Todd Rundgren Slams Taylor Swift, Says She ‘Ruined Music’ and Is ‘the Apotheosis of Mediocrity’

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Todd Rundgren, the singer-songwriter and producer behind hits like “Hello It’s Me” and “I Saw the Light,” recently slammed Taylor Swift, calling the pop star “the apotheosis of mediocrity” and claiming that she “ruined music.”

“To me, Taylor Swift is the apotheosis of mediocrity,” Rundgren said in an interview with Vulture. “It’s the era of the female artists.”

Rundgren got on the topic of Swift when asked who his target would be if he were to produce an album to make fun of an artist today. (He produced “Bat Out of Hell” by Meat Loaf in 1977 and famously said he didn’t care if it succeeded or not because he wanted to make fun of Bruce Springsteen.) “Taylor Swift, of course,” he responded. “There’s an argument to be made that she ruined music. It’s an understandable phenomenon.”

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