By most metrics, Taylor Swift is the most popular musician of the 2020s, and it's so much her era that when anyone famous voices anything even …
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It's Clear Why People Want Nothing To Do With Taylor Swift
By most metrics, Taylor Swift is the most popular musician of the 2020s, and it's so much her era that when anyone famous voices anything even remotely disrespectful or negative about her, it's newsworthy. It's also foolhardy: Because so much of the world is on the side of the monumentally famous and successful voice of a generation, high-profile critics run the risk of invoking the ire of Swift's legion of devoted fans, Swift's songwriting pen, or a few days of negative media attention.
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Taylor Swift should need no introduction, but occupying the singular space in the world of pop culture that she does, lets introduce her anyway. If you're most people, you know her as the multiple Grammy-winning, ker-billion album selling singer-songwriter who has dated a famous guy or two, and who drops more Easter eggs in her songs, videos, and social media posts than you ever found during every Easter morning throughout the entirety of your childhood. If, however, you are not most people — if you are among the enlightened few who know that Reptilian overlords secretly rule the world, space aliens abducted your Grandma, and celebrities are killed and replaced by clones like, all the time — then you know her as the devil incarnate.
"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same," AC/DC's Angus Young is reputed to have said. "In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same." But not every act can be as successful mining the same territory over and over again as AC/DC (or the Ramones, who had a similar don't-mess-with-the-formula approach). Plenty of artists have changed their sound over the years, sometimes turning off their old fans, but also sometimes winning new ones.
While it generally seems like Dave Grohl can do no wrong, the Foo Fighters frontman may have finally found himself on the wrong side of millions of Taylor Swift fans. The incident started in London, where both acts were playing multiple nights on the same dates in June 2024. Reviews of both shows were glowing, but Grohl took time during the Foo Fighters "Everything or Nothing at All" tour on June 22 to take a potshot at Taylor, who is on her "Eras" tour.
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