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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Taylor Swift loves dresses. She's loved them since she was a teenager, when she tore out a picture of Gwyneth Paltrow's pink Ralph Lauren Oscar gown from a magazine and walked around the stores at a local mall asking if they had anything like it. "I was 15 and going to prom for the first time, and I saw that picture of Gwyneth in the pink gown," she recalls. "I went all over the mall and showed it to all the store owners and said, 'Do you have anything that looks like this?' And no one did." She guffaws."So there's that. That's a sad story for you."
So while Taylor failed in her quest to look like the 1999 Oscar winner, when it comes to dresses she is unwavering. "There's just something so feminine about a dress," she says, currently sporting a bathrobe in a Nashville photo studio. "Whether it's a summertime dress that makes me feel carefree, an evening cocktail dress that makes me feel fancy, or a vintage dress that makes me feel like a '50s housewife—which I enjoy feeling like, for some reason—I just really like dresses." How many does she own? "Hundreds. Because I'm in a predicament where I can't wear a dress twice or else it's pointed out in magazines, so"—she starts laughing—"unfortunately I have to shop for dresses all the time."
Today, though, it's all about pants. Taylor hardly ever wears them, consenting to jeans in the winter only for survival reasons. That said, "I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important," she says of posing for Bazaar in les pantalons. "Personal growth, let's call it that."
Pants are not only supremely in style, but they are also a metaphor for Taylor. There are few young women who wear the pants more than she does. At 22, she is the highest-paid entertainer under 30; in the past year she earned $57 million, according to Forbes. She has more awards than she can count (including the MTV? Video Music Award that Kanye West wanted to re-gift), she is her own manager, and, as we know, she writes all of her songs. Taylor is so astute that she walked away from an unbeneficial development deal at 14.
"When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me," she explains. "I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control."
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CLOTHES
Jeans J Brand, Goldsign, H&M cigarette pants. Underwear Victoria’s Secret. Sneakers My red Keds. Watch An antique watch my brother, Austin, bought me at a thrift store. T-shirt Wildfox Verona 1303 long-sleeve T. Day dress Vintage 50s housedresses. Day bag Mark Cross.Evening bags Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin. Favorite accessory Red ModCloth wired headband. Favorite designers Ralph Lauren, J. Mendel, Naeem Khan, Oscar de la Renta, Elie Saab. Favorite boutique H. Audrey or Pangaea, in Nashville. Shopping mecca Portobello Road, in London. Boots Cole Haan Kinley boots. Open-toed shoe O Jour. Closed-toe shoe Charlotte Olympia cat flats or any oxfords. I will never have enough oxfords.
BEAUTY PRODUCTS
Lipstick CoverGirl LipPerfection in Hot. Mascara CoverGirl LashBlast Volume Mascara in Very Black. Shampoo Kérastase Soleil. Moisturizer Kate Somerville Nourish Daily. Hair productsL’Oréal Elnett hair spray, lots of bobby pins. Perfume Wonderstruck Enchanted. ToothpasteCrest Complete with Scope. Nail-polish color Blue—but it changes with the season. Who cuts your hair My hairstylist, Jemma Muradian.
HOME
Where do you live Nashville, Tennessee. Favorite art Black-and-white photos of my friends, family, or favorite musicians. Sheets Ralph Lauren. Luggage Gray, banged-up, giant suitcases that have been to about 20 countries. China Mismatched antique plates and teacups I’ve collected from all over the world. Stationery Papyrus. Pet A Scottish Fold cat, Meredith.Favorite flowers Hydrangeas, peonies, and wildflowers. Favorite gadget My Sony digital camera. Favorite neighborhood restaurants Fido for coffee, Burger Up, Pancake Pantry, and the Silly Goose. Favorite drinks Diet Coke and Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. Favorite desserts Dairy Queen Cookie Dough Blizzard, Friendly’s ice cream, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch at four A.M. (Late-night cereal binges are nothing to be ashamed of.) Favorite snack Nachos.Top three DVR shows Girls, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order: SVU.
