Taylor is a talented writer,and seems like a humble girl, but I’m getting so tired of the media oversationalizing everything she does. C’mon. Even Carrie, Rascal Flatts, and Lady A didn’t get this much exposure at their heights. I really think the only reason she gets so much media attention is because the media is playing on the fact that most of her fans listen to pop and don’t care if she is a country artist. I wouldn’t believe her sucess is really benefiting the genre, either. Her fans who dislike country music can listen to her on pop radio, buy her pop remixes and albums.

Taylor doesn’t seem to know (or care) much about the history of country music, and doesn’t even cite many of its artists as influences on her music. I don’t particularly have a problem with her pop-country sound, but she changes her songs to the point of making them unrecognizabe. So country songs aren’t “good enough” for the pop snobs, eh?

Taylor has a medicore voice and has an underdeveloped writing talent. It baffles me that she gets all the exposure thrown at her when she has more growing to do than 90% of her peers. So her artistic immaturity is suddenly justification to reward her as the “best of the best?

It makes me sick that country artists who don’t change themselves to fit the mainstream image are being indirectly told that they aren’t good enough to garner exposure. The media is sending this industry a disgusting message, and Taylor is niave to go along with it.