Taylor Swift covers the June issue of Glamour UK. She’s the guest editor as well, which means she probably got approval over this cover and editorial. It’s okay, I just wish Swifty had some more poses in her arsenal. I also wish the cover wasn’t so… ORANGE. Even Swifty looks positively Boehner-esque. As for the interview, I’m assuming that Swifty-as-guest-editor got some say in the content, as in she got to talk about what she wanted to talk about. Which means that Swifty got to throw herself a pity party because she should be able to write blind item songs about boys without anyone making fun of her, you guys. You guys are such meanies!!
Romance ain’t easy: “There is no easy way for me to engage with romance. I’m really busy, so I can’t. And it’s a good thing that I feel really independent and I feel that my friends are all I need.”
Being “shamed”: “It’s kind of a sad way I got there though, being shamed into it. What else is it when you have two boyfriends in one year and everyone’s calling you boy crazy, making jokes about you at awards shows? That’s public humiliation. And I don’t think it’s fair.”
She doesn’t want to have a sexualized image: “You know, everybody has different priorities as an artist…Every woman has different things that make them feel strong and powerful. For me, I don’t have any need or urge to write about overt sexuality. It just never occurs to me. I appreciate girls who sing about whatever they want, because that’s what they want to sing about.”
[From Glamour UK via E! News]
Her quote about being publicly “shamed” reminds me of her quotes to Vanity Fair back in 2013, when she threw a hissy fit about Amy Poehler and Tina Fey’s Golden Globes jokes and sniped “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” The problem is not that Taylor is being “shamed” or “humiliated.” She’s not. The problem is that she really cannot take a joke. She can’t stand when she’s the punchline, even if the joke is some innocuous one-liner. “Feminism” does not equal “no one is ever allowed to say anything bad about Taylor Swift ever or make a joke at her expense.” And if people stopped talking about her petty boy drama and blind item songs, then how in the world would she promote her albums? The blind item songs are more than half of Swifty’s PR!!!
Photos courtesy of Glamour UK.
It’s a shame we the public were humiliated by being caught reading about her dating.
you can’t eat the amount of cake and ice cream she was at that time without it effecting you.
she was in a few contract relationships over the years and we know it. She just didn’t like not being in control of her publicity that’s all, so don’t get it twisted. She’s a smart woman and she’s perfectly aware of what she’s trying to achieve in this interview. I like her business mind.
She’s seriously delivering mixed messages. One day she’s spouting off “I’m offended and hurt and how dare yous” and the next day she’s making videos like Blank Space where she’s a crazy jealous rage-monger.
The few fellas who’ve dated her get songs written about them and seem to give her a wide birth in public places…
Frankly – I think she’s a crazy control freak in all aspects of her life and probably not the healthiest person to interact with on a daily basis. But I like her music so there’s that. 🙂
A-N-D, this is why I can never fully like her.
Are you sure it isn’t the saucy milkmaid from hell dress?
Lol. I wonder if she stands around her house with her arms all up in her hair like that?
Well, that too, now that you made me look at it, dammit.
lmao GNAT – I just got that mental picture! Olivia Benson is side eyeing her too.
Yes, I almost like her, but if you can’t laugh at yourself, there’s a problem.
She puts it out there. She banks millions on putting it out there. You would think she can laugh it off too. All those jokes are quick jokes that fade after being said. That she can’t let it go makes Swifty her own worst enemy. She’s got some maturing to do.
My exact same feelings, GNAT.
For the last year she’s been saying she doesn’t need a boyfriend: she’s an independent woman and only needs her friends. Was that all a lie? It’s all our fault she’s not dating?
Exactly.
@ Kiddo, precisely. This is where she loses me, every time. Sometimes she looks super cute, and she loves cats, and sometimes her music is catchy to me… But then with this. She gossips by way of music. Yet she feels justified in whining when people call her out for it, even with humor. Nah, girl.