INSPIRATIONS
Favorite discovery That there are no rules in love. Who inspires you Lena Dunham, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, and Faith Hill. Necessary extravagance Good Japanese food is my weakness—Nobu; Yellowtail, in Las Vegas; or Izakaya, in L.A. Favorite place in the world Nashville, in my bed. With my cat next to me, purring. Favorite charity It’s something new every few months. But I love that the American Red Cross is always there to help when unexpected disasters strike. Favorite movie Love Actually. Favorite hotel The MGM Skylofts, in Vegas. Favorite colors Red, burgundy, mustard yellow, deep purple. Who do you follow on Twitter Roger Ebert, Ellen DeGeneres, Gary Lightbody, Ed Sheeran, Perez Hilton, my friends, my brother, and of course T.I. Fashion idols Françoise Hardy, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn.
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Taylor Swift is just going to have a salad. What she really wants is fried chicken. Or at the very least, fried chickenon her salad.
“I think about food literally all day every day,” she says, settling her lithe, 5-foot-11 frame into an outdoor booth at the BBQ joint across the street from her high-rise condo in Nashville. “It’s a thing.”
Even so, she orders the greens with grilled chicken, water to drink. Unlike her pop princess peers, Swift, 22, has made a habit of smart choices since she appeared on the music scene at 14, a winsome song-writing prodigy whose second album, Fearless, released when she was just 18, became the most-awarded album in country music history.
Swift has accomplished all this sans the manufactured coarseness that informs virtually every other modern female musical artist. Not for her the pole dancing in Daisy Dukes, or shooting cream from prosthetic boobs, or role-playing bondage, or striving to tick off the Catholic Church. After Kanye West crashed the then-19-year-old’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Katy Perry tweeted that it was as if West had “stepped on a kitten.”Since then, Swift has dominated the pop-country landscape, dwarfing idols Faith Hill and Shania Twain and becoming not only the fastest-selling female artist ever, but also the youngest winner of both the Album of the Year Grammy and Billboard’s Woman of the Year. In 2010, Swift sold out the Staples Center in two minutes. She reportedly earned $57 million last year alone.
In the ensuing years, Swift has made an art out of diffident modesty—a restraint that appeals not only to her legion teen fans, but to their parents as well, happy to have a break, however brief, from booty-shaking. Swift doesn’t drink or swear or even rat her hair. She briefly considered inking a heart tattoo on her foot, but the feeling passed and she is glad for it. Usually dressed in demure frocks and ponytails, polka dots in lieu of cleavage, Swift has gone for girl power with a lowercase g, class over sass, an antidote to the been-there-done-him hyper-sexualized nihilism of her rivals. At this year’s Grammys, she performed in a sack dress. And granny shoes.
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On Red, Swift worked with a lot of collaborators, and "Ronan" is officially billed as a collaborative effort, too. But in this case, it was really a solo composition, but Swift gave co-writing credit to Maya Thompson—whom she'd met only briefly, once, backstage at a show—because she borrowed many of the lines and ideas from Thompson's blog. As you may know, Thompson's online diarizing about the short life and death of her 4-year-old son, Ronan, who died of neuroblastoma in 2011, captivated much of the nation, including Swift. The singer was inspired to pen the song after reading of the boy's death, but she never told his parents she'd written the song. And when she did, they still didn't hear it until the rest of America did, the night of Sept. 7.
Taylor talks with Yahoo!"I think if I hadn't played it on Stand Up to Cancer, or Stand Up to Cancer hadn't happened, I would have ended up sending the song to Maya at some point," Swift tells us. "But I called her ahead of time and talked her through it and asked her if it was okay if I did this. You know, it was a really emotional experience knowing she was on the other end of the TV and that her husband and her two sons were going to be watching it. Hoping that you captured someone else's grief is a lot of pressure. But it was pressure I was happy to take on. Because she wrote it in such a beautiful and honest way that I just knew if I stuck close to what she felt and her stories that shetold, it would be something that she might appreciate as remembering her son, and as tribute."
In the conclusion of Yahoo! Music's interview with Taylor Swift, we query the singer about her beguiling new single "Begin Again"—and how that contrasts with some earlier songs that were more about rough landings than sweet beginnings. Has she really gotten over her attraction to the "Treacherous" type? We'll let her explain.
YAHOO! MUSIC: "Begin Again" strikes me as being kind of the opposite of "The Way I Loved You," from the Fearless album.Then, you were contrasting the good guy you were with in the song with a less polite guy you were with before—and thinking about how you liked the bad guy better. "Begin Again" is looking back at the bad boy and thinking how you like the new, nice guy better.
