Kim Gordon is not a “fan” of Taylor Swift, she prefers Billie Eilish

Legendary rocker Kim Gordon didn’t shy away from sharing her thoughts on some of the biggest names in music, including familiar faces like Taylor Swift And Billie Eilish.

When 71-year-old former Sonic Youth bassist Gordon was asked about her “most controversial opinion in pop culture,” she had an answer ready.

“I don’t know if it’s controversial, but I’m not a big fan of Taylor Swift,” Gordon said The guard in an interview published on Wednesday, July 17. “I couldn’t really tell you what their music sounded like.”

Instead, Gordon noted that she has another favorite artist. “When it comes to pop icons, I would choose Billie Eilish,” she told the outlet.

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When Gordon arrived in February The guardshe shouted to 34-year-old Swift.

“Of course I write in a diary, just like Taylor Swift,” she said. “But you know, I don’t write about sad things. Well, I guess a little sad. There’s something powerful about that kind of writing. It’s something you can do right now.”

The singer-songwriter, who released The collective At the beginning of the year, she hesitated when asked if she would be the opening act for the Epoch Tour Artist.

“I don’t know. Because I don’t think their audience would like that. It has to fit a little bit,” she told the outlet. “Even when Sonic Youth with Neil Youngit was really hard to see the hippies sitting there giving you the middle finger.”

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Gordon noted that she recently sat on a plane to Utah with Swift fans wearing her merchandise. “I like that a lot,” she said. “I think I would just take a sweatshirt.”

Gordon’s comments on Wednesday aren’t the first time Swift and Eilish, 22, have been compared. In fact, the two have long overlapped.

At Billboard’s Women In Music 2019, Swift presented Eilish with the Woman of the Year award. (Swift had previously received the award in 2011 and 2014.)

When Swift accepted the award in 2014, she referred to the younger generation of musicians – and later remembered this line when introducing Eilish, who was also a world-famous musician before her 18th birthday.

“My exact quote during that speech was, ‘I really feel like we need to continue to try to provide something for a younger generation of musicians, because somewhere, your future Woman of the Year is probably sitting in a piano lesson or in a girls’ choir right now,'” Swift said in 2019. “‘And today, right now, we need to take care of her.'”

She continued, “I have since learned that at that exact time, an 11-year-old girl in California was actually taking piano lessons and was in the girls’ choir. This year, at the age of 17, she was named Woman of the Year. Her name is Billie.”

However, Eilish made headlines earlier this year when her fans thought she was attacking Swift for her “lavish” packaging. Eilish clarified the matter in April, noting that she didn’t mean to “single anyone out.”