Taylor Swift is an ultra negative influence on young impressionable girls - and apparently on older men who should be able to see her for what she is. The fact that Mr. Reynolds gives her an up vote is quite disconcerting.
I have been doing Iyengar Yoga for 15 years and it's excellent. Didn't care for other disciplines. Taylor Swift is a phenom. My kids love her (ages 30-32). She is bigger than the Beatles were among the female demographic....
I'm not a Taylor Swift fan. But she seems to be doing all right for herself without me on board. I put her in the same category as Led Zeppelin from back in my day. Yes. Seriously. Like Led Zep, the talent is there, the fans are there, but it's just not my thing.
I couldn't pick a Taylor Swift song out if you held a gun to my head, but I can't understand all the ire she raises. Maybe people are jealous of her money or her success or her boyfriend. I dunno. Maybe she's a political lefty, but so what? If I boycotted every singer or band whose politics I don't like, I would have almost nothing to listen to. I can separate my listening from my politics. Oh, well.
I guess it could be worse --- gangsta rap yoga, traphouse beat yoga... But even as somebody who prefers Yes, Rush, or Steely Dan over The Beatles, I can still appreciate the obvious songwriting talents and (sometimes astonishing) musical sophistication of the latter. No risk of that ever happening with TS ;) who may owe at least some of her success to how insufferably trite and vapid pop music has become generally.
Nice try, Glenn. Too bad readers are not buying. I am an unabashed Swiftie who is perplexed at the venom directed towards her. I find the joy she brings to many laudable. Fie on those who want to disparage her.
De gustibus non disputandum, and that goes especially for music. But this is one subject you and I will never agree on Glenn. Taylor Swift is faddish noise, completely unmemorable. I loath it.
Glenn, I'm with you. Of all the things in our lousy popular culture right now, Taylor Swift should be the least of our concerns. Rap, anybody?
Glenn, our man on the ground (literally) reporting back to us. What a fun thing to do — and I love the female/male ratio of these sessions.
Keep it up!
Roger
Dude - you need to get out of the city. Come to Idaho and I'll show you some grizzly bear yoga, with direct, as opposed to piped in, ambiance. 😀
I dunno. Goat Yoga is fine, but I don't really want to do yoga with a grizzly bear on my back.
Taylor Swift is an ultra negative influence on young impressionable girls - and apparently on older men who should be able to see her for what she is. The fact that Mr. Reynolds gives her an up vote is quite disconcerting.
Whether you care for her or not, she is NOT going away. Glenn is one dude who is pretty sure of his own masculinity.
I have been doing Iyengar Yoga for 15 years and it's excellent. Didn't care for other disciplines. Taylor Swift is a phenom. My kids love her (ages 30-32). She is bigger than the Beatles were among the female demographic....
I'm not a Taylor Swift fan. But she seems to be doing all right for herself without me on board. I put her in the same category as Led Zeppelin from back in my day. Yes. Seriously. Like Led Zep, the talent is there, the fans are there, but it's just not my thing.
I couldn't pick a Taylor Swift song out if you held a gun to my head, but I can't understand all the ire she raises. Maybe people are jealous of her money or her success or her boyfriend. I dunno. Maybe she's a political lefty, but so what? If I boycotted every singer or band whose politics I don't like, I would have almost nothing to listen to. I can separate my listening from my politics. Oh, well.
I expect she'd be less of a lightning rod for us "normies" if she wasn't an overt and active Progressive, no?
I guess it could be worse --- gangsta rap yoga, traphouse beat yoga... But even as somebody who prefers Yes, Rush, or Steely Dan over The Beatles, I can still appreciate the obvious songwriting talents and (sometimes astonishing) musical sophistication of the latter. No risk of that ever happening with TS ;) who may owe at least some of her success to how insufferably trite and vapid pop music has become generally.
Nice try, Glenn. Too bad readers are not buying. I am an unabashed Swiftie who is perplexed at the venom directed towards her. I find the joy she brings to many laudable. Fie on those who want to disparage her.
De gustibus non disputandum, and that goes especially for music. But this is one subject you and I will never agree on Glenn. Taylor Swift is faddish noise, completely unmemorable. I loath it.