During a recent appearance on the Scandalous podcast, the guitarist praised Taylor Swift but criticized another pop star Beyonc\u00e9 by saying:<\/p>\n
\u201cBeyonc\u00e9 will put out a song and there\u2019s 30 f*cking people on it. How can 30 people write a song, all gathered together? It\u2019s just like a factory of songwriting! Who even knows who did what anymore, when there are like 20 names on it. I think Beyonc\u00e9 is the most overrated talent on Earth. I think she\u2019s marginally talented.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI love pop! I listen to pop mostly in the car, I don\u2019t listen to metal. There\u2019s some heavy sh*t on [SiriusXM streaming]\u2026 but I\u2019d rather listen to George Michael, myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Holt isn\u2019t impressed by Beyonc\u00e9 but likes Swift because she writes and performs her own music. This is different from what some musicians, like Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters, have suggested about Swift not performing live. Last month, Dave made this comment during a Foo Fighters show on June 22, while Swift was performing nearby.\u00a0The rocker said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell you, man, you don\u2019t want to suffer the wrath of Taylor Swift. So we like to call our tour the \u2018Errors Tour.\u2019 We\u2019ve had more than a few eras and more than a few f*cking errors as well. Just a couple. That\u2019s because we actually play live. What? Just saying! You guys like raw, live rock\u2019n\u2019roll music, right? You came to the right f*cking place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, Swift responded to him at her third Wembley show:<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery one of my band members, every single one of our crew, my band, who\u2019s gonna be playing live for you for 3.5 hours tonight, they deserve this so much. And so does every one of my fellow performers. And you just gave that to us so generously, we will never forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, guitarist Joe Bonamassa\u00a0supported Grohl\u00a0on X by saying \u2018Rock and Roll is not dead.\u2019 On the other hand,\u00a0Alex Skolnick agreed with a user who thought Grohl was just joking about Swift\u2019s live performance. Skolnick said Grohl\u2019s comments were meant to be light-hearted, though they were misunderstood online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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