Taylor Swift Tries To Be A New Yorker
Taylor Swift has just been appointed Global Welcome Ambassador for New York City. Prompting every self-respecting New Yorker to ask: what’s with choosing Swift, a 24-year-old born in Pennsylvania and bred in Nashville, to represent our unfair city? In addition to moving into a $20 million dollar Tribeca apartment in March, Swift’s only other credential for this prestigious position is “Welcome to New York,†a tune off of her just released album, “1989.” The song is peppy enough, but I don’t think we have to worry that it will become an official anthem like Kander and Ebb’s “New York, New York,” which was first sung by Liza Minnelli but unfortunately was made famous by Sinatra.