SWIFT: That's an awesome, awesome observation. That's a really cool observation. I think that might be kind of growing up. When you think about the song on Fearless, "The Way I Loved You," you're reminiscing about the passion and the heated arguments and the dysfunction of a dysfunctional relationship, and you're fantasizing about it—and maybe you're seeing it with sort of a soundtrack behind it in your memory. You know, I think as you grow up, you start to realize that bad guys are really bad. They just are. They actually are! There's like a .0002% chance that you'll be the exception in changing them. I think that for "Begin Again," it was really an interesting revelation to want the good, and to know that you're moving towards something good, and to feel good about that.
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Google the word “love” and you’ll get 8 billion results. Apparently it’s a popular subject. Taylor Swift has never needed a search engine to tell her this.Since her major label debut at the age of 16, Swift has rocketed to stardom with songs that, quite literally, have gotten to the heart of the matter. Now 22, she releases her fourth studio album, “Red” (Big Machine) on Monday. The singer-songwriter ups the pop ante this time around by working with various co-writing and producing collaborators, including Max Martin, Dan Wilson and Shellback.
She is a pop music juggernaut at this point, breaking sales records and winning awards. But at the core of Taylor Swift is a fine songwriter, a young woman who puts her own life in the words of her songs.
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Taylor Swift can't describe her new album, Red, in just a few words.
"Every song sounds different from every other song, so you have a lot of country, you have a lot of pop, you have a lot of acoustic, you have a lot of really cool loops that these amazing producers have created," she tells CMT Insider host Katie Cook.
"But, for me, this album was about making every song sound how it felt. And that was an interesting goal to achieve because it's not as easy as 'we need to put more fiddle on that. We need to make that bass more heavy.' It's really more about finding a feeling, so there are influences from every genre on this record," she adds.
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There are a lot of pop songs on Red. But you’re known as a country artist. What drove the expansion?
For my last album, I wrote every song by myself and used the same producer I’ve always worked with. Writing by myself became a comfort zone. So with this one, I really wanted to push myself. I called the people that I’ve always wanted to work with—my production, songwriting, artist heroes—and said hey, do you want to get in the studio and work together and make something different. Track to track, there’s nothing similar about anything on this record, and that’s what makes it so exciting.
Do you worry how fans will respond?
Almost every time I put something out, there’s the word “too” put in front of what it is—too pop or too country or too rock. I had a song last year called “Mean”—we were lucky enough to win two Grammys with it—and I remember reading a few articles that said it was too bluegrass. So I kinda stopped worrying about it. I’d rather be too something than not enough something.
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Country-pop star Taylor Swift has won over a legion of devoted fans in the past six years with her raw, honest lyrics of romance and heartbreak.
Now, at the grand age of 22, the five-time Grammy winner is says her new record "Red," to be released on Monday, "the most adventurous album I've ever made."
"'Red' is really kind of diary entries of the last two years of my life," Swift told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"There were beginnings and ends and there were ups and downs, and lessons that I learned and then had to learn all over again the exact same way ... the ups and downs of the whole experience of falling in love and being let down and letting go and starting over," she said.
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"I'm still in bed," Taylor Swift admitted when she answered the phone from her home in Nashville. She had just gotten back from Europe, and was a little jetlagged; her cat kept biting her in retaliation for the long trip. Sadly for the cat, Swift will be absent a lot in the next few months promoting Red (Big Machine), her fourth and poppiest album to date. The record has already earned Swift her first Hot 100 No. 1, for the sassy, Max Martin and Shellback-produced "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." It has also invited the traditional Talmudic reading of Swift's lyrics and liner notes in search of boyfriends past. (Jake Gyllenhaal features heavily, if the Internet is to be trusted.) SPIN spoke with Swift on the phone about the indie record that contributed to her last breakup, the rumor that she'll play Joni Mitchell in a new biopic, and her newfound interest in dubstep.
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"I just had a good time hanging out with my friends," giggles the singer-songwriter who, while declining to speak of Kennedy, describes the time as "the best summer ever".
"It made me realise how much I rely on my friends, how much I need them," she adds. "It's a crazy age, and most of them are still figuring out what they want to do with their lives. It was good for me to be around people who are just figuring things out - just being, you know, 22."
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Taylor är aktuell med den nya parfymen Incredible Things. Parfymen finns sedand den 1/12 -14 på Kicks. Ni kan även hitta de tidigare parfymerna Wonderstruck, Wonderstruck Enchanted och Taylor by Taylor Swift hos ett antal återförsäljare runt om i landet.
