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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2019 17:44:55 GMT
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the 29-year-old "London Boy" singer breaks down her decade-long feud like never before, referencing everything from the 2009 MTV VMAs to West's song "Famous," which reignited bad blood between the pair in 2016. http://instagram.com/p/B2jURylHYXP Swift and West's feud dates back to the 2009, when the rapper interrupted Swift's onstage acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the VMAs to protest her victory. "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!" West infamously yelled. Despite quick apologies from West, years later he said that he didn't "have one regret" about the situation and said his previous apologies were a result of "peer pressure." Things appeared friendly from there, when collaboration rumors even started swirling around for a bit.. "I started to feel like we reconnected, which felt great for me -- because all I ever wanted my whole career after that thing happened in 2009 was for him to respect me," Swift tells Rolling Stone of that period. "When someone doesn’t respect you so loudly and says you literally don’t deserve to be here -- I just so badly wanted that respect from him, and I hate that about myself, that I was like, 'This guy who’s antagonizing me, I just want his approval.' But that’s where I was." "And so we’d go to dinner and stuff. And I was so happy, because he would say really nice things about my music. It just felt like I was healing some childhood rejection or something from when I was 19," she continues, before revealing the reasons behind deciding to publicly end their feud once and for all with an onstage reconciliation at the 2015 VMAs. "But the 2015 VMAs come around. He’s getting the Vanguard Award. He called me up beforehand -- I didn’t illegally record it, so I can’t play it for you," Swift says, referencing an infamous phone call between she and West that his wife, Kim Kardashian West, would soon release. "But he called me up, maybe a week or so before the event, and we had maybe over an hour-long conversation, and he’s like, 'I really, really would like for you to present this Vanguard Award to me, this would mean so much to me,' and went into all the reasons why it means so much, because he can be so sweet. He can be the sweetest. And I was so stoked that he asked me that." "And so I wrote this speech up, and then we get to the VMAs and I make this speech and he screams, 'MTV got Taylor Swift up here to present me this award for ratings!' And I’m standing in the audience with my arm around his wife, and this chill ran through my body," Swift continues. "I realized he is so two-faced. That he wants to be nice to me behind the scenes, but then he wants to look cool, get up in front of everyone and talk s**t. And I was so upset."
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2019 21:04:23 GMT
The fallout from those VMAs was quick, with the much-discussed phone call between Swift and West taking place over the rapper's track "Famous," which featured the lyric, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b**ch famous."
While West claimed he got the lyric approved by Swift, the "Paper Rings" singer denied that fact, even after West's wife shared an audio recording that seemed to back up West's claim.
"He wanted me to come talk to him after the event in his dressing room. I wouldn’t go. So then he sent this big, big thing of flowers the next day to apologize. And I was like, 'You know what? I really don’t want us to be on bad terms again. So whatever, I’m just going to move past this.'" she explains of the day after the 2015 VMAs. "So when he gets on the phone with me, and I was so touched that he would be respectful and, like, tell me about this one line in the song. And I was like, 'OK, good. We’re back on good terms.'"
"And then when I heard the song, I was like, 'I’m done with this. If you want to be on bad terms, let’s be on bad terms, but just be real about it,'" she continues. "The world didn’t understand the context and the events that led up to it. Because nothing ever just happens like that without some lead-up. Some events took place to cause me to be pissed off when [West] called me a b**ch. That was not just a singular event. Basically, I got really sick of the dynamic between he and I. And that wasn’t just based on what happened on that phone call and with that song -- it was kind of a chain reaction of things."
She adds, "I really don’t want to talk about it anymore because I get worked up, and I don’t want to just talk about negative s**t all day."
