During an interview with Scandalous Podcast published on July 16, Holt, 60, dished on his opinion of Swift, 34.
“I love Taylor Swift. Why all the hate?” Holt said in response to host Ashley Steinmetz asking him to address “the Taylor Swift problem.”
“She’s an extraordinarily hard worker. She’s super f—ing nice to everybody, and people hate her,” Holt continued. “She’s just the biggest pop star on Earth, and more power to her. I like the songs. I love pop. I listen to pop mostly in the car, you know, I don’t listen to metal.”
“I love women, I support women. But I will just defend my stance on it. It’s great, it’s fine. But the songwriting credit and the depth of that just sounds really vapid to me,” Steinmetz replied, noting she prefers artists like Halsey. “…I just do think that a lot of her music is very glittery.”
To that, Holt argued, “Taylor writes everything. And so I give her credit. She’s a songwriter. And some of these other people require massive teams…she’s a good person on top of that.”
Swift concluded her third and final performance in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Next, she will hold consecutive concerts in Hamburg on July 23 and 24, followed by shows in Munich on July 27 and 28.