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| | Taylor Swift Talks Irrational Fears & Adam Levine's Weakness on 'Ellen' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Always an interesting interview, Taylor Swift paid a visit to ?The Ellen DeGeneres Show? to chat about all kinds of crazy things.
The ?Shake It Off? singer confessed that she has a couple irrational fears, the first of which is sea urchins- ?They are like a grenade?sitting there waiting to completely injure you."
Swifty?s other worry centers around crime- "I'm scared of being framed. So many people [could] frame me. And they can frame you for any crime that you could go to jail for. Look at me, I wouldn?t survive in jail!?
"I think the dream and nightmare of being framed comes from ? I could do nothing wrong, I could sit in my house with the cats all day and somehow there could be an article about me buying a house in a place I?ve never been or dating a guy I?ve never met. So, it?s like?then you take it a step further and in a nightmare world it?s being framed for murder."
Meanwhile, during her time on ?The Voice,? Taylor learned one of the judge?s Achilles heel- ?Like, Adam Levine's weakness is musical theater songs. Did you know that? If you sing songs from Rent you can actually render Adam Levine helpless on the floor.?
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| | Taylor Swift Previews 'style' From 1989 Album | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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We?re just five days away from the release of Taylor Swift's new record, and today (October 22) there?s a brand new song snippet for our eager ears to hear.
The ?I Knew You Were Trouble? singer is featured in a new ad for Target, where Swifty?s 1989 album will be offered as a special edition with three bonus tracks.
And in the background of the ad plays Taylor?s new song ?Style,? further adding to fans? anticipation.
Additionally, NBC just unveiled the new promo for Swift?s guest coaching spot on ?The Voice,? and it looks amazing!
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| | Taylor Swift on her 'serial-dating?: 'I thought it was a really sexist angle on my life' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift has another interesting interview, this time with Esquire. I know a lot of you were yelling about Swifty?s interview yesterday, where she talked about how ?sexist? it is that we?re like ?haha, she writes blind-item songs about her ex-boyfriends.? I didn?t agree with her, but I also felt like? I don?t know, she?s trying to change. She?s maturing. Is she some amazing truth-telling feminist and we should just take her word that something is ?sexist?? No, not really. But I appreciate the fact that she?s actually thinking about those kinds of things, like she?s asking herself ?Is this sexism? Would they treat me differently if I was a man doing this?? I bring that up because she?s talking about sexism again, plus loads of other stuff. I edited out a bunch of same-old crap about how much she loves her girlfriends (she?s really going through a Girlfriends Phase and yes, I do think it?s just a phase). You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
Why people pay attention to her dating habits: ?I think with every celebrity story there has to be a “Yeah, but ?” Take Beyonc: She’s incredibly talented, gorgeous, perfect role model for girls, empowering women all over the world. Yeah, but ? let’s try to pick at her marriage. I think that every celebrity has that. And predominantly women, unfortunately.?
Whether she?s a control freak: ?No. The only thing I can’t control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can’t control that, I have to let it go. In some ways, though, you can control it. I really didn’t like the whole serial-dater thing. I thought it was a really sexist angle on my life. And so I just stopped dating people, because it meant a lot to me to set the record straight?that I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.?
She handwrites thank you notes to deejays: ?I love writing thank-you notes. There’s something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore? There’s something romantic and sort of lost about it. I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it’s like it was never there.?
Takedown culture: ?That’s what I don’t like about celebrity culture and the obsession with it, and the takedown culture that we seem to be in. You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they’re keeping, or isn’t what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.?
Her security personnel: ?I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself. Haven’t done that in six years. [Even in Tennessee] they have to be in a car behind me. Because just the sheer number of men we have in a file who have showed up at my house, showed up at my mom’s house, threatened to either kill me, kidnap me, or marry me. This is the strange and sad part of my life that I try not to think about. I try to be lighthearted about it, because I don’t ever want to be scared. I don’t want to be walking down the street scared. And when I have security, I don’t have to be scared.
Behind the Music: ?When I was a little kid, my friends were watching Disney Channel, but I was watching Behind the Music. And I was drawing these conclusions, like the reason these people went off the rails is because they lost their level of self-awareness. They turned a blind eye to things they didn’t want to see, and all of a sudden all they were seeing were their delusions of grandeur. And I never wanted to make that mistake in my life, regardless of what my career ended up being. I take away these kind of life lessons from that show.
