- Seventies rocker Todd Rundgren criticized Taylor Swift in a recent interview, calling her "the apotheosis of mediocrity" and suggesting she "ruined music."
- “Taylor Swift doesn’t do anything particularly great except grow hair. She’s not a great singer. She’s not a great songwriter. She’s not a great dancer. She’s a role model for what was a very young generation of women, and now for those women’s daughters as well, because it’s mothers and daughters going to Taylor Swift shows,” Rundgren said.
- The 78-year-old musician contrasted Swift with Lady Gaga, praising Gaga as a classically trained pianist and a "real musician."
- Rundgren, who produced Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, has a long history of criticizing major music figures. Previous targets of Rundgren's insults include John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Kanye West, Robbie Robertson, and George Harrison.
- Lennon responded to Rundgren’s remarks with a satirical open letter addressing him as “Sodd Runtlestuntle” and “Turd Runtgreen.”
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