Asos Magazine: Girl Power

Asos Magazine
Published: January 2015

Taylor Swift sells millions of records, is BFFs with Lorde and Lena Dunham, knows the best way to mend a broken heart and looks amazing. So what’s the secret to mega girl power, TSwizz style? Well, why don’t we let her tell you… 

It is the sort of day when Taylor Swift is everywhere. I turn on the radio and Shake It Off  blasts out, its infectious hook encouraging the world to, among other things, get down to ‘This. Sick. Beat.’ On my desk is British Vogue with Taylor on its cover in a perfect pastel Miu Miu outfit, and on my phone the internet is basically breaking itself with hype about 1989, Taylor’s fifth studio album.

It’s not necessarily abnormal for the day to start in a Taylor Swift frenzy. Lately, whether she’s releasing an album or not, there will usually be some news story –about what she’s doing/where she’s eating/who she’s eating with/her BFFs or even her cats – that’s sent Instagram insane and has Tumblr tripping over itself. She is, after all, one of the biggest artists in the world right now, Billboard’s Woman of 2014 and the first person to ever receive that award twice.

The Guardian – Taylor Swift: ‘Sexy? Not on my radar’

The Guardian
Published: August 23, 2014

She’s gone from ringletted country artist to feminist role model and the world’s most charming pop star. As she returns with her catchiest material yet, she talks awards-ceremony etiquette, autobiographical lyrics and why she puts nice before naughty

In Manhattan’s chi-chi Sant Ambroeus restaurant, the pair of smartly dressed women at the next table are making not-so-surreptitious “eek” faces at each other, having clocked that their neighbour for lunch is Taylor Swift. And that’s nothing compared to the commotion gathering outside: wherever Taylor Swift dines, a swarm of fans and paparazzi soon forms on the pavement.

Us Weekly: Taylor acts up!

Us Weekly
Published: August 25, 2014

Most freshyizced actresses are hungry for the biggest part they can nab. Taylor Swift would only accept the smallest. “The fact that it’s so tiny is what drew me to it,” the star, 24, tells Us of her role as supernaturally gifted student Rosemary in the sciji fantasy The Giver (in theaters now). “I didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew with a leading role just yet.”

Besides, Swift – whose prior screen credits include a bit part in the 2010 rom-com Valentines Day and cameos in TV’s New Girl and CSI – has a dayjab. As she explains, “I only had so much time because I’m so busy with my music. So to take a week off to film in South Africa last October and learn what it’s like to be on a film set was a dream scenario.” Swift (Psst! She’s been hinting online that her fifth album may be on the way) shares more fond memories exclusively with Us.

The film is based on a popular dystopian YA novel. Is that why you signed on?
Oh, yeah. The Giver had a huge impact on me when I was in school. It made me think about how strange it is that intense pain is usually balanced out by intense joy – obviously a theme I explore in music.

An interview with Taylor Swift (Rosemary in the movie The Giver)

The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition
Published: July 1, 2014

Q: What attracted you to The Giver?
A: I read scripts all the time, and I have been in very tiny parts in one or two movies because I was always waiting for the right thing to come along to fully commit. When I read The Giver – first of all, I remembered reading the book, and I remember it deeply affecting me in school. But picturing the characters played by Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep, and these incredible actors who had already signed on to the project, it was absolutely an honor to be approached to play Rosemary.

Q: Well, describe Rosemary for us. It’s interesting because Rosemary in the book doesn’t play piano. When you were given the script, was she already a piano player, or did you put that in there? How did that work?
A: Rosemary is such an interesting character to me because she reminds me of an analogy for the modern-day artist: a lot of the time, you’ll have someone who is so fragile and so vunerable and so open, and that’s the reason why they are successfull at making art. But that can also be their downfall. Rosemary felt too much. She cared too much. She was exposed to too much, and she couldn’t handle it, and I think that we see that play out in modern-day society all the time.
When I read the script, Rosemary was playing piano. It’s so interesting that she gets to be a musician, because in my mind, that is exactly the kind of vunerable, sensitive human being who would be chosen to remember memories, and who might be so sensitive and vunerable that they end up getting completely pulled into it, and go into a downward spiral because of it.