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She is the first woman to win album of the year twice. She emphasized her hard work and people realized that what made her famous was no one else, making Taylor Swift herself.

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Taylor Swift | Album of the Year | 58th GRAMMYs

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The Revolution Stage

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The Evolution Stage

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The Creation Stage

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'It moved her beyond a pop princess... She becomes a brave, mature, powerful woman. ' (Allan, 2019)

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Make use of people's attention on this event and draw to more meaningful things.

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Make use of people's attention on this event and draw to more meaningful things.

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Good-hearted person. Instead of rushing to prove her innocence on Instagram, Swift reminded and urged her followers to focus on 'what really matters' and donate money for people in crisis. She didn't want her affairs to take up too much public resources.

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Taylor Swift is breaking her silence on that video seen around the world - and urging fans to focus on more important matters.

"Instead of answering those who are asking how I feel about the video footage that leaked, proving that I was telling the truth the whole time about *that call* (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family and fans through hell for 4 years)...SWIPE UP to see what really matters," wrote Swift on Instagram Stories, referencing the 25-minute long video that leaked late Friday night of her infamous phone call with Kanye West discussing his "Famous" lyrics.

"The World Health Organization and Feeding America are some of the organizations I've been donating to. If you have the ability to, please join me in donating during this crisis," continued Swift, directing fans to organizations that are in need during the coronavirus pandemic.

Neither West nor his wife Kim Kardashian West - who originally leaked edited snippets of the phone call back in 2016 onto her Snapchat account - have addressed the latest leak. However, the reality star hit "like" on a tweet over the weekend that called the video "nothing new."
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In the leaked video clips, the rapper, 42, is heard asking Swift, 30, to release his new song on her Twitter account. "So my next single, I wanted you to tweet it ... so that's why I'm calling you. I wanted you to put the song out," he tells the Grammy winner on the phone.

After telling Swift he included a " very controversial line " about her in the song, the pop star nervously asks West what the lyrics are.

West then tells Swift he's been mulling over the lyrics for eight months and warns her "it's gonna go Eminem a little bit" and to "brace yourself for a second."

A wary Swift asks if it's "gonna be mean," and West acknowledges even Kim initially felt it was "too crazy" but had come around. "It's like my wife's favorite f-ing line," he says.

"So it says, 'To all my Southside n- that know me best/ I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex," continues West with a chuckle. Responds Swift with a laugh: "That's not mean."
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Further discussing his proposal to have her release the song, Swift - who expresses relief that the lyrics aren't about her being "that stupid dumb bitch" - tells West she needs to "think about it because it is absolutely crazy."

Later in the call, West tells Swift the original lyric he wrote was, "To all my Southside n- that know me best/ I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex." (The lyric that made it into the final version of the track is "For all my Southside n- that know me best/ I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous")

In another leaked portion, West asks Swift how she would feel if he included a line that said "I made her famous," to which she warily responded: "Did you say that? Well, what am I going to do about it? It's just kind of, like, whatever at this point. But I mean, you gotta tell the story the way it happened to you and the way that you've experienced it. Like, you honestly didn't know who I was before that. Like, it doesn't matter if I sold 7 million of that album before you did that, which is what happened. You didn't know who I was before that. It's fine. But um, yeah, I can't wait to hear it."

West also promises Swift-who encourages West to protect his relationship with Kim after he tells her his wife prefers him saying "owes me sex" instead of "might still have sex"-to send her the final version of the track.

"I'm going to send you the song and send you the exact wording and everything about it, right? And then we could sit and talk through it," West tells Swift, who has long contended she never heard the song before its release.

After "Famous" was released in February of 2016, Swift's rep told PEOPLE the singer "declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyrics, 'I made that bitch famous.'"

In June of 2016, Kardashian West told GQ the singer had told her husband she would "laugh" and tell media she was "in on it the whole time" in a phone call. Then a month later, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star branded Swift a snake on social media and leaked edited snippets from the call on her Snapchat account.

"If people ask me about it, look, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'He called me and told me before it came out . . . Joke's on you, guys. We're fine,'" Swift is heard saying in the footage Kardashian West posted on Snapchat.

Swift's rep was quoted in the GQ article as saying that "much of what Kim is saying is incorrect. Taylor has never denied that conversation took place. It was on that phone call that Kanye West also asked her to release the song on her Twitter account, which she declined to do. Kanye West never told Taylor he was going to use the term 'that bitch' in referring her. A song cannot be approved if it was never heard. Kanye West never played the song for Taylor Swift. Taylor heard it for the first time when everyone else did and was humiliated. Kim Kardashian's claim that Taylor and her team were aware of being recorded is not true, and Taylor cannot understand why Kanye West, and now Kim Kardashian, will not just leave her alone."

Moments after Kardashian West posted snippets of the call, Swift released a statement on her Instagra m slamming the couple. "Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me 'that bitch' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that bitch' in front of the entire world," the singer wrote.

"Of course I wanted to like the song. I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me that I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did. While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination."

While Swift went on to record and tour reputation, a dark album inspired by the depressive period she went through following the drama, West has remained mum about the feud while Kardashian West told Andy Cohen last January she was "over it. "

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Taylor Swift Breaks Silence on Leaked Kanye West Video, Asks Fans to Focus on 'What Really Matters'

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Taylor Swift is breaking her silence on that video seen around the world - and urging fans to focus on more important matters.

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'Don't break Taylor's heart, because she will use your relationship as material for a Grammy-winning mega hit. Men of Hollywood, consider yourself duly warned.'

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She ironic by media and people - her romantic relations (ex-boyfriends) are the inspiration for her songs. This has formed a stereotyped image of her, and even for those who don't know Swift that well, there's a label that says, 'have dated a lot of boys and wrote ex-boyfriends in songs.'

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They say 'write what you know,' and over her ten-year songwriting career, Taylor Swift has definitely done just that, infamously mining her personal life for lyrical inspiration. Happily, it's a tactic that has brought us break-up anthems like 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' and 'Forever & Always' - and has given us plenty of opportunities to do some digging and discover which relationship inspired which song...

The moral of the story? Don't break Taylor's heart, because she will use your relationship as material for a Grammy-winning mega hit. Men of Hollywood, consider yourself duly warned.

Who's it about? Taylor Lautner

Key lyrics: 'So this is me swallowing my pride / Standing in front of you saying, "I'm sorry for that night"'

Usually, Taylor's songs see her on the receiving end of a belated apology from an ex, but in Back To December, it's the singer who's doing the grovelling. Dating from the Speak Now era, this ballad is supposedly directed at Taylor Lautner (aka, the werewolf from Twilight), who dated Tay after starring alongside her in the film Valentine's Day. The actor joins the elite group of Swift exes who actually walk away with a positive write-up. Top marks, Jacob.
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Who's it about? Jake Gyllenhaal

The most explicit takedown of Jake, who Taylor dated in 2010, is reserved for the first single from Red, in which she calls out the actor for his 'exhausting' changes of heart - and his pretentious musical tastes. This one's for everyone who's ever dated a boy who is ever so self-righteous about their choice of music (and definitely wouldn't ever dream of getting down to this. sick. beat...)

Key lyrics: 'You would hide away and find your piece of mind / With some indie record that's much cooler than mine'

Who's it about? John Mayer

No prizes for guessing who this one's about. Taylor's take on her brief relationship with fellow musician (and notorious serial dater) John Mayer pulls no punches, deploying some classic Swifty imagery in the line 'I'm shining like fireworks / All over your sad empty town.' John later claimed that the song made him feel 'really humiliated.' Boo hoo.

Key lyrics: 'Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong / Don't you think nineteen's too young / To be played by your dark, twisted games / When I loved you so?'

Who's it about? Harry Styles

Once again, the clue with this one is in the name. While the lyrics to 1989's standout track refer to a 'James Dean'-style bad boy, the video lays the Harry allusions on thick, with the appearance of the paper aeroplane necklaces that Swift and Styles reportedly swapped. Remember those, they'll prove important next...

Key lyrics: 'You've got that long hair, slicked back, white t-shirt / And I've got that good girl thing in a tight little skirt'

Another post-Styles song, and another reference to aeroplane-based statement jewellery. The accompanying video once again ramps up the references to the ex-Directioner: Taylor wears a princessy blue dress that recalls the one she was pictured in straight after the pair's break up.

Key lyrics: 'Remember when you hit the brakes too soon / Twenty stitches in a hospital room?'

OK, this one is directed less at JJ than at actress Camilla Belle, who dated Jonas straight after he broke up with Swift. With lyrics like 'No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity' and 'She thinks I'm psycho 'coz I like to rhyme her name with things,' it's a song which now sits oddly with Taylor's #girlsquad persona. Addressing the song's apparent slut-shaming in a later interview with The Guardian, Swift argued 'I was 18 when I wrote that. That's the age you are when you think someone can actually take your boyfriend.'

Key lyrics: 'She's not a saint and she's not what you think, she's an actress / She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress'

Who's it about? Harry Styles

Trouble, trouble, trouble. Taylor's 2013 single refers to the first time she crossed paths with Styles, and was written during one of the pair's (multiple) break ups. 'It's not hard to access that emotion when the person the song is directed at is standing by the side of the stage watching,' she later said of her performance at the BRIT Awards in 2013.

Key lyrics: 'I heard you moved on from whispers on the street / A new notch in your belt is all I'll ever be'

Who's it about? Jake Gyllenhaal

Rewind to 2010, and Taylor was pictured out on a wintery stroll with Jake Gyllenhaal, wrapped up in a black striped scarf and clutching Starbucks maple lattes. Fastforward to the release of Red in 2012, and that very scarf crops up again, this time as a throwaway-but-actually-significant lyric in All Too Well, a song which Swift has since described as being extremely difficult to write. 'All Too Well' was the hardest to write because it took me a long time to filter through everything I wanted to say,' she told Good Morning America.