Exactly. Every once in a blue moon she becomes slightly interesting, and then WHAMM-O! Dullsville, self-absorbed, whiny, humorless, privileged victim. Shut-ty!
Ditto.
She’s one of those people that can make a great point, and I’ll still have to mull over it and try to find any holes, because I can’t bring myself to agree with her.
And she still can’t let it go, how long ago was that (funny) joke from Tina and Amy, and Swifty is still claiming she was abused. She has no concept of what it means to be shamed and she should be ashamed of herself for thinking she deserves sympathy and pity.
I just can’t bring myself to like her, not sure why
Because she can write songs about exes, and that’s not shaming and humiliating, but then she’s this delicate flower who can’t take a joke, and then she tries to frame her response to it as some feministic girl power for victims’ stance.
I was just saying the same thing, except yours is way more eloquent.
Wait…I read downthread, and you like the milkmaid outfit? Um…
Nooooooooo
Woooo, that was a close call, I was just about ready to climb back into Bramhall’s hair.
I was trying to think of something nice to say and borrowed from Aretha.
Kiddo nailed it 100%!
Female singer makes money from writing mean songs about ex-boys but acts like a victimized abused puppy when someone comments about her dating life. Hypocrisy and lack of self awareness in one big bag.
Exactly. She’s made a pretty good living off her blind item songs. Look, I don’t care if she dates around. She’s an adult. You can’t go crying if you you bring something the table and people have fun with it. Being a feminist doesn’t mean you can’t be joked about. Lighten up princess, it wasn’t a hate crime.
Word, aims. She can’t take a joke and is mad she is not controlling the narrative.
Yep. She puts it out there. She’s famous-people are going to make jokes. I thought it was odd that she was so offended by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler joking about her love life at the Golden Globes. Nothing they said was objectively offensive-it was more like teasing. She should be flattered that she’s famous enough to be joked about on that level.
“Oh poor me blah blah” She wrote about her dating life so she should just own it! Why was she surprised that people picked on it? And what if it was a guy writing about his exes? Wouldn’t that be something people would talk about? Or because she is a woman and really precious she can do whatever she wants and not expect any criticism? And more, imo all this talk about her dates were really helpful in promoting her career.
That’s the thing though, a lot of the songs that we classics were written by men about ex wives and girlfriends. She is the only person that gets hate about it. The Stones, Eric Clapton, The Beatles and Taylor’s own ex John Mayer have written about their exes. Yet, when she tries to defend herself this entire site is all “B*tch! Learn to take a joke!”
I’d also like to point out that when all those songs came out she late teens and early twenties. It is not necessarily a time in your life when you are able to see things long range. I am not a fan of Swifty and I hate that I actually felt compelled to write this. I just think that she is so young that she is in the process of growing and changing. Also, there are people older committing the same crimes and totally getting away with it. It just kinda looks like beating up on a young girl because you can.
What “hate” does she take? Random trolls on the Internet? Ignore them, problem solved. She is successful and popular and she is choosing (guest editing!) to bring out this woe is me narrative. Excuse me if I don’t feel sorry for her in the slightest as she has no real problem to gripe about. Her hurt feelings reflect her immaturity and nothing else.
@Ky I don’t think anyone really cares about the fact that she writes about her love life. As you said before, everyone does. It’s that she built her career on blind items in her song writing and videos, and she’s still doing it. She goes out on very public dates and then makes it a guessing game on what song is about what boyfriend. She does it well. But she can’t cry about it now. And she’s not a very young girl. She’s a 25 year old woman. Still doing this, still pouting about it.
I kind of agree with you, except take Mayer for instance. He wrote Your Body is a Wonderland for Jennifer Love Hewitt. Fine. But if he did what Swifty’s done, he would have not only a song about her, but ones about Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, Katy Perry, and Swift herself. They would all have videos where there was a lookalike or an obvious lyrical nod to each person. Then when asked if the song is about that person he would play dumb.
