Taylor Swift is awesome. Anyone who disagrees probably hates puppies. And double rainbows. Though Taylor towers above us all, there’s something just so sexy about those curly locks of gold. And let’s be honest: A pound of eye shadow has never looked so good. I have been a follower of T-Swift since the first time I heard her. And yes, admitting my iTunes library has 32 of her songs may be slightly embarrassing, but check out my 120-song collection of Wiz Khalifa.

The best part is that, every day, haters are crawling back to that dark hole they came from. Kim Kardashian, Jessica Alba and Brooklyn Decker are goddesses of the form, but they just don’t pack the same punch as Taylor. Don’t get me wrong; I love the ladies. But they don’t belong in the same class as Ms. Swift.

Her voice may be slightly better than the average high school a cappella singer, but her crooning not-so-country country songs have brought me into a world I’d never thought I’d be in. Country music has long stood as the one genre of music that could make me cringe. Taylor makes me feel like a sinner for stepping behind enemy lines and blaring ‘You Belong With Me.’ What an idiot that dude Drew is. I heard that on the back of his driver’s license, it reads ‘Taylor wrote a song about me.’ Don’t advertise that, bro. You missed out on one of the biggest cash cows to ever come through this great country.

Recently, Taylor made a pretty big slip up. To this point, I was pretty sure she was infallible. The video for her song ‘Mine’ was filmed in Maine. At the end of the video, she dates this guy, they get married and she has kids. What was the video producer thinking with this? If she wants to grow her main fan base of teenage girls who know the struggles of being a 15-year-old girl, for Garth’s sake, keep her single. The best part about her dating that Jonas clown was the breakup — she was once again a free agent. Don’t worry — after I make it big, I won’t forget the little people. Taylor, you will be the first one I call.

—Compiled by Aaron Gould, asst. feature editor, akgould@syr.edu

 

Published on October 6, 2010 at 12:00 pm