Taylor swift is not the vocalist Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood or even Reba is, but what she is, is a bright articulate young lady who writes here own music, music that as she has said is a dairy of her young life. Lyrics that touch other young people, and do not include trash and smut, like so much of popular music today. She withstood the Kanye West incident like a woman far older and wiser. While her music is not old school traditional country, so is so much of what is recorded in Nashville today. There are many sub-genres of country just as there are pop music. martina is not traditional country, neither is Carrie Underwood. Keith Urban is less traditional than say George Strait, or for that matter Brad Paisley. Not all pop is the same think of Elvis vs the Beatles, vs Niel Diamond, vs U2, vs Elton John, vs Culture Club, etc.

To dismiss Taylor Swift as "crap" is to say that only your version of country is relevent. I remember a few years back i was listening to country music, and some of the artist i loved back then were George Jones, Ronnie Milsap, Johnny Rodregas, Johnny Cash, to name a few, in that small listing there are very diverse types of country music. I say give miss Swift here due, people love her and her fresh take on things. Hey at least young people are listening to something other than crap about sex drugs and violence.

Isn't the whole point of the music industry to SELL records and make money, well she sells records. If it were not for commercially successful artist the industry would die out completely and the world would be stuck with us for entertainment. Heaven forbid, have you heard how pitchy we can be at times!!!!!!

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