That said, I think a little teasing is justified. Her overreaction to Fey and Pohler was very annoying. Especially implying they are not feminist when they are doing so much for women right now.
I think we all agree that this has been done before, but she played a game, a PR/media game with her “blind dates”. And the musicians who usually write about their love life don’t really make a big fuss out of it because it’s normal. She capitalized on it, so complaining ends up adding more fuel to it. And if she feels uncomfortable now maybe she should use her power to focus on other things.
She’s young still, she’s amazingly savvy about her business dealings, and we don’t see her falling out of limos flashing her ladybits.
I like her.
She does has virtues and good qualities, that’s for sure. But she really needs to work in her sense of humor and in thickening her skin.
Kudos to her for being successful without snorting stuff up her nose and showing up in see-through caftans. But I do agree that she has zero sense of humor, little personality and needs to stop whining whenever she doesn’t control the narrative. She seems to be a major control freak.
Sucks for her that maybe she didn’t realize the weight that ‘image’ would carry for the rest of her musical career but…spilled milk, crying, music video.
She has a certain public perception of throwing stones and then hiding her hands. On the one hand it’s worked beautifully for her so who’d be stupid enough to change, on the other though she needs to either make that hard change or stop whining.
The worst is that she was “shamed and humiliated” for her bearding life ( I am not sure about the word)
Mocking exes and colleauges in blind item songs and interviews is a form of public humiliation, Taylor.
Beautiful gowns, though.
*throws an eggplant at Abbott*
ETA Sorry Abbott, I’m all vegetable ragey this morning. I blame PunkyMomma.
+1
…so she only has herself to blame for that ORANGE cover huh?
yeah its like she rode the train and now she wants to get off, but somehow still wants to reap the benefits of said train.
What does she care? She’s a zillionaire.
Amanda: “I’ll be the victim!”
Wednesday: “All your life.”
You’re the one who put it out there. You shame your exes and profit off it big time, TayTay. Not saying she’s the only one, but she doesn’t want to be criticized for it when it comes with the territory. Hard to have sympathy here.
Bet she justifies it by telling herself they deserved it but can’t comprehend that she could ever be wrong or treat people badly.
Hey, you quoted Wednesday Addams and that’s all I need to know you’re an amazing person.
I’m with Amy. That Wednesday quote is gold.
Gawd! Shut up ready !! Can’t stand it when these rich celebs wine and complain.
A sense of humor is a beautiful thing. Would be nice if Swifty developed one.
Oh geez, this “I’m a good girl and everyone’s so mean to me” talk again. She thinks she’s always the bullied weird girl, either by the “girl” in the short skirt who gets the “boy” who she wants or the “boy” himself or the people calling her out on her “stop talking about my dating life even though I call the paps and write blind item songs” shenanigans.
As someone who was bullied I have a hard time taking her seriously, Was she beaten up by a group of girls at recess? Was she locked in an outhouse? Was a gap put in her teeth and published in the yearbook? No? boo-hoo, Swifty, boo-hoo.
Sometimes I click on some KK posts hoping that Nori will be wearing something other than NY city black or denim. Sometimes I click on the LR posts hoping to see someone without a deranged chipmunk glaze in her eyes. Sometimes it’s a TS post and I’m looking for someone who isn’t pratting on about “girls” and “boys”.
She’s absolutely right.
What, she can’t feel ashamed about everyone making fun of her in public? In front of her family, friends, in f***ing television? Who has the right to decide what she can feel shamed about?
Ohh, yes, she dated a lot of guys, and wrote songs about her breakups, so she deserves it… That sound a lot like victim blaming.
And just to be clear, i’m not a fan of her, but those kind of comments are pretty disturbing.
If you want to laugh at someone, laugh, but then don’t get offended if she doesn’t like it.
^satire^, right?
@Ollys I agree that she has a right to be embarrassed and even call it out.
