I can appreciate the music of my elders-- Sinatra, Bennett, the crooners, and the big bands. The 50's grease/do-wop stuff is great fun. I'm still aggravated that Jon "Bowser" Bauman was in Scranton a couple of years ago, and I didn't get a chance to meet him.
Pop music became less appealing to me during the Madonna era of the 80's. I will admit to liking some 90's and 00's stuff, but not much. I cringe when the Red Hot Chili Peppers come on the classic rock station. That stuff is more rap than rock to me, and I can't dive for the dial fast enough.
While I like the music that came before me, I just can't stomach the contemporary stuff, and sad to say, that includes (Dare I say it?) Taylor Swift!
Swift seems like a perfectly nice woman, who treats her fans with respect-- the fans that spend hundreds of dollars for a seat in a giant arena, to watch the show a mile from the stage. Swift won another box of Grammy's Sunday night, and that's great for her and her fans. Swift announced a new album is coming out, and thank you for the warning.
By the way, Swift's romance with Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs is absolutely adorable.
I don't understand Taylor Swift much the same way people didn't understand my Billy Joel fixation when I was in high school and college, and much the same way those slightly older than me adored The Beatles.
To each, his own. This is the real no judgement zone.
I still don't get it.