A gay friend of mine with an unnatural hate for Taylor Swift and Jamie Lee Curtis posted this on Facebook today.

Now, I could care less about Taylor Swift, aside from the eye candy perspective. I don't really listen to that genre of music, and don't pay attention to it at all. However, for some reason, I clicked to read this.

I thought it was an excellent dissection of just how unqualified an artist she really is, but I think a lot of those points could be extended to many other manufactured artists.

http://www.autostraddle.com/why-taylor- ... dos-31525/

Don't forget she ruined the image of Vampires.

In the sun, they are suppose to combust and die, not sparkle and look like a fag.

Please explain to me how you can write songs that are nothing more than a 16 year old girl's diary and win songwriting awards.

She's smoking hot, yet writes about being the ugly duckling and having no friends. Really? I'm pretty sure that looking like that she had friends.

If she wasn't attractive and her parents didn't have the money they had, she wouldn't be anything. You're telling me that an 11 year old girl knows enough about the music business to make a demo tape and go asking around Nashville for a record contract? Or is it much more likely that her parents wanted to exploit her musical talent and did that. Did she ask to move to Nashville at 14, or did her parents want to do it because they saw dollar signs?

I'm not disputing her musical talent. All I'm saying is that she's not making the music SHE wants to make. She's making the music her parents pushed her into making, and what the record company knows will sell.

THAT is a manufactured artist to me.

How the fuck is Taylor a manufactured artist? She wrote everything on her first two albums, and she can play her own instruments, not to mention the girl is a role model and a perfect citizen.

Yeah, thats the world today, do everything right and be told you suck.

Not like Lady Gaga, who is a total whack job, or Amy Winehouse who has been in and out of rehab more than most people are in and out of fast food restaurants.

Fucking dude wants to go after somebody, go after someone who isn't a genuine good person, talented musician, and amazing song writer.

I personally think that this person should be taken out back and smacked around a few times.

I mean what does he want her to do, sing songs about fucking going to rehab, or riding on her disco stick? Real good, especially for someone who has built their image on being the girl next door, and being a role model to young girls. Also she isn't the person directing her videos, so 3 out of his 5 points are rather moot.

I agree some of her music is kinda cookie cutter, but it's what sells. Blame the general public for that, not someone who is making an honest living, and worked their ass off to make the money they did.

This is a pretty good example of what's wrong with America. We criticize those who do every thing right, but people give Britney Spears a free pass, even though she was a coked out crack head for a while. People also worship people like Paris Hilton, and shows like 16 and pregnant and Teen Mom, making it look awesome to have children in high school, and then struggle to take care of them...fucking great tv indeed. Watch stupid white trash run around and argue with their ex infront of their child, using profanities, and violence toward their "baby daddy". Which is also a term that annoys the piss out of me.

Please explain to me how you can write songs that are nothing more than a 16 year old girl's diary and win songwriting awards.

She's smoking hot, yet writes about being the ugly duckling and having no friends. Really? I'm pretty sure that looking like that she had friends.

If she wasn't attractive and her parents didn't have the money they had, she wouldn't be anything. You're telling me that an 11 year old girl knows enough about the music business to make a demo tape and go asking around Nashville for a record contract? Or is it much more likely that her parents wanted to exploit her musical talent and did that. Did she ask to move to Nashville at 14, or did her parents want to do it because they saw dollar signs?

I'm not disputing her musical talent. All I'm saying is that she's not making the music SHE wants to make. She's making the music her parents pushed her into making, and what the record company knows will sell.

THAT is a manufactured artist to me.