However, she is arguably the biggest pop star on the planet at the moment and when you put yourself out there you have to grow yourself a thick skin. The snark can go overboard sometimes, but she brings a lot of it on herself. I think she needs to relax and just go with it. Taylor tries to be everything to everybody and gets mad when someone doesn’t like her. If someone criticizes her, she immediately screams bullying or anti-feminism.
Plus, who was even talking about this? She keeps bringing it up.
It is not victim blaming. She wrote songs about her exes, coded them and sold it to people. What else should we talk about? We talked about her lovelife because she wanted us to. Now she wants to change her image,which is not a problem, but people won’t just forget her old persona. She should take a joke and chill out.
what about the guys whose names and details she used in her diss songs and for publicity, then? She made a ton of money off those, but somehow they’re supposed to just suck it up and deal with being publicly humiliated/embarrassed in song (way more personal and detailed than Amy and Tina’s joke), just because they’re men.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and she finds she doesn’t like it.
There are legions of people who have had a harder time in the press and manage to not whine in the media about it. Why should Swifty get special treatment? She has every right to feel any way she pleases but when she vents it in public like this, she’s only going to get grief over it. She has nothing to complain about, nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed over, if she doesn’t like the attention she should stop waving flags over it.
If Taylor was secure in herself and her dating life, then she wouldn’t give a shit that people make fun of how many boys she dates and the fact that she writes songs about them. Taylor is only a victim because she wants to be a victim (ie. throwing herself a pity party). She needs to gain some confidence in herself and just own her dating life and blind item songs. Then it wouldn’t matter if people made fun of her because she wouldn’t care, and would think they are pathetic for trying to “humiliate” her, instead of playing into their hand by feeling humiliated.
she’s so sexless. She can show up on the cover of Glamour magazine in a see-through dress and underwear, and it still just not sexy. Oh, and Taylor honey? You made your bed, now lie in it.
Well, to be fair to her, she has said several times that she doesn’t feel comfortable with identifying as “sexy”, and that she has never felt the desire to be seen that way. I don’t see anything wrong with this.
There’s nothing wrong with not trying to be sexy. But I don’t believe it. She wears really short skirts and crop tops all the damn time. I think she doesn’t want to seem like she’s trying to be sexy, but secretly hopes everybody thinks she is.
She is very sexy. Lots and lots and lots of guys love her. And want to bang her.
My 4 year olds have more self-awareness than she does. :/
Do people really shame he and call her a whore? They make light jokes about her freaking out over the ending of a month long relationship. John Travolta and Jennifer Aniston they get ripped on more than her and they can take it.
Mark! We agree again! I never think of Taylor and sex in the same sentence, actually.
I can imagine Taylor Swift drinking milk with her kitty on her lap, i can imagine her writing love letters to coloured papers and draw heart as her signature. But, for the life of me, i can’t imagine her having sex or being sexy. She is a very beautiful girl, i really don’t know why she looks as sexy as eggplant.
replace milk with lavendar lemonade in a neverland (PP not MJ) themed mansion and yup. That’s Taylor.
Mark’s on a roll like double-ply.
no one calls her a whore… she just wants everyone to adore her and she wants to continue writing lyrics like “harry styles and i were sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g” to universal critical acclaim
Some people do, yes.
Good grief. It’s not that I care that she dates these guys then writes songs about them. It’s that half of her popularity stemmed from the fact that she wrote clues about the guy in her songs or videos. She knew that would gain attention to her. I feel like she has said this a thousand times. Get a thicker skin, Taylor.
Stfu….
A tall, white, blonde entertainer who has amassed world recognition, adoration and hundreds of millions of dollars by writing juvenile pop songs about boys. She also is marginally talented singer and a non-dancer. So she feels “shamed” by the shtick she and her marketing team created and is upset that not everyone adores her dumb music and persona.
Itch, please.
I am so sorry, but when I read the phrase “publicly humiliated” I was reminded of Gaston.
Ha!
I’m sick of her talking about the same things over and over again. We get it already! The world has moved on. Why can’t you? Also, she needs to get a sense of humor. If you’re going to make a career out of writing songs about your famous boyfriends then don’t be surprised when people tease you for it. That’s not sexist.
