Taylor Swift Opens Up – Country rocker Taylor Swift opens up in a lengthy interview about growing up, guys who did her wrong, and how she got her start in the music biz.
Taylor Swift on loving music as she was growing up: “At nine I began doing theater performances and by ten I was auditioning for Broadway shows.”
“Then I started singing country music at festivals and fairs and entering karaoke contests.”
“All the girls at school were going to sleepovers and breaking into their parents’ liquor cabinets at the weekend, and all I wanted to do was go to festivals and sing karaoke music.”
“The first time I went to Nashville I was 11. I had a demo of me singing karaoke music and I walked up to every single record label and knocked on the door. I just kept going. I’d go with Mum every month, and meet agents, songwriters, anyone who was in the music industry.”
She was actually employed by Sony as a songwriter at 13, writing songs after school for other artists to sing.
Taylor also talked about when she first began writing songs and her family had moved to a new town and she was at a new middle school.
“All of a sudden there were all these little cliques. There’s cool girls and they have straight hair and you don’t – things start dividing you up and I was really fascinated by that. I would go to school and not have anyone to talk to, but what I could look forward to was going home and writing something about it.”
“That’s where the revenge of writing a song about someone who’s mean to you started. It was child’s play back then, but it set this pattern in motion where I’m very nice to everybody, but if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.”
Taylor Swift about being dumped by Joe Jonas via a text message and how the song “Forever and Always” on Fearless is about that relationship:
“It’s true. I write songs about people that I date. When you buy my album you are going to find out what I’ve gone through in the past two years. And you’ll probably be able to figure out how many break-ups I’ve gone through, how many people I’ve fallen for – it’s very autobiographical.”
“If guys don’t want me to write songs about them, they shouldn’t do bad things! And if they’re afraid, going into the relationship, that they’re going to end up having a bad song written about them… Well, then they don’t have the best of intentions, do they? It’s a nice weeding-out process.”
Taylor on staying true to herself: “I’ve been given the freedom to do whatever I want. I’m 19 – if I want to storm out of the house and go to a club and get drunk and take my clothes off and run naked through Nashville, I can do that. I just really would rather not. It’s as simple as that.”
“Sometimes people are fascinated by the fact that I don’t care about partying, almost to the point where they think it’s weird. I think when we get to the point where it’s strange for you to not be stumbling around high on something at 19, it’s a warped world.”
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November 15th, 2009 at 2:27 am
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