When I saw this Wonderland magazine cover yesterday, I barely recognized Taylor Swift. You know why? Because it’s been too long since we’ve seen her without bangs!! I’ve actually gotten used to those horrible, too-thick bangs. I guess Wonderland hates bangs though, because they styled Swifty to look… I don’t even know. More like Cara Delevingne than Karlie Kloss. I’m not sure if these are eyebrow merkins or if they just used that brow-mascara stuff on her. But she’s rocking some full-bush brows. It’s an interesting look! When speaking to the magazine, Swifty talked about Twitter trolls, single life, yadda yadda.
On online trolls: ‘Twitter’s dark underbelly is that it gives people a veil of anonymity: they can have a terrible day at work, feel awful about themselves, come home and get drunk and go call someone ugly on Instagram. If people don’t have anyone to talk to about [their problems], they go online and just say wicked, gross, cruel mean-spirited things about people. I wrote ‘Shake It Off’ for my own situation, but also for the situation that everyone finds themselves in now. It’s not a celebrity issue, it’s a people issue.’
Her single life: ‘I’ve been with myself for so long now, I like it. I’m not willing to give up that independence for anyone. Basically, there’s the tiniest, tiniest, tiniest chance you might find someone you can have a real and long-lasting relationship with. In my teenage years, I was enamoured by the idea of romance because I thought it was going to be this ‘happily ever after’ situation.’
Her new album: ‘This was sort of the final phase of the sonic evolution I feel I’ve been on for the last couple of years. I’ve been experimenting with pop sensibilities and then on my last record, I got attached to it. That’s the wonderful thing about trying as many different ways of writing music as possible – discoveries.’
[From Wonderland via The Daily Mail]
I think she’s right about online trolls and how it’s not even a celebrity issue at this point. But I think it’s a woman-issue. I think women are far more likely to get attacked, harassed and threatened online, celebrity or not.
What else is going on in SwiftyWorld? Well, Swifty made Barbara Walters’ annual Most Fascinating People list for 2014. This is actually Taylor’s first time on the list (how is that possible?) and the 2014 list includes Chelsea Handler (?????), Oprah (obvs), Neil Patrick Harris (worthy) and Scarlett Johansson.
Some pics of Swifty outside of GMA yesterday morning:
Photos courtesy of Wonderland, Fame/Flynet.
