3 weeks ago
Taylor Swift has thing connected Michael Jackson, according to Neil Tennant.
The Pet Shop Boys vocalist took a swipe astatine nan world superstar while comparing her to nan precocious King of Pop during a livestreamed speech pinch nan Guardian Monday.
“Taylor Swift benignant of fascinates maine arsenic a arena because she’s truthful popular, and I benignant of rather for illustration nan full thing, but past erstwhile I perceive to nan records … for a arena arsenic large [as she is], wherever are nan celebrated songs? What’s Taylor Swift’s ‘Billie Jean’?” he asked onstage astatine Kings Place successful London.
When euphony professional Alexis Petridis interjected to mention Swift’s signature opus “Shake It Off,” Tennant doubled down, “I listened to that nan different day, and it’s not ‘Billie Jean.'”
The “West End Girls” singer, 69, clarified that he thinks nan Eras Tour performer, 34, has “a awesome voice,” but he believes her songs time off overmuch to beryllium desired.
“I for illustration nan truth that it brings each these group together, moreover multigenerational, but I deliberation nan 1 disappointing point is nan euphony — not nan lyrics, nan music,” he said.
Want much personage and popular civilization news?
Start your time pinch Page Six Daily.
Thanks for signing up!
Tennant’s comments came 3 days aft Swift released her 11th workplace album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Page Six reviewed nan 16-track record arsenic a “pièce de résistance,” penning that nan “All Too Well” vocalist is “more of a heartbroken savant turning her symptom into poesy than a scorned female filling retired a pain book.”
The medium covers Swift’s 2023 breakups from her longtime boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, and her consequent fling, Matty Healy, and besides includes nods to her existent beau, Travis Kelce.
Since its April 19 release, “Tortured Poets” has surgery respective records, including becoming nan first medium successful Spotify history to surpass 300 cardinal streams successful 1 day.
Swift celebrated her success earlier this week, penning connected societal media, “And that’s nan closest I’ve travel to my bosom exploding,” utilizing a lyric from nan title way of “TTPD.”
The 14-time Grammy winner, who sewage her commencement successful euphony successful 2006, was precocious named a billionaire.
