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Watch Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl Playfully Throw Some Shade At Taylor Swift's 'The Eras Tour': "We Actually Play Live"
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Not condoning anything but - there's a bit of context or history to his relationship with Swift as well. It used to be quite positive - her singing with the band on my hero at a concert (edit: Hayley Williams, not her, my bad), to stories about her saving his ass at a Paul McCartney party etc. But more recently turned to shit after swifties attacked his 17yr old daughter horribly after she had tweeted about her ("why can't Taylor just drive more"). She got rape threats and eventually shut her account. With this not being an isolated incident he was allegedly pissed off that swift hasn't addressed her fans and any of their more aggresive behavior.
R.e live there's a bunch of comments on the swiftly neutral post about the same thing with a bunch of stans talking about how she definitely lip syncs to the more heavy pop songs on tour, but sings others live - having both been to those concerts and watched videos back.
Edit: his daughter also liked posts saying swifties were making too big a deal about ai porn with swift (though the rape threat was a comment telling her to take down her tweet about the plane)
What fans did was crazy but why would that excuse him shitting on her? Taylor has made it clear she doesn’t like the attacking behavior. The fandom is so large of course there are going to be people that go too far. She can’t control them and has failed in the past when trying.
Also a lot of the “backing” is her singers. She is singing and dancing for three hours for multiple shows. If she wants to maintain her voice of course she will have some backing. There are plenty of moments of her making mistakes to show that the majority of the vocals are her.
At what point in her career will it ever be enough? I’m not saying you have to like her or even that she can’t improve on something’s but it’s been over 16 years. A lot of these things aren’t even debatable things people just can’t accept that she might actually be talented and hard working.
I don’t doubt that, but neither do I find any of her songs I’ve heard the least bit memorable. Then again, I feel the same way about Foo Fighters
There are plenty of artists I don’t really care for but I don’t feel the need to attack their work.
Likewise. But I would say chiding someone for charging fans big bucks to watch them lipsynch is reasonable, if true. And unreasonable if untrue or exaggerated
She’s been doing concerts for long enough that if she was a bad or boring performer she wouldn’t be at the level of demand she is and has been for awhile.