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Celeb News: Taylor Swift "Biggest Force in Pop," says The Guardian
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Taylor Swift "Biggest Force in Pop," says The Guardian
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This is normal life for the biggest force in pop right now, a global superstar whose songs soundtrack lives, whose tours sell out stadiums in seconds, and whose every facial expression generates a million tweets. Taylor Swift in 2014 is an extraordinary phenomenon.
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On "Shake It Off" and not letting people's negativity get Her down:
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Her cheery, stoical take on celebrity and tabloid intrusion has served her well. “I am not gonna let them make me miserable when I could be enjoying my life,” she says. “That’s why you see these artists become a tabloid regular and then become artistically and musically irrelevant, because they let [gossipy websites] stifle them. It’s not going to happen here.”
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On the difference between Red and 1989:
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All Too Well was taken from 2012’s Red, an album defined by widescreen, wind-machined renderings of heartache, which confirmed that “country” could finally be dropped from her tag of “country-pop” singer. But 1989, as she explains, is shorter on the “jilted, sad, pining”. Instead, “it’s the phase after that, when you go out into the world and make changes in your life on your own terms, make friends on your own terms, without [literally] saying ‘C’mon girls, we can do it on our own!’”
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On Her current dating situation:
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Has female friendship become more important to her than romance? “Without a doubt. Because the other alternative” – as in having a boyfriend – “isn’t really possible right now. It just doesn’t seem like a possibility in the near future. It doesn’t ever work. What works is having incredible girlfriends who I can trust and tell anything.”
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On Her feminist awakening:
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As for the endless “is Taylor Swift a feminist?” pieces – well, they can die now. “As a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities. What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means. For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite sex, whereas it’s not about that at all. Becoming friends with Lena – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realise that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.”
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On sexism and defending Her songwriting:
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The way she sees it, there’s a gender element to such scrutiny. “I really resent the idea that if a woman writes about her feelings, she has too many feelings,” she says. “And I really resent the ‘Be careful, buddy, she’s going to write a song about you’ angle, because it trivialises what I do. It makes it seem like creating art is something you do as a cheap weapon rather than an artistic process. They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends. But I don’t like it when they start to make cheap shots at my songwriting. Because there’s no joke to be made there.”
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On "Better Than Revenge":
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For a moment, Swift seemed in danger of typecasting herself as a victimised prude. “I was 17 when I wrote that,” she reminds me. “That’s the age you are when you think someone can actually take your boyfriend. Then you grow up and realise no one take someone from you if they don’t want to leave.”
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On being sexy and being nice:
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“It’s always been important to me, that’s always been a priority,” she says. “Every artist has their set of priorities. Being looked at as sexy? Not really on my radar. But nice? I really hope that that is the impression.” She agrees that “nice” is often used pejoratively. “Totally! But I don’t care if that’s not cool, to seem nice or not. I’m not that focused on being cool and I never have been.”
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To read about Her friendships with Lorde and Lena Dunham, the reasoning behind Her awards show audience dancing, Her performance of "All Too Well" at the Grammys, the "Shake It Off" music video, and more: Read Here
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Interesting read. So - she's a feminist or she believes in their movement?
I like her quote about nobody can take someone away from you if they don't want to leave - because it's true
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That’s why you see these artists become a tabloid regular and then become artistically and musically irrelevant, because they let [gossipy websites] stifle them. It’s not going to happen here.”
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no one takes someone from you if they don’t want to leave.
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I love Her
She's so smart and eloquent.
queen
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Such an inspirational girl! That's why i'm not afraid of 1989, because i know that she won't ever write about things she doesn't truly believe in and experience!!
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Would Guardian lie? 
Very interesting article. Enjoyed reading it. 
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That's a UK pub, right?
Get that international promo, global queen.
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The title change though for that hit thread though
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She's so mature and well spoken. Rare for a pop girl
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Well, she IS. 
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Tell 'em Queen!
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I love reading her interviews. Very well spoken. Interesting topics covered.
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I was about to make a thread about "biggest force in pop" 
True tea spilled
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“Ballet dancers, breakdancers, modern dance, twerkers – and me, trying to keep up with them, sucking.”
nn Taylor! 
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Unstoppable Force. She really is.
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Love this. She seems to have matured so much since she was younger. I am so excited for this album. I love the way she's describing it.
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