The onetime outsider—a songwriting savant bullied 의해 mean girls in junior high and overlooked 의해 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 더 많이 than 1 million copies its first week. She has A-list BFFs, a couple of hit movies, and a growing list 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 빠른, 스위프트 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 사랑 it anymore.”
Here are some highlights from the interview. Check out the full interview with Taylor 빠른, 스위프트 in this weekend's issue of PARADE, and go behind the scenes of the star's cover shoot in the exclusive video below.
Despite 글쓰기 about it so prolifically, 빠른, 스위프트 claims not to know much about love.
I tend to think things are 사랑 and then look back and reevaluate. How many times has she been in love? I know how many people I’ve said ‘I 사랑 you’ to. I could probably count it up, but I don’t feel like it. Part of me feels 당신 can’t say 당신 were truly in 사랑 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.
빠른, 스위프트 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 당신 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.
빠른, 스위프트 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 사랑 slowly, 또는 at medium speed. I either do 또는 I don’t. I don’t think it through, really, which is a good thing and a bad thing. 당신 don’t look before 당신 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 음악 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.
