[troutman]

Taylor Swift.

"Who says that? Her parents," he asked when Rolling Stone noted that Swift is a pop star that many people praise as a talented songwriter.

[Noel]Gallagher didn't buy it when the magazine responded, "Lots of people."

"Who's 'people'? Name these people. You're ####ing lying," he said. "She seems like a nice girl, but no one has ever said those words, and you ####ing know it."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6801804.html

http://pitchfork.com/features/interv...ers-dan-bejar/

Pitchfork: So you’re not listening to Taylor Swift in your downtime.

Dan Bejar: Not too much. But, because I have a young daughter who's in school now, I had this sneaking suspicion that Taylor Swift might be the dominant cultural theme of her generation and that I should listen to a song by her because I had never heard one. This was a couple of months ago. So I checked it out, and it gave me the willies. It wasn’t a reactionary thing. It was more from just hearing these hack nu-country melodies with dumb lyrics and some very advanced Pro-Tools production techniques that could dazzle certain music critics. I’m familiar with the fact that people who I count as intelligent are really into this woman's records, and I don't want to make this about Taylor Swift. I just generally have a more elemental take on things and I can't hold up Taylor Swift as being either a figure of light or a figure of darkness because I feel like it brings down my poem to a level that’s too mundane. [laughs] So instead of being flabbergasted or outraged or dismissive, I really just want to pretend that those things don’t exist. Maybe I've always done a little bit of that, but I'm really steering into it now.