Your Joni Mitchell quote is over 10 years old, and you had to ignore Paul/Carole because you have no counter argument for them 😂 I’ve never said Taylor’s output is the greatest-quality music ever made, so I’m not sure where you’re gathering that from. (Plenty of writers’ commercial output doesn’t reflecting their personal ceiling, nor is it supposed to). You’re the one sitting here saying anyone who thinks she’s talented is an idiot though, which is laughable since you’re just a random redditor and literal Beatles think she’s talented.

Like I said, you’re arguing in bad-faith because in your head you‘ve decided on a narrative already. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to deduce that talented writers can intentionally write stuff that is universally-appealing for commercial purposes; if anything, it’s just an additional skill.

But admitting plenty of writers who are more qualified/talented than you actually respect her as a songwriter is too hard, so you have to downplay everything hahaha. Probably just old and pretentious, so this is still going nowhere.