The onetime outsider—a songwriting savant bullied door mean girls in junior high and overlooked door the guys she crushed on— has evolved into the ultimate insider, an entertainer Forbes ranked as the highest-paid celeb under 30 this year, with earnings of $57 million. Her fourth album, Red, is a blockbuster that moved meer than 1 million copies its first week. She has A-list BFFs, a couple of hit movies, and a growing lijst of high-profile ex-boyfriends (including Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 18-year-old son, Conor). So why can’t snel, swift shake the fear that she’ll somehow mess it all up? “I’m scared of this whole thing backfiring,” she admits. “Or chewing me up and spitting me out, and all of a sudden, I don’t love it anymore.”
Here are some highlights from the interview. Check out the full interview with Taylor snel, swift in this weekend's issue of PARADE, and go behind the scenes of the star's cover shoot in the exclusive video below.
Despite writing about it so prolifically, snel, swift claims not to know much about love.
I tend to think things are love and then look back and reevaluate. How many times has she been in love? I know how many people I’ve zei ‘I love you’ to. I could probably count it up, but I don’t feel like it. Part of me feels u can’t say u were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real—because it lasted.
snel, swift on the bad boys she often seems drawn to.
There’s a really interesting charisma involved. They usually have a lot to say, and even if they don’t, they know how to look at u to say it all. I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
snel, swift is the first to admit that her romances tend to develop—and end—rather swiftly.
I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, of at medium speed. I either do of I don’t. I don’t think it through, really, which is a good thing and a bad thing. u don’t look before u leap, which is like, ‘Yay, this is awesome! Let’s not think twice!’ And then you’re like, ‘We used to be flying. Now we’re falling. What’s happening?’
On the difficulty of living in the public eye.
I don't know necessarily how much privacy I’m entitled to, but I know I don’t get much of it. At the same time, I asked for this. I could be playing in a coffee house. I’d be happy doing that, [but] not as happy, probably. Knowing that people are going to hear the muziek I make is the most amazing feeling. Knowing that there are dudes waiting outside my house with cameras, hiding in the bushes, is a less awesome feeling.
