Dave Grohl Takes a Swipe at Taylor Swift (Was He Right?)

Episode Transcript

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Did you see what Dave girl saidabout Taylor Swift. I saw that.

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Okay, So Dave Grohl is thelead singer of Foo Fighters. Obviously,
he was the drummer for Nirvana.He's a legend in rock and roll music.
That's fair to say, right,I certainly think so. Yeah,
he was in London Stadium. FooFighters were playing at London Stadium, but
also in London was at Wimbley Stadium. Different stadium was Taylor Swift. So
Dave, being the rock star thathe is, he's talking in between songs

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and stuff, and he said somethinglike, and I'm gonna try the video
isn't great for the audio, butyou know what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna do my best, Dave.Okay, I tell you, man,
you don't want to suffer the wrathof Taylor Swift. We like to call
our tour the Errors Tour. It'sa play on the Eras Tour, which
is, you know, Taylor Swiftand the Eras. He continues, We've

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had more than a few eras andmore than a few errors as well,
just a couple. That's because weactually play live and then the crowd goes
oh, and the day's like,what just saying and then he you know,
Eagles, and then he says,you guys like raw a live rock
and roll music, right, wecame to the right place, and then

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they start going Yeah. So,now, of course the Swifties are out
in force on social media trying tosay is Dave girl so washed that he
can't actually just you know, playhis music and not take a swipe at
the darling of the age we arein now? I mean, nope,
nothing prompted him to say this,said the fact that they are both playing
London stadiums at the same time.Yeah, so I guess that's fair at

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the same time, is he wrong? Well, and we know that the
Swifties are a very uh you know, non reactive bunch, very stoic bunch.
You can even say, you know, the fan bases don't come more
stoic than the Swifties. All right, all right, enough sarcasm. They're
dripping off of you. Everybody elseis dripping in sweat. That case is
dripping in sarcasm. Keeping it coolwith some sarcasm over here. Yeah,

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I mean, let's be honest,though. If there's anything that we do
know about the Swifties is they're goingto protect their girl. Yeah. Now,
one thing that we cannot debate isthe fact that people are paying literal
thousands of dollars per ticket to watchthis show all over the world. Every
show she was doing the US,now every show she's doing internationally. It
is literally breaking and smashing every recordthat existed on revenue. I mean.

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And then Travis Kelsey showed up inWimbley. Did you see that too?
He showed up. He was partof the show for the first time.
Oh yeah, he was wearing likea tuxedo along with one of the dancers,
and he did like a face revealin the crowd went nuts, Oh
man, that guy. That's cooland everything. But I do wonder though.
First off, I'd like to sayTerry Bradshaw thought this first. This
was a long time ago, andpeople cared a lot less because, like

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it was Terry Bradshaw. But hesaid Taylor Swift was faking it. When
did he say that? This wasback during the NFL season. He said,
I can't walk from the studio tothe bathroom without getting winded, so
how can she do a full showlike that? And then people promptly pointed
out the fact that you guys arenot at the same age level or yeah,
physical fitness. Well, then letme just throw this out here too,

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Taylor Swift, I mean, haveyou seen like a Lady Gaga show.
I mean she used to put onquiet production. I don't think she's
doing it quite the same way now. But like the Madonna you go watching
in the eighties mid eighties Madonna,I mean, she's doing it and you
can tell she's live. Nobody's gonnaaccuse her of being an excellent live vocalist,
but she definitely was singing live.And by the way, I kind

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of found out over the last monthor so, I kind of am into
early Madonna really like the first fewalbum Madonnas like actually even early nineties Madonna
actually like Vogue is actually like that'sa slapper and the song this used to
be My Playground, which is inthe credits of A League of their Own.
It's like a real slow ballad.Oh man, that gets me in

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my feels all the time. Idon't know if it's because of the movie
or just the fact that it's justsuch a powerful song. I'm actually in
the Madonna. How did I getonto this? Never mind? The point
is Taylor Swift has never a beena good dancer, b been a good
singer, and se has never reallylike the songwriting speaks to the people that
it's for. I am not that, so it's hard for me now country

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music era Taylor, and I'm nota big country person. But there are
some bangers that she had, likenine to like twelve right before she did
the cross into pop music, likethose last couple of country albums you had,
like the big hits like love Storyand you Belong with Me and stuff
that people you know still talk aboutand she still performs. But like a

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song like Sparks Fly, which wasstill like a country music hit of about
that time, that's a real tune. That is a TUNEA So for me,
I don't hate her. I haveno reason to dislike her. And
obviously the demand is there because peopleare paying thousands of dollars for one ticket,
let alone for like a family offour. You want to take your
twelve year old daughter to see thisTaylor Swift, I mean, break out

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the bank. I mean you're nevergonna pay for a more expensive ticket in
your life, and that includes theSuper Bowl, you know what I mean.
But at the same time. I'venever been infatuated with her life talent
ever, So yeah, I'd rathersee guys strumming on guitars in real life
and being impressed that way. Andif what she's got to do is fake
it to get through the show thebest way she can for people to like,
I mean, she's doing it forthree hours. I mean good for

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her that she's she's a big partyfor Swifties. At the same time,
that still means that there's a goodpossibility that she is faking it most of
the time. You think, sookay, I do. I don't think
it matters though, Well, it'snot for it, It's not for me,
I would think, though, ifshe's not, couldn't you think of
a better compliment then for people inyour industry saying there's no way you're really
doing that, you're too good.There's no way. No, it's not

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even that she's good, it's justthat she's doing it so long and she's
just not very good. Lively,I challenge you to go back and watch
any Taylor Swift's when she was sixteen, watch when she's twenty, watch when
she's twenty five, watch when she'sthirty. She's thirty four. Now,
she has never been an exceptional lifetalent. Ever, she can play the
guitar and strum of the long tothe guitar. The best she ever was

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as a live performer was when shewas doing country music because it didn't require
the kind of gymnastics she's doing upthere now. And gymnastics I use that
term incredibly loosely because what she doesis barely dancing, like it is mostly
just out of sync gyrations and hertrying to show off her personality within the

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music that she's written. But itactually isn't good dancing because anything that would
be good dancing would actually require,you know, some semblance of rhythm or
skill, and she doesn't have thateither. So go watch her dance when
she started her pop era with IKnew You were Trouble with You when you
walked in, big hit, greatsong. You go back and you watch
her perform that at the time,and even now, dude, there is

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nothing nothing to report here, absolutelynothing. So you want to know something,
you want to hear a good versionof the song, go to a
Taylor Swift concert, because it certainlyisn't her singing it really five point twenty
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