Rock guitarist/frontman Ted Nugent isn’t much of a Taylor Swift fan. “The Motor City Madman” previously dismissed Swift’s music, and he also blasted her back in 2022 for her “hypocrisy” after she topped a list of celebrities whose private jets had produced the highest amount of carbon dioxide that year.
On a recent episode of “The Joe Pags Show,” Nugent again ripped Swift after being asked if there’s music that came out in the ’90s or early 2000s that he liked.
“The Foo Fighters are not really a new band, but when they came on the scene, they were delivering the same dedication and work ethic,” Nugent said.
“You can tell that [Dave] Grohl and his bandmates really put their heart and soul into delivering a monster every night. Now, as much as I love and adore and admire the Foo Fighters, and Dave Grohl is one of the masters of crescendos, but you were mentioning Coltrane and these great saxophone players, that sax solo, that guitar solo in all the best music in the world, that’s the crescendo. And with all due respect to the Foo Fighters, and I love you, Dave — I love all you guys; you guys are awesome — but there’s not that fire-breathing crescendo guitar solo that elevates the entire musical moment to a higher place.”
Nugent continued: “So I’m afraid to say in this world that’s gone down the toilet in all aspects, I’m afraid the success of Taylor Swift, and God bless her work ethic, God bless her musical dreams, but that’s cartoon music. I mean, it doesn’t have any piss and vinegar. There’s no fire, there’s no sensuality in that. It’s all poppy nonsense as far as I’m concerned, and it’s the most popular stuff in the world, which is an indictment to the music industry and music fans. They’re not looking for that fire from a ZZ Top or from a Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels or from a Brownsville Station or an Amboy Dukes. And I miss that. Thank God I’m still around. We still deliver the fire that The Beatles did in Germany.”
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