Key lyrics: 'I left my scarf there, at your sister's house / And you've still got it in your drawer even now'

Who's it about? Corey Monteith

While neither Taylor nor Corey ever confirmed that they were 'a thing,' rumours emerged that the pair were dating in the summer of 2010 - which lines up perfectly with the arrival of Mine, a track which Taylor described as being about the moment when a guy 'that I just barely knew put his arm around me by the water, and I saw the entire relationship flash before my eyes.'

Key lyrics: 'Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water? You put your arm around me for the first time'

If there's anything that our close research into Taylor's ouevre has taught us, it's that you do not trifle with Swifty's emotions without paying the price. After Jonas Brother No. 2 dumped Taylor in a 27 second (yep, less than half a minute) phone call, the singer hit back with one of her most emotionally raw tracks to date. And Joe does not come out of it well. Advantage, Swift.

Key lyrics: 'Was I out of line? Did I say something way too honest? Made you run and hide / Like a scared little boy?'

Who's it about? Drew Hardwick

Who? Like most of Taylor's early material, 'Teardrops' takes inspiration from her high school days - and in this case, her unrequited crush on classmate Drew Hardwick, who gets name-checked in the verses. OK, he doesn't exactly count as an ex, but this is another classic example of Tay having the last laugh. According to Swift, Hardwick showed up at her house two years after she wrote the song. Her response? 'Wow, you're late!'

Key lyrics: 'Drew talks to me, I laugh 'cause it's just so funny / That I can't even see anyone when he's with me'

Who's it about? Joe Jonas. Or is it John Mayer?

This one's a classic tale of awkwardly bumping into your ex - although for Taylor, this takes place at major awards shows, rather than in your local Tesco Metro. 'I was at an awards show, and there was a guy there, obviously - it all starts there, doesn't it?' she later explained. The album booklet for Speak Now alludes to the CMT Awards, meaning this could possibly be directed at Joe Jonas, or John Mayer.

Key lyrics: 'How'd we end up this way? See me nervously pulling at my clothes and trying to look busy / And you're doing your best to avoid me'

A tale of picking yourself back up after a horrible break-up and dragging yourself out on a date, or, as Taylor told Ryan Seacrest of 'when you've gotten through a really bad relationship and you finally dust yourself off.' At the time of writing, Taylor was dating Conor Kennedy (yes, as in, the Kennedys). Bonus points for the sideswipe at 5' 11 Jake Gyllenhaal in the line 'He didn't like it when I wore high heels, but I do.' Ouch.

Key lyrics: 'You throw your head back laughing like a little kid /

I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause he never did'
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They say 'write what you know,' and over her ten-year songwriting career, Taylor Swift has definitely done just that, infamously mining her personal life for lyrical inspiration. Happily, it's a tactic that has brought us break-up anthems like 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' and 'Forever & Always' - and has given us plenty of opportunities to do some digging and discover which relationship inspired which song...

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She is portrayed in this article as exploiting and benefiting from victimhood, and she is adept at manipulation, and she never gets bored in this long-established narrative.

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In the same way that a meteorologist might struggle to predict a whole year's weather rather than the next week's rain, it is exceedingly difficult to distill an accurate assessment of Taylor Swift as though she's an ordinary pop act; she is a musical biosphere unto herself. Swift's music isn't released as much as it is unleashed, the melodies saturating deep into the tissue of contemporary public life whether we like it or not. I turn on the television to watch sports and Taylor Swift is there; I go to pick up an Amazon package and her blond, feline face is smiling at me and reminding me I'm absolutely going to listen to her new album, Lover, of course I am, how could I not? Swift has achieved the kind of success that turns a person into an institution, into an inevitability.

But before she felt as inescapable as the weather, she was simply a star in waiting. Ten years ago, Taylor Swift was a 19-year-old Nashville singer-songwriter with a steadily growing fan base, a pair of twangy tween-dream albums and a string of Billboard hits. But 2009 was the year her perky, countrified celebrity solidified into industrial-grade American fame.

It was the year "You Belong With Me," an earworm about an underdog-in-love that helped turn its girl-next-door singer into the closest thing music had to a Disney princess, blasted from car radios no matter which station they were turned to. Swift's second album, Fearless, had made her the best-selling musical act in the United States. Critics loved that she wrote her own songs, parents loved that none of them had cusses, and everyone loved that they were catchy as shit. Swift was also a publicity prodigy, connecting with fans on MySpace and with tabloid-reading, album-buying moms through her Us Weekly-core romance with Disney star Joe Jonas. She hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time. And at the MTV Video Music Awards that year, Kanye West jumped onstage to interrupt Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video, kicking off an exhausting entanglement that would alternately muddle and enhance each artist's reputation. (What else fuels fame like a feud between celebrities?)

In the ensuing decade, Swift has risen into a rarefied echelon of true pop superstars, though her sweetheart persona has been complicated to the point that her formerly shiny-smooth image now features snakeskin embellishments. She doesn't cry about her haters anymore, she uses them as fodder for hit-single cheek-"Shake It Off," "Look What You Made Me Do," "You Need to Calm Down." Her best-selling record is still 2008's Fearless, released just one month after Spotify showed up in the United States and nuked album sales indefinitely, but Swift has dealt with that decline by making sure her tours are treated as unmissable spectacles by fans. Her hefty album sales for the Reputation tour in 2018 led Forbes to crown her the highest-paid celebrity in America. As touring profit becomes a more reliable indicator of appeal, Swift is still on top even if she never bests her teenage self's album numbers. "Her core fan base is still huge," David Turner, a music critic who runs the streaming music newsletter Penny Fractions, told The Ringer. "But she doesn't seem just fine with having a core fan base. She might just want too much out of what is a very fleeting and hard-to-maintain existence."

This week, Taylor Swift is releasing her seventh studio album, Lover, after an old-fashioned Big Album Rollout that feels a little stuffy and out of step in an era when Ariana Grande can release Thank U, Next on an inspired whim and Beyoncé's strategy for domination involves blitzing fans with new music. Lover is on track to sell well, with "approaching" 1 million copies sold prior to release, according to a Variety report, although the mixed critical reaction to her first singles suggest that the days of Swift as an unmitigated darling are officially over. (And the Variety report is based on a fuzzy international prerelease tally.) Swift hasn't been a genuine ingenue for a long time-but it's not entirely clear what she is now, or whether her position in pop is sustainable.

The fact that Swift was a real-life precocious teen when she came onto the scene is important to understanding her early public image. Swift had started playing guitar and writing music as a child, gaining attention by singing the national anthem at local sporting events in the early aughts. Raised in Pennsylvania, Swift's parents moved her to Nashville to further her career; her Southern twang reflected her ambition more than her upbringing. She signed her first record deal at 14, negotiating with former Universal executive Scott Borchetta at Big Machine Records. "Taylor and I made an aggressive deal on the back end," Borchetta told Rolling Stone in 2009. "I've written her some very big checks." The wunderkind with finance-whiz parents was shrewd from the start, and not just on the business side: Piggybacking off Tim McGraw's celebrity to drum up interest in "Tim McGraw" gave country fans an easy way to remember Swift as the girl who sang about their icon. In a glowing early profile, The New Yorker called her a "preternaturally skilled student of established values." She hewed closely to the tried-and-true girlie-girl Nashville aesthetic for female talent while quietly exerting an unusual amount of creative control; unlike other young stars, she wrote or cowrote almost all of her music. She was perfect at being conventional-so perfect that nobody felt threatened by the deftness of her songwriting.

Swift's age and background meant that she could cultivate the image of a bubblegum-country cherub fairly easily. Just by existing, she checked so many boxes: in addition to being extremely young, she was blond, white, wealthy, and thin. On top of that, she liked to strum her guitar in poufy outfits, to sing her own longing lyrics about backyard romance, and to giggle and go along with whatever her interviewers wanted, crafting her goody-two-cowboy-boots image like a pro. "The young country super-starlet is a flat-out fantastic interview subject. So open and honest and funny and interesting; so willing to play along-to go here, there or anywhere during the course of an interview," J. Freedom du Lac wrote in a Washington Post profile from 2008. "She's a reporter's dream-and, no doubt, a publicist's, too. A media darling, indeed."

Swift was also a digital native who knew how to use social media in a way that Nashville hadn't seen yet, still quite novel for pop acts. "She has aggressively used online social networks to stay connected with her young audience in a way that, while typical for rock and hip-hop artists, is proving to be revolutionary in country music," The New York Times' Jon Caramanica noted in 2008-the same year 13-year-old Justin Bieber signed with Scooter Braun after uploading a video of himself singing to YouTube.

Swift worked in a confessional mode, and part of her widespread appeal was how flung-open her emotions appeared; if you hurt her, she wrote about the ways you hurt her, and then sprinkled her liner notes with hints as if to whisper: Yes, I was referring to you. This intimate approach built a legion of devoted, empathetic fans, but also shoehorned Swift into the limiting role of the easily bruised naif. And despite her excellent reception, she often grabbed headlines for being a whiz kid; her breezy, deft confessional narratives were sometimes categorized as teenybopper alchemy, which was something Swift pushed back on from the beginning. "I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart," Swift told Entertainment Weekly in 2007. "And I knew that had to be my writing."

And then it happened. At the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2009, Swift won the Best Female Video award for "You Belong With Me," beating Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" video. As Swift spoke, a Hennessy-soaked Kanye West catapulted himself to the stage and grabbed the microphone from her hand. "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time," West said. "One of the best videos of all time!"

West was escorted out of the building as Beyoncé grimaced in the crowd and Swift fled offstage to sob. It was actual chaos in a show meant to simulate shock, a grab-your-fucking-popcorn moment MTV couldn't have manufactured if it tried. It didn't matter that Kanye was trying to prove a valid point about race and awards shows-that he had gone about trying to make his point in such an abrasive fashion, and hurt the feelings of a pretty, white teen star who had done nothing wrong overshadowed everything else. Swift was despondent. Kanye's clearly dashed-off blog post apology didn't improve matters. ("I'M SOOOOO SORRY TO TAYLOR SWIFT AND HER FANS AND HER MOM," it begins, before reaffirming that the Beyoncé video was, indeed, superior.)