[From Esquire]
I think feminism is so new to Swifty that she thinks crying ?sexism? is like waving a magical wand in front of the press to make everyone take her seriously. Talking about who she dates isn?t a ?sexist? angle on her life when she?s parading her boyfriends around the paparazzi, organizing Us Weekly covers and cornering exes at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. And she?s still pissed off that people made fun of her near-constant OMG SURPRISE Face at awards shows. Dear Tay-Tay: you are a silly goose. Stop taking yourself so seriously!
Oh, and there?s an interesting answer when she?s asked about her background in country music ? her current album is solid pop, as was the last album (although the last one still got some country radio play). Swifty talks about how she learned how to be a professional because she started in country music and hand to God, it sounds like she?s running for political office. Her answer is very Sarah Palin, like Palin?s riff on how the small towns are ?real America? as opposed to the big cities.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Taylor Swift Tells Esquire Magazine November 2014: Men Show Up at My House Threatening to Kill Me? | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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While her music is usually pretty uplifting and fun, Taylor Swift also has to deal with a much darker side of life given her success and beauty.
In the November 2014 issue of Esquire magazine, the ?Out of the Woods? songstress shares that she?s accepted that she needs to have a security team around her at all times.
"I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself. Haven't done that in six years. They have to be in a car behind me. Because just the sheer number of men we have in a file who have showed up at my house, showed up at my mom's house, threatened to either kill me, kidnap me, or marry me."
For instance, one man threatened her via social media while claiming they were married. "This is the strange and sad part of my life that I try not to think about. I try to be lighthearted about it, because I don't ever want to be scared. I don't want to be walking down the street scared. And when I have security, I don't have to be scared."
And while the media constantly questions her love life, Taylor doesn?t see anything wrong with it. "I would date someone, figure out we weren't compatible or figure out we didn't work out, and then we'd break up. That seems like a very normal thing for a young 20-something to do. I think it's healthy for everyone to go a few years without dating, just because you need to get to know who you are."
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| | Taylor Swift Releases 'Welcome To New York?: Listen Here! | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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It?s time for another Taylor track, and this time Miss Swift has unveiled the very first song on her forthcoming 1989 album.
Titled ?Welcome to New York,? the catchy ditty describes Taylor?s experience moving to the Big Apple and her love for her new home.
The ?Out of the Woods? songstress sings, ?Walking through a crowd, the Village is aglow, Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats/ Everybody here wanted something more/ Searching for a sound we hadn?t heard before.?
Taylor wrote ?Welcome to New York? with One Direction singer/songwriter Ryan Tedder, who also served as producer. 1989 hits stores on October 27th.
GUYS. #WelcomeToNewYork will be up on iTunes any minute now. This is not a drill!! GO GO GO Photo credit: sixtiequeen on tumblr
A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)on Out 10, 2014 at 4:46 PDT
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| | Taylor Swift: It's 'sexist' to make fun of me for writing blind-item songs | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift is sort of a genius about how she promotes her albums. She?s able to change it up over the years, and she still manages to keep it fresh. I also applaud her for consistently hustling ? she believes in doing the interviews, she believes in making the TV appearances and shilling and asking people to care about her music. I like that about her. Taylor just previewed the third song off of her new 1989 album. This song is called ?Welcome to New York? and obvious song is obvious. I mean, it?s not bad or anything (it?s no ?Hot Child in the City? but whatever), but it?s so obviously about Taylor moving to New York and setting herself up as a nouveau Carrie Bradshaw, only with more music and less sex. Here you go:
Taylor also did a surprisingly good interview with Australia?s 2DayFM. She talks about songwriting and writing about ex-boyfriends and whether it?s ?sexist? that she gets made fun of while Ed Sheeran is also writing about his ex-girlfriends. Taylor is very? I don?t know. She?s grown up a lot in the past few years. She?s more confident, but it?s more than that ? she?s actively participating in making her image more mature. Like, she?s not doing the innocent-little-girl routine anymore. Thank God. Here?s Taylor talking about sexism in how the media treats her blind-item:
?My first album came out when I was 16, so I would write about my life as I saw it, as I felt it, and then what happens is as you get more successful, which you?re lucky if that happens, you have more and more people paying attention to what you?re doing and you?ve been doing it the same way your entire career as a songwriter, but all of a sudden the perspective has changed. They use kind of you writing songs about your life as a way to play detective and for me I have a really strict personal policy that I never name names, so anybody saying that a song is about a specific person is purely speculating?You?re going to have people who are gonna say, ?Oh you know, like she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends,? and I think, frankly, that?s just a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They?re all writing about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love life and no one raises a red flag there.?
