Taylor Swift tried it when she covered Earth, Wind & Fire's smash hit "September." Of course, the internet took no time in calling her caucasity out because first of all, how dare she? 

Even after people of all ages expressed their absolute disdain for Swift's version, no one was quite able to encompass our sentiments better than "September" co-writer Allee Willis. Although no fan of the song, Willis tried her best to give a more diplomatic reaction to the remake.

However, Willis' review still unintentionally (or not) read Swift for filth. 

"On the same day things happened in Syria, the FBI broke into Michael Cohen's office…the worst thing that happened as far as the Internet was concerned on this 449th day of all of our brains feeling like they've been hurled back and forth like squash balls, the top-trending topic on Twitter was the Taylor Swift cut of 'September,'" Willis said May 18 during an entertaining and often humorous songs-and-stories performance at the City Theatre in her home town of Detroit, according to Billboard. "I didn't really think she did a horrible job. Yes, I felt it was as lethargic as a drunk turtle dozing under a sunflower after ingesting a bottle of Valium, and I thought it had all the build of a one-story motel, but, I mean, the girl didn't kill anybody. She didn't run over your foot. She just cut a very calm and somewhat boring take of one of the peppiest, happiest, most popular songs in history."    

Ever since Willis co-wrote the song with Earth, Wind & Fire's late Maurice White and Al McKay, black family parties have never been the same. Swift's banjo-laced version of the classic was released on April 12, and Willis says she learned of it a few hours before we did. As a courtesy, Willis issued a complimentary statement regarding the song. 

"I was thrilled Taylor Swift cut 'September,'" the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee said. "I'm imagining she's going to give it a kind of jagged, 'Shake It Off' kind of feel and it's gonna be great. So I got to sleep happy and excited, but by the time I wake up — on Friday the 13th, I might add — the Internet was already a 28-alarm fire."

Swift's version of the song is available on Spotify. While it was praised by EWF lead singer Philip Bailey, Willis isn't going that far. She does, however, think that "everyone has a right to do with a song what they please." 

"So go on with your own bad self, Taylor Swift," Willis continued. "I'm honored you'd choose to do my song and that it meant enough to you that you wanted to personalize it to the goddamn 28th night of September, that you wanted to cover it with banjo… and that you changed the sacred ba-de-ya to the more Caucasian ah-ah-ah and make it sound more like a field of daffodils than a Soul Train line."

Talk about a drag.

Willis ended her talk by leading the audience in a sing-along version to the EWF original to "take 'September' back to its happy place… that has kept this Detroiter shaking it up and off for four fat decades."

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