The incident initially provided Swift with a major swell of positive PR. The media took her side; President Obama called West a "jackass" shortly thereafter. "In the arc of her career, it will be seen as, ironically, one of the reasons why she became what she became," Elaine Lui, the founder of celebrity and pop culture analysis website Lainey Gossip, told The Ringer.

Even more important than goodwill, the moment moved records, something her camp openly admitted. "The Kanye incident brought attention to Taylor, to an audience that did not really know her or her music," Borchetta told The Wall Street Journal in 2010. "And when they did check it out, they discovered that they really liked it." Ever canny, Swift released "Innocent" in 2010, an impressively patronizing song about the experience that suggests Kanye is too simple to actually be a bad person, taking full advantage of her positioning as a wronged party. ("Thirty-two and still growin' up now / Who you are is not what you did.") She performed it at the next VMAs. During the same show, Kanye performed "Runaway" and had his own moment of redemption, giving a "toast for the assholes" to a rapturous crowd. The intertwined artists had each found a way to turn the incident into music. Swift had officially been introduced to most of America. Her next move was domination.

Swift got a true fairy-tale awards show moment the next year, in 2010, when she became the first solo female country act to win the Grammy for Album of the Year for Fearless. She kept a regimented schedule, releasing an album every two years- Speak Now in 2010, and her fourth album, Red, in 2012. Both debuted at no. 1, solidifying Swift's position as a music-industry force, gobbling up Grammys and breaking sales records. A country star who, to that point, had shed every marker of the distinction aside from her sound, she began openly flirting with pop, working with producers like Max Martin and Shellback ("We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," "22"), and collaborating with Ed Sheeran and Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody.

Since her Joe Jonas days, Swift had gravitated toward famous romantic partners, a habit she kept as the years went on, her increasing fame-and the increasing fame of her boyfriends-making her a constant presence in tabloids. Starting with Taylor Lautner in 2009, Swift's publicly documented relationships over the next few years included John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Harry Styles. In addition to keeping her on the front page of supermarket rags, these relationships often resulted in hit singles, like "Dear John" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," reportedly about Mayer and Gyllenhaal respectively. (The Easter eggs she left in her liner notes, like capitalized letters spelling out words or acronyms hinting at who each song was about, played into the curiosity around her delectably passive-aggressive lyricism.) Even people who didn't listen to her music, then, were made aware of her status as a queen bee in the A-list dating pool. And though present in the tabloids for her romantic life, Swift managed to keep her image squeaky clean; while slightly older peers like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears were publicly struggling through substance use issues and photographed in embarrassing and dangerous situations, the closest Swift got to a scandal was dating an 18-year-old Kennedy scion and making her neighbors angry for ... digging up rocks. In 2012, Michelle Obama presented her Nickelodeon's Big Help Award. "This is amazing!" Swift gushed, shaking the first lady's hand.

Swift's appearances in the public eye continued to frequently involve a moment when she looked awestruck, surprised, and generally in need of a hug. She was " absolutely traumatized" by Justin Bieber's Punk'd punk. Her awards-show face became a meme. She fell so easily into her groove as America's flabbergasted sweetheart that it started to irritate people, but the music was good enough and the public goodwill strong enough that nobody cared that much. Or, almost nobody. Deadspin published something literally called " The Hater's Guide to Taylor Swift" in 2010, with the words "This Woman Must Be STOPPED" superimposed over photos of Swift as accompanying art. And in 2012, Salon, in perhaps its most Salon moment to date, argued that Swift was overrated because people had lowered their expectations for life after the recession. But these were contrarian provocations, and in general, Swift had reached an ascendant point in her career and public image.

By 2014, Swift was the most popular country-music act in the world, but not yet the most popular music act in the world. And so she released 1989, her first true front-to-back pop album, with synthesizers and programmed percussion supplanting her acoustic guitar, largely produced by Max Martin as well as Lena Dunham's ex-boyfriend Jack Antonoff. It was a pop blockbuster, with songs so polished and precision-engineered for Top 40 it seemed like Swift had consulted some demonic algorithm developed to lodge a song in the brain forever, to get it played at football games, bat mitzvahs, and weddings as well as rodeos. "A lot of people who couldn't get over the country part of her were finally listening to her," Rolling Stone critic Brittany Spanos said. While the country music market still had a robust album-buying culture and had its own touring circuits and Nashville darlings, working within a genre pigeonholed Swift, even if she was clearly producing music that felt as much pop as country on Red. Although some country fans felt betrayed, the positioning of 1989 as Swift's big transition allowed her access to a new market and announced that she wanted the whole market. Despite a sharp industrywide decrease in record sales, 1989 was a massive success, exceeding commercial expectations by hitting 5 million U.S. sales in its 36th week of release, making it the fastest-selling album in a decade and ginning up the best reviews of Swift's life. "It remains her masterpiece, her strongest piece of work," Lui said. "It was a firm demarcation between Taylor the country music star and Taylor the global pop star and cultural phenomenon."

"Welcome to New York," the album's first song, signaled a shift in Swift's personal life, as she had left Nashville and moved into a vast penthouse in Tribeca. She began gathering famous female pals with gusto, embarking on high-profile friendships with Lena Dunham, Lorde, and a wide range of narrow models, most notably Karlie Kloss. (Swift's devotion to Kloss inspired a very robust online community of "Kaylor" fans to theorize and fantasize about the possibility of a romantic relationship between the two.) While her romantic life had served as Swift's path into the tabloids, now her roster of preposterously hot friends, known as her "squad," served that function. "I think that I just decided if [the media] was going to say that about me, that I was boy-crazy and so dependent on men and all that, I wasn't going to give them a reason to say that anymore, and I wasn't going to be seen around any men for years-so that's what I did," Swift told Vanity Fair, in an interview where she raved about texting her "20-25" closest friends every day.

Also in 2014, Swift severed ties with her longtime PR team and hired a publicist named Tree Paine, a former Warner Music Nashville PR executive who started her own firm when she signed Swift. Paine's entrance into Swift's life marked a turning point in her availability to the press. After Paine's hiring, Swift's tendency to gab about her personal life with reporters petered out. (Paine did not respond to a request for comment for this story.)

"Her core fan base is still huge. But she doesn't seem just fine with having a core fan base. She might just want too much out of what is a very fleeting and hard-to-maintain existence." -David Turner

Instead, as her star power continued to grow, Swift occasionally used both the media and social media to advocate for the payment of artists. In 2014, she explained her decision to pull her music from Spotify in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, saying she did not believe the platform fairly compensated artists. In the summer of 2015, she used Tumblr to lambast Apple for not paying artists for the streams of their work that customers played during their free trials, which then caused Apple to nearly immediately capitulate. (So immediately, in fact, that it stirred up theories of a secret arrangement between Swift and Apple.) While she remained conspicuously unwilling to discuss politics, her eagerness to shape the conversation about artists' rights underlined that when she wanted to, Swift had enough star wattage to alter the contours of the entire industry.

Swift had always enjoyed largely critical reception as well as commercial success- The New York Times, for instance, had always been in her corner-but during the 1989 album she created her first major controversy with the "Shake It Off" video, which features a number of different dance styles, including black dancers twerking. Although white dancers were also twerking, the close-up shots of black bodies coupled with the fact that all of the ballerinas dancing were white led to headlines like " Is Taylor Swift's Shake It Off Video Racist?" and a Twitter dress-down from rapper Earl Sweatshirt.

During the same album cycle, Swift pointedly highlighted herself as someone who had been on the receiving end of gendered criticism. "For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend ... that's turning it into something that is, frankly, a little sexist," she told Vanity Fair. She shared a quote from Madeleine Albright-"there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women"-to comment on a quip Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had made about her dating life at the 2013 Golden Globes. Invoking feminism was, like most Swift moves, a prudent shield. However, more cracks in Swift's meticulously constructed persona were about to appear.

2016 was a bad year for America, and a notably not-so-good year for Swift; declaring oneself a feminist was no longer a bold action for a pop star. She was between albums, yet her purposefully high-profile life kept her in the public eye. She had received a constant stream of attention for the A-list guest stars she brought out during her 1989 tour, like Ellen DeGeneres, Lorde, and Mick Jagger, and coupled with the heavy media coverage of her famous friendships, Swift's inescapable daily presence in the news cycle began to grate. "The squad stuff had taken over. Everything she did was a story," Spanos said. "Which also leads to overexposure." This was something Swift, ever self-aware, was proactively trying to prevent. "I think people might need a break from me," she told NME the previous year. Perhaps she could sense what was coming.

Swift hadn't previously been immune to criticism, exactly-in addition to the critiques of her "Shake It Off" video imagery, her video for "Wildest Dreams," set in colonized Africa, had received blowback for its creepy daydream of colonialism. In 2015, writer Dayna Evans argued that Swift's brand of feminism was performative and ultimately hollow. "Swift has to be the person with the prettiest friends, the biggest records, the most popular and successful and groanworthily obvious boyfriend," Evans wrote in a piece titled "Taylor Swift Is Not Your Friend." "The underdog narrative that the Swift machine has built is one of forced falsehoods; Swift is not coming from behind. She's been ahead since she started." And when Swift inserted herself into a conversation Nicki Minaj was having on Twitter about racism at awards shows, she appeared both self-centered and blithely unaware of the larger issue of racism in the industry at play. (The two stars quickly made up.)

That was all a prelude to the real backlash, which began when Kanye West reentered the picture. The two had publicly made nice the previous year at the Grammys as well as the VMAs, when Swift presented West an award, and West told Ryan Seacrest that they had even considered collaboration. West also sent Swift a square made of flowers, which she Instagrammed. But the détente fell apart in 2016. That February, West released the song "Famous," which includes the following lyrics: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous." Swift was, famously, not happy.

"Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, 'I made that bitch famous,'" her representation told Entertainment Weekly. And when Swift won Album of the Year in 2016 later that month, she appeared to upbraid West during her speech. "There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame," she said. Kanye insisted that she had approved the lyrics. "She had two seconds to be cool and she fucked up," West said during a club appearance. That June, Kim Kardashian West insisted to GQ that Kanye had received permission-and subsequently released on Snapchat a recording of Swift verbally approving the song and thanking West for calling her. "Relationships are more important than punch lines," West said on the call, emphasizing that he wanted to make sure Swift felt comfortable with being name-dropped. "Right after the song comes out I'm gonna be on a Grammy red carpet and they're gonna ask me about it and I'm gonna be like, he called me," Swift assured him.

"1989 was a firm demarcation between Taylor the country music star and Taylor the global pop star and cultural phenomenon." -Elaine Lui

Reputational hell broke loose for Swift; #KimExposedTaylorSwift rapidly began trending on social media; a proliferation of the snake emoji, meant to symbolize Swift's untrustworthy and low nature, checked the comments of her Instagram page and the mentions of her Twitter. "I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative," Swift wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post.

Victimhood at the hands of West was a narrative Swift had often stoked and benefited from. Now, though, she was in too deep-her alleged machinations had been exposed. "The Kimye thing was probably the most general public disdain for her," Spanos said. "She wanted to play the victim," Kim said during the episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians that preceded the leak of the recording on Snapchat. "It worked so well for her first time."

It was Swift's worst PR moment, undermining the persona Swift used to connect with fans, a persona founded on a sense of struggle against bullies. "This really subverted that narrative and showed that she was just as calculating as some of these people that she had been accusing of being calculating and manipulative," writer Allie Jones, who covers celebrity culture, told The Ringer. Jones noted that Swift's impulse to amp up her public displays of affection with then-boyfriend Tom Hiddleston didn't help the situation. "People pretty quickly figured out that that was also calculated because paparazzi don't just hang out near her private home in Rhode Island, hoping to catch her with a random British actor."

In addition to her renewed feud with Kanye and much-paparazzi'd relationship making her appear manipulative, Swift also faced blowback for her silence on the presidential election. Katy Perry-another supposed bully Swift rallied against in the 2014 song "Bad Blood"-was touring the country as part of Hillary Clinton's campaign, and nearly every other major pop star had explicitly come out in support of Clinton, from Beyoncé to Demi Lovato. Swift, however, did not. Her silence was taken as a political statement, and some fans horrified by the candidacy and election of Donald Trump fumed about Swift's silence. "Taylor Swift, much like Chance the Rapper and Katy Perry and a number of other artists of that era, existed in a wave of post-Bush, Obama-era positivity," Turner said. "I don't know how you make that pivot."

Swift had always, of course, been a rich white girl "from Nashville," but she'd mostly been able to position herself as a politically neutral figure during the Obama era. But in an election as contentious as 2016, silence was its own statement, an announcement of privilege too loud to ignore. "She is maybe our whitest pop star," Spanos said. "She's kind of existed in her own bubble." Swift had been able to use this whiteness to her advantage on many occasions; most notably, the optics of the angry black man attacking the shaken blond girl had played in her favor during the 2009 VMAs incident. And although Swift would eventually come out in support of Democrats, her often-noted silence during the 2016 presidential campaign made her into an unwilling symbol of complacency and right-wing sympathy. White supremacists praised her online as an "Aryan goddess." Her studiously anodyne persona had been turned on its head.

In the fall of 2017, Swift teased the release of Reputation with images of snakes, signaling that she intended to address the Kimye debacle and her tarnished image. Swift had mined hits from her intrapersonal conflicts in the past, so continuing the tradition made sense. However, the album's lead single, the surly electro-pop kiss-off "Look What You Made Me Do," fell flat with some critics. Vulture called it "the worst music of her career." The Ringer's Lindsey Zoladz referred to it as " boring, unrelatable, and insular," and our own Justin Charity called it " a failure." (Personally, I think it's a great workout track for daydreaming about emotionally destroying your enemies by obtaining glorious abs.)

Media ill will remained so pitched that Swift's inclusion in a Time magazine feature on women in the #MeToo movement prompted a debate over her worthiness, even though she had filed and won a lawsuit against a DJ who had groped her as a young woman, speaking out in unflinching terms about the issue. The cold feelings went both ways; instead of sitting for traditional interviews, Swift published a poem in UK Vogue and a list of things she " learned before turning 30" for Elle.

However, the lackluster critical response to"Look What You Made Me Do" didn't lead to a drubbing when the album came out; as an album, Reputation still received largely positive reviews praising many of its other songs. "End Game," a collaboration with Ed Sheeran and Future, sounded like an impressively bad idea in theory but turned out surprisingly fun, and the sixth single, "Delicate," is one of Swift's finest songs. While the lead singles spent less time on the charts than her one-two 1989 punch of "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space," "Delicate" ended up as a sleeper hit. It is actually the longest-charting song Swift has ever had, courtesy of the adult contemporary chart.

After all that, the waves of backlash Swift had received in 2016 and 2017 didn't actually translate to career disarray. Instead, Swift doubled down on maximum commercialization; she partnered with ESPN to preview a single during a college football game, and partnered with UPS to plaster promotional posters on its brown trucks. If she was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake. Though her period of media silence took her out of the spotlight, Reputation sold over a million copies in its first week. And while the New York Post had initially reported that the Reputation tour was "shaping up to be a disaster" in 2018, it ended up as the highest-grossing U.S. tour ever, beating the Rolling Stones' 70-date tour from 2005 to 2007 with only 38 dates.

Although Reputation was all about spurning haters, Swift did appear to take some of the criticism she received in 2016 to heart. During the 2018 midterm elections, she explicitly endorsed two Democratic candidates in Tennessee. "In the past I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now," she wrote in an Instagram post. "I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country." She asked fans to vote; voter registration spiked. (The Republican incumbent senator who Swift spoke out against, Marsha Blackburn, won anyway.) After all the tumult, Swift's belated decision to get political showed that she was ready to change up certain aspects of her celebrity when necessary-but her next era was, in many ways, a reaffirmation of who she already was: an industrialist steamroller.

In April 2019,the same week a mural of multicolored butterfly wings popped up in the Gulch, a trendy neighborhood in Nashville, Swift released a new single, the first track off her seventh studio album, Lover."Me!" featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco,served as a statement on many things: her steadfast devotion to bubblegum pop, her spelling skills, her approach to brand tie-ins, and even, perhaps, her slightly fading power as a pop star. The media blitz for the song was a slick big-business spectacle; Swift announced it during an appearance at the 2019 NFL draft, then performed it at the Billboard Music Awards. But the song hit no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100-an accomplishment for most artists, but an outright flop for Swift. "Me!" was her first lead single to fail to hit no. 1 in nearly a decade, since 2010's "Mine." Ironically, the song Swift couldn't dislodge from the top spot was a country tune: "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X.

Her next crack at a top track came this summer, when she released the candyland-colored video for "You Need to Calm Down" in June, which is also Pride month. It features a parade of LGBTQ stars sipping tea and frolicking, including RuPaul, Ellen DeGeneres, and the lyric "shade never made anyone less gay." "The lyrics seemed to be comparing homophobia to people being mean online," Jones said.

"Its a breathtaking argument: that famous people are persecuted in a way meaningfully comparable to queer people," Spencer Kornhaber wrote at The Atlantic, noting that the denoument of the song's music video, in which Swift and Katy Perry appear to make amends, further confuses the message. "Thought this video was about gay rights? Nope, it's primarily narrative management for superstars." Then again, plenty of young gay fans adored the video, and it angered right-wing commentators-the clumsiness of her messaging aside, at least it was a choice to voice her beliefs. "Taylor, in this case, is in a position of she's fucked if she does and she's fucked if she doesn't," Elaine Lui said. "She is making a political statement. I believe it comes from a place of good. Was it executed perfectly? Probably not. However, the intention is there, and hopefully the execution can get better."

Pop predecessors like Madonna and contemporaries like Lady Gaga had explicitly aligned themselves with the gay community decades and years ahead of Swift, and had paid special attention to their LGBTQ audiences in a way that made their allyship seem more than just performative. Releasing "You Need to Calm Down" in 2019 marks Swift as behind. "It's kind of something she should have done in 2014 or 2015," Turner said. While Swift has identified her friendship with singer and dancer Todrick Hall as the impetus for this more overt move toward allyship, her tardiness makes it harder to enjoy the rainbow confection without parsing exactly how manufactured it was.

"I don't think she fully grasped what people wanted from her," Spanos said. "It's not exactly what everyone was begging for."

"A mass public shaming, with millions of people saying you are quote-unquote canceled, is a very isolating experience," Swift told Vogue this summer, referring to her feud with the Kardashian-Wests and the public fallout from it. In the interview, Swift frames Lover as a return to positivity, a "love letter to love." In the "Me!" video, a snake turns into butterflies; Swift is signaling a return to happiness, a move away from her spiky side. For all the hand-wringing, it's not clear when, exactly, Swift was ever really canceled; she's everywhere in the run-up to her album release, even on Pitchfork, which reviewed five of the singer's previous albums in anticipation of Lover. ( Red has a 9.0!)

While Lover is a step back into the sunshine after Swift's shift into more confrontational music, she is still willing to publicly slug it out. This summer, Swift wrote an impassioned Tumblr post about facing her "worst-case scenario" after celebrity manager Scooter Braun bought the Big Machine Label Group, which controls her back catalog masters. She brought up her conflict with Kim and Kanye and accused Braun of being a bully, and Big Machine's Scott Borchetta of betrayal. Things escalated from there: Bieber jumped on Instagram to defend Braun, other celebrities took sides, and Borchetta insisted Swift was lying-that she had not been blindsided by the sale, and had been given an opportunity to purchase her catalog. Although Swift's narrative of the artist vs. the industry was a sympathetic one, the skeptical coverage of the brouhaha underlined how Swift's swings at bigwigs don't necessarily pack the same punch. In past years, people may have been more willing to see her as an unaware, innocent victim; in 2019, everyone is too familiar with the playbook. Instead, some of Swift's best organic publicity this album cycle stemmed from Kid Rock aggro-tweeting about how she had succumbed to Hollywood liberalism, accidentally proving that her late-blooming political stance would help keep her in the news, after all.

