Kim Gordon, a legendary rocker, did not hesitate to share her thoughts on some of music’s biggest names, including Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish.
When asked for her “most controversial pop culture opinion,” former Sonic Youth bassist Gordon, 71, had one prepared.
“I don’t know if it’s controversial, but I’m not really a fan of Taylor Swift,” Gordon told The Guardian in an interview published on Wednesday, July 17. “I couldn’t tell you what her music sounded like, actually.”
Instead, Gordon mentioned that she has a different favorite artist. “When it comes to pop icons, I would choose Billie Eilish,” she told the site.
When asked about her own lyrics in February by The Guardian, Gordon mentioned Swift, 34.
“Sure I’m journalling, just like Taylor Swift,” she told me. “But you understand, I’m not writing about sad things. Well, I suppose it’s a little sad. That style of writing has a tremendous quality to it. “You can do it right now.”
The singer-songwriter, who released The Collective earlier this year, was hesitant to open for the Eras Tour performance.
“I do not know. Because I don’t think her audience would enjoy it. “It must be a little bit of a fit,” she told the site. “Even when Sonic Youth toured with Neil Young, it was really hard, seeing hippies sitting there giving you the finger.”
Gordon mentioned that she was just on a plane to Utah with Swift fans who were wearing her merchandise. “That I quite like,” she said. “I think I’d just take a sweatshirt.”
Gordon’s remarks on Wednesday are not the first time Swift and Eilish, 22, have been linked to one another. In reality, the two have a lengthy history together.
Swift handed up the Woman of the Year Award to Eilish at Billboard’s 2019 Women In Music event. Swift previously won the award in 2011 and 2014.
Swift made a reference to the younger generation of musicians while winning the award in 2014, and she repeated the statement when presenting Eilish, who, like Swift, became a world-famous musician before turning 18.
“My exact quote during this speech was, ‘I really just feel like we need to continue to try to offer something to a younger generation of musicians, because somewhere right now, your future woman of the year is probably sitting in a piano lesson or in a girls choir,’” Swift said in 2019. “‘And today, right now, we need to take care of her.’”
She continued, “I’ve since learned that at the exact moment, an 11-year-old girl in California really was taking piano lessons and really was in the girls choir, and this year, she has been named woman of the year at the age of 17. Her name is Billie.”
Earlier this year, however, Eilish made headlines when fans thought she was making a dig at Swift for “wasteful” packaging. Eilish set the record straight in April, noting that she “wasn’t singling anyone out.”
