{"id":117945,"date":"2024-06-27T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/27\/pretenders-chrissie-hynde-praises-girl-with-a-guitar-taylor-swift\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:02:39","slug":"pretenders-chrissie-hynde-praises-girl-with-a-guitar-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/27\/pretenders-chrissie-hynde-praises-girl-with-a-guitar-taylor-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretenders&#8217; Chrissie Hynde praises &#8220;girl with a guitar&#8221; Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-27\/Getty_ChrissieHynde_062724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mark Holloway\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While<strong> Taylor Swift <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-fans-upset-with-dave-grohl-1235716495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>seemingly attracted<\/strong><\/a> some shade recently from<strong>\u00a0Dave Grohl<\/strong> of <strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong>, she&#8217;s now gotten some major praise from a woman who&#8217;s opening for Foo Fighters this summer:\u00a0<strong>Chrissie Hynde<\/strong> of the <strong>Pretenders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer responsible for hits like &#8220;Back on the Chain Gang&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll Stand By You&#8221; wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C8uKa1MKfcU\/?igsh=MXJkbjNod3FsNmRjcg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, &#8220;I saw Taylor Swift (you may have heard of her) in concert the other day. Just shows you what a girl with a guitar can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last time I loved a show that much was <strong>Aldous Harding<\/strong>,&#8221; Chrissie continued, referring to the female indie folk singer\/songwriter from New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, if you haven\u2019t already &#8211; go out there and get yourselves a guitar,&#8221; Chrissie concluded. &#8220;You\u2019ll never be alone again as long as you have it by your side.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Chrissie did more than just see Taylor onstage. There are photos of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/chrissie-hynde-leaving-argentinean-restaurant-casa-cruz-in-news-photo\/2158781748?searchscope=image%2Cfilm&amp;adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>leaving a restaurant<\/strong><\/a> in London where, according to the caption, she &#8220;dined with Taylor Swift&#8221; on June 11.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in July, Chrissie and the Pretenders will open several stadium shows for Foo Fighters, in addition to doing their own headline shows. Incidentally, many fans believe Grohl&#8217;s comments about Taylor not playing live were just a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Holloway\/Redferns While Taylor Swift seemingly attracted some shade recently from\u00a0Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, she&#8217;s now gotten some major praise from a woman who&#8217;s opening for Foo Fighters this summer:\u00a0Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer responsible for hits like &#8220;Back on the Chain<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/27\/pretenders-chrissie-hynde-praises-girl-with-a-guitar-taylor-swift\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}