{"id":260664,"date":"2010-02-01T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collegecandy.com\/?p=52803"},"modified":"2010-02-01T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:00:56","slug":"taylor-swift-is-really-super-totally-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/260664","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Is Really, Super, Totally Overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-52807 aligncenter\" title=\"taylor swift 2010 grammys\" src=\"http:\/\/collegecandy.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/taylor-swift-2010-grammys.jpg?w=542&#038;h=324\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has been about sixteen hours since Taylor Swift won the Grammy for album of the year and I&#8217;m still fuming. My heart hasn&#8217;t stopped pounding and I haven&#8217;t been able to eat a thing (though that might have something to do with the half gallon of hummus I housed during the show).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again: <a href=\"http:\/\/collegecandy.com\/2009\/11\/23\/taylor-swift-is-overrated\/\">Taylor Swift is overrated<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd if I was at the Grammys last night, I probably would have chugged a bottle of Hennessy and jumped on the stage to pull a Kanye.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard your arguments:<br \/>\nTaylor writes her own music.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the fresh new face of country.<br \/>\nHer songs are really good.<br \/>\n&#8220;I actually hate you for writing this article.&#8221; (Nice comment from a reader.)<\/p>\n<p>I get it. (Well, not the &#8220;I hate you&#8221; part; I&#8217;m really quite lovable!) I like to sing along to &#8220;You Belong With Me&#8221; just as much as the next drunk girl (or guy &#8211; why do they know every word!?) and I agree that Taylor&#8217;s totally cute and gracious and all that jazz. But I just can&#8217;t see how anyone can think Taylor Swift&#8217;s debut album is better than a single album nominated against her last night, especially Lady Gaga.<span id=\"more-52803\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And I thought that well before I saw her disastrous performance with Stevie Nicks last night. For those of you who, like myself, tried to black out that sh*tshow, here is the video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com\/storage\/js\/swfobject.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script language=\"javascript\">\nfunction getVideo() {\nvar so = new SWFObject(\"http:\/\/cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com\/storage\/xplayer\/yo033.swf\", \"mplayer\", \"420\", \"340\", \"8\", \"#000000\");\nso.addParam(\"wmode\",\"transparent\");\nso.addParam(\"swliveconnect\", \"true\");\nso.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\", \"always\");\nso.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\", \"true\");\nso.addVariable(\"pid\", \"cdmg001\");\nso.addVariable(\"siteId\", \"237\");\nso.addVariable(\"videoId\", \"119167\");\nso.addVariable(\"file\", \"http:\/\/cms.springboard.gorillanation.com\/xml_feeds_advanced\/index\/237\/3\/119167\/\");\nso.addVariable(\"pageUrl\", document.location);\nso.write(\"flashcontent_237_cdmg001_single_119167\");\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"flashcontent_237_cdmg001_single_119167\"><\/div>\n<p><script language=\"javascript\">getVideo();<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The show was filled with <a href=\"http:\/\/collegecandy.com\/2010\/02\/01\/the-grammys-performances-who-takes-the-cake\/\">epic performances by truly talented individuals<\/a>. And then there was Taylor, proving to the world that she isn&#8217;t much without some very crafty editing in a recording studio somewhere in Nashville. Her voice was flat, she couldn&#8217;t stay on key and you know Stevie Nicks just wanted to take her tambourine and get the hell out of there.<\/p>\n<p>Yet somehow (probably because the awards were chosen before anyone saw that debacle) Taylor still managed to take home the biggest award of the night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that Taylor doesn&#8217;t have talent &#8211; clearly she knows how to write a catchy song and she knows her way around an acoustic guitar &#8211; but there is no way her album was the best album of the year. Lady Gaga should have won that award and everybody who isn&#8217;t under the Taylor Swift spell (seriously, what kind of perfume is that girl wearing!?) knows that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and PS: square cleavage looks good on no one. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/collegecandy.wordpress.com\/52803\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=collegecandy.com&#038;blog=860993&#038;post=52803&#038;subd=collegecandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been about sixteen hours since Taylor Swift won the Grammy for album of the year and I&#8217;m still fuming. My heart hasn&#8217;t stopped pounding and I haven&#8217;t been able to eat a thing (though that might have something to do with the half gallon of hummus I housed during the show). I&#8217;ve said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}