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We followed Taylor Swift for days, accepting all the capacity on her pop affair party, 1989 — and abstruse a little about active beneath the connected eye of the paparazzi to boot. Here's 22 facts from the co-author of "22" that couldn't fit into this issue's awning story, from why Lena Dunham thinks she's a little bit like a 90-year-old to why it's absurd to accumulate a abiding romantic relationship.
She has money in her blood.Swift's mom, Andrea, was alive as a mutual-fund banker in Philadelphia aback she met Swift's dad, Scott, who was a client. "They met in a meeting, and he asked her out," Swift says. "He had this acreage 40 account alfresco of Philly, and he was throwing this big hoedown, and she came, and that's area they fell in love." As a girl, Swift capital to be a agent like her dad; she and her brother additionally took sailing and horseback benumbed acquaint — "just in case we were put in a time apparatus and had to alive in the 1800s."
She acclimated to get bashed and cry about Joni Mitchell."When I aboriginal started bubbler — aback I was like 21 — I acclimated to cry about Joni Mitchell all the time afterwards a few glasses of wine," Swift says. "All my accompany would know, already I started arrant about Joni Mitchell, it was time for me to go to bed."
She absolutely does anathema from time to time.Although Swift has able a appealing G-rated image, in clandestine she's aloof like anyone else. At one point she's arena some asperous demos of a few new songs on her iPhone aback she pulls up one co-written with Ryan Tedder. Swift is arena the piano and hits a amiss agenda aback she blurts out, "Fuck!" Blushing, the real-life Swift anon attempts to awning the apostle on her phone.
She co-wrote Lena Dunham's approaching bells song.As a benefit clue on her new album, 1989, Swift co-wrote a song with Jack Antonoff of fun., who happens to be her pal Lena Dunham's boyfriend. Antonoff describes it as accepting "a actual 'Secret Garden' Springsteen vibe." According to Dunham: "Jack and I accept a lot of existential and political issues with marriage. But if we anytime do get married, there's no fucking way Taylor is not arena that song."
She lives in the abode Frodo Baggins built.Earlier this year, Swift confused to Manhattan, area she bought a brace of abutting Tribeca apartments for a appear $20 million. The architecture dates aback to 1882, aback it was congenital as a barn for a sausage banker — she brand the way it feels like a farmhouse in the city, with lots of copse beams and apparent brick. The accommodation was advanced endemic by Lord of the Rings administrator Peter Jackson, but Swift says she didn't accept to change actual much. ("They accept absolutely abundant aftertaste in acrylic colors.") She did, however, acquisition a new use for one applicant closet: "Now it's my greeting-card autograph room!"
She's decidedly appreciative of actuality able to do splits.Hanging on the bank in Swift's new accommodation — abreast dozens of Polaroids of Swift's ancestors and accompany — is a photo of her accomplishing splits. "I was the kid in elementary academy who could never do them," she explains. "So it was a big ambition of mine." In adjustment to cull it off, she spent four months addition every distinct day. "It was absolutely adamantine and painful," she says. "No one could accept why it was so important to me." But in the end, it was all account it. As she says: "Take that, elementary academy insecurities."
She took her grandma's style.Also blind in Swift's accommodation is a photo of her affectionate grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, an opera accompanist in the Fifties who was a asleep ringer for Swift. "I've taken afterwards her in agency I absolutely didn't see coming," Swift says. "We accept the aforementioned nose. We both like to dress up. And she admired to entertain: At her parties, she would get up and sing for her friends." Her grandma additionally took Swift to see her aboriginal musical, a children's assembly of Charlie and the Amber Factory, aback she was 10. "I started accomplishing kids' musicals, because I admired seeing these kids up there singing and acting," she recalls. "It afflicted me added than I realized."
Don't apprehend to see her at the club anytime soon.Swift's abstraction of a big Saturday night is watching Titanic at home with her cats. "We're both a little bit like 90-year-olds," says Lena Dunham. "If we're activity absolutely crazy, I can get her to go to a appliance store."
Despite the rumors, Swift says she and Selena Gomez never had beef.Last August, the account columnist appear that Swift and her pal Gomez weren't on speaking agreement because of the latter's captivation with Justin Bieber. Not true, says Swift. "People anticipate they accept my relationships all mapped out. There were all these blogs, like, 'Are they feuding? Are they fighting?' Meanwhile Selena and I would be on the buzz that night, bedlam about it. We let them accept that one."
She's not a fan of adult selfies — or of affected it in general."I don't Instagram pictures of myself for bodies to be like 'Wow, that looks absolutely sexy,'" she says. "I booty pictures of beautiful kittens, or aback the ocean looks nice, or of a funny assurance I saw in an airport." This aesthetics extends to attractiveness IRL as well: "I like a added archetypal look," she says. "I consistently go aback to Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Red lipstick and a active eyeliner — I anticipate that looks nice."
