Not A Swiftie

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Here’s a shock — Ted Nugent is not a Taylor Swift fan.

Apparently with nothing better to do, he’s taken aim at her, saying that her music sounds like “I bumped into a child’s cartoon show on a Saturday morning, I would probably hear the number-one country song or I would hear the number-one pop song, because it’s all formulated to give a certain vocal delivery and a certain chord change and a certain tempo that they examine so closely that it’s not organic and instinctive and sexy and unleashed and genuine and believable.”

Nugent went onto say how lucky he is to have been born in 1948 because “Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, James Brown, Wilson Pickett and the Motown Funk Brothers and all those great soulful musical authorities inspired all the best music that we still love today. So I’m spoiled to a fault, because I lived in a whirlwind, the energy vortex of the most intense work ethic-driven music.

“The reason we love Aerosmith, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Heart, Journey, Cheap Trick and Foreigner and so many bands I could name… I cannot overstate the incredible animal work ethic that we put forth to practice and practice and practice, because the music makes us do it. And as young kids, all we wanted to do was be as tight as James Brown, as energized as Chuck Berry, as soulful as the Motown Funk Brothers and Wilson Pickett, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Mose Allison and Lightnin’ Hopkins. We wanted to get that black soulfulness, so the work ethic was unbelievable…”