"Taylor, in this case, is in a position of she's fucked if she does and she's fucked if she doesn't." -Elaine Lui

Swift has come far from her Nashville roots by many metrics, but her fidelity to the concept of the traditional album rollout is putting her at odds with the newer generation of artists. Ariana Grande, for example, rejoiced when she abandoned the standard pop timeline and released Thank U, Next shortly after Sweetener just because she felt like it. Other rising stars, like Lil Nas X, never had access to this machinery; instead, he harnessed TikTok and meme culture to make "Old Town Road" this year's summer anthem, and history's longest-lasting no. 1 hit. Hip-hop is ascendant, Max Martin-era big industry pop is on a sharp decline, and adhering to a corporate machinery that appears increasingly unnecessary may hinder Swift in time. "Pop as a genre just doesn't exist in the same way it did 10 years ago," said critic David Turner. "The kids love Billie Eilish. I don't really know what Taylor Swift does in a world where kids love Billie Eilish."

"Taylor is also far too young to go the Pink or Kelly Clarkson route and age gracefully into brassy empowerment anthems that all sound like pleasant Ellen episodes unto themselves," my coworker Rob Harvilla wrote earlier this summer, musing over how she could retain her former relevance. Taking the mom pop route-a perfectly fulfilling and well-compensated path, it must be said!-would be a premature change of course for Swift at this point, but it's not a bad worst-case scenario. (And taking a role in the upcoming and spectacularly weird Cats movie, as Swift did, could be a good jump start down that road.) A better course change might be one that brings her full circle. "She could always just go back to country, and her career would be set," Turner said.

One thing Taylor Swift does in a world where kids love Billie Eilish is that she partners with business behemoth Amazon to shellac Lover images on the company's packages. Eilish might have the cool factor, but Swift is fiendishly corporate. One of her shrewdest strategies for juicing album sales figures is to " bundle," which means offering the album as part of a deal selling merchandise like T-shirts and hoodies to fans. This isn't a Swift-specific tactic; rapper Travis Scott recently used bundling and paired his concert tickets with his album in order to climb the charts. But it is yet another example of how much strategy goes into maintaining this level of success.

"I think that Taylor Swift is pretty indestructible," Lui said. She's right: Even if Lover underperforms, Swift is so ensconced in the industry that it'd take far more than one whiff to bring her down. "It's her, Drake, and Beyoncé," Spanos said. "If they released an album that critics totally hated it would not change anything for them."

Swift is a long way from the up-and-coming country colt most famous for looking aghast at an awards show; she has built herself into an institution, which is why so many of her biggest stumbles have come when she has presented herself as the little guy in conflicts-the top dog can't be the underdog, too. Taylor Swift may never eclipse the critical and commercial success of 1989, any future attempts to take political stands may be as ego-tripping as "You Need to Calm Down," and I somehow doubt we've heard the last of her and Kanye's feud, but if the past 10 years have taught us anything, it's that her foibles don't detract from her persona as much as they enhance its fascination. (Also, the single "Lover" is a return to form.) When the seams show as Swift tries to control the narrative, it is a reminder that her story and celebrity are now too large for any one person, no matter how shrewd, to steer. She's not America's sweetheart, but Swift has achieved an American Dream-she's too big to fail.

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Taylor Swift has been named one of the top-earning musicians of the decade. The singer rose to fame in the late 2000s and has since been making hundreds of millions of dollars by selling albums, touring, and securing lucrative endorsement deals.

Swift has been known to spend money in various ways, such as buying numerous homes and reportedly having a couple of private jets.

However, Swift does not just spend money on herself. Over the years, she has given away a lot in charitable donations. Read on below to find out more about the people and charities that Swift has supported.

Taylor Swift has made a lot of donations to disaster relief efforts

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Swift has been known to donate money to aid disaster relief efforts in the United States. Here are the causes that she supported:

$100,000 to the Red Cross to help victims of the Iowa flood in 2008

$500,000 to the 2010 Nashville flood relief

$750,000 to the 2011 tornado victims in the South

$250,000 to the charity Nick's Kids that help children affected by tornadoes in Alabama in 2011

$1 million to the 2016 Louisiana flood relief

$100,000 to the 2016 Tennessee wildfire relief

An undisclosed amount to the Houston Food Bank after Hurricane Harvey in 2017

Taylor Swift also donates money to education

Education seems to be quite important to Swift, which is why she has made donations like:

$68,000 worth of books to a library near her childhood home in 2011

$50,000 to New York City's public school system 2015

Being a singer, Swift also supports music education. She has given quite a lot of money to various programs that promote music, such as:

$4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2012 to open the Taylor Swift Education Center

$100,000 to the Nashville Symphony in 2014

$50,000 to the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2015

An undisclosed amount to the Regent Park School of Music in Toronto in 2019

Swift supports political causes with her money

Swift has been known to lend her voice to a few political causes. However, she does not just talk about issues that she believes in, she actually gives money to support the people working on those issues as well. Here are the donations that Swift has made to political causes:

$113,000 to The Tennessee Equality Project in 2019

An undisclosed amount to GLAAD in 2019

In addition to the above causes, Swift also donated undisclosed amounts to various charities that support victims of sexual assault.

Swift gives a lot of money to fans and people close to her

Swift has also been generous with money when it comes to her fans and those who are close to her. For example, Swift gave:

$1,989 checks to two fans in 2014

$50,000 to help her backup dancer's nephew who was battling cancer in 2015

$15,000 to help an injured firefighter's family in 2015

$10,000 to an autistic boy who was trying to get a service dog in 2016

$250,000 to Kesha during her sexual assault lawsuit against producer Dr. Luke in 2016

$15,500 to help a fan whose mother was in a coma in 2018

$4,829 for a fan's college tuition in 2019

Swift has actually donated quite a huge amount of money to various GoFundMe causes that she became the person who donated the most money in the site's history.

Taylor Swift also reportedly leaves generous tips to waiters. In 2013, she left a $500 tip for waiters at a Philadelphia restaurant and gave the head chef two tickets to her concert.

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Taylor Swift's fans were forced to come to the singer's defense after her Billboard Music Awards performance caught the sting of the Beyhive.

Swift, 29, kicked off the show Sunday by singing her new single "ME!" live for the first time.

The pastel-hued performance featured the star strutting around the stage in a rainbow-colored dress after leaving the introduction to a drumline dressed in pink.

Swift has long included marching bands in her sets (she opened her Fearless World Tour in 2009 with one), but her BBMAs performance quickly drew comparisons to Beyoncé's 2018 headlining set at Coachella, which was recently chronicled in the Netflix documentary Homecoming.

Beyoncé's performance also began with a marching band - something her fans angrily pointed out on social media.

"I don't know if y'all are seeing this but Taylor Swift is gentrifying Beyoncé's Coachella performance right now," one user wrote.

Added another, "I see Taylor Swift is doing the Great Value Version of Beyoncé's Homecoming."

Amid the vitriol, Swift's own fanbase stepped in to defend the "Delicate" singer, arguing that one artist could not stake claim over something like a marching band or drumline.

"I swear, you guys are always comparing everyone and everything. I didn't know Beyoncé created drum lines and posing. Both are queens," one fan wrote.

Said another, "Dear Beyhive, Beyoncé did not originate the idea of having marching band style drums in a performance, and no one 'owns' that idea either. It's also wrong to pin 2 talented, amazing women against each other. What's the point? Sincerely, Swifties."
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Others also pointed out that Swift has used marching bands before, like in the 2008 music video for "You Belong With Me" (though that argument was also made for Beyoncé, who used marching bands while in Destiny's Child).

"Let me just say this, Taylor Swift is not trying to be Beyoncé, nor has she ever. They're both successful women with successful careers. Period," one fan wrote.

Swift was previously accused of ripping off the "Drunk in Love" singer in 2017, when fans noticed similarities between her "Look What You Made Me Do" music video and Beyoncé's "Formation" video.

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Taylor Swift invited a group of lucky fans to a secret listening session at her house in London yesterday (August 2) to hear her forthcoming new album 'Lover'.

While Swift's new album isn't due out for another few weeks (August 23), the star treated some of her most dedicated fans to an exclusive listen at a secret session at her home, after which the fans rushed to social media to reveal what happened.

"The album was AMAZING. So many amazing bops and also some true tearjerkers (archer who?????)," wrote one fan on Twitter. "I believe there's something for everyone on that album. There's some really stripped down stuff and some hardcore bops."

She continued: "Since I'm not allowed to say that much more about the music I'll write some random things I remember from the sessions:

"She made us rice crispy treats, shaped as hearts and they were pink and blue and purple.

"She had custom M&Ms, some that said LOVER and some with hearts."

aw pic.twitter.com/F2jMlyusbG

- yahaira ♡ (@bIankspacebabys) August 2, 2019

Other fans posted photos of themselves with Swift, of gift bags and pins, and excitedly tweeted about eating cookies, chocolate and wardrobes full of boardgames.

