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I'll sum up some answers that made things click for me
She writes songs spanning many emotions.
Her albums span multiple genres. (I've only heard pop and country, but I'm not a fan.)
She is hard working, prolific, and puts on a show.
So with that combination it seems she has something for everyone. Personally, I only know one TS song, but it's catchy as hell. So there's no song that I hate that happens to TS song either.
About point 2.: I'm a Paul Simon fan and he spans multiple genres, but I wouldn't expect non-fans to know that.
I've also only heard her pop, although i keep hearing that she spans multiple genre.
I'll ask the next Swifty that responds that they would recommend in any other genre besides relationship pop, break up pop.
Thanks, and the Paul Simon note is interesting. What do I listen to if I'm curious about listening to unconventional Paul Simon?
The Paul Simon I'm definitely not familiar with.
I'm not a music expert but here goes.
Paul Simon is most identified as folk. The act Simon and Garfunkel is basically pure folk if such a thing exists.
Listen to the opening of Late in the Evening. He's singing folk, but there is no guitar (to my ear). Instead it's a bass guitar playing funk. Later some horns come in. They sound like mambo to me.
There are two songs on Graceland that he recorded with a South African band. This was during apartheid. He heard a bootleg tape from this SA group, and had to travel to a part of South Africa that he was banned from doing business in.
Does he make it some powerful statement? No, that would be a stunt. He just wanted to make music with them. "I Know What I Know" is about the insipid-ness of show biz party-networking culture. It's wild.
Awesome, thanks. Yeah, I only know about him as folk so I'm interested to listen to these.
Don't get me wrong, he is a folk singer. But listening to what he is singing over can catch you off-guard.
Appreciate it, cool
She started in country music and moved to mostly pop from there, a lot of her original country music is about breakups too but that's pretty typical for women in country music because they don't get much freedom of movement for topics there unless they're hyper famous.