[From Gossip Cop]
To be fair, when Ed Sheeran followed Swifty?s lead and wrote a blind-item song called ?Don?t,? it was as big a deal as Swifty?s blind-item songs. And from what I?ve heard of Bruno Mars? songs, he doesn?t really frame them like blind items. Same with Sam Smith, who goes so far as to make his songs gender neutral so all people can relate to them, gay or straight. Plus, Swifty not only writes songs about specific exes, she also writes songs about girls she hates. So, is it sexist to talk about Swifty?s songs? Eh. Here’s the video of the interview… despite the fact that I’m rolling my eyes at Swifty’s “sexist” argument, I like her whole vibe here. Our Swifty is growing up, you guys.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.
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| | Taylor Swift Thrills Fans With 'Welcome to New York' Preview: Listen Here! | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s an endless source of pop music magic, and Taylor Swift just unveiled her latest track from the forthcoming 1989 album.
The ?Shake It Off? songstress? new ditty is called ?Welcome to New York? and features plenty of 1980s synth and multi-layered vocals.
Swift explained, ?The first song on 1989 is a song called ?Welcome to New York? and I wanted to start the album with this song because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years.?
?You know, I dreamt about moving to New York. I obsessed over moving to New York and then I did it. The inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I?ve ever experienced in my life. It?s like an electric city and I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endless potential and possibilities. You can kind of hear that reflected in this music and in this first song especially. This is a song I did with Ryan Tedder called ?Welcome to New York.??
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| | Taylor Swift Drops 'Out of the Woods' For 1989 Album Pre-Orders | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Continuing her domination of the music world, Taylor Swift gave fans who pre-ordered her forthcoming 1989 album a special treat today (October 14).
The ?Should?ve Said No? songstress released her latest track ?Out of the Woods? via iTunes this morning, telling USA Today, ?I think it?s the greatest example of the sound of this album.?
Co-writer Jack Antonoff also explained, "I used a Yamaha DX7 a lot on that song, which is so uniquely Eighties, but then countered it with a super-distorted Minimoog Voyager in the chorus. That sounds extremely modern to me. It's that back-and-forth."
And as could be expected, ?Out of the Woods? is already at the top of the iTunes singles chart, followed closely behind by her previous release ?Shake It Off.?
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| | Taylor Swift Debuts 'Out of the Woods' Single | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Kicking off the week with a catchy ditty, Taylor Swift unleashed her brand new track ?Out of the Woods? on ?Good Morning America.?
The ?Should?ve Said No? songstress explained that the music of the song is consistent with the lyrical content as well as the mood of the writing process.
?I wanted to makes sure the songs sounded exactly the way the emotions felt. This was a relationship where I was kind of, living day to day, wondering where it was going, if it was going to go anywhere, if it was going to end the next day.?
?It was a relationship where you, kind of, never feel like you?re standing on solid ground,? she added. Swift?s ?Out of the Woods? single hits stores on Tuesday (October 14).
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| | Taylor Swift Takes Shots From John Cleese Over Beloved Cat | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s traded the serial dating scene for a few furry felines, and Taylor Swift has no shame about her ?crazy cat lady? tendencies.
While chatting on the ?Graham Norton Show,? the ?Shake It Off? singer showed some snapshots of her two pet cats.
However, when ?Monty Python? legend John Cleese saw the photo of Swift?s newest addition Olivia Benson, he seemed a bit concerned.
He asked, ?How did it have the accident?? Taylor fired back, ?What accident?? to which John inquired, ?Is that a proper cat? Is it damaged irrevocably? It?s the weirdest cat I?ve ever seen in my life.?
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