Originally Posted By DAR She's a cute girl, very marketable, read that she writes all her songs, sounds good on the radio, but put her in front of a live microphone and she cannot sing at all. And it wasn't just Sunday, everytime I see her sing live she's awful.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Was she able to at least give her acceptance speech without interruption?
Originally Posted By mele Ha, wahoo! Yes, everytime I see her sing live on TV she is completely off-key. I lose count of how many awful notes she hits. Plus, I hate the sweet, baby girl voice. Soft and whiny. So precious. That works great when you're a kid but it will get pathetic in just a few more years. She seems like a nice girl but I'm getting really sick of her.
Originally Posted By irishfan I have to admit I am scratching my head when it comes to all the accolades she has received recently. Her songs sound nice, but all very "bubble gum" pop to me.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Well, many of the awards in the music industry are based more on popularity and commerical performance than actual artistic merit. I would suspect that's part of the reason she did so well this year, as she has been one of the all-time high grossing women. As for her performance, I had heard before I saw it that it was pretty bad. When I was watching it, I just had to keep waiting to see what was so awful about it. My roommates and I (all of whom know music quite well) noticed from the very beginning that her microphone was way too loud, and you could hear it echoing through the arena, which didn't happen with any of the other performers of the night. She was kind of out of balance with her band, but it became very noticable when Stevie Nicks started singing with her, and you could only hear Taylor Swift singing the harmony. The close country harmonies aren't the same as those in pop and rock music, so it sounded a little funny, especially to people who didn't know that it wasn't supposed to be the melody. Her performance wasn't outstanding, but there was nothing she could have done better with it. It was very adequate. There were technical issues with it, which was a shame, but the performance itself was pretty well done. If we want to complain about bad performances, I have plenty of acts that I'd like to nominate. Starting with Beyonce's use of a ton of dancers who didn't dance. She's known for putting on a great stage show experience, so it surprised me that it was pretty much just her standing there singing. Pink's aerial act was a little much for me, and her actual performance in it was quite forgettable, if you take away the shock factor of the whole thing. The Green Day/musical number just wasn't very well done and looked to me like an unwanted love child of Across the Universe and Rent. I won't be surprised when the musical closes within a few months of opening. And the Jamie Foxx number...what was that? There were just a bunch of random artists standing up there doing their own thing. We were originally supposed to be a part of it (when it was just him and Justin Timberlake), but it looks like they changed the direction of it, and I'm glad they left us out of it. There were plenty of bad performances of the night. There were even a couple great ones (Lady Gaga and Elton John, Andrea Bocceli and Mary J Blige). Taylor Swifts falls right in the middle. It wasn't a big show stopper with lots of fancy stuff going on, but it was executed well. Not perfect, but there were many many far worse performances of the night that don't seem to be getting any mention at all.
Originally Posted By jbkuchon "We were originally supposed to be a part of it (when it was just him and Justin Timberlake), but it looks like they changed the direction of it, and I'm glad they left us out of it.'' What do you mean?
Originally Posted By Labuda Ferrett is part of the USC marching band, jbk. As for the Jamie Foxx deal, yeah, that was a freakin' train wreck. Should we just blame it on the al-al-al-alcohol?
Originally Posted By jbkuchon The USC marching band?! The Ducks kicked USC to the curb and walked all over them with their webbed feet!
Originally Posted By jbkuchon The USC marching band?! The Ducks kicked USC to the curb and walked all over them with their webbed feet!
Originally Posted By mele Ah, so Taylor sounded so out of key (and always does, no matter what live show she's performing on) because some of us just don't understand music and or microphones. Got it.
Originally Posted By jbkuchon Whooooo someone gets a little testy when someone criticizes Taylor Swift
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle I don't get the appeal, either. She does seem like a nice girl (and I didn't realise she writes her own songs), but she's nothing special.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I think there is a little Alanis Morrisette (sorry if I butchered her name) going on with her. Teens and young adults identify with her songs and that is appealing. She writes, plays instruments and sings...and maybe her singing is the least of the qualities. My little 3 year old will stop everything else she is doing to listen (and sing along) to a Taylor Swift song. It is something to see.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I usually play the harmony parts, and she sounded fine to me. Maybe I always play flat too (entirely possible), but I thought that, in comparison to the rest of the performances of the night, hers was delightfully average.
Originally Posted By dsnykid To me, the appeal of Taylor Swift is that she sings and composes her own music as an outlet for her emotions. I agree that she doesn't have a great voice, and that is evident even on her studio recordings, but her lyrics are emotionally driven and catchy and I do enjoy it. I saw her perform live when she co-headlined with Kenney Chesney here in Edmonton and she was an amazing entertainer and I enjoyed every minute of her show.
