Taylor Swift is an acquired taste.
Those who love her are unquestionably and fanatically loyal and every bit of content she puts out is just the best - regardless of what others may say. Why start with this? Because when you listen to Taylor Swift's cover of the seminal 1978 hit, September, there is no denying - unless you're a diehard Swifty fan - that it's just a bland, languid attempt at... honestly, who knows?
During a song-and-stories performance in Detroit, Alle Willis - who co-wrote September with Maurice White and Al McKay of Earth Wind And Fire - summed up pretty much what everyone felt about the song. "I didn't really think she did a horrible job. Yes, I felt it was as lethargic as a drunk turtle dozing under a sunflower after ingesting a bottle of Valium, and I thought it had all the build of a one-story motel, but, I mean, the girl didn't kill anybody. She didn't run over your foot. She just cut a very calm and somewhat boring take of one of the peppiest, happiest, most popular songs in history."
Ooof. It didn't end there, however, as Willis explained she initially was hopeful about Swift's take on the song. "I'm imagining she's going to give it a kind of jagged, 'Shake It Off' kind of feel and it's gonna be great. So I got to sleep happy and excited, but by the time I wake up -- on Friday the 13th, I might add -- the Internet was already a 28-alarm fire."
"I'm honored you'd choose to do my song and that it meant enough to you that you wanted to personalize it to the goddamn 28th night of September, that you wanted to cover it with banjo... and that you changed the sacred ba-de-ya to the more Caucasian ah-ah-ah and make it sound more like a field of daffodils than a Soul Train line."
OOF. Let's remind of ourselves of the original and never speak of this again.
Via Billboard
