I feel like the only person here who actually likes Taylor Swift. I mean, I don't go out of my way to listen to her music, but I don't mind it when I hear it. Some of her songs are really catchy and, while her vocals are pretty inconsistent between live performances, she's one of the few artists that refuses to excessively auto tune her songs, and for that, I admire her.
Although I do think she was better as a country artist and that genre suited her voice more, I do enjoy the stuff she puts out nowadays, along with lots of other "mainstream" pop music. There are things about her and her songs that I can really appreciate.
Pop may not be for her, but it sells records. Country records don't typically sell very well nowadays. Management and radio have forced her to change to being a pop singer. You can hear in the way she sings that she's still a country singer at heart, so I can definitely say the girl's got guts.