Quincy Jones Disses Taylor Swift: We Need More ‘F*cking Songs, Not Hooks’

Quincy Jones Disses Taylor Swift: We Need More ‘F*cking Songs, Not Hooks’

by Daniel Nussbaum 30 Jan 2018

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/01/30/quincy-jones-disses-taylor-swifts-music-need-fcking-songs-not-hooks/ 

Taylor Swift has been selling out stadiums and winning Grammys for years, but at least one legendary composer and producer doesn’t get the hype.

In a lengthy, wide-ranging interview with GQ published Tuesday, Quincy Jones slammed the reigning 28-year-old pop queen, laughing off a suggestion by the interviewer that Swift has been called one of the best songwriters of her generation.

“We need more song man. F*cking songs, not hooks,” the 84-year-old 27-time Grammy-winner told the magazine.

Music producer Quincy Jones attends Spotify’s Inaugural Secret Genius Awards hosted by Lizzo at Vibiana on November 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Spotify)

Recording artist Taylor Swift attends the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden on September 19, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

When asked what he thought was missing from Swift’s music, the producer behind such legendary albums as Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Bad replied: “Knowing what you’re doing. You know what I mean?”

“Since I was a little kid, I’ve always heard the people that don’t wanna do the work,” he said. “It takes work, man. The only place you find success before work is the dictionary, and that’s alphabetical.”

Taylor Swift’s hit single “Style,” released in 2015, was written and produced by Swift, Max Martin, Shellback, and Ali Payami.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller, released in 1984, was directed by John Landis and produced by Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Productions.

Still, Jones suggested that he would be open to working with Swift in the future, saying he would “figure something out” if he did.

“Man, the song is the sh*t—that’s what people don’t realize,” he added. “A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star. A bad song can’t be saved by the three best singers in the world. I learned that 50 years ago.”

Jones’s GQ interview is full of incredible stories from the musician’s childhood, including several harrowing scrapes with death, and includes humorous anecdotes about his six decades in the music business.

“The ’30s in Chicago, man. Whew. No joke,” Jones said of his childhood. “If you think today’s bad… As a young kid, after my mother was taken away, my brother and I, we saw dead bodies every day. Guys hanging off of telephone poles with ice picks in their necks, man. Tommy guns and stogies, stacks of wine and liquor, big piles of money in back rooms, that’s all I ever saw. Just wanted to be that.”

Jones also describes coming up in the music business alongside Ray Charles and Michael Jackson, and claims he used to buy drugs from a young Malcolm X.

“Every time we’d go to Detroit, at the Majestic hotel, standing in front, with his Italian sh*t on and amber glasses: Malcolm X. Detroit Red. That’s where we bought our dope,” Jones said. “It was before he went to prison.”

Read the rest of Jones’s interview with GQ here.

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Sherrilyn Ifill is a global board member for the Open Society Foundation, and the president & director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

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Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the Millennium Promise, the New America Foundation, and the People for the American Way.

Quincy Jones is a director emeritus at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the producer for Thriller, and was a director at the Millennium Promise.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a director at the Millennium Promise, a director, Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute (think tank), and a frequent contributor for MSNBC.

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Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an MSNBC program.

Keith Olbermann was the host for Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and is a writer for GQ.

Up Late With Alec Baldwin is an MSNBC program.

Alec Baldwin was the host for Up Late With Alec Baldwin, and is a director at the People for the American Way.

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Quincy Jones is a director emeritus at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the producer for Thriller, and was a director at the Millennium Promise.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a director at the Millennium Promise, a director, Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute (think tank), and a frequent contributor for MSNBC.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an MSNBC program.

Keith Olbermann was the host for Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and is a writer for GQ.

Quincy Jones is a director emeritus at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the producer for Thriller, and was a director at the Millennium Promise.

Tonya Lewis Lee is a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and married to Spike Lee.

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Quincy Jones is a director emeritus at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a director at the Apollo Theater Foundation, the producer for Thriller, and was a director at the Millennium Promise.