Countrypoo?
Maybe I've been wasting my time with these pop tarts. This here is 16-year-old country singer Taylor Swift, a farmer's daughter from Wyomissing, Pa., a town I've actually been to, for reasons I'll tell you all about someday. Her sound is 100% Nashville, though.
Her first single is a classic summer love number called Tim McGraw. You can listen to it on her web site — but if you're gonna bother, you should really watch the video, because let's face it, if it were Tim McGraw singing a song called Taylor Swift, you wouldn't be half as interested. The album is a little overproduced for my taste (here's a stripped-down live version) but the girl can sing, and, at least according to the publicity material, write her own stuff. And did I mention she's a stone fox? And so very proud of her country! Yee-haw!
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I've never "thought Tim McGraw" before. But I sure will now!
Also, what is Donal Logue doing in that second video?
Also, she's a little young to have had all that work done to her guitar. You're gonna need a whole new fretboard when you get married, Taylor.
Posted by: Kevin Shay | January 12, 2007 11:15 AM
Oh my goodness. How do you get me to watch this stuff. She is pretty and does have a nice voice. And at least you're having me watch this and not those little Nazi girls!
Posted by: Abby | January 12, 2007 12:16 PM
Frank Kogan suggests that Taylor Swift marks an important (potential) transition of the teenpop confessional sound to country, since it seems less and less viable in the teenpop market -- Michelle Branch/Jessica Harp (of "Perfectly"-penning fame) made a country move this year with the Wreckers, although the music isn't as teen confessional-sounding as Taylor's.
Posted by: Dave | January 13, 2007 10:48 AM