her album.
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