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I think KISS frontman Gene Simmons may be losing it. In a recent interview, he praised Taylor Swift while lamenting the lack of other 'great' musicians in the current era:

'When we were growing up in the 60s, we had Led Zeppelin, the Stones, the Beatles, Elvis, Pink Floyd, Madonna, Prince, David Bowie. All of that was happening at the same time.' (Bold mine)

Boru

Not liking Taylor's style of music does not mean  she has no talent. It merely means you don't like her genre. 

Kiss was popular in the 80s as well, so that is what he meant in including Madonna and Prince. Maybe not well phrased, but still accurate in including Madonna and Prince and Bowie in the ranks of Floyd,  Zeppelin, Stones, Beatles. I'd say the only overrated icon mentioned was Elvis. He had most of his songs written for him. Taylor writes her own songs.

You may have missed the point: Simmons likes Taylor Swift a really, really lot. At the same time, he thinks Madonna and Prince were active in the 1960s.

And simply because Elvis didn’t write songs is no reason to call him ‘overrated’.

Boru