There’s been no blockbuster #1’s, not even close.
Taylor and her handlers must be at least slightly disappointed in the performance of the album’s singles. Now she may be one of the standard bearers for mainstream country music, as sad as that may be. Six months ago, she symbolized the median. When she won CMA for Entertainer of the Year, she symbolized the worst of country music. Taylor is leading, while everyone else is following. The 80% is doing what they think will sell. I still say she is not country and that her voice is weak, but unlike 80% of the stuff coming out of Nashville right now, Taylor Swift is doing what she wants to do. I’ve been called worse.īut both Bob and I were wrong in saying she would flame out. “The cycle ends right now”) for the song. Taylor may have one primary person in mind for the subject of “Mean”, but I think she drew inspiration from multiple sources, and because of the tone and exposure of my post-Grammy rant, I do feel like she read it, and pulled out parallel launguage (ex. Though this goes against the grain of someone criticizing her “over and over”. In “Mean” they spell out “I THOUGHT YOU GOT ME.” Taylor & Bob were close until his post-Grammy premature epitaph. The one big piece of evidence pointing to Bob as the subject of “Mean” is that in the liner notes, Taylor CAPS certain letters to hint who songs are about. Bob really didn’t cross any lines “over and over”, he simply took the point after her bad performance on The Grammy’s with Stevie Nicks to say that now that we all knew Taylor Swift couldn’t sing, it was over for her. Problem is, even according to Bob, he does not fit the criteria Taylor lays out in her song.
The popular belief is that “Mean” is about music industry guru Bob Lefsetz. As Taylor says in the preview of the song, it is about “…one guy…who just crossed the line over and over again of just being mean.” Prompted by numerous people saying the song was about me, I dared ask the question, which apparently since Carly Simon wrote a song about this subject matter, you’re “vain” for even broaching the subject, though I would counter by asking if someone asks the simple question and the answer is “yes”, are you being vain, or just perceptive? One of the singles on country radio right now is Taylor Swift’s “Mean”.
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