Taylor Swift Is Really, Super, Totally Overrated

It has been about sixteen hours since Taylor Swift won the Grammy for album of the year and I’m still fuming. My heart hasn’t stopped pounding and I haven’t been able to eat a thing (though that might have something to do with the half gallon of hummus I housed during the show).

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Taylor Swift is overrated.
And if I was at the Grammys last night, I probably would have chugged a bottle of Hennessy and jumped on the stage to pull a Kanye.

I’ve heard your arguments:
Taylor writes her own music.
She’s the fresh new face of country.
Her songs are really good.
“I actually hate you for writing this article.” (Nice comment from a reader.)

I get it. (Well, not the “I hate you” part; I’m really quite lovable!) I like to sing along to “You Belong With Me” just as much as the next drunk girl (or guy – why do they know every word!?) and I agree that Taylor’s totally cute and gracious and all that jazz. But I just can’t see how anyone can think Taylor Swift’s debut album is better than a single album nominated against her last night, especially Lady Gaga. Read More »


Hardest Partiers of Rock? Sort of…

Van Halen

Spinner.com came out with their Top 21 Hardest Partiers of Rock recently. We are HUGE fans of Spinner and usually they are right on point. My mom told me that every good relationship has its ups and downs, and Spinner and I are having a lovers’ spat right now.

Here are Spinner’s Top 5 mistakes:

5. Stevie Nicks is a harder partier than all of Van Halen? Wow…Stevie Nicks couldn’t hold David Lee Roth’s sweaty, vodka-stained jockstrap. Van Halen – even just David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen – drank, smoked, snorted and screwed their way across the country and out of millions in possible tour revenues by being f-d up to perform.

But you know what…OK, maybe Fleetwood Mac knew how to ball, what do I know?! Even my parents thought Fleetwood Mac were gay.

4. I am a more hardcore partier than Britney Spears. In the financial world, people refer to “old money” and “new money.” Brit-Brit is new money, yet she scored higher on Spinner’s list than Iggy Pop, one of the oldest money Legends of Rock.

Iggy has been hammered and high since before Britney was conceived in her mom’s broken down Ford. Mr. Pop has been in and out of rehab more times than Brit has worn a thong. She’s a slave to attention, not partying hard.

Read the rest of the story and seeĀ  who made the list after the jump. Read More »