is the above saying she's good or bad. Roy orbison mentions crying in his songs madonna alluded to virginity and as for trucks Convoy by C. W. McCall got to number one in america (even DLT's version did alright over here)?

It's much to clever for me.

But, I hear that Lady GaGa has a willie, so she wins. Girls are crap at everything.

of a political nature with a right wing neo-con American on another blog. He's intelligent but is a parochial ideologue. He quite openly and unironically spoke of his adoration for Taylor Swift and what she represents to him stating that she's the kind of girl he wants his daughters to be and the kind of girl he wants his son to bring home one day. He said all this in a 5 point 'Plan' that made no comment whatsoever about her music.

And that's the point of Taylor Swift for many Americans. It's what she represents rather than what her talent is in musical terms. She's an "event" over there and for many that's enough of a cultural fix to judge her as an icon and an "artist".

If we are looking to rock (or country) stars for profound insights into life, we are looking in the wrong places.
Part of the point of popular music is that it goes over the same things again and again. Nice graphic though.

Can't wait to see the one for Steely Dan
Drugs * * *
Jazz Musicians **
Greek Myths *
Mystical Religions *
Medieval politics *
Trucks - none (that spring to mind)

Bearing in mind that Ms Swift has had but two albums in her complete works, there's a hell of a lot of angelic boys, journeys in trucks (with angelic boys) and weeping (in the rain).

Meanwhile booty shaking, striking poses, wanting (your) disease and general Rah Rah Oh La La are conspicuously absent. (Granted there's precious little of that in Roy Orbison's oeuvre either.)

Ahh_Bisto points out, correctly, that Swift is an event, but then so is Lady GaGa. You know how department stores call their seasonal sales 'events'? That's what we're talking about. Because both of them sell records in large quantities. They've both done it by applying the rules of marketing, specifically the identifying of a target market and bombarding them with messages that fit the demographic. GaGa is targeting those who would like to party all night long with no pants, Swift is targeting those who would rather keep the pants on until the right one comes along. These are genuine demographics and they can't be blamed for cynically exploiting them. After all, isn't everyone else complaining how hard it is to sell music these days? That's because most people sing about themselves rather than being the mouthpiece of their audience. The reason country has always done well in the US is that it speaks for the people who listen to it.

... can be read in Kate Mossman's article in last months Word. She has made no impression on the sprocket household at all.

I can say though, that I thought it was a fine article.

I don't know what a Swift Tailor is

as "symbolical." Which neatly illustrates the pretentious and ridiculous nature of the, err... analysis?

David Cassidy and David Bowie?
Any other's?

Eh? Sounds like an excerpt from an early Blue Öyster Cult lyric. How can you describe eyeballs? Round? Veined? Watery?

so they grew up on the likes of the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Linkin Park, Eminem, 50 Cent, Usher and Maria Carey ... (also Clinton and Bush; not George and Kate mind you)

just saying

Taylor Swift song and one Lady GA Ga song and both made me eternally thankful I'm not a teenage girl.
Sorry, but anyone who is not a teenage girl has no business engaging in this stuff.

Woke up at 2am, eyeballed the rain,
No princesses in this cheap motel, no sir,
Couldn't even see the stars in the sky.
The last guy in this room had left a book by some Frenchman,
Didn't read it.
Phone didn't ring.
No messenger of God showed up at the window,
Just the rain.
Took off in my pickup
Drove past a roadside statue of the Virgin,
Weeping real tears.