Taylor Swift looks unrecognisable on latest Vogue cover
LOS ANGELES: One look at Vogue’s latest cover girl and you’d think “Who is this unknown with a bad hairdo?”
She is actually Taylor Swift, 26, in her latest iteration. She’s having some fun to unwind after her exhaustive 1989 World Tour.
Not only has she debuted a new look, she’s got a score to settle with the media about their perception of her love life.
Basically, she’s upset at the popular portrayal of her as some kind of serial man-eater with her alleged attachments to Harry Styles, Jake Gyllenhaal and others in the years before she settled down with current boyfriend Calvin Harris.
“You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it,” Swift told the fashion magazine, for which she is the May edition’s cover star. “And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decisionmaking. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.”
However, for all that, she adds that it is fun and surprisingly easy to run rings around the media and make them seem foolish.
“There are a lot of really easy ways to dispel rumours,” she ranted. “If they say you are pregnant, all you have to do is continue to not be pregnant and not have a baby. If the rumour is that you have fake friendships, all you have to do is continue to be there for each other. And when we’re all friends in 15 years and raising our kids together, maybe somebody will look back and go, ‘That was kind of ridiculous what we said about Taylor and her friends’.”
She and Scottish DJ Harris recently celebrated their one year anniversary, and Swift recently gave him a shout out when she cleaned up at the iHeartRadio Awards last month. She described him as “the most amazing person to come home to when the spotlight went out.”
Asked about how things were going, and whether wedding bells might be on the horizon, she remained tight-lipped. “I’m just taking things as they come. I’m in a magical relationship right now. And of course I want it to be ours, and low-key… this is the one thing that’s been mine about my personal life.”
You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. Taylor Swift, pop star