I’m someone who watches all the best Yellowstone shows; I’m also a massive Swifite. For the entire time the modern Western has been around, I have never thought those two worlds would collide. However, they did when Taylor Swift quoted John Dutton during her Songwriters Hall of Fame speech, and I have to say, she did it in an A+ way.
This came up as Swift was giving advice to young artists. She spoke about prioritizing what they love and the balancing act songwriters have to maneuver that involves being emotionally vulnerable and having to deal with people being critical of that vulnerability. That’s what led to the Yellowstone quote, as the pop star said (via TSUpdating):