Today was a fairytale?@taylorswift13 @taylornation13 #LoverSecretSession pic.twitter.com/r1n2aJVWaZ

- georgia (@georgiaellen29) August 3, 2019

I have no makeup. But thank you for everything. @taylorswift13 @taylornation13 I am beyond grateful pic.twitter.com/Ehr7nFPnmv

- єṿѧ ??| you look beautiful today (@EvanLeSwifty) August 3, 2019

I was enchanted to meet you @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/WI387C8zHZ

- Conny (@connychiwa_) August 3, 2019

I'm heiacdirgwobqosvdosh pic.twitter.com/B63WVf6wfO

- ?? OMG YOU ARE JAVIER, RIGHT?? ?? (@tattshold) August 2, 2019

These are pictures from first Lover Secret Session that took place in London 🙂 I M TRULY VERY HAPPY FOR EVERYONE THAT GOT INVITED ❤️#TaylorSwift pic.twitter.com/m87dg83kyX

- anastasia (@tswiftcalmdown) August 3, 2019

I'll never forget that night. #loversecretsessions @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/kpL3nYPtJ0

- Going to Lover Fest Berlin, Nîmes & Werchter ? (@shinytidepods) August 3, 2019

"Hey, you're Andreas!" ??? @taylorswift13 #loversecretsessions pic.twitter.com/scHbLjJpZB

- You're Andreas (@_andraas_) August 3, 2019

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- Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 3, 2019

I said FUCK in front of Taylor Swift and she just looked at me and smiled

- Danique| Lover Fest Nîmes (@dutchswiftie_13) August 3, 2019

Meet the lady who saved me life not once, but thrice. At my lowest, in the darkest of places, at Hospitals, she was there with me. Makes me so happy to see her this happy! I love you @taylorswift13 @taylornation13 ! #londonloverss pic.twitter.com/puDaEOmME9

- єṿѧ ??| you look beautiful today (@EvanLeSwifty) August 3, 2019

So today was THAT day pic.twitter.com/FJ3Dpz6J8N

- hayden | 12 ☃️ (@tayslondonboy) August 2, 2019

This Love left a permanent mark?
THANK YOU TAYLOR, from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU for this incredible night! Thank you for inviting me,trusting me,hugging me & smiling at me with your beautiful,blue eyes. I'm forever grateful. Hold on to the memories??@taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/KNE578WyPF

- Sabrina? (@crystalskies___) August 3, 2019

DID WE ACTUALLY JUST SPEND THE WHOLE DAY WITH TAYLOR SWIFT? pic.twitter.com/6hWtcXWJID

- "it's tyler isn't it?" | 11? (@yntcdty) August 3, 2019

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift is set to receive the first ever Icon Award at next month's Teen Choice Awards.

At the ceremony, which takes place in Hermosa Beach, California on August 11, Swift will be celebrated for her career, as well as "using her voice and platform to inspire and create positive change."

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A group of lucky fans were invited to Taylor Swift's house to hear her new album before its release

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Taylor Swift invited a group of lucky fans to a secret listening session at her house in London yesterday (August 2) to hear her forthcoming new album 'Lover'.

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Swift was wronged, and the 'truth' come to light. Hashtags #KanyeWestIsOverParty and #TaylorToldTheTruth on trending.

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Taylor Swift fans have been left fuming after a video of her infamous phone call with Kanye West has leaked - and it appears to prove her right.

Back in 2016, the pair's feud was reignited when Kanye released his song Famous, which features the line 'For all my Southside n***** that know me best. I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that b***h famous.'

Kanye later claimed he had received permission from Taylor to use the line, with his wife Kim Kardashian releasing a video that appeared to prove him right.

In Kim's video, Taylor can be heard telling the rapper: 'I mean go with whatever line you think is better. It's obviously very tongue in cheek either way,' after he tells her the line: 'For all my southside n***** that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.'

She then thanked him for telling her about it, with Kanye responding: 'I just had a responsibility to you as a friend.'

However, Taylor later insisted that he never received her permission to call her a 'b***h'.

Basically, the whole phone call leaked, revealing Taylor Swift never consented to being called â€œthat bitch.â€

She never lied or was a â€œsnake.â€

She was recorded illegally and manipulated by Kanye West and everyone owes her an apology. pic.twitter.com/nTZXrJo7yS
- Ryan Schocket (@RyanSchocket) March 21, 2020

In the latest video, Kanye tells Taylor the line will be 'To all my Southside n*****s that know me best. I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex'.

Laughing, Taylor says: 'That's not mean!'

Kanye goes on to say: 'If you felt it's funny and cool and hip-hop and felt like just the College Dropout and Ye that you love, then people will be way into it.'

Taylor adds: 'I mean, I need to think about it...because it is absolutely crazy.'

The video does not show Kanye telling Taylor about the 'b***h' line.

#KanyeWestIsOverParty has been trending on Twitter, with Taylor's fans left fuming at the development.

'What's that? kim and kanye finally exposed for lying and receiving their predicted karma after publicly mortifying taylor swift? i love this song,' one wrote.

Another added: 'So in other news ... the entire phone call between Kanye West & Taylor Swift leaked. Turns out she was telling the truth the whole time and he's the snake instead of her.'

Basically, the whole phone call leaked, revealing Taylor Swift never consented to being called â€œthat bitch.â€

She never lied or was a â€œsnake.â€

She was recorded illegally and manipulated by Kanye West and everyone owes her an apology. pic.twitter.com/nTZXrJo7yS
- Ryan Schocket (@RyanSchocket) March 21, 2020

itâ€™s funny because kanye stans always say that he made taylor famous but kanye will go down in history as the moron who interrupted taylor swift #KanyeWestIsOverParty
- tien (@bigreputatien) March 21, 2020

'Basically, the whole phone call leaked, revealing Taylor Swift never consented to being called "that b***h.",' one more said.

After Kim released her footage of the phone call, which led fans to believe Kanye's side of the story. Taylor wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post: 'Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me 'that b-tch' in his song?

'It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that b*tch' in front of the entire world. Of course I wanted to like the song.

'I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me that I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.'

The pair have never seen eye to eye, with their feud beginning when Kanye famously interrupted Taylor at the 2009 VMAs, claiming Beyonce deserved the best female video award instead of her.

Neither Kim, Kanye nor Taylor have publicly commented on the latest video.
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Taylor Swift fans have been left fuming after a video of her infamous phone call with Kanye West has leaked - and it appears to prove her right. Back in 2016, the pair's feud was reignited when Kanye released his song Famous, which features the line 'For all my Southside n***** that know me best.

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She has to keep calm on the red carpet when it comes to dumb questions, even if slightly dismissive, answering them and to maintain public image and wants to pay more attention to her music

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When you ask Taylor Swift a question as ridiculous as this, you can fully expect to be given the absolute look of shocked contempt that she demonstrated on the Grammys red carpet.

You might wonder what question was stupid enough to make Taylor do this face but, sadly, it's really not that surprising. Men, of course.

What was surprising though, is the way Entertainment Tonight interviewer Nancy O'Dell casually suggested that the real question wasn't whether Taylor would be recognised for her musical success, it was how many men she'd be taking home.

Because, OBVIOUSLY Taylor was going to be bringing ALL of the men back to her apartment, right?

Nancy [as the camera pans up and down Taylor's body]: "I just wanted to show the legs, because you're going to walk home with more than maybe just a trophy tonight... I think lots of men?"

Taylor: "I'm not going to walk home with any men tonight. I'm going to hang out with my friends and then I go home to the cats."

Taylor then added, "men get me in trouble!" before swiftly moving the conversation on to areas other than, you know, the fact taking several men home is apparently the sign of a successful night.

Can we just sack off Valentine's Day and mark February 14th as a day to show how much we love Taylor Swift instead?

Speaking to Cosmo last year about the way women's love lives are treated differently to men's, she said: "I'm not lonely; I'm not looking."

"My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about. The kind of things we say are: 'Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he's cast aside, loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a slut on the internet?' It's not the same for boys, it just isn't and that's a fact."

Of course everyone was quick to pair Taylor up with any man she stood within a 10 meter radius of at the Grammys, but we were more into her actual date, best friend Abigail Anderson. Proof that no man's attention is ever as much fun as a night out with your BFF.
Follow Claire on Twitter. TAYLOR SWIFT DID SOME INCREDIBLE DANCING AT THE GRAMMYS
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When you ask Taylor Swift a question as ridiculous as this, you can fully expect to be given the absolute look of shocked contempt that she demonstrated on the Grammys red carpet. You might wonder what question was stupid enough to make Taylor do this face but, sadly, it's really not that surprising.

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The World's Highest-Paid Celebrity With $185 Million (2019)

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Taylor Swift begins the Lover era at No. 1 on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list, pulling in pretax income of $185 million over the past year, her biggest earnings total yet. Her estimated pay grew 131%, after clocking in at $80 million in 2018 (this year's full list can be found here).

The pop singer has topped the Celebrity 100 before-in 2016, she captured the No. 1 spot with $170 million, courtesy of The 1989 World Tour. Touring continues to play a crucial role in Swift's road to the top. The Reputation Stadium Tour surpassed her own 1989 World Tour as the highest-grossing in the U.S., raking in $266.1 million domestically, according to Billboard Boxscore. The 53-stadium trek ultimately reached 36 cities, seven countries and four continents, closing with $345 million overall.

In 2018, Netflix brought the Reputation Stadium Tour to living rooms on New Years Eve, after acquiring the exclusive rights to the tour for a live concert special. The streaming giant's payout and endorsement deals with Apple, AT&T and Diet Coke added millions to Swift's coffers.

Taylor Swift performs at Optus Stadium on October 19, 2018 in Perth, Australia.
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In November 2018, Swift parted ways with her long-time home, Big Machine Label Group, to join Universal Music Group's Republic Records, a deal that according to multiple Forbes sources, could be worth up to $200 million.

Swift's label swap re-appeared in headlines last week, after the singer penned a Tumblr post advocating for the ownership of her vast music catalog that is still under the control of BMLG. She criticized mega manager Scooter Braun, after learning that his media holdings company, Ithaca Holdings, had acquired BMLG for $300 million.

Swift alleges that BMLG offered her a chance to earn back her albums piecemeal-one album for every new album she put out-but says she declined with fears that BMLG chief Scott Borchetta would sell the label. Meanwhile, Borchetta wrote in a letter that Swift "had every chance in the world to own not just her master recordings, but every video, photograph, everything associated to her career."

