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“I like risk-takers, I suppose,” says Kim Gordon, talking through video chat from Australia a couple of days earlier than she’s resulting from seem at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival. The 71-year-old American musician and visible artist has made a profession out of pushing boundaries, each throughout her prolonged tenure with rock band Sonic Youth and now as a solo artist.
But proper now, we’re speaking about pop. Last week, Gordon induced a minor uproar when she let slip in a brief interview with The Guardian that she’s “probably not a fan” of Taylor Swift — “I couldn’t let you know what her music appeared like,” she continued — and most popular Billie Eilish.
“Well, that was a really shorthand reply,” she demurs after I deliver it up. Online tradition being what it’s, although, the remark spawned dozens of clickbait articles and drew some venomous responses from Swifties on social media, all of which Gordon appears to be taking in her stride.
