Taylor is more my generation, or in her words “my era.” And she has objectively good skills, but her music and songs don’t resonate with me. I love Pat Benatar’s lyrics, her vibe, all of it…Swift doesn’t have Benatar caliber vocals but she can definitely hold her own as the main musical accompaniment. Electric guitar or any guitar.
Vocally maybe an acoustic cover?
Like Whitney Houston, Pat Benatar was trained in classical opera and it shows.
Swift was ‘playing’ a piano when it started to rain. It shorted and was playing the same notes she was ‘playing’ over and over. She was pretending to play but the rain exposed her. Her lip syncing was also exposed when she stopped to say something to an audience member but the vocals kept playing.
I expect her guitar skills to be one of mimicry.
Here is a sample of her er... singing and playing guitar.
Listen to the first minute as the rest of the video is the youtuber commenting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nixhj71AE5k