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Taylor Swift: The Best Thing To Happen To Live Music And Rock And Roll Since Bruce Springsteen
They’re the two best performers of my time — by far
In this article, I detail one of the proudest moments of my writing career. And I will tie it to the present day and the current state of music fandom.
It’s a story about when I had my Taylor Swift meets Bruce Springsteen moment. A full decade before it became cool — rather than outlandishly stupid — to speak the names Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen in the same breath.
You remember those days. The bygone era when music snobs refused to take Taylor seriously.
In the 2012–2014 period, I was writing full-time for TheStreet.com, the financial media platform that Jim Cramer created. I had the leeway to venture away from writing about stocks.
After taking my daughter to see Swift on The Red Tour in Los Angeles, I liked the show Taylor put on so much that I went back the next night.
Funny enough — my daughter, who is now a 21-year-old borderline Swift super fan, didn’t want to do another night. But I had to because, as a borderline Springsteen super fan, I saw the parallels between the two artists — musicians and performers that people have only started to connect in the last…
