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.
Adele has a god-tier voice, something that is absolutely not true of Taylor Swift.
dynamic volume
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.
Should have been three rocks instead.
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?
My tax preparer had his tax software (expensive cloud-based shit that costs in the neighborhood of $30K per month) go completely down on him for a couple of months this spring (obviously not the best time for this). He had to have all of his clients file for extensions. When he told me about this I explained that it was almost certainly because the software company started using AI. He got all defensive and started saying how great he thought AI was, but it turns out he was talking about the use of AI instead of this expensive software and his employees for prepping tax returns.
I was already mentally picking out a new tax preparer, but when he mentioned that he was personally investing in a "reactionless space engine" where the inventor used ChatGPT to fix all the problems he was having with it, I made a point of starting the search that afternoon.
I've literally never heard of anybody inviting their friends' parents to their wedding.