she’s a decent songwriter
Her early attempts to write songs by herself were her least commercially-successful albums. Her songs are good (if you like that sort of thing) because they're written by a large agglomeration of professional songwriters.
My theory is she went with bangs early in her career to hide the wrinkled forehead that she didn't even have yet. Cheaper and more effective than botox.
This is exactly why people hate Keanu Reeves and Tom Hanks and Dolly Parton so much!
Fun fact: Mozart invented a system that used dice to randomly generate music. My unprovable pet theory is that he kept improving this system but stopped telling people about it and used it to compose all of his greatest hits.
Adele has a god-tier voice, something that is absolutely not true of Taylor Swift.
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I'm gonna disagree with this one, at least. That is definitely not a characteristic of modern pop music and Swift's music is no exception.
Almost all of my exposure to recent pop music is either from late-night grocery shopping or from the swim club a block from my house that has a DJ three or four nights a week during the summer. Unfortunately that's enough for all of it. I can even sing along to fucking Imagine Dragons.
Who invites their friends' parents to their wedding?
I had a friend who used to help out an old lady like this in his neighborhood. She had no children and when she died she left him a couple million dollars and her house. He had no idea she had anything.
I wish I could find this again, but there's a Pathe newsreel from 1946 or thereabouts that shows the coming wonders of mobile phones. It even has a man at the grocery store calling his wife to ask what brand of beans she wants. Of course the "phone" was basically a walkie-talkie with a huge backpack, but they had the principle exactly right.
I'm amazed by people that put those Monster scratches on their cars. Like, your energy drink of choice is that big a part of your personality?
I've literally never heard of anybody inviting their friends' parents to their wedding.