During an appearance on a recent episode of “The Joe Pags Show”, Ted Nugent criticized Taylor Swift‘s music, describing it as “poppy nonsense” without any “fire” or “sensuality”.
Nugent believes that modern music, including Swift‘s songs, lacks the authenticity and passion that older bands like the BEATLES and THE ROLLING STONES had.
When asked if there is a newer band that came out in the 1990s or early 2000s, such as maybe the FOO FIGHTERS, Nugent responded: “The FOO FIGHTERS are not really a new band, but when they came on the scene, they were delivering the same dedication and work ethic. You can tell that [Dave] Grohl and his bandmates really put their heart and soul into delivering a monster every night.
“Now, as much as I love and adore and admire the FOO FIGHTERS, and Dave Grohl is one of the masters of crescendos, but you were mentioning [John] Coltrane and these great saxophone players, that sax solo, that guitar solo in all the best music in the world, that’s the crescendo. And with all due respect to the FOO FIGHTERS, and I love you, Dave — I love all you guys; you guys are awesome — but there’s not that fire-breathing crescendo guitar solo that elevates the entire musical moment to a higher place.
“And I’ve gotta tell ya… I don’t know nothing about Auto-Tune. I let my ears and my spirit and my balls dictate the delivery of my music… The point being is that I want a killer guitar solo or a sax solo or even a Jimmy Smith keyboard monster. Andy Solomon with the AMBOY DUKES would deliver a Hammond B3 solo that was just so elevating.”
“So I’m afraid to say in this world that’s gone down the toilet in all aspects, I’m afraid the success of Taylor Swift, and God bless her work ethic, God bless her musical dreams, but that’s cartoon music,” Ted continued. “I mean, it doesn’t have any piss and vinegar. There’s no fire, there’s no sensuality in that. It’s all poppy nonsense as far as I’m concerned, and it’s the most popular stuff in the world, which is an indictment to the music industry and music fans. They’re not looking for that fire from a ZZ TOP or from a MITCH RYDER AND THE DETROIT WHEELS or from a BROWNSVILLE STATION or an AMBOY DUKES. And I miss that. Thank God I’m still around. We still deliver the fire that THE BEATLES did [at clubs] in Germany.”
