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Taylor Swift is the Beatles of the new generation according to Billy Joel

2021-12-31T13:58:29.690Z


The 72-year-old pianist is full of praise for the record-breaking American singer who, according to him, has managed not to compromise between popularity and creativity.


Finding

"the new

Beatles

" is as

much an exercise in style as it is tradition.

The qualifier - laudatory or not, depending on taste - has been distributed to an innumerable amount of musical groups since the end of the 1960s, from the British of Electric Light Orchestra to the South Koreans of BTS, passing by Justin Bieber and other One Direction.

It does not matter that the comparison has long since emptied of its literal meaning: the consecrated expression now designates any king of world pop.

Or queen, for that matter, if one relies on the latest statements from American singer and pianist Billy Joel about Taylor Swift.

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"She's like the Beatles of this generation,"

the 72-year-old artist said in a November interview with

USA Today

. Asked about contemporary musicians, Billy Joel invoked the name of the 32-year-old singer who has been on the heels of popularity for several years. So much so that in the spring of 2021, she surpassed a record held for 55 years by the Beatles by taking first place in

the

British

charts

in less than twelve months

with three different albums.

"She's great. We can only applaud him. She knows music and knows how to write, ”

said Billy Joel, hiring an artist

"Very talented, productive and continues to come up with great concepts and songs

.

"

Adele, a

"renaissance of Streisand"

An international pop-rock star himself with over 150 million albums sold in his 50-year career, Billy Joel also praised Britain's Adele,

"a phenomenal singer, as a rebirth of

(Barbra)

Streisand"

.

And a commercial juggernaut, too,

30

, his last album released in November having sold more than a million copies worldwide.

As with Taylor Swift, the American pianist seems to have recognized in her an artist whose incredible success has never denied her immense talent.

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In the same interview for

USA Today

, Billy Joel was delighted to see the great intermingling of generations that had blossomed in his time, following World War II, continue.

“When I was a kid, my generation didn't like my parents' music. They were listening to classical music,

(Frank)

Sinatra

, Perry Como, those kind of singers. We kind of left them in the past, ”

recalled the pianist, finding it somewhat surprising that this outspoken iconoclasm is less marked these days.

“There are a lot of young people who look back to the past and love their parents' music, which is a strange phenomenon

,” he observed. By adding :

"I'm grateful to them, because at least they make more noise."

A noise inaugurated by the first groupies of Elvis Presley.

And soon after, by the no less bellowing Beatles fanatic.

Source: lefigaro

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