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It sounds like I'm trying to argue uh I'm not I'm just like really saying my own POV on the matter.

I'm not saying ALL of Taylor's songs lack what I feel is genuine raw emotion, I can acknowledge that yes she has written songs about real experiences with real emotion it's just I feel like a majority of her songs aren't made like that. And songs that lack that aren't necessarily bad, heck some of my favorite songs are like that. And Taylor is a good artist, I'm not an idiot, I have ears, I know her songs are good. I just gravitate more toward other songs.

I especially am not a really big fan of pop music cause for me personally, I like it when songs are more unique and try to do something interesting with their music. Not just the lyrics, the music as well. I like when music is art. Not just a bunch of chords that sound good. You're meant to experiment and think outside the box.

It's actually why Gorillaz is one of my favorite bands. Not a lot of their songs necessarily have genuine raw emotion behind them but the music is made from a place of creativity. Of wanting to make something special musically. Experimenting, venturing around outside the box. And even when they don't have that genuine emotion, they're still talking about something.

Superfast Jellyfish is about how shallow the music industry is, prioritizing quantity over quality, making shallow and basic music, by comparing it to fast food and microwaved meals you buy at stores.

Kids With Guns is about how the younger generation is being exposed to more and more negative stuff as time goes on to the point where they relate more to chaos and negativity than anything else and they will eventually go spread that chaos when they grow up. 

Dirty Harry is literally about sending kids/teens off to war. 

Gorillaz itself started off as a criticism to today's music industry. The entire point of the band was to critique how easy it was to make it in the music industry now. Basically saying that you can even do it with a completely fake band. Literally Gorrilaz is just two guys. An artist and a singer. The rest of the band is composed of different people every time because the band itself is not real.

Not arguing. Just my thoughts.

I guess like... to each his own yk. Music is subjective anyway.