Is there something wrong with me?

You think KISS is in the top ten rock bands of all time, so clearly, yes.

Heck, you probably think the Beatles are better than U2.

There is nothing wrong with you. Taylor Swift is great, clean and [shock] quite talented.

They don't need to super-screw with her voice to produce a decent album and I think she's one of the most authentic performers in music today.

Good song. (I also liked the Romeo/Juliet song on the album)

"She also writes all her own songs."

I had heard/thought that. Where can one go to see who writes the songs that performers sing???

Where can one go to see who writes the songs that performers sing???

Google searches usually do the trick. If a song has its own Wikipedia article, it will usually saw who wrote the song.

If those don't work, you can always shell out 15 bucks to check the physical copy of the CD. :-)

I like Taylor Swift, she’s a very bright and driven young lady. I don’t care for the song. Most of all I don’t like the idea of teens falling in love. I also want her to gain some self esteem.

Sidenote:
They're singing Van Halen on Glee.

It's actually really good.

For the umpteenth variation on a tired cliche, sure, it's great.

Well, it's a music video, not Federico Fellini :-)

It's redemptive, so of course I'm a sucker for that. I've known lots of kids like the nerdy band girl. Good kids who struggle with why they never get the attention/date/etc. So it kind of resonated. I think Swift did a great job acting - she captured the band-nerd in the stands really well. I hear everyone on the window thing. But it was just a device to show that these two were friends.

Of course, the awkward-duckling to beautiful swan finding out that he loved her the whole time (not just when she became beautiful - he had his sign too, which he carried w him) doesn't happen very often in real life. In real life the football star would still have been pursuing the hot cheerleader chick. Because we're dumb.

Daddy, you are NOT stupid. I like the video, too :). It actually almost made me cry the first time I watched it. Not sure why. But they did a good job at depicting this fun song!

Molly, thanks :-)

GinH - I guess they both look like Taylor Swift :-) - plus I think someone told me that. I don't know if it's been confirmed.

Thinkling comments affect my life. Here's how:

1- Jared, I just went and put "She's All That" in my blockbuster queue. Really. Cuz a tongue in cheek rec from you is better than anyone else's serious one. Plus I like the video too!

2- A while back, under some post I don't remember Jared made a joke everyone else but me thought was funny because I didn't get the reference. Something about Kanye West standing up and interrupting a speech. So I looked it up on youtube. Saw the incident everyone else but me knew about which caused me to look up the Taylor Swift song/video she won for and I saw this video for the first and only time...until now.

I liked it too Bill. For the same reasons you did.
You aren't crazy. Jared, as far as it being a tired cliche, I look at it more as being one of those universal stories that gets told over and over kind of in an intertextual Jungian archetype sort of way.

The story of being in love with your best friend who doesn't love you back, because they don't see you "that way" is old and common. In fact, I think that's what happens at some point in every co-ed "best friendship." I think it's inevitable, which is why men and women can't "just be friends" but I digress. That's another pot for another day.

Anyway, it's like the cinderella story. Told and retold. But beautiful if done well.

I don't think Taylor Swift is both girls. I hope not. I think she should have kept the glasses too.

I agree with Bill. The room window thing was a way of showing their friendship, and the fact that the boy had already written the sign shows that he didn't care about the glasses. He somehow "saw the light" before the moment she came in. he seemed to be sort of asking her to the dance with his sign anyway.

And the song is much more soft rock than country in my opinion. Which makes it good.

Oh, and about writing her own songs...that elevates her about a zillion degrees in my eyes. I can't stand artists who are just a pretty face and voice while someone else smart and talented and hardworking writes the songs.

The story of being in love with your best friend who doesn't love you back, because they don't see you "that way" is old and common.

This isn't what I was talking about when I said "cliche."
I meant "the artsy bookworm girl who is just friends with the football player b/c he likes the popular cheerleader until the bookworm takes her glasses off and the ugly duckling becomes a swan and they love each other and everyone likes them." :-)

Seriously, if you like this video, you will LOVE "She's All That."

Btw, I think this is why John Hughes was such a resonant filmmaker in the 80's. When his awkward girls fell in love with the jocks, they didn't stop being awkward girls ("16 Candles"), and sometimes the quirky best friend didn't get the girl ("Pretty in Pink").
He managed to tap into the standard teen romance tropes but work variations on them that avoided cliches.

I like being shallow and cliche.

I know. :-) - but it's just something I've come to peace with. Remember, I'm the guy who liked Lady in the Water, The Village, Hancock, Intolerable Cruelty, and many others, when everyone else in their right mind despised them. These are all cliched, hackneyed movies. And I loved 'em.

I'm cliched. And I've come to accept that :-)

This song and video are worse than cliche. They're by Taylor Swift. Just sayin...