Taylor Swift graces the November issue of GQ magazine and the pop superstar gets real about a lot of things and proves that she’s more than just the singer notoriously known for writing songs about her ruined friendships and ex-boyfriends.
In the cover story, penned by Chuck Klosterman, Swift gets candid about her international pop star status. She admits to making calculated and careful decisions when it comes to her career right now, but she’s not moving people around as if they were chess pieces.
She confesses that while success may be accidental and that some people may sustain their success for some three to four years, she adds that careers actually take hard work to maintain.
At an early age, she was aware that fame was less about reputation management, strategy, and vanity. Taylor says it’s all about self-awareness especially since it’s practically the first thing that will hit people when they try to find success.
In the upcoming issue of the men’s magazine, the “Shake it Off” singer gets honest about her feat, how uneasy it was and how she fought for it.
Now basking in her commercial success, the pop singer knows better than to stop relishing in her career’s blessed moments. She gushes to Klosterman that during the first few years of her career, everyone would say to her was to just enjoy the ride. Well after 10 years in the business, the “Style” singer admits that she finally knows how to do exactly just that.
Record executives initially didn’t even want to record her album, “1989.” Her label also made last-minute attempts to change some of the songs’ arrangements to appeal to country fans to which Taylor fought back and won every argument.
She recalls that at that time, the safest thing she could do was take the biggest risk. She says that even though she’s not sure about a lot of aspects in her life, she knows how to write a song and that craft alone was enough to win her battles.
The blonde beauty also opens up about the downside of her success. Swift is known to keep a strong presence on social media and is attentive to what her fans and critics say about her to remain self-aware.
Speaking to GQ, she talks about a time some two years ago when she was put to the point to shut off all her devices and stay entirely in the dark because tabloid attacks were offensive and already below the belt.
The seven-time Grammy Award-winner recalls that at that time, all news was just about her and some guy. She admits that it was really emotionally damaging for her. She remembers telling her then 22-year-old self that it’s fine going on dates that age, but apparently not in her shoes.
The pop superstar, who is the reigning queen of Instagram, reveals that she had a difficult time making friends during her middle school and high school days. It’s quite an unfathomable idea that the singer, who boasts 51 million followers on Instagram, was once a girl who was bullied all throughout childhood.
Touching the topic of being bullied in her childhood, Swift says that her experience back then is probably the reason why she cherishes all her female friends right now.
Candidly, she says that she always wanted to make friends, but it was just so difficult for her. But all is well in the friendship department for her it seems and her “Bad Blood” music video, which features a tribe of Hollywood’s most powerful women, seems to prove that.
Speaking of “Bad Blood,” the singer clears the air on the meaning of her hit song. A lot of reports, as well as most Swifties, have agreed that the song is a backlash against the pop sensation’s former pal, Katy Perry.