Taylor Swift sparks chart-blocking accusations with new “Patient Zero” alternate versions

[u/ebradio]

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-sparks-chart-blocking-accusations-with-new-patient-zero-alternate-versions

[u/FriendlyDrummers]

Patient Zero is also just not a good song. It's not awful, but it's not very good either. The song comes off like an attempt to be a girl's girl but ends up coming off as self centered.

[u/stvura → u/FriendlyDrummers]

Yeah I mean for some reason we all keep pretending she isn’t a hack?? I mean this sincerely like I’ve tried to give Taylor Swift a fair shot and she is just very middling at best as a songwriter, quite mediocre really. I feel genuine sympathetic pity for these people who are so moved by the most shallow kind expression, it’s sad to me. Anyone I’ve ever met that thinks otherwise seemingly has not heard a lot of music generally speaking across time. The collective gaslighting that occurs around her songwriting is unfathomable.

[u/PenguinStardust → u/stvura]

Wow you are so deep and different.

[u/keonyn → u/PenguinStardust]

Yeah, it's funny when the contrarian hipsters come out when an artist hits the top. To even try and pretend she's a hack after her career and portfolio at this point is just delusional. People can dislike her music all they want, and I don't care for it either, but it's silly to try and pretend she got to where she is by being mediocre hack.

[u/stvura → u/keonyn]

Just because something is popular does not mean it has aesthetic value or that it’s “good”, like I know it sounds “pretentious” but it’s just the facts like very basic stuff. Y’all just demand that not only we recognize her ability to dominate the charts but also that we all capitulate to the idea that she has only dominated the charts as a measure of her talent, which is wrong. Did Britney dominate the charts because she was like this genius big-brain lyricist? Does it matter if she was?