Awesomely awesome takedown of Taylor Swift's music

http://www.autostraddle.com/why-taylor-swift-offends-little-monsters-feminists-and-weirdos-31525/

Autostraddle appears to be a lesbian pop culture blog so it's no surprise that I'd never heard of it before, and that I probably won't make it regular reading since I'm not its target audience. But this unabashedly anti-Swift, pro-Gaga article has everything I wanted to read, plus an infographic!

You should read it too, of course, but here are the highlights.

"Taylor Swift the Person is, obviously, a good human being."

"Taylor Swift is a feminist’s nightmare."

"When Beyoncè was Swift’s age, she was onstage with Destiny’s Child, proclaiming: 'The house I live in / I’ve bought it / The car I’m driving / I’ve bought it / All the women who are independent / Throw your hands up at me!'”

"Why does Swift seem, at 20, a decade younger than [23-year-old] Lady Gaga?"

"Taylor, look at Lady Gaga in that bathtub [ref] and tell me that you’re the one in the bleachers:"

"That’s right. All Abigail had was her hymen."

"Lady Gaga is viscous hungry sex in hellfire. She’s more theatrical than Broadway and every night she sings in romantic open fists. Lady Gaga opens her dress, extracts her gut, assembles it in shapes splashed in sinister glitter and then shatters her dangerous violent diamonds onto the piano and screams FIRE and it sounds like bad romance."

Super Bowl halftime shows, post-Nipplegate

There have been six Super Bowl halftime shows since the infamous 2004 performance that featured Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. These performers are: Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and The Who. Going by these acts and/or their lead singers:

- All six have been male.

- Five out of six have been white.

- All six have been rock acts.

- The average age at the time of performance is 58.8 years old.

While I don't think anyone necessarily has fond memories of the 2001 show that included 'N Sync, Nelly, and Britney Spears, at least it was diverse.