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Taylor Under Fire Again: Pet Shop Boys’ Star Neil Tennant Says Taylor Swift Has ‘No Standout Hits’ as He Questions the Singer’s Popularity After the Release of Her New Album Posted: 2024-4-25 Play Video Close She is about to have her 12th number-one album with her latest project The Tortured Poets Department stealing the fastest-selling spot this year from Beyonce. But the Pet Shop Boys lead vocalist and 80s icon, Neil Tennant, is not convinced by Ms Swift, 34, and argued she has no stand-out hits such as Micheal Jackson’s Thriller and Billie Jean. The 68-year-old said: ‘She fascinates me as a sort of phenomenon because she is so popular. ‘I sort of like the whole thing but then think, “Where are the famous songs? 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I listened to that the other day and it is not Billie Jean.’ Pet Shop Boys lead vocalist and 80s icon, Neil Tennant, is not convinced by Taylor Swift, 34, and argued she has no stand-out hits such as Micheal Jackson¿s Thriller and Billie Jean (pictured in June 2022) Pet Shop Boys lead vocalist and 80s icon, Neil Tennant, is not convinced by Taylor Swift, 34, and argued she has no stand-out hits such as Micheal Jackson’s Thriller and Billie Jean (pictured in June 2022) She is about to have her 12th number-one album with her latest project The Tortured Poets Department stealing the fastest-selling spot this year from Beyonce (pictured in July 2023) She is about to have her 12th number-one album with her latest project The Tortured Poets Department stealing the fastest-selling spot this year from Beyonce (pictured in July 2023) The Tortured Poets Department is a 31-song-long breakup album which, in true Taylor fashion, pointedly references her ex-boyfriends and their shortcomings which delighted her fans – dubbed Swifties. 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With hits such as It’s a Sin – The Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50million records worldwide and were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in 1999. Despite scoring somewhat less-positive reviews than her last three albums, according to Metacritic, The Tortured Poets Department was an immediate hit with consumers. The 68-year-old said: ¿She fascinates me as a sort of phenomenon because she is so popular. I sort of like the whole thing but then think, “What is Taylor Swift ¿s Billie Jean?”‘ (pictured in May 2022) It sold around 1.4 million copies on Friday and surpassed the record set by 1989 (Taylor’s version) to become her biggest US album to date. The LP was streamed on Spotify more than 300 million times in a single day. It became the first album to cross the 200 million and 300 million stream mark, according to the platform. Fortnight, the first single featuring Post Malone, also broke records for the most streamed song in a single day. 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She is about to have her 12th number-one album with her latest project The Tortured Poets Department stealing the fastest-selling spot this year from Beyonce.
But the Pet Shop Boys lead vocalist and 80s icon, Neil Tennant, is not convinced by Ms Swift, 34, and argued she has no stand-out hits such as Micheal Jackson’s Thriller and Billie Jean.
The 68-year-old said: ‘She fascinates me as a sort of phenomenon because she is so popular.
‘I sort of like the whole thing but then think, “Where are the famous songs? What is Taylor Swift’s Billie Jean?”‘
She is about to have her 12th number-one album with her latest project The Tortured Poets Department stealing the fastest-selling spot this year from Beyonce (pictured in July 2023)
The Tortured Poets Department is a 31-song-long breakup album which, in true Taylor fashion, pointedly references her ex-boyfriends and their shortcomings which delighted her fans – dubbed Swifties.