Adam Sandler declares Taylor Swift has no skips
Adam Sandler gets a little nervous around Taylor Swift, he tells Conan O'Brien
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Conan O’Brien and Adam Sandler agree there aren’t many younger stars they get starstruck by. Except: “You know what—Taylor Swift,” Sandler says on O’Brien’s podcast. “Because what she means to my kids, I get a little fuckin’ jumpy. ’Cause I don’t wanna blow it for my kids. So I’m a little like ‘Taylor, Taylor,’ you know, like I talk a little too loud or something. I don’t act as cool as I can.”
But Sandler’s relationship to Swift is not just sweet girl dad stuff. “People talk about The Beatles of it all, and her. I mean, man, so many smash hits. There’s not a word my kids don’t know,” he shares, adding, “I know ’em too, by the way, but they know ’em inside and out. It’s just… remember the Beatles, every fuckin’ song on the record you knew? That’s Taylor Swift too. There’s not a song you skip. You go, ‘That one’s pretty damn cool.’”
Yet another accolade Taylor Swift can add to her illustrious array: Adam Sandler has declared her entire discography a no-skip. It’s not the first time she’s been compared to the Beatles, either, and not just because of the sheer enormity of her current fame. She also recently surpassed the British band’s Billboard record for the most weeks spent in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the last 60 years across all her top 10 charting albums combined.
Sandler proved his Swiftie bonafides last year by landing a spot in the VIP tent during the Los Angeles tour stop of Swift’s Eras Tour. Like many attendees, the comedian was spotted at the show rocking friendship bracelets, which fans traded and gave away throughout the tour. Later, he also brought his family to the premiere of the Eras Tour concert film and snagged prime seats right behind Swift herself. The singer made headlines for sweetly embracing Sandler’s daughters Sunny and Sadie (the stars of the Netflix comedy You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah), and Sandler made headlines for rocking out to her song “Karma.”
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That’s not what “enormity” means.
Came to say this. Thank you.
Words can have more than 1 use/meaning though, just look it up: (in neutral use) large size or scale.“I began to get a sense of the enormity of the task”
Yeah, that’s kind of true, but when you gotta go to like the third or fourth sense to get to neutral, it’s a pretty fucking terrible choice of word if you intend a neutral meaning. Looking at this sentence, the two top possibilities are that this writer either thinks that Swift’s fame is monstruous and evil or that she doesn’t understand the primary sense of this word. The possibility that she knows its primary meaning is super negative but still chose that word to convey neutrality is pretty tiny.
Taylor Swift has reached a level of fame that is almost incomprehensible. I thought it was funny that Travis Kelce compared her level of global fame to his, being famous in Kansas City, which is not quite the same thing
I take a different view: Taylor Swift has potentially reached the maximum amount of fame possible, but it’s simply not on the same level of past cultural juggernauts. As much as the internet and social media has allowed her to be a worldwide sensation and reach audiences that an artist, even a successful American one, likely couldn’t have reached… the pop culture landscape is just so much more fragmented and diffuse that it’s hard to make the direct comparison. Midnights sold south of 3 million copies, whereas the Beatles were selling roughly the same amount or more of an album to a world population that was less than half what it is now. Like how today’s scripted TV smash hits are when you garner 15 million viewers, and Seinfeld, 26 years ago, ended with 76 million watching its finale.As omnipresent as artists like Swift are… I realized from a Super Bowl party I went to I actually recognize very little of her output, and it’s not like I’m hiding from it or don’t like a lot of the songs I do know of her. It’s just much much easier now to have your own cultural sphere than it was during the Beatles or Michael Jackson’s heyday when the media landscape was comparatively small.
“Midnights sold south of 3 million copies, whereas the Beatles were selling roughly the same amount or more of an album to a world population that was less than half what it is now.”Using albums sold seems like an antiquated and irrelevant indicator of fame. Maybe she’s sold fewer of this album than the Beatles, but also in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty four you don’t have to buy an album to listen to it or to love it. When the Beatles were around, you did. How many people have listened to her album vs. the Beatles?Also, how much of her “output” you personally recognize is another irrelevant indicator. For someone you don’t seek out, you recognize some of her output, and you know who she’s dating. You haven’t been able to escape it, despite having “your own culture sphere.”
Taylor Swift is about to surpass Beyonce in my very important ranking of artists I can’t stand, and not really because of their personalities or their performances, but because almost everyone else have made them into goddesses than can never be wrong or can never release any work that is not in the ultra-top art piece of all time category.
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He’s right about one thing, some of her albums have just zero tracks that aren’t that good. I wouldn’t say her entire discography is only bangers, but albums like 1989 and Red have to be picked over very closely before they find tracks that don’t hold up: they’re sort of masterpieces.
She has a consistency that’s admirable along with being so prolific. Dropping a new album every year and having every one have at least one hit if not more is impressive for any artist.
I feel like people who automatically don’t like her have never actually listed to her music. Turns out there’s a reason why she’s so popular: her music is extremely relatable, fine-tuned to the point of relative perfection, and usually just good.If anything, I’m a bit tired of her having a complete and total strangehold over all media every day (how is it that I know exactly where her tour is, at all times?), so I completely understand when people say they’ve had enough of her. Until her next album comes out.
Her music isn’t my cup of tea, really, but I think it’s a bit much when people call her “mediocre” because, well, at some point it’s like the phrase “50,000,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong.” What she does works.
I did try, it’s just so bland I don’t recall anything other than it being very derivative of Lana Del Rey mostly… except ‘Shake It Off’ that one’s a (minor) banger, I wish more of her songs were like that lol!
Interestingly enough, she has a song in collaboration with Lana Del Rey on one of her newer albums, but I think it’s just fine and not the best track on Midnights:
I’ve listened and I do not like.Also, she may be the least genuine pop star of all time.
What a blistering take on Taylor SwiftYour medal’s in the mail
Sandler makes a good point – I wouldn’t have said I never skip a Swift song when I’m listening to an album, but… I think I don’t! Very good songs, but more than that, she knows(or the people she works with know) how to sequence an album. That’s not an entirely lost art, but mostly.[Said it before, will say it again: I was aware of her when she was coming up (I have daughters) but it was Ryan Adams’ 1989 that made me notice what a solid songwriter she is. I know we’re not supposed to like Ryan Adams nowadays, but I will always appreciate him for that…]
I know what you mean; Ryan Adams is a complete creep but that cover of the album was very good.
I know what you mean; Ryan Adams is a complete creep but that cover of the album was very good. I’m not familiar enough with Taylor Swift’s life to know for sure, but I THINK that she and Ryan Adams never dated, which would make his liking and covering the album more legitimate. Anyway I hope they never dated. I just like the idea of a songwriter like Adams hearing 1989 and saying, hell yeah, here’s a dozen songs I don’t have to write.