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18,000 in attendance for Keith Urban's "All for the Hall" Benefit Concert
...Taylor Swift steals the Show...
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Lefsetz Letter
"...If you haven’t been to Nashville, you haven’t been to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. And you’re the worse for it...
...But the show was stolen by someone much younger. Someone still wet behind the ears, but wise beyond her years.
TAYLOR SWIFT
You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors
It’s the morning of your very first day
Do you remember the first day of high school?
You thought for days what you were going to wear. You walked into the building minding your cool. This counted. You had to get it right, you didn’t want to ruin your reputation. Not for the next four years.
Taylor Swift walked on stage in a glittery silver dress and a guitar strung around her neck. The applause, the screams were DEAFENING!
Have you ever been at a show and been completely exhilarated, knowing that you were at the exact center of the universe, ground zero of the human experience?
That’s where we were Tuesday night, all 18,000 of us, when Taylor Swift performed.
Not reading from a script, intelligent and schooled, Taylor started riffing. After basking in the adulation she said what she loved about country music is that everybody got to tell their story. And this was hers.
It’s your freshman year and you’re gonna be here
For the next four years in this town
Hoping one of those senior boys will wink at you and say?
‘You know, I haven’t seen you around before’
Life. It’s full of hopes and dreams. And victories and losses. What gets you through is your friends and the music.
That’s the power of music. When done right. Too often it’s done wrong.
It’s done for corporations. For old men in suits. It’s streamlined for radio. Made inauthentic in order to sell not only itself, but associated products. To the point where when you hear something genuine, you exult EUREKA!
I could analyze the changes, the lyrics. Deconstruct the song. But that would be missing the point. It’s the total effect. Of a gawky, geeky girl who made it through. To womanhood...
...I’ve seen music become about looks more than sound, I’ve seen music become a sideshow, something that makes people rich, but leaves the audience starving, turning to television and the Internet for fulfillment.
And then I discovered Taylor Swift. Someone who knows it’s about songs, not stardom. Someone willing to keep ticket prices cheap so her young fans have a chance to see her. Someone who’s got the ethos of a star from way back when, as opposed to the sold out creeps who tramp about today.
Music when done right is life itself.
Listening to Taylor Swift Tuesday night, tears came streaming down my face. I couldn’t stop them. On one hand, I was embarrassed. On the other I was thrilled. Just when I’d given up, believing that everything I’d experienced previously had gone, here it was, back.
That rush of going to the show, feeling that there was no place I’d rather be..."
...Taylor Swift steals the Show...
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/ ... -the-hall/
Lefsetz Letter
"...If you haven’t been to Nashville, you haven’t been to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. And you’re the worse for it...
...But the show was stolen by someone much younger. Someone still wet behind the ears, but wise beyond her years.
TAYLOR SWIFT
You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors
It’s the morning of your very first day
Do you remember the first day of high school?
You thought for days what you were going to wear. You walked into the building minding your cool. This counted. You had to get it right, you didn’t want to ruin your reputation. Not for the next four years.
Taylor Swift walked on stage in a glittery silver dress and a guitar strung around her neck. The applause, the screams were DEAFENING!
Have you ever been at a show and been completely exhilarated, knowing that you were at the exact center of the universe, ground zero of the human experience?
That’s where we were Tuesday night, all 18,000 of us, when Taylor Swift performed.
Not reading from a script, intelligent and schooled, Taylor started riffing. After basking in the adulation she said what she loved about country music is that everybody got to tell their story. And this was hers.
It’s your freshman year and you’re gonna be here
For the next four years in this town
Hoping one of those senior boys will wink at you and say?
‘You know, I haven’t seen you around before’
Life. It’s full of hopes and dreams. And victories and losses. What gets you through is your friends and the music.
That’s the power of music. When done right. Too often it’s done wrong.
It’s done for corporations. For old men in suits. It’s streamlined for radio. Made inauthentic in order to sell not only itself, but associated products. To the point where when you hear something genuine, you exult EUREKA!
I could analyze the changes, the lyrics. Deconstruct the song. But that would be missing the point. It’s the total effect. Of a gawky, geeky girl who made it through. To womanhood...
...I’ve seen music become about looks more than sound, I’ve seen music become a sideshow, something that makes people rich, but leaves the audience starving, turning to television and the Internet for fulfillment.
And then I discovered Taylor Swift. Someone who knows it’s about songs, not stardom. Someone willing to keep ticket prices cheap so her young fans have a chance to see her. Someone who’s got the ethos of a star from way back when, as opposed to the sold out creeps who tramp about today.
Music when done right is life itself.
Listening to Taylor Swift Tuesday night, tears came streaming down my face. I couldn’t stop them. On one hand, I was embarrassed. On the other I was thrilled. Just when I’d given up, believing that everything I’d experienced previously had gone, here it was, back.
That rush of going to the show, feeling that there was no place I’d rather be..."
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