Taylor Swift may be "bigger" in terms of dollars or total audience, but what does that really mean artistically? I think she is very talented.....a great songwriter in relative terms....and the perfect marketable product.....young, beautiful, ambitious, and a great singer with a lovely tone. My daughter is a Swifty, one of the cult who goes to the concerts, knows all the lyrics, and sings along when Taylor sings about all the terrible things that love has done to her. There are probably 10 songs by TS that I like very much. Would I put her in the same category as Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King? Not even close! She is an apt representation of the modern world of commercial music, which, in my book, is fine, but not earth shattering. My two cents. smile