Before today, I had never listened to a Taylor Swift song. Well that's not exactly true because I have listened to Ryan Adams covering "Bad Blood", and I loved it, learned it and played it. But, I had never heard Taylor's version, at least not all the way thru. I started to listen to it, to learn where what Ryan had done had come from, but didn't bother to listen the her version of it all the way thru. The style just didn't work for me, and the bad part of that is that it kept me from being able to hear that Taylor can write a song.
Today I listened to an NPR Tiny Desk concert that featured Taylor Swift. It was good, she was good. In 25 minutes I came to know quite a bit more about her, and to gain some real respect for her.
https://www.npr.org
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NPR Tiny Desk concerts, produced by Bob Bollen
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I am not going to become a fan of the music she puts out, it's just not to my tastes. But that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate her songwriting, her craftsmanship, her tenacity and commitment. Her songs could be presented in different formats, or genre, the first that comes to mind is country music, but that may be because country and pop have been coming closer together for a while now and in some instances are hardly different at all. She seems as though she is really a singer-songwriter slathered with lights, dancers, and over production.
During her set she mentioned a TED talk given by author Elizabeth Gilbert, that inspired her. So, I listened to it. Also really great.
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_success_failure_and_the_drive_to_keep_creating#t-1784
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| TED talks, author Elizabeth Gilbert |
I post all this because it is all about songwriting, being an artist, creativity, where it comes from and where it goes, what it does for us as creators.
CHEERS!
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