'American Idol' Kelly Clarkson goes off on Taylor Swift defender Scott Borchetta
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First thing's first: Kelly Clarkson likes Taylor Swift, so stop now if you think her blog musings were about how Taylor flubbed some notes at the Grammys Sunday (Jan. 31) and there's no excuse for that. Because they weren't.Rather, the very first "American Idol" winner felt compelled to go after Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta, who tried to pass off Taylor's lackluster performance as a "technical issue," adding "This is not 'American Idol.' This is not a competition of getting up and seeing who can sing the highest note."
Well, that has Kelly seeing red.
In an open letter signed "One of those contestants from American Idol who only made it because of her high notes," Kelly takes Brochetta to task thusly:
Thank you for that 'Captain Obvious' sense of humor because you know what, we not only hit the high notes, you forgot to mention we generally hit the 'right' notes as well. Every artist has a bad performance or two and that is understandable, but throwing blame will not make the situation at hand any better. I have been criticized left and right for having shaky performances before (and they were shaky) and what my manager or label executives say to me and the public is "I'll kick butt next time" or "every performance isn't going to be perfect ... I bring this up because you should take a lesson from these people and instead of lashing out at other artists (that in your "humble" opinion lack true artistry), you should simply take a breath and realize that sometimes things won't go according to plan or work out and that's okay.
Now, we'd really like for fellow-Grammy attendee and "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood to weigh in so really get this going.
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You go Kelly!
It's not just this year's Grammys. Taylor Swift has sounded even worse on other nights. Scott Borchetta is just spinning the story but anyone who's listening knows the reality. We want role models who can actually sing.
Dear Kayne Borchetta,
Yep, yr girl won the most awards, and I'm happy for ya, Imm'a let you finish but first...better STFU about american Idol...since you're making it worse for poor Taylor, you jackazz. From now on her autotune will be disastrously obvious and thoroughly examined. You record phonies brought it on yourselves. We don't care if she's not a perfect singer, neither is Dylan and plenty of other songwriters. But to make her technically perfect in studio with fake means...THEN criticize people who don't need it? WOW. WAy to screw it up. Ok, carry on...now what were you saying about "artistry?"
Wow, whoever came up with this headline was obviously looking to stir up a fuss over nothing.
Is she mad because he's right about American Idol?
Wow, look at all those carrie underwood fans who hate Taylor Swift. It's so transparent. Go back to high school u big babies. team taylor swift!
Taylor Swift CAN sing. Just watch her Fearless stripped performance on youtube. Search fearless stripped. Just her and her guitar. Great performance.
The Stripped performances have tuned up vocals for acts like Taylor who need them. She's not as cringe inducingly awful on acoustic performances but she definitely struggles to stay in tune.
Country music fans have known for ages that Taylor Swift is a bad singer. There are 1 or 2 decent TV performances of hers I can name and dozens of bad ones including the CMAs, two sets of SNL performances, the Hope For Haiti telethon, the CMT Awards throughout the years, and so on and so forth.
Scott Borchetta's way out of line because in his comments he attacked not only American Idol people but also the Grammy performers who were "technically perfect". You see, according to him they're just not as great as Taylor Swift.
It's way past time that Taylor Swift be taken to task for being SUCH a bad singer. There are lots of way better songwriters with better voices than Taylor who still have other people sing their songs and that's what she should do too.
Yeah, Taylor is a terrible singer. Anyone whose heard her sing live knows that. I don't understand her appeal. She's a great songwriter. But that's about as far as it goes.
Taylor can NOT sing at all. The only reason she's famous is because she's so young and has all the teenage girls/perv guys that like her.