Record Label Defends Taylor Swift’s Grammy Performance with Stevie Nicks

Posted on 04 February 2010

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Grammy Awards – Taylor Swift may be twenty but she has already achieved a lot, including four Grammys last Sunday at the Staples Center, Los Angeles.

The country-music superstar Taylor Swift was roundly criticized for her performance on the said show, including her duet with Stevie Nicks on the Fleetwood Mac song “Rhiannon”. Some parties say that Ms. Swift seemingly “woke up from her Grammy night celebration with an unpleasant hangover.”

She won four Grammy Awards last Sunday, including the major award ‘Album of the Year’ for her top-grossing ‘Fearless’.

Scott Borchetta, the president and chief executive of the record label Big Machine, which released “Fearless,” has spoken up on behalf of Swift’s performance. He explained that Swift’s critics are “not getting it.”

“The facts say she is the undisputed best communicator that we’ve got. When she says something, when she sings something, when she feels something, it affects more people than anybody else”, he added.

Mr. Borchetta has nothing bad to say about Swift and her performance at the Grammys, “Maybe she’s not the best technical singer, but she’s probably the best emotional singer because everybody else who gets up there and is technically perfect, people don’t seem to want more of it. If you pick any of those artists that performed (at the Grammys), I’m sure you can go online and find something where you go, ‘ew.’ Maybe in that moment we didn’t have the best night. But in the same breath, maybe we did. And nobody is arguing with the awards.”

Mr. Borchetta also confessed that Swift had a technical problem during her duet with Ms. Nicks. With that, she was unable to hear the complete mix of the song as she performed it.

Here’s a video of Taylor Swift’s 2010 Grammy performance:

Photo credits: Associated Press; Video credits: YouTube

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