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2019 3:19:00 GMT
Three years after she found herself dragged into the ravenous, ever-expanding black hole that was the 2016 presidential campaign, Taylor Swift has clawed her way back past the event horizon, transformed, and is (now, suddenly) ready to talk politics. In a cover story Q&A for Rolling Stone’s October issue, the former political cipher, whose beliefs had once been so obscure that she briefly became an unwilling totem of alt-right Aryan goddesshood, now says she’s trying to learn as much about American civic life as she can. “It’s become something I’m now obsessed with,” Swift says, “whereas before, I was living in this sort of political ambivalence, because the person I voted for had always won.” For example, past Commander in Chief Barack Obama, about whom Swift says: We were in such an amazing time when Obama was president because foreign nations respected us. We were so excited to have this dignified person in the White House. My first election was voting for him when he made it into office, and then voting to re-elect him. I think a lot of people are like me, where they just didn’t really know that this could happen. Some of Swift’s newfound political obsession entails trying to strategically negotiate how much constructive involvement she can actually have as a megawatt pop star who has won more music industry awards than most people know exist (Sweden’s Rockbjörnen) or could realistically care about (2018 Ticketmaster Artist of the Year). “I also don’t want it to backfire again,” as she explained to Rolling Stone, “because I do feel that the celebrity involvement with Hillary’s campaign was used against her in a lot of ways.” “There’s literally nothing worse than white supremacy,” Swift says. “It’s repulsive. There should be no place for it.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2019 18:42:50 GMT
It’s hard to believe that Taylor Swift was once publicly neutral about politics. In 2019, Swift has been anything but quiet about her political beliefs. This Summer alone, she has openly supported the LGBT community with her video “You Need To Calm Down” and her petition, which urges the Senate to support the Equality Act. To date, the petition has amassed over 500,000 signatures. These days it’s pretty clear that Swift is a staunch Democrat and liberal, but just a few years ago, where the songstress stood politically was wildly unknown. Taylor Swift politics During the 2016 election, Swift was one of the few public figures who didn’t publically endorse a political candidate. This caused some people to believe that Swift was secretly a Trump supporter and had right-winged beliefs like her father. “I don’t think they do anymore. Yeah, that was jarring, and I didn’t hear about that until after it had happened,” Swift said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. http://instagram.com/p/B2j_mSWD4_f Taylor Swift renounces white supremacy in Rolling Stone interview But what was even more jarring was when a white-supremacist website insinuated that Swift was supportive of them. At the time, many of Swift’s fans were outraged by this claim. And while Swift’s team threatened to sue publications making these claims, she never formally renounced white supremacy at the time. It seems that there is a good reason for that as Swift confessed that she never knew that it happened. “I didn’t even see that, but, like, if that happened, that’s just disgusting,” the Lover artist shared. http://instagram.com/p/B2lg1l_DXAC Swift went on to confess her true feelings about white supremacy and ever being associated with the concept. “There’s literally nothing worse than white supremacy. It’s repulsive. There should be no place for it,” the”ME!” singer said adamantly. The “Daylight” singer then went on to talk about how her feelings about politics had changed in years past.
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2019 17:09:28 GMT
After her breakup with Styles, Swift wasn’t spotted with anyone for several years, until she stepped out with DJ Calvin Harris. This period of single life seemed to be for a very specific reason. In her Rolling Stone interview, Swift stated that when she was 22, she was labeled a “boy-crazy man-eater” by the media. http://instagram.com/p/B2lg1l_DXAC She was tired of being deemed a serial dater and decided to take a break and not “date anyone for, like, two years.” Instead, Swift focused on her work and on building her brand. It wasn’t until February of 2015 that her relationship with Harris started in earnest, and the two dated for a little over a year. There was some media hubbub around their breakup, and her brief fling with British actor Tom Hiddleston immediately after. But Swift wouldn’t have to wait long before she found what seems to be lasting love. http://instagram.com/p/B2jVVpJDLsx Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift are serious about each other In early 2016, rumors started swirling that Swift was dating an up and coming actor named Joe Alwyn. They were very slow to confirm their romance and didn’t often appear in public together, even making it a point not to walk red carpets together even if they both arrived at the same event. The two are still together to this day and have remained remarkably secretive about their romance, despite a lot of interest from both fans and news outlets. Although Swift won’t talk about her relationship with Alwyn, she still sings about him. One of her newest songs, “London Boy,” is a sweet tribute to Alwyn and their normal, happy romance.
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