Don’t Underestimate the Power of an Audience

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It seems like the music journalism community has decided that this is the week they can finally pile on Taylor Swift. In the past 36 hours, I’ve read headlines about her “career-ending” Grammy performance, bloggers and columnists have called for her to hand back the statues (not just the one that broke) or retire altogether from the music business.

Bitter, much?

Three things strike me as important about this debate:

1. It’s not like someone suddenly threw her on the stage and realized, “oh, no, she can’t sing!” Taylor’s team understands that the power of an organic live performance holds far more sway with her audience than anything inauthentic…..