Taylor Swift once sang, “I promise that you’ll never find another like me!”
Swift somehow feels more popular than ever, nearly two decades into her career.
That being said, Swift has certainly had her ups and downs.
“Are you ready for it?”
“I was born in 1989!”
Her parents were business-minded from the very beginning, including in the way they named their daughter.
She grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, and she seems to have loved it.
Speaking withEsquire, she recalled that everyone in the family helped out.
“We all had jobs,” she said.
“All I wanted to hear from then on was country,” she said.
In middle school, she began playing guitar.
She told Rolling Stone, “I would literally play until my fingers bled.”
Swift recalled in an interview withEntertainment Weekly.
She answered her own question.
In high school, too, Swift felt left out.
Still, she had some friends.
(Hi, Abigail!)
She linked up with Big Machine Records, run by Scott Borchetta.
However, she would later regret that decision.
During these eras, Swift often appeared with her hair in golden ringlets.
She often performed with a guitar, and her music was full of the imagery of fairy tales.
“I bought red lipstick the other day,” she toldThe Bootin 2008.
“I think people are going to throw something at me if I wore red lipstick!
I just looked down and saw the red lipstick and said, ‘I need a change.'”
From early on, Swift had an eye on dominating the pop world, too.
“you’re free to’t forget who brought you to the party,” she said.
“And that’s country radio.”
“But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”
Swift, however, had to perform shortly after, still looking shaken up.
“And [Kanye] did that.”
“Speak Now” was the album that resulted from those sessions, and it was released in 2010.
“Mean,” for the record, netted her two Grammy Awards.
Her romances with fellow stars like Jake Gyllenhaal and Harry Styles were tracked closely by fans and the media.
The strategy was a winning one.
Around this time, Swift also developed a signature look.
“Red” was a turning point for another reason, too: A brewing backlash.
“Music is art, and art is important and rare.
Important, rare things are valuable,” she wrote in an op-ed forThe Wall Street Journal.
“Valuable things should be paid for.”
The standoff would continue until 2017.
Swift later realized she was overcompensating for not feeling accepted in school.
Taylor Swift’s mysterious alter ego
2016 was pivotal for Taylor Swift.
She called the look “futuristic gladiator” in an interview withVogue.
Her style transformation continued that summer.
She captioned an Instagram snap (viaE!
Online) “Bleachella.”
The song was co-written by someone named Nils Sjoberg, who did not seem to actually exist.
That summer, the song’s writing credit was altered, revealing that Swift herself was Sjoberg.
“And that’s when it’s really fun to create fake names and write under them.”
She would soon find out that, perhaps, they were not.
West claimed that Swift had given him permission, while Swift insisted she had not.
“My reputation’s never been worse,” she sang on “Delicate.”
She barely spoke with the press during this era, later explaining that decision toThe Guardian.
“Every domino fell …
I felt completely incapable of doing or saying anything publicly, at all.
Even about my music.”
“There’s literally nothing worse than white supremacy.
It’s repulsive,” she toldRolling Stone.
“There should be no place for it.”
“Dad, I need you to forgive me for doing it, because I’m doing it.”
While we’ll never know what Lover Fest might have been like, Swift had already moved on anyway.
“In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result.”
She explained the change, saying, “My world felt opened up creatively.”
Big Machine Records, her first label, had been sold toScooter Braun.
The projects began rolling out during the COVID-19 pandemic, propelling Swift’s career to new heights.
I’m so weird with stuff like that."
On her 2022 album “Midnights,” Swift admitted she’s a “Mastermind.”
“It’s not just a tour.
I just sort of feel like my life finally feels like it makes sense.”
In some senses, her reputation had never been better.
In October 2023, Swift released a film version of the tour.
It quickly shattered records, becoming the highest-grossing concert film of all time in its first three days.
Fans, it seems, agreed.
Taylor Swift, football girlfriend?
Taylor Swift’s latest romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Jason Kelce has caused a media firestorm.
“I’ve seen you rock the stage at Arrowhead [Stadium],” he recalled telling Swift.
Swift did exactly that several days later.
“She just thought it was a fantastic way to spend Sunday,” a source toldPeople.
In other words, their love connection was as good as confirmed.
In particular, she has grown close with Brittany Mahomes, wife of Kelce’s teammate Patrick Mahomes.