Starting with Lover 's planned Aug. 23 release, Swift stated that she'll retain ownership of "anything" she creates with UMG, which bodes well for her continued inclusion on the Celebrity 100 list.

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charismatic and perfect singer on stage
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Apple Music has reversed its payment policy, a day after the singer Taylor Swift said she was refusing to allow the company to stream her album 1989.

In an open letter to Apple, Swift said she was withholding the record as she was unhappy with the three-month free trial offered to subscribers.

Now Apple says it will pay artists for music streamed during trial periods.

" We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple," tweeted executive Eddy @Cue.

Swift had said the plan was "unfair", arguing Apple had the money to cover the cost.

"I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company," the 25-year-old said, describing Apple as one of her "best partners in selling music".

"Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing.

"We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."

Apple Music launches on 30 June. It will cost $9.99 (£6.30) per month in the US for one person or $14.99 for families.

After hearing news of the company's decision on Sunday night Swift tweeted: "I am elated and relieved. Thank you for your words of support today. They listened to us.''

Mr Cue said he did not know if the Shake It Off singer would now make her album available on Apple Music - but he praised her for taking a stand.

"When I woke up this morning and I saw Taylor's note that she had written, it really solidified that we needed to make a change," he told Associated Press.

The music industry has generally supported the company bringing its vast music library to paid streaming, and the firm said it would pay 73% of the music subscription revenue to music owners.

Speaking to Billboard magazine Cue said they had already been been hearing "a lot of concern from indie artists about not getting paid during the three-month trial period" before Swift spoke out. But he said "we never looked at it as not paying them".

"We had originally negotiated these deals based on paying them a higher royalty rate on an ongoing basis to compensate for this brief time", he said.

They will now pay artists during the trial period and "also keep the royalty rate at the higher rate."

He said he spoke to Swift himself to let her know they were making the changes and "she was thrilled and very thankful".

Calvin Harris, the Scottish DJ understood to be Swift's current boyfriend, has also commented on Apple's decision.

"I just played a gig inside a giant owl and my girl just changed the entire music industry," he tweeted. "What a day."

Others who have commented include Radio 3's Clemency Burton-Hill, who said Apple's volte face was " good for all musicians".

" Well done @taylorswift13 for standing up for artists - and well done Apple for listening," tweeted Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire.

Swift's apparent sway with the tech giant has also generated a slew of light-hearted responses, with many asking the singer to use her clout to have various Apple-related oversights rectified.

The Incorporated Society of Musicians, the musicians' professional body, welcomed the news. But Deborah Annetts, its chief executive, said more needed to be done for musicians.

"It is great news that Apple has reversed its payment policy and will now pay artists for music streamed during trial periods; huge congratulations to Taylor Swift, for quite rightly defending her rights as an artist," she said.

"With the launch of Apple Music it is wonderful that more people have access to an ever expanding catalogue of music.

"But the fact remains that this service is not giving musicians, many of whom are session artists or non-featured artists, any new rights. And worse still, it will pay them virtually nothing."

'Unfair experiment'

It is not the first time Swift has spoken out against streaming music - she pulled her entire catalogue from Spotify last November and had refused to offer 1989 on streaming services, saying the business had "shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically".

She explained to Yahoo Music why she pulled her music from Spotify: "I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music."

If you find a Swift song now on Spotify it will only be from a compilation album.

1989 went on to become one of the biggest-selling albums of 2014 and has sold more than 4.9 million copies in the US alone.

Last week, UK-based independent record label Beggars echoed Swift's comments, saying it struggled "to see why rights owners and artists should bear this aspect of Apple's customer acquisition costs".

It said it did not have an agreement with Apple that would allow it to participate in the new service but hoped the "obstacles to agreement can be removed" in the coming days.

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Her image change from a country singer to a pop star. To lay the foundation for her growth as a pop diva.

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Swift won Best Female Video. During her acceptance speech, West jumpped the stage and grabbed the microphone to say that Beyonce had the best music videos of all time. Taylor reportedly cried backstage. As a 19-year-old girl and a rising star, had done nothing wrong. People percieve her image as a innocent victim and easily bruised.

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Her reputation was so damaged. Swift is now portrayed as a fraud -- sinister, conniving, and a liar.

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Kim K - Taylor Swift/Kanye Phone Call [Full snapchats with subtitles]

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First Album

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'maintain her image as a brave girl'. Building a 'feeling of intimacy' in her songs. Swift conveys an idea that she and her fans will have the same, resonant experiences in love and life.

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Different persona of Swift - country music sweetheart persona;  perfect ‘stage’ godness; villainous persona and so on.

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Taylor dated the former Jonas Brother and now lead frontman of DNCE from July 2008 to October 2008. This was Taylor's first public breakup, and possibly most brutal being that Joe decided to do the heartbreaking over a 27-second phone call. The country crooner's songs 'Last Kiss' and 'Forever and Always' is believed to have been written about her breakup with Jonas, while 'Holy Ground' is a later, more positive perspective on the short-lived romance.
Lucas Till (2009)
Taylor and Hollywood heartthrob Lucas Till dated for only a matter of months in 2009, after Lucas played the next-door neighbour in Taylor's 'You Belong With Me' music video. Lucas later spoke out about the two's brief attempt at dating, stating that at the end of the day, they were better as friends. "We dated for a little bit. But, there was no friction because we were too nice," he told . "We just really both liked each other...[but] most relationships work out cause you get along and then you don't, and then you make up and it's passionate, and with us, I really just liked her as a friend. That's the only reason that didn't work out."
Taylor Lautner (2009)
Who could forget the Taylor/Taylor romance of 2009? The two met when they co-starred as high school sweethearts in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day. Taylor's song 'Back To December' - where she sings "Your tanned skin, your sweet smile", on top of an apology for a rough night in December - is about ex Lautner, and the night she dumped him.
John Mayer (2009)
"It made me feel terrible because I didn't deserve it," Mayer told Rolling Stone in a 2012 interview. "I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do." Later, Mayer responded musically with his song 'Paper Dolls' on his 2013 album Paradise Valley. "Don't you think I was too young to be messed with? The girl in the dress, cried the whole way home, I should've known," he sings.
Cory Monteith (2010)
Though Taylor and the never officially confirmed they were dating, the two were photographed together on many occasions. Taylor also clearly blushed whenasked if the two had datedonThe Ellen DeGeneres Show. On the day of Cory's tragic death in July 2013, Taylortweeted: "Speechless. And for the worst reason."
RELATED: Cory Monteith Documentary Will Answer One Of The Biggest Questions Around His Death Jake Gyllenhaal (2010-2011)
One of Taylor's most public relationships, the couple were regularly seen out in New York City and Los Angeles. Rumour has it the couple's 10-year age gap just wasn't working so Jake called it quits. 'The Last Time' with lyrics "Put my name at the top of your list" is said to be about this romance.

'All Too Well' which documents the infamous scarf situation, is also about Gyllenhaal. This song references a number of details specific to their relationship, including a car trip to upstate New York and a Thanksgiving dinner at Maggie Gyllenhaal's house. In the first verse, Swift makes this fascinating claim: "Left my scarf there at your sister's house. And you've still got it in your drawer even now" to the dramatic end "Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone, But you keep my old scarf from that very first week 'Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me." Gyllenhaal has been photographed in years since wearing Taylor's scarf, much to the amusement and confusion of Swift fans.
RELATED: Jake Gyllenhaal Has Finally Answered A Question About Taylor Swift Adam Young (2011)
Owl City's Adam Young never officially dated Taylor, with things never escalating past some emails and one face-to-face meeting. Taylor was so excited to meet Young that she later wrote the song 'Enchanted' about him. She sings: "All I can say is it was enchanting to meet you". Young later released a cover version of Taylor's song 'Enchanted' on Valentine's Day when he realised the song was about him.
Chord Overstreet (2011)
Taylor and Chord reportedly only went on one date, but there are pictures from the event so naturally, he makes the list.
Eddie Redmayne (2011-2012)
It is rumoured that Taylor and Eddie started dating when she auditioned for the part of Eponine inLes Miserables. They wereseen together a lot in New Yorkwhile the auditions were taking place. Unfortunately, Eddie's captivating green eyes and freckles didn't make enough of an impact to earn a tribute track.
Zac Efron (2012) Conor Kennedy (2012)
Taylor dated Robert F. Kennedy's grandson Conor Kennedy during the summer of 2012. She did receive some criticism for the age difference in the relationship, being that she was 22 and Conor was 18. Taylor even purchased a home near the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, during the romance. It started to look like things between Taylor and Conor weren't going so well when his family accused the singer of crashing the wedding of Conor's cousin Kyle in August. Her reps denied it, but it appeared the damage had been done.

'Begin Again' has been linked to Conor, especially the lyric "I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause he never did."
Harry Styles (2012-2013)
One of Taylor's most divisive relationships to date. The couple, despite only dating for a month, shared paper aeroplane necklaces, strolled through Central Park, kissed in Times Square on New Year's Eve and even got in a snowmobile accident. 'I Knew You Were Trouble' is about the One Direction heartthrob. Taylor's album 1989 is also filled with subtle references to Harry, especially 'Out Of The Woods' with its lyrical references to their December romance and the accident, and 'Style' which is fairly self-explanatory.
Calvin Harris (2015-2016)
Taylor and Harris shared a fairly long romance and was her most well-documented. The couple would regularly appear on red carpets together and post images to their social media pages. Multiple reports claim that it was Calvin who wanted to break up. While neither have ever commented on it, Taylor's hit 'We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together' was presumed to be about Calvin. However, many Swift fans remain confident this is about Gyllenhaal.
Tom Hiddleston (2016)
Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift, better known as Hiddleswift, was the love story that shocked the globe. The couple met in New York and then took their romance on the road (Rhode Island, Italy, Australia, and England to name a few stops). But sadly, all good things must come to an end. Just two months after Hiddleston was photographed in an 'I Heart T.S.' t-shirt, the couple would call it quits.
Joe Alwyn (2017-Now)
Fast forward to 2019, and Taylor and current beau Alwyn have been happily dating for over two years. The couple has done a very good job of keeping their relationship shrouded in mystery. Taylor and Joe were first photographed in 2017, enjoying a coffee on a balcony in Nashville. One song '...Ready for It?' has fans divided over whether it's about Joe or her former love interest Harry Styles. But, according to , Taylor reportedly liked a Tumblr post breaking down the lyrics, with all signs pointing to them being about Joe. Taylor's song 'Gorgeous' is definitely about Joe, with lyrics "You make me so happy, it turns back to sad."
RELATED: Joe Alwyn Opens Up About His Private Relationship Taylor Swift For The First Time WATCH: Taylor Swifts Reputation Tour Hits Netflix.