Here’s a thought: Taylor’s image did a complete turnaround after Amy & Tina made that joke about her, right? She ditched the romantic fairy-girl love princess thing she was so invested in and she turned into this independent girl-power friendship crusader, right? Her whole image – her friendship with that model she hangs out with, the change in her style – it’s all, in part, a reaction against that criticism. A&T struck a nerve. I’m less interested in blaming her for being immature and more interested in why it bothers her so much.
Maybe Taylor really is young, immature and love-crazy. Maybe she does get consumed with relationships and can’t see beyond herself (like a lot of people who’ve bought into fairytale love stories as kids). Maybe she does use her song-writing for publicity and as a way of getting back at exes. It’s a developmental phase, she’s got to grow out of it in her own time, like we all do.
IMO, Taylor wants to see herself as that princess-girl who can get any guy to fall in love with her. That’s her thing.
Can you think of a bigger turn off to all that male attention than a reputation for being the boy-crazy, revenge-songwriter girl? I think the joke struck at what was important to her. It struck at how she wants to see herself and how she wanted to be perceived.
That’s my two cents. I actually kind of wish her well in navigating her “humiliation” as best she can. There’s a rough side to fame. She’ll have to learn how to handle it gracefully.
I really liked your comment, Anne. Yours is my favorite, showing a lot more compassion than everyone else’s utter scorn. How many of you would enjoy being the butt of a joke millions of people are in on, regardless??
the funny thing is not only did Amy and Tina do that to Taylor but also to Mr Eternal Bachlor Clooney, too.
Taylor did a lot of bearding relationships so i can at least understand that she wants the public to not talk about it as there will be lots of questions about her and the men if one of them ever comes out of the closet.
She won’t grow out of it though, she’ll be stuck like every other famous person, emotionally stunted at whatever age they became famous. I hope she grows up but honestly, she seems very childish and very invested in being childish.
Can you imagine her on Kimmel’s Mean Tweets section?
so what about your ex boyfriends that you publicly shamed to make a buck?
in theory it looks scandalous, an intelligent young woman reduced to her dating life. if you take a little closer look its not. TAYLOR writes those songs, TAYLOR signes the deals to beard for men in the closet who all happen to be very famous too, TAYLOR constantly talks about it, TAYLOR does all those pap walks with her partners, its mostly her own fault.
most of her public persona is about serial dating and she makes most of her money with that, so its fair game to call her out.
it makes me so mad that she is abusing the name of feminism to deflect blame and portray herself as the victim while she is the one that profits the most.
Taylor if you believe in equality you will either accept that someone like you who publicly shames ex partners is also “shamed” or that you should stop.
also i dont buy her busy excuse. she was busy before and yet constantly shoved her relationships down our throats.
she now just wants to give us the busy, independent woman shitck while she still wants to be the popular cheerleader landing the quarterback.
Word on. And people are bringing up her age like she was 16, when in fact she’s a grown up woman. Young? For sure, but quite far from a teenager.
I’ve always gotten the impression that Taylor Swift is a spoiled little rich girl who’s used to getting her own way. I mean, her parents actually moved to Nashville when she was 14 so she could pursue a music career. Smart move on their part, yes — but my point is, she’s always called the shots, and ever since she hit the big time, she’s had people falling all over themselves to do things and make life easier for her. No wonder she can’t handle a little teasing/humiliation. She’s so used to being fawned over that any amount of criticism blows her mind.
That is a good point, that she has had people catering to her for most of her life.
Puta, please. This is a classic case of ‘I can dish it but I can’t take it’
You date famous guys in very publicly papped situations, then write immature diss songs about them when you break it off, make $$$$$$ off those songs, but anyone making a joke about those relationships is “shaming” YOU?
And don’t think we forgot that one of those boys was literally two days past his 18th birthday when you chose to make a pap target out of him for your wannabe-Kennedy PR.
