and comment on whatever I can.

-“Bridges are more or less the guitar solos of her work”

I did think of “You Belong With Me” on this, I thought the mini-solo sounded like marked-down David Gilmour actually, and you are right about it being a couple guitars short of a Cheap Trick song musically, but I don’t think Cheap Trick were known for sincerity like Taylor is. I still like the way the song keeps the bassline on the same note throughout the chorus. Of course, I’ve heard the song more than “You Shook Me All Night Long,” and I wrote of that song that I can’t even have an opinion of it anymore due to the sheer overplay, but as you said, “Both songs are almost too iconic to even be coherently reacted to.”
It was funny to see the Youtube comments on the video, I lost track of how many times someone somehow stupidly failed to realize that Taylor a)played the “bad girl” in the video with the dark hair, and b)didn’t realize that she was supposed to be the bad girl because she wore a backless dress to the prom.

-“She’s gonna have an EGOT eventually (mark my words this will happen, she’s a whore for awards)”

Including the O? I know she’s been in a couple movies but I didn’t think she was going to be in lots of them. This reminds me of how quickly Britney Spears stopped doing movies.

“Anybody can learn to play a Swift song because almost all of her songs are 4 chords in a major key (can you play C G Am F? Congratulations, you can now perform every Taylor Swift song)”

This is not a terribly ringing endorsement!!!

-“Like imagine Stevie Wonder in the mid 70s decided to rerecord his 60s albums. Or if late-60s Beatles decided to take another crack at Please Please Me. What if Sticky Fingers era Stones redid Englands Newest Hitmakers?”

I can think of one analogy, though it’s not the best: Frank Zappa apparently went back and re-did some of his old albums with 80s synths added into them? Has anyone heard these? Paul C, you still there? The only one I know he did this to by name was his 1968 doo-wop album Cruisin With Ruben And The Jets, and I know he was really badly criticized for it…but I guess that’s not a great analogy for ol’ Swiftie.

“You could probably pull the solo piano test on just about every Swift song.”

Great, now I’m thinking about Herman being cuckolded by Taylor Swift.

“This album has multiple songs attacking people who were mean to her. The best of which is “Mean”. Some critic wrote about how Taylor was a shitty singer or whatever and she was like “ooooo what a meanie, i gotta tear down those naughty critics”

Great, now I’m thinking about Taylor Swift doing the spoken section of Guns n’ Roses’ “Get In The Ring,” which was about the same subject, where Axl Rose sneered “What, you’re pissed off because your dad gets more pussy than you? FUCK you!!! SUCK my FUCKING DICK!!!!”

“‘Dear John’ is a power ballad about how john mayer is a douchebag, which is a theme I can get behind.”

I didn’t even know John Mayer was still alive. What’s he doing now? Didn’t he get in terrible trouble for comparing his penis to David Duke and then disappeared completely? Does he still look like a 16 year old? I know I could just look this horseshit up, but I’d rather ask you, so as to make conversation.

“Remember that time Damon Albarn got in hot water for making a flippant comment about her not writing her own songs?”

I don’t, but if it happened any time after 2011 or so, then it’s probably the most press Albarn has gotten for anything besides Gorillaz breaking up since then. If that’s what happened to Gorillaz.