She has a simple ambush for actual the paparazzi.When it comes to the paps, Swift has two simple rules. "You aloof accomplish abiding your brim is down, and you accomplish abiding you don't accord them a abhorrent bistro shot," she says. The additional one is adamantine for her: "I'm butterfingers of cogent aback aliment is on my face. It's like I don't accept fretfulness in my skin. So if I get, like, a abhorrent allotment of amber on my face, amuse let me know. I won't be offended."
If you anytime atom her in public, go advanced ask for a picture."I'm absolutely air-conditioned with animal interaction," says Swift. "I'm not afraid of strangers. I don't airing about with accoutrements over my head." All she asks is that you appear up and ask, instead of aggravating for a bastard pic. "Everyone consistently says the aforementioned affair aback they get alleged out: 'I was not!'" she laughs. "But it's like, yeah, you absolutely were! As a animal actuality who's been ambidextrous with this for eight years, I apperceive aback addition is demography a account of me."
She's a actual anxious gift-giver."The bulk of broiled appurtenances and needlepoints I've gotten from Taylor cannot be counted," letters Jack Antonoff. She's broiled him assorted batches of accolade (including attic and biscuit raisin), and she's fabricated Dunham a button collage and a adornment of a cat. She was additionally the aboriginal actuality to accord the brace a housewarming present aback they confused into their new apartment. It was a taxidermied moth.
But she's never ordered annihilation from Amazon."I've never ordered annihilation from Amazon. But my brother does all the time."
She's developed a little disillusioned with love.There's a song on the new anthology in which Swift takes a fatalist actualization of romance. "I anticipate the way I acclimated to access relationships was actual idealistic," she says. "I acclimated to go into them thinking, 'Maybe this is the one — we'll get affiliated and accept a family, this could be forever.' Whereas now I go in thinking, 'How continued do we accept on the alarm — afore article comes forth and puts a bend in it, or your arranger calls and says this isn't a acceptable idea?'"
And she says it's about absurd for her to advance a relationship.When it comes to dating aback you're a celebrity, Swift says, "you do feel a little bit like you got run over by a truck. You'll be benumbed in the car with addition and all of a abrupt it comes on the radio that he bought you a design arena and he's activity to propose. And you attending at him and go, '...that's not true, right?' And he says, 'No that's not true!' Can you accusation me for absent beneath of that?"
When it comes to breaking up, Swift is a rip-off-the-Band-Aid type."Once you've accustomed that addition doesn't accord in your life, I don't accept what added there is to allocution about," she says. "I airing abroad from things aback they're bad. I don't stick about to watch them bake to the ground." She says aback she decides a accord has "become toxic," "I'll aloof analysis out. Stop communication. I don't appetite to scream and bawl at addition and accord them the befalling to say I'm crazy, or that I went psycho," she says. "No one will anytime be able to say I went psycho on them."
Although she's had affluence to say about her exes, she's not abiding what they'd say about her."If you about-face on a band recorder, they'd say nice things," she says. "But you never apperceive what they'd say in a approved conversation."
She's never been in love."Looking back? Not absolute love. Not the affectionate that lasts. I anticipate that's still advanced of me — which is absolutely exciting."
She gets actual aflame about animals.During one afternoon spent walking in Central Park, Swift freaks out about animals at atomic four times. Aboriginal comes an appointment with some snapping turtles, whom she wants to augment but can't. ("I'll get in agitation with PETA.") Then there's a bumblebee that tries to acreage on her head. ("Have you anytime gotten stung by a bee? I can't bethink if you're declared to break still or accumulate moving.") A little while later, she spots some ducks in a pond. ("Ducks!" she says. "Are those babies, or are they teenagers?") And finally, there's the actualization of a quintessentially New York rodent. "A mouse!" she squeals happily, afore actuality abreast that it's absolutely a rat. Swift laughs: "Do you feel like you're blind out with a six-year-old a little bit?"
Speaking of age: She knows she sometimes comes off like a 24-year-old tween."I anticipate there's an absorbing lag-time on affecting advance for me," Swift says. "Because I address my annal a brace of years afore I put them out, I've consistently seemed two or three years adolescent than I absolutely was." That said, accepting gotten acclaimed singing about bogie tales and crushes, she alert of growing up too fast, because "there's consistently gonna be an eight-year-old in the advanced row. Always."
Besides — she brand activity like a little kid sometimes"I anticipate you accept to do things that accomplish you beatnik out like you're a kid again, or abroad you aloof become one of these 45-year-old 24-year-olds," Swift says. "That's why I ball like I'm accepting fun at awards shows, alike admitting no one abroad is. Because actuality air-conditioned usually agency actuality apathetic by everything. And I'm not apathetic by any of this."
