I guess I am just getting too old to even fantasize anymore.

Mmmmm….good!

So for me there just wasn’t anything at all there to justify all of the hysteria.

Despite her age, she’s considered a young girl. Don’t forget all the free publicity and universal empathy for what that douchebag, Kanye West, did for her. Anyone on the fence immediately went into the pro-Taylor camp after that happened.

True story: 4th of July weekend my family arrived at Myrtle Beach shortly after you’d left. We played a round of putt-putt one evening and there was a karaoke machine at the nearby pool. 18 holes later, I’d heard four different little girls that chose “Our song” to sing while we played. I think it was four of the 7 songs that were performed. As if I wasn’t tired of that song, already, I had it running through my brain all evening. That, on top of everything else, told me that there was something huge going on with Taylor Swift…..every little girl wanted to sing that @#$% song. On my daughter’s computer? Taylor Swift desktop backgrounds and every episode of Hannah Montana. When her friends & relatives come over they don’t play very many video games; they watch episodes of Hannah Montana on her PC.

Taylor Swift is bigger than “Who Shot J.R.” was in the early 80s.

There are a finite number of tones in the various tonal systems used by all musicians world-wide, a finite number of tones that can be produced together by one performing group, and songs that get much play must be finite in length. Importantly, there are a finite number of tones and combinations of tones that the human mind can be trained to respond favorably to. Possible rhythm patterns are also finite. Given the rate at which songs have been produced over the last few thousand years, how long before it is impossible to make new music that anybody likes?

I was probably too hard on Taylor and I do need to get my ass off of my shoulders.

Swift doesn’t really sing as much as provide cadence.

True. But you would think that a guy who loves Bob Dylan wouldn’t mind that so much

But I think more than anything it kinda caught me flat-footed. I had no idea what was going on in country music and seeing it stunned me. I had no idea the girl sold records at that pace. I cannot imagine buying one of her albums unless I was a 12 year old girl or was going to give it to a 12 year old girl.

There just ain’t that many 12 year old girls out there so she is striking some kind of chord somewhere else.

I had been told that she was gorgeous and when I saw her the first thing I thought was, “Hell. My titties are bigger than hers!”

So for me there just wasn’t anything at all there to justify all of the hysteria.

But since you pointed out to me that it is a good thing for the young girls that is good enough for me. I had young girls once.