Taylor Swift in Songwriters Hall of Fame at 20? Really!
The Songwriters Hall of Fame is inducting some great songwriters in 2010, but Taylor Swift shouldn’t be one of them! Other songwriters who have be included this year are David Foster, Leonard Cohen and Earth, Wind and Fire. So why the hell is Taylor Swift joining those legends?
I admit that Taylor has had a great couple of years in which she has won a few CMA and Grammys, but the point here is that she only 20 years of age and has only been around for a couple of years. Given her young age and the songs which blatantly reflect her innocence, is the Songwriters Hall of Fame in the States jumping the gun? Can we really group her with the likes of David Foster who gave us “The Prayer” (Celine Dion/Andrea Bocelli) and “I Have Nothing” (Whitney Houston) or Cohen for “Hallelujah?”
You can find out more about the Songwriting Hall of Fame at their official website.
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…and no Todd Rundgren, the penultimate rock song writer. Decisions like this just devaluates the whole Hall of Shame listing.
yes we can. she’s a great songwriter and she has staying power. sure her songs reflect her age, but what do you expect, wouldn’t it be worse if she was writing songs with topics that she had no experience of?
She is just simply too young to be added. As you mentioned the songs reflect her age, maybe her music will get better with age, then she should be added!
Her music is amazing, and she totally deserves to be there. The fact she is so young surely means that is just even more incredible? I think if anything she should be praised for this.