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For years while we've been belting out Taylor Swift's eerily-similar-to-our-own-life breakup anthems to get over the average Joe's we've dated, the country crooner turned pop star has successfully dated a slew of Hollywood heartthrobs. The 'Reputation' singer has been linked to musicians and movie stars alike and has a penchant for memorialising her fallen relationships in lyrical form.

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Swift has broken her silence on political issues.  Speak up for the unfair treatment of women and gay people and fight for equal rights for the disadvantaged in society. Celebrities are 'influencer'. She hope to have an impact on the outcome of the vote by 'celebrity influence'.  Brave and sincere.

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Taylor Swift Reacts to Embarrassing Footage of Herself After Laser Eye Surgery. She presented a more life-like image in this talk show. She has no makeup and looks beat-up. It's a little hard for audiences to connect the image they're obsessed with 'onstage Taylor' and this 'private' one.

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Thin - reveal the ‘real person’. Swift no longer goes on a diet to keep her slim figure, nor does she go out of her way to cater to public standards. Health is more important. Be more true and loyal to herself and think of herself.

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Taylor Swift has disclosed her experiences with an eating disorder in a new documentary. In Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, which received its premiere at the Sundance film festival last night, Swift says that she would starve herself to the extent that she felt as if she might pass out during live performances.

The 30-year-old star said she would make a list of everything she ate, exercised constantly and shrank to a UK size two; she is now a size 10. "I would have defended it to anybody who said 'I'm concerned about you,'" she tells the film's director, Lana Wilson.

"I don't think you know you're doing that when you're doing it gradually. There's always some standard of beauty that you're not meeting. Because if you're thin enough, then you don't have that ass that everybody wants, but if you have enough weight on you to have an ass, then your stomach isn't flat enough. It's all just fucking impossible."

Swift says in the film that she now fights the urge to be critical about her body - "because it's better to think you look fat than to look sick" - and avoids looking at images of herself. "I tend to get triggered by something, whether it's a picture of me where I feel like my tummy looked too big, or someone said that I looked pregnant or something. And that will trigger me to just starve a little bit, just stop eating."

Swift expanded on her comments in an interview with Variety magazine: "My relationship with food was exactly the same psychology that I applied to everything else in my life. If I was given a pat on the head, I registered that as good. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad."

She recalled receiving praise for fitting into sample sizes on photo shoots. "And I looked at that as a pat on the head. You register that enough times, and you just start to accommodate everything towards praise and punishment, including your own body."

Swift told the magazine she had come to realise that "if you eat food, you have energy, get stronger, you can do all these shows and not feel [enervated]", and cited the body image activist and actor Jameela Jamil as an influence on her recovery. "I swear the way she speaks is like lyrics, and it gets stuck in my head and it calms me down."

It is the first time that Swift has talked candidly about her experiences with an eating disorder. In an essay for Elle magazine on the 30 things she learned before turning 30, published in March 2019, she said she had "learned to stop hating every ounce of fat on my body".

She wrote: "I worked hard to retrain my brain that a little extra weight means curves, shinier hair and more energy. I think a lot of us push the boundaries of dieting, but taking it too far can be really dangerous. There is no quick fix. I work on accepting my body every day."

Also in the documentary, Swift admits that she regrets not speaking out against Donald Trump during the 2016 election, and goes against her father Scott Swift's wishes by publishing a statement decrying the Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn during the 2018 midterm elections.

Visibly upset, Swift says: "I can't see another commercial [with] her disguising these policies behind the words 'Tennessee Christian values'. I live in Tennessee. I am Christian. That's not what we stand for."

Her father responds: "I've read the entire [statement] and ... right now, I'm terrified. I'm the guy that went out and bought armoured cars." When her publicist, Tree Paine, warns Swift that Trump might come after her, she responds: "Fuck that, I don't care."

The documentary details Swift's disentanglement from her lifelong wish to be seen as a "good girl". She says: "I've been trained to be happy when you get a lot of praise ... Like, those pats on the head were all that I lived for. I was so fulfilled by approval that that was it. I became the person everyone wanted me to be."
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She also discusses the impact of her mother Andrea Swift's cancer diagnosis on her values: "Do you really care if the internet doesn't like you today if your mom is sick from chemo?" Swift recently told Variety that her mother had been diagnosed with a brain tumour, which informed her decision to tour her 2019 album, Lover, at limited 2020 festival dates rather than embarking on a full stadium tour. "I wanted to be able to work as much as I can handle right now, with everything that's going on at home."

Wilson described her film as a "feminist coming-of-age story that I personally connected with, and that I really think women and girls around the world will see themselves in."

Taylor Swift: Miss Americana is streaming on Netflix from 31 January.
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US pop singer Taylor Swift has won a civil case against an ex-DJ who she said grabbed her bottom after putting his hand under her skirt during a pre-concert photo opportunity in 2013.

The case has grabbed headlines for the star's bold testimony in court, and emphasis that she wanted to fight the case not just for herself but for all women who are victimised.

Here are four reasons why it's significant.

1. It highlighted the underreporting of sexual assault

The 2013 incident only became public in 2015 when radio personality David Mueller- who lost his job after Ms Swift's team reported the groping claim to his radio station - filed a defamation lawsuit against Ms Swift.

With the incident out in the open, Ms Swift filed a countersuit alleging sexual assault - which she has just won.

In court, Taylor Swift's mother, Andrea Swift, said she did not go to police when her daughter first told her she had been groped because: "I did not want this event to define her life."

"I did not want her to have to live through the endless memes and gifs that tabloid media and internet trolls decided to come up with - doctoring the pictures... and making her relive this awful moment over and over again," she said.

Ms Swift's lawyer said the star had wanted to keep the situation "discreet and quiet and confidential".
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But by not reporting the alleged groping to authorities in the first place, the pop superstar was responding in the same way that thousands of American women do every year.

According to RAINN, the largest anti-sexual violence organisation in the United States, two out of three sexual assaults in the country go unreported.

The top three reasons for people not doing so are fearing retaliation, not believing the police will help and considering it to be a "personal matter".

Taylor Swift's reasons for not going to the police, as told by her mother, who is part of her management team, are revealing. The case highlights how some victims fear being ridiculed, not being believed or not being taken seriously after reporting an alleged sexual assault.

2. She refused to back down

The trial showed how some defence lawyers try to undermine the credibility of an alleged victim.

But some of the most potent moments occurred when Taylor Swift refused to let that happen.

At one point, rejecting an accusation that she had misidentified Mueller, she said: "I'm not going to allow you or your client to say I am to blame."

When asked why a photo taken at the time of the alleged incident does not show the front of her skirt ruffled, she bluntly responded: "Because my ass is located on the back of my body."

At another moment, she said: "I know exactly who did this. It is not alleged. It is a fact.

"You can ask me a million questions about it and I'm never going to say anything different."

Her testimony drew praise, with Slate magazine's Christina Cauterucci describing it as "sharp, gutsy and satisfying".

"For young fans of Swift's, hearing a beloved artist speak candidly about the emotional damage of sexual assault and stand up to a courtroom of men trying to prove her wrong could be a formative moment for their developing ideas of gender, sex, and accountability," she wrote.

3. It's being seen as a bigger victory

Taylor Swift only asked for a symbolic $1 (77p) in damages from Mr Mueller and has now pledged to donate to organisations that help defend sexual assault victims.

"I acknowledge the privilege that I benefit from in life, in society and in my ability to shoulder the enormous cost of defending myself in a trial like this," she said in a statement following the verdict.

"My hope is to help those whose voices should also be heard."
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Her lawyer Douglas Baldridge said she asked only for $1 because she did not want to bankrupt Mr Mueller, but rather use the case to send a message to all women that "they will decide what will be tolerated with their body".

Ms Swift is being praised for inspiring other women to speak out about groping, even if they might not have the advantages she has in terms of wealth, fame and public support.

Ten-year-old fan Vega Zaringlee, who attended the trial, told the New York Times that she wanted to thank Ms Swift for standing up for women.

"I now know what honest people talking about a situation that victimised them sound like," she said.

4. In this case the celebrity was the alleged victim, not the alleged perpetrator

We are used to seeing high-profile cases of alleged sexual assault of abuse involving celebrities, but they are often the accused, rather than the accuser.

Of course Taylor Swift is far from the first female pop star to make such allegations.

In fact, she gave $250,000 (£193,000) to the singer Kesha in 2016 to help her pay legal fees in cases against her former producer, whom she accused of sexual assault.

Some brand strategists have suggested that with the civil case, Taylor Swift has been not only trying to empower ordinary women that she doesn't know, but also music industry colleagues.

"Taylor is aware that her defiance in fighting against these allegations - not only made toward her but other artists and colleagues - will achieve global visibility around sexual assault issues that, in many cases, go unreported and ignored and are marginalised," PR strategist Marvet Britto told NBC News.

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US pop singer Taylor Swift has won a civil case against an ex-DJ who she said grabbed her bottom after putting his hand under her skirt during a pre-concert photo opportunity in 2013. The case has grabbed headlines for the star's bold testimony in court, and emphasis that she wanted to fight the case not just for herself but for all women who are victimised.

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Live for herself and accept the imperfect. The story of her reconciliation with ‘self’.

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