14 DAY TRIAL // Taylor Swift is done with the media and fellow celebrities “bullying” her for her love life, and for perpetuating this myth about her as a serial dater who turns stalker 3 months into a new relationship. She’s no longer standing for random acts of “public humiliation.”
Taylor is about to hit the road with a new tour, in support of her best-selling album “1989,” her first-ever foray into pure pop music. She’s promoting it with a new interview in Glamour UK magazine, in which she talks, among other things, about the way her love life managed to become the main story in the tabloids a while back.
“That’s public humiliation. And I don’t think it’s fair.”
In case you’re not up to speed with the tabloid frenzy around Taylor and her apparently very busy love life, know just this: there was a time, a couple of years ago, when not a day passed by without her being linked to some hot male star.
Some of those she really did date, like Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal and Harry Styles of One Direction, but not one of these guys made it past the 3-month threshold, or so reports would have it.
In exchange for several heartbreaks and being dumped over and over again (allegedly, as well), Taylor got material for some of her biggest hits, like “Dear John” and “Never Ever Getting Back Together.”
In turn, this led to even more tabloid coverage, which spilled into jokes included in the routine of hosting awards shows. Now that was the last drop for Taylor, she says.
“There is no easy way for me to engage with romance. I’m really busy, so I can’t. And it’s a good thing that I feel really independent and I feel that my friends are all I need,” she says. “It’s kind of a sad way I got there though, being shamed into it. What else is it when you have two boyfriends in one year and everyone’s calling you boy crazy, making jokes about you at awards shows? That’s public humiliation. And I don’t think it’s fair.”
Taylor will never forgive Amy Poehler and Tina Fey
Amy and Tina hosted the Golden Globes 2013 and one of their funniest jokes, based on the way it was received, was when they “warned” Taylor Swift to stay away from Michael J. Fox’s son because he couldn’t stand to have his heart broken and to have a song about him out.
Both Taylor and the young man were in the venue when this happened, but it was only Taylor who found the joke deeply offensive.
Later on, in an interview with Vanity Fair, she said that “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” referring to Tina and Amy.
Their responses were hilarious: Tina said she was a feminist but also a comedienne, and she agreed that she’d go to hell eventually (but not for the reason Taylor gave); Amy suggested she take a chill pill because the “offense” was nothing short of a light joke that didn’t come from a bad place.
Apparently, Taylor is still not over it.