Billy Joel has compared Taylor Swift’s astounding music success to The Beatles, as he lauded her for ‘keeping up with great concepts.’
The Piano Man singer, 72, praised the Bad Blood artist as ‘talented and producted’ before noting she bore the same influence as the iconic Liverpool band during their 1960s heyday.
‘She’s like that generation’s Beatles,’ Joel said in an interview with USA Today.
Swift has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and has won 11 Grammy Awards at just 32 years old, after releasing 11 studio albums, including her re-recordings.
He continued, ‘Taylor is also a very talented girl and she’s productive and keeps coming up with great concepts and songs and she’s huge.’
In comparison, The Beatles had sold 545 million units by 1972, when the band had split, and had also won 11 Grammys over the course of 13 studio albums.
‘She’s like that generation’s Beatles’: Joel said in an interview with USA Today (pictured March 2021)
While Joel’s fans mainly consist of older audience members, he also noted in the interview that a number of younger people are hearing him about him through references in the work of younger artists.
‘There are a lot of younger people now looking backward and they like their parents’ music, which is a strange phenomenon,’ he said. ‘I’ll be in the car with [my kids] when they make me turn [the radio] on and I might hear a reference to me.’
Joel gave the interview to USA Today to promote his return to the Madison Square Garden Residency he’s regularly maintained for years.
He’s performed at the site regularly for since 2014. Next July will mark his 82nd monthly show and the 128th all time.
Coming back around: While Joel’s fans mainly consist of older people, Joel also noted that a number of younger people are hearing about him through references in the work of younger artists (seen October 2018)
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While he still regularly tours, he hasn’t released a a pop album since 1993.
Swift, on the other hand, has been releasing music consistently over the last few years.
The star appeared on five singles which were released this year including No Body, No Crime which featured Haim and a rereleased version of Love Story that peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Top 100.
She released two re-recordings of her albums this year including Red which came out in the middle of November 2021.
Work all the time: Swift has been releasing music consistently over the last few years (pictured October 2021)
