CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
Except that Taylor Swift has written the majority of her songs by her self as a minor. I'm sorry, but the girl is wonderfully talented. Who ever said you needed perfect vocals to sound pleasing?
Meh. I've written a lot of songs just for fun, and not a one of them has been stereotypical teenage fluff... I can post the lyrics to a few to prove it, if it's so desired.

I guarantee that the lyrics, at least, that I wrote when I was thirteen are better than what she writes at nineteen (I think she's nineteen?... anyway, the melodies might not be as "good"; they're not as radio-friendly, more slow and classical-like, I guess). Oh, geez, that sounds so bad to say because she's famous and I'm a nobody and because I basically never say things like this because I think it's rude for someone to say that about him or herself, but it's objectively true. Still want to delete that because it sounds like bragging, but it's why I don't give a crap that she writes her own music, and I feel like I have to explain myself when I said she doesn't really have anything haha (though I do like that she has a hand in the production of the albums, somehow; she's credited as being a second producer, at least on her latest album, though she's not anywhere else in the credits, nothing to do with vocal or string arrangement or percussion or various sound effects etc. etc... the only things she's credited with are lead vocals, the harmonizing vocals, and writing the bare bones of the songs, so I don't know why she's credited as such, because typically when an artist is credited as a co-producer, s/he'll be all over the place in the credits... now I am curious).
Simply writing songs doesn't mean much to me, to be honest, not when they're songs that will fade away in two years because they're the same things that everybody else writes, using the same words.
Perhaps she will develop into a greater songwriter, but... Seeing as his name was brought up, she is no Bob Dylan, with incredible poetry-writing skills to make up for her lack of other things. I don't know. I'll get back to you when she's thirty-five, if she's still around then.