Why I Don’t Let My Daughters Listen to Taylor Swift

“There’s a lot to object to about Taylor Swift. Her music is shallow, her mind is weak, her feelings are trite and vacuous. Her taste in men and the rate at which she burns through them suggest she is both boring and easily bored. And her public persona strikes me as rather fake even for a celebrity. However, it’s not for any of these reasons that I don’t allow my daughters to listen to her music. They listen to David Bowie, Tom Petty, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones, all of whom might be judged shallow and trite when compared with the likes of Bach or even Puccini. The reason I don’t let my daughters listen to Taylor Swift is that she’s really, really popular.”

-from my new blog home at The Classical Teaching Institute

Published by Joshua Gibbs

Sophist. De-activist. Hack. Avid indoorsman.