TayTay has been beating the girl power drum for a while now but from the three songs I’ve heard on the radio from her current album they are about boys and haters. Can someone who has listened to the whole album tell if there are any songs about friendship or being a strong woman?
Growing up is hard. Growing up in the public spotlight is probably even harder, but she put her her love life in the public spotlight via her songs. She wanted to be successful so it goes with the territory, stop complaining. As Joan Rivers said “she only makes fun of people that are relevant in pop culture. ” She seems smart business wise, but very controlling. While that may be beneficial for business, it may not be in personal relationships. Girlfriend, lighten up, develope a sense of humor about yourself and heed your own advice and shake, shake, shake it off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIW4B-BKXyA 3:37 cannot stand anymore
It’s all about boys except for two songs, Shake it Off (which is just whining about how no one recognises what a special snowflake she is) and Bad Blood, an extremely melodramatic song about how much she hates Katy Perry. Otherwise it’s just songs about ‘dating’ Harry Styles for a few weeks.
Shut Up. Stop writing stupid songs about all your 10 minute ‘relationships’. Stop. Write about world peace, let us talk about that instead.
ummmmm… Take your own advice and “shake it off ” it’s really not That big a deal.
that “saucy milkmaid dress”…LOL!! She looks like she’s getting ready to yodel at a herd of goats.
couldn’t agree with you more here. too bad she’ll never get this. ever. girl, we don’t want to talk about your dating whoa’s but don’t put your business in the street then get mad bc we are talking about your business. at that, how about you stop slamming your exes via song then mad bc the public starts to question your intention to slam and shame them. its a two way street doll face. boy i can’t wait for her to grow up and get over herself. g
such an attention seeking turd.
poor baby can’t control it all.
sorry to those that like her and/or her music but to me she is mediocre at best, extremely spoiled, and believes she is THE special snowflake with all the talent looks and brains. she is nothing special despite what she thinks of herself.
that she’s whinging on like affleck is proof she has no self awareness, no sense of humor, and zero clue as to how her crafted image comes off to the general public.
Its not so much asbeing being sensitive because you became the button of a joke, but more along the lines of pushing this sweet perfect fairy princess image looking for her true love is just not realistic. Relationships are work and there’s more to it than having a cuddlefest sessions. there’s absolutely nothing wrong for a young woman to date around bc that’s what your 20s are for. You learn about yourself and what you want in relationships. I think its bc she made a business out of it by putting all these guys on blast by writing her songs. I think its fair to be criticized for it because she’s the one who puts her business in the media and public consumption. That’s showbusiness and she profited immensely. Good for her. All these guys have one thing in common- she chose them! I remember her trying to disassociate and loik down on Miley because of her oversexualized persona and it really grates me bc she wants to come off being an innocent flower when Miley was the one who has been in long term relationships. Taylor wants to believe that she advocates women empowerment, but she has yet to realize that feminism is about people having choices and living by their own terms without judgement. I just think its hypocritical of her to play victim and retaliate to the Tina and Amy jokes. she has a lot of growing up to do.
I haven’t watched any of her her videos in awhile but for while she seemed to be wearing white dresses in all her music videos like in this editorial. It was kind of weird.
so because taylor is a woman other women aren’t allowed to make fun of her? the entire point of sexism is equality between the sexes. as usual, another young woman with a platform who has no idea what feminism is.
Funny how she isn’t upset about all the money she made from songs she wrote about her love life.
2 way street, sweet pea.
She is so good at putting out a “cool”, “easygoing” public image but then there are moments like these where you see how self-involved and not self-aware and has a huge victim mentality but at the same time thinks it’s okay for HER to shame her exes. Yeah. She ain’t cool. Hard to like her.
Honey, you put yourself in that position the minute you decided to share your personal relationships with the public on your songs, so stop complaining about it!
Taylor’s whining is getting old. but she does look incredibly gorgeous and sexy on that cover. Wow!