Should they wait another 13, their lead singer will be 68 years old, so the cultural clash aspect is certainly legitimate.Īnd what of the actual music? Both artists are making statements deep into their careers that don't seem out-of-place anywhere else in their catalogs. But Tool has not made a record in 13 years. Some of it is likely genuine, and some of it is fabricated. These soft controversies pop up every so often, usually when a legacy artist gets some recognition in the same breathing space as a newer act. It's easy to laugh at Taylor Swift fans for not knowing who Tool is. Opinion Maroon 5's halftime show is the perfect metaphor for the band's career Say what you will about Taylor Swift's own extremely capitalist nature, but she does not yet have her own line of fine wines. While Tool definitely co-opts the language of various countercultures, their lead singer has his own brand of wine. The limited-edition version of Tool's "Fear Inoculum" was selling at $45 for a pre-order price and is now selling in the $100-$200 range online in the secondary market. The collect-them-all CDs each contain a poster specific to their version. "Lover" boast four different options for fans that include "a unique set of Taylor's journal entries, handwritten lyrics and archived photos," as well as "blank journal pages." The deluxe editions are promoted as being available at Target and cost several dollars more than the current going rate of a compact disc. The music business is, after all, big business and that means taking advantage of all the ways bands can turn nostalgia and emotion into cash. The packaging options for both Tool and Swift's new records also speak to a shrewdly profitable sensibility shared by both camps. For those hoping that the rockist/poptimist arguments of the last 50 years would go away, they have come roaring back to life.īut are Swift and Tool all that different? Can't a handful of millionaires paid to emotionally manipulate their core audiences find some common ground? As we enter September, the vying of these seemingly opposing artists for world dominance has caught the attention of the metal press, the pop press - and thanks in large part to Taylor Swift’s rabid fanbase - a lot of us in between. Tool released "Fear Inoculum" exactly one week later, on Aug. With a consistent sales prowess rivaled only by Drake, she shares a large portion of a small spotlight cast as one of the most consequential artists of her generation. Through no fault of their own, the West Coast thinking person's metal band Tool is currently competing for top-chart position with Taylor Swift, a singer with such a plausible innocuousness that she slips through one transformation and controversy after another mostly unfazed.
The unwitting objectivity of the Billboard music charts sometimes allows for strange bedfellows.
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