It won’t hurt music if #Tay4Hottest100 exists.
If Taylor Swift places Number 1 in the Hottest 100 – I will eat a hat. Any hat you care to name, I will consume it. There is absolutely no way that will happen. I’d bet a nudie run on it. In fact I am.
However, Shake it Off appearing in the countdown will be one of the best things to happen to Triple J and its audiences and everybody should be hoping it happens. Let me explain….
A lot has been made lately about Taylor Swift’s potential entry in Hottest 100. This is the largest democratically voted countdown that is traditionally broadcast on Australia Day to barbecues and pool parties all around the country. Because it is audience voted- what if the fan-base of one of the world’s biggest singers invaded the popularity contest and caused the unthinkable to happen.
Disaster! And so, the questions have been rolling in:
“Will she earn enough votes to get into the Hottest 100?”
“If she does, should Triple J ever play Taylor Swift?”
“How could the sanctity of the Hottest 100 be allowed to be violated by her?”
“Does *insert corporation here* being involved invalidate her entry?”
Did Shake It Off just get disqualified from Triple J’s Hottest 100?
Some people argue the divinity of the countdown – “you have everything else, please let real music have this”.
Some argue the inevitable commercial crossover of previous Hottest 100 hits – Kings of Leon, Macklemore and Mumford and Sons all spring to mind.
But everybody agrees that letting the pop princess place anywhere in the one hundred greatest songs of the last year is taking things to a whole new level entirely.
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Music. It hurts music.
I am so sick of the assumption that all people who listen to Triple J are music snob hipsters. Maybe JUST maybe some of us don't like the inane crap spurted out daily by the likes of Chrissie whats-her-name and Kyle Sandilands. Maybe some of us listen to Triple J because we have a choice not to have advertising shoved down our throats every 15 minutes and maybe we just like the music?