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210 postsTaylor Swift is an American singer, born in Pennsylvania in 1989. She signed to RCA records in 2003 and released her self-titled album in 2006. Her hit singles include Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Love Story, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, You Belong With Me and Shake It Off
Swift surprises fan, Stephanie Barnett, with a visit to Barnett’s Connecticut home. Swift gives Barnett’s two-year-old son, Leyton, a toddler-sized toy Mercedes. Barnett:
I open the door and she’s like, ‘Hey, Steph!’ and it’s just her right there, and I lost it. I lost it for a while.
Swift says she gave up dating because she wants people to focus on her music rather than her love life in an interview with US Weekly.
It broke my heart! I was selling out stadiums and it was all people talked about.
Swift removes all of her albums from Spotify. Spotify posts statement in hopes that Swift will change her mind:
We love Taylor Swift, and our more than 40 million users love her even more – nearly 16 million of them have played her songs in the last 30 days, and she’s on over 19 million playlists.
We hope she’ll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone. We believe fans should be able to listen to music wherever and whenever they want, and that artists have an absolute right to be paid for their work and protected from piracy. That’s why we pay nearly 70% of our revenue back to the music community.
Swift announces her 1989 World Tour. The tour begins May 20 in Bossier City, LA and ends on October 31 in Tampa.
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Swift appears on the cover of the November/December 2014 issue of Wonderland magazine. She talks about Twitter, being single, and having her album 1989 be a pop 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.
Swift appears on the cover of the November 2014 issue of British Vogue magazine. She talks about her album 1989 and her dating life.
Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind, because I can’t picture how it could work with the way my life is. I don’t know how a guy is supposed to walk next to his girlfriend when there are 20 men with cameras, and he can’t protect his girlfriend because that’s the life she chose. I just don’t see how it could work, so I don’t think about it, and I kind of run from it when it presents itself. ‘Cause I don’t think any guy really… They think that they would want to get to know me, and maybe date me, but I don’t think they want what comes with it.
Swift appears on the cover of the November 2014 issue of In Style magazine. She talks about starting a family one day and getting married.
I don’t know if I’ll have kids. It’s impossible not to picture certain scenarios and how you would try to convince them that they have a normal life when, inevitably, there will be strange men pointing giant cameras at them from the time they are babies.
Swift appears on the cover of the November 2014 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Germany magazine.
Swift appears on the cover of the November 2014 issue of Fashion magazine. She talks about what’s different about her album, important people in her life, and feeling uncool.
I’ve never had more friends who I trust and can rely on, but there’s always a bit of your self-perception that’s frozen in junior high, when you trained yourself to not feel cool. You’ll never really feel like you’re part of the ‘in’ crowd, but growing up means that matters to you less and less every day.
Swift lips sings and dances to Black Widow by Iggy Azalea ft. Rita Ora during On Air With Ryan Seacrest.
Swift performs Welcome To New York on Good Morning America from her album 1989.
Singer, Swift chats about her new album, 1989, her secret society of fans and answers trivial questions:
If what you have dropped is sticky do not eat it off the ground.
Swift plays the trivia game, Which Came First:
You’re not shouting coherent things, you’re not helping, I don’t know what you’re saying!
Seacrest interviews Swift during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about secret messages she hides in her album liner notes.
In my album booklets, I love to have the lyrics written out to the songs, but using capital letters I like to encode secret messages into the lyrics. So either all the words are lowercase and there is random capital letters or all the words are capital and there is random lowercase and if you write out all those odd letters, it spells out either a story or a message. I love that part of it. I think an album should be so many different things. It should be even a game.
Seacrest interviews Swift during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about going from country music to pop music.
The best choices are bold choices. With my last album Red, I kind of had one foot in pop and one foot in country, and that’s really no way to walk and get anywhere. If you want to continue to evolve, I think eventually you have to pick a lane, and I just picked the one that felt more natural to me at this point in my life.
Swift performs Welcome To New York during an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman from her album 1989.
Swift appears on The Voice as a guest mentor. Swift encourages contestant Taylor Phelan to perform without his guitar or “crutch”. Swift:
When I started, I had the exact same comfort object.
Swift’s new album 1989 is leaked to various music-sharing sites. Swift’s label, Big Machine Records, pulls Blank Space, the first song to hit YouTube, within hours. 1989 is set to release October 27. Anthony DeCurtis, contributing editor at Rolling Stone:
Taylor Swift’s fans are uncommonly loyal. I doubt that anyone who wanted to buy the album would be dissuaded by the leak.
Swift performs her hit single Shake It Off on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote her album 1989.
Swift performs Out of the Woods during an appearance On Jimmy Kimmel Live from her album 1989.
