Taylor Made
Since teenage superstar country singer Taylor Swift has basically taken over the world, with her sophomore album Fearless logging a full eleven weeks at #1, this seemed like an opportune moment to add my profile of her to the archives, written last year as I followed her from TRL to an upscale Chinese restaurant to a private plane to a gig in Greenville, South Carolina. Underneath the exterior shell of Swift’s unrelenting stage-managed professional warmth, I thought there was a genuinely good person. I was also impressed by her youthful songwriting prowess: I hope that as she gets older, she has a few bitter breakups and turns into Elvis Costello (without, you know, the beard), but I’m afraid the more likely career path is Faith Hill.
posted 9 March 2009 in Archives, Articles and tagged Taylor Swift. 4 comments
March 9th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I think she stands a chance at being less cantankerous than Costello, but much more interesting than Hill. She’s arguably become some kind of post-MySpace country version of Kanye West, which means she could have an admirably weird side. Fingers crossed.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I would love that, but I just don’t think she’s weird enough. I’d happily settle for a chart-topping version of Rosanne Cash.
November 16th, 2021 at 5:04 am
I think she did better than Faith Hill.
December 8th, 2021 at 11:53 am
I completely agree!