Has anybody ever made extra of the sparkly little costume? “I simply love them,” says Taylor Swift from her mother and father’ kitchen in Nashville. “Particularly onstage, as a result of I believe it is type of enjoyable when the highlight hits you and your costume, for a millisecond, blinds individuals.”
For 2 years Swift has been dazzling, if not blinding, individuals together with her astonishingly grown-up knack for crafting chic pop songs about highschool subject material—boys, being sixteen—that one way or the other everybody can relate to. It does not damage that these gems come from such a dreamy bundle: She is tall, lovely, and poised, with that fairy-tale cascade of curls. In a pop-cultural panorama the place vulgarity and controversy are the coin of the realm, she dares to be a younger girl.
Swift calls herself a “spillover artist”—her music fills up nation radio till it spills over into pop, after which up and over once more into grownup up to date. Due to this, she’s had the perfect run on the prime of the charts of any artist in a decade. At 20, she is the youngest particular person ever to win the Grammy for Album of the 12 months. However 2010 goes to mark one thing of a turning level for the singing phenom, whose success has launched one million wannabes (“They appear to be so much like me,” she says with attribute modesty). A brand new album will arrive this fall, she is lastly shifting out of her mother and father’ home, and in December she’ll flip 21. She is within the midst of renovating her personal place in Nashville. Massive? “It isn’t large. I did not wish to must MapQuest to get to the kitchen.”
Like her final album, the brand new one will likely be very private, however it will likely be about being 20, not sixteen. “I do not assume I may placed on a brand new character for 2 years of my life if it wasn’t actually what I used to be going via. I’ve these formulation for making music; they’re virtually mathematical: Who’re you as we speak? What did you write about in your diary? What concept hit you at 4:00 A.M.?”
She is working very laborious to not let success change her important Taylor Swift-ness, a lady who, on the finish of the day, nonetheless eats at Cracker Barrel and retailers at City Outfitters. “Wanting again on what these previous two years have been for me, it seems like this magical dream of, Actually? We toured everywhere in the world? We performed an area in London? That is taking place? Readjusting my objectives and goals has been one thing I’ve needed to do so much these days.”
