14 DAY TRIAL // Last year, in an interview promoting the album “1989,” which marks her first fully-fledged, pure pop release, Taylor Swift said that one of the tracks, “Bad Blood,” had been inspired by the fallout between her and one of her best female friends, who tried to double cross her and ruin her professionally.
That former BFF was Katy Perry. Taylor never named her, but the details she had offered added up with what was already known about their troubled relationship and why it ended. Katy half-confirmed it when she too started badmouthing Taylor in interviews, also without naming any names.
The feud is over, Taylor is being the better person
At first glance, this dispute was minor, certainly not the kind that makes you call your gossip-loving friends in the middle of the night to talk about and definitely nothing in comparison to other celebrity feuds.
However, reports online claimed that this was the climax of a long and bitter feud, one that started when Katy (allegedly) tried to hire backup dancers right from under Taylor, who, at the time, was in the middle of an international tour.
The two hated each other passionately and had already reached a point where there was no going back anymore. They would never make peace again, would never frequent the same circles again, and by the looks of things, they seemed determined to continue taking jabs at each other in the media.
Well, Taylor is being the better person in this. Speaking with The Telegraph about her upcoming arena tour and how she wants the world at large to focus just on her music from now on, she promises she’s done talking about her Arch-nemesis.
“I’m not giving them anything to write about. I’m not walking up the street with boys, I’m not stumbling out of clubs drunk. But I’m never going to talk about her in my interview. It’s not going to happen,” Taylor says.
Taylor gets candid
That is just one juicy bit from an interview that qualifies as a must-read for fans. Taylor touches a lot on the topic of her fans and how they keep her grounded and entertained at the same time, how they’re the compass that always ensures she doesn’t get too sucked up in the glitzy world of showbiz.
On a related topic, she says she has no idea if she’ll be putting another album out soon, because “1989” turned out to be her best material to date, and it will be difficult to top that.
She talks about the industry and selling albums, fame and the never-ending narrative around her personal life, how she’s neurotic and worrisome, and how she reckons she will still be single 5 years from now because no one would want to date someone like her, who is always in the spotlight.