Taylor Swift, who is currently preparing for her upcoming world tour, gave an extensive interview to the UK’s Telegraph over the weekend. Of course, all anybody really wants to know about is the burning subject of Taylor’s ongoing feud with Katy Perry, but she’s not going to indulge that topic of conversation… Sort of:
The gossip sites’ one-time fascination with her love life may have been temporarily frustrated, but it threatens to be replaced by interest in her apparent feud with Katy Perry, the rumoured subject of a track on 1989, Bad Blood. ‘I’m not giving them anything to write about,’ she says, smiling steelily. ‘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.’
See, here’s the thing: Taylor Swift is no dummy, and she’s exceptionally savvy when it comes to playing the media. Taylor knew that she was going to be asked about Katy Perry, and she could have preemptively shut down any line of questioning. Even then, she could have responded with a “no comment” or “there’s nothing to talk about.”
But saying, “I’m never going to talk about her in my interview,” is the cattiest and most underhanded way of actually talking about Katy Perry. I have to hand it to her, it’s like Jedi-level Mean Girls sh*t right there.
Later in the interview, when asked where she sees herself in five years, Swift admitted that she’s probably still going to be single:
“No one’s going to sign up for this and everything that goes with it. Like, “Hi, nice to meet you, want a date? Do you love camera flashes? I hope you do!” I don’t know what’s going to happen if I’m ever content in a relationship – no idea how that’s going to work,’ she continues, still smiling. ‘I don’t even know if that’s possible with the life I have.”
‘“In five years’ time she’ll be so afraid of everything, she doesn’t leave her house,”’ she says, laughing self-mockingly. ‘“She’s just surrounded by cats. So many cats, they’ve divided themselves up into armies and she wanders around lint-rolling the couch that no one’s going to sit on because she’s afraid to have people over…”’
Fair points. I can see how a paparazzi-stalked cat lady might be a little off-putting to men, but she left out the part about having revenge powers. That’s a little bit intimidating, too.
