Taylor Swift – Page 2 – Deep Left Field

Washed-up, no-talent rock musician Ted Nugent is getting pilloried on social media for remarks he made about the biggest music star on the face of the planet, Taylor Swift.

According to HuffPost, Nugent made his comments on recent episode of “The Joe Pags Show.”

“So I’m afraid to say in this world that’s gone down the toilet in all aspects, I’m afraid the success of Taylor Swift — and again, God bless her work ethic, God bless her musical dreams — but that’s cartoon music.”

“I mean, it doesn’t have any piss and vinegar. There’s no fire, there’s no sensuality in that. It’s all poppy nonsense as far as I’m concerned and it’s the most popular stuff in the world which is an indictment to the music industry and music fans.”

Instead, Nugent suggested, music lovers should be focused on the “fire” produced by bands such as ZZ Top, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, Brownsville Station and The Amboy Dukes, which just so happens to be Nugent’s former band and hasn’t made a recording since 1975.

Considering that Swift’s Eras Tour recently became the highest grossing concert tour in history — surpassing $1 billion in earnings — and her being named Time’s Person of the Year, Nugent’s attack sounds like a mixture of jealousy and sour grapes.

Twitter users were only to happy to remind Nugent that his own career has been on the decline since the 1980s and he should just go ahead and fade into total obscurity.

Ted Nugent has referred to Taylor Swift as making 'cartoon music'

That, of course, differs from his songs, which are often about having sex with children

Taylor's a talented billionaire

Ted's a pedophile, a hack, and an asshole
— HEY-EY-EY-EY! (HEY-EY-EY-EY!) Let's Go, Buffalo! (@SethFromThe716) December 23, 2023

I hate to look like I’m defending Taylor Swift but I wish Ted Nugent would trip over a rock and fall into a volcano https://t.co/TO7iw9A7r5
— 🔪🔪🔪bЯyan🔪🔪🔪 (@murderxbryan) December 22, 2023

We have Taylor Swift, they have Kid Rock
We have Robert DeNiro, they have James Woods
We have John Legend, they have Ted Nugent
We have Meryl Street, they have Roseanne Barr
It's no wonder they're so pissed off all the time
— Rise Up AZ! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇵🇸 (@KrollMik123) December 19, 2023

Decent society knows Taylor Swift is a nice person, and Ted Nugent is a grunting pig.
— Dan Beaton (@DanBeaton10) December 23, 2023

Ted Nugent – a one hit wonder is certainly very insecure when it comes to an innate talent like Taylor Swift. She had definitely set the world on fire . Also, a great example of generational change!
— gboys (@Boys14179G) December 23, 2023

On Wednesday, Time Magazine announced its 2023 Person of the Year: Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who is arguably one of the biggest stars in the world at the moment.

In an essay that accompanied the announcement, Time reporter Sam Lansky writes:

Swift’s accomplishments as an artist—culturally, critically, and commercially—are so legion that to recount them seems almost beside the point. As a pop star, she sits in rarefied company, alongside Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna; as a songwriter, she has been compared to Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Joni Mitchell. As a businesswoman, she has built an empire worth, by some estimates, over $1 billion. And as a celebrity—who by dint of being a woman is scrutinized for everything from whom she dates to what she wears—she has long commanded constant attention and knows how to use it. (“I don’t give Taylor advice about being famous,” Stevie Nicks tells me. “She doesn’t need it.”) But this year, something shifted. To discuss her movements felt like discussing politics or the weather—a language spoken so widely it needed no context. She became the main character of the world.

Swift, it should be noted, is also politically involved, and that doesn’t exactly sit well with many on the political right, mainly because she’s a strong, successful woman who just so happens to believe that more freedom for everyone is a good thing.

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the Time Person of the Year honor rubbed so many Trump supporters the wrong way

According to online comments made by several Trump acolytes, Swift represents everything that’s wrong with the United States.

Here’s a sampling of those right-wing attacks:

“From her hand-selected vaccine shill boyfriend to her DINK lifestyle to her upcoming 2024 voter operation for Democrats on abortion rights It’s all coming.” Right-wing gadfly and failed podcaster Jack Posobiec

“This is what happens when we cede culture to the Left. Brainless youth raising themselves on Taylor Swift’s saccharine bland music and that washing over into the serious world of politics. If we reach the point where Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Taylor Swift run for office together we will have truly reached full-on Idiocracy where Mike Judge imagined “President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.” Former Trump Justice Department Official and current criminal defendant Jeffrey Clark

“What’s happening with Taylor Swift is not organic.” Former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller

Wow! A bunch of repressed white guys are afraid of a strong woman. Imagine that!