Call me crazy, but I’m sort of digging Taylor Swift’s nouveau Sex & the City thing these days. She’s got a huge loft, she’s got loads of famous friends (Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham, Lorde) and she loves to pose for the paps in her latest cute outfit. All in all, this is an interesting time to be Swifty. Single girl in the big city, looking for love in all of the twee places. Which brings me to this crazy (so crazy it’s probably true) story from Hollywood Life. According to HL’s sources (unicorns and talking rabbits), Taylor has a huge list of “conditions” that a dude needs to have before she’ll date him.
She’s dated some of the biggest heartbreakers in Hollywood so it’s no shock that Taylor Swift is taking a new approach to her love life. In an effort to avoid any more trouble, she’s made a long list of what she wants in her next boyfriend and it’s pretty “intense,” a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
“She’s all about finding a new boyfriend but she doesn’t want just any guy, she wants the perfect guy. She’s made a really detailed list of what she wants and it’s so intense, there aren’t many guys out there that can live up to it,” the source reveals.
“She wants someone on her level when it comes to their career, plus, they have to be hot — like leading man hot. And she would love a guy that can speak at least two languages,” the source adds.
Our source reveals that Taylor has even thought about what she wants her guy’s family to be like.
“There are simple things on the list too,” the source says. “She wants a guy that has at least one sister because she thinks it will make him a better boyfriend. He has to have a good relationship with his parents, especially his mom, but he can’t be a mama’s boy. Like I said, it is very detailed and it goes on and on. Her friends think she needs to chill. They think being so picky is just going to keep her single.”
So… basically, she wants to date Jake Gyllenhaal again. That’s what I’m getting. What is it with Swifty and Jake? Even though she wants people to think that they “are never ever getting back together,” I feel like he’s the one who got away, and she measures other dudes against their three-month relationship.
Also, from what I’ve seen of Taylor’s dating history, she has some other conditions that go unmentioned. The guy must have “good hair.” Preferably longish, preferably with some natural curl. He must also like twee things, like tea parties, apple-picking and cuddlefesting. He has to be tallish or at least not shorter than her. But in the end, all of the dudes are the same… they will all break up with her over the phone.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
OCD?
List sounds fairly reasonable to me, but I’m a list kind of person. I think it’s good to write down what you want out of life. Like, right now I would like a mimosa.
Remember to burn all lists after!
Oh I’m a total list burner too, Kiddo! *toasts Mimosa to you*
I think I’m actually still drunk from last night. Still, I could use a mimosa to take the edge off my hangover….
The thing about “lists” is that they set you up for disappointment/failure.
Then again, perhaps if I had made a list of what NOT to do, I wouldn’t have had 7 beers last night, so there’s that.
Lol I write and “burn” list all the time.
I was thinking more along the lines of SWF.
Actually, I think those are fairly common attributes to ‘wish’ for in a boyfriend. There’s just the matter of being able to differentiate between the dream guy and the *real* guy, who inevitably will never fulfil every ‘condition’ but will be infinitely better. Y’know, by virtue of being real.
@TheOriginalKitten
I did the same thing. And of course the last beer wasnt another light beer, it just had to be a guiness to completely ensure that I wake up feeling like trash.
*lays head on desk and blinks
I am so happy I’m not alone. Today is going to be the longest Thursday EVER for us.
Cheers, my friend.
can I join?
it wasn’t beer. but the combinations of martinis, and some blue stuff that had rum, and gin and vodka….i’m still not sure how i ended up saying not to the tequila (thank the lord)
Oh no, not The Blue Stuff. That sh*t’ll kill you.
Everything from last night is coming back to me in hazy waves, like a bad highlight (lowlight?) reel.
One particularly shameful moment: sticking my hand down a guy’s pants at the bar and getting reprimanded by the bartender. I mean, I’m dating him-he wasn’t a random stranger, but still.
That place was such a dive, too-there’s no way we were the first people to do that there.
But yes, I was That Girl last night.
Hold me.
@TOK Totally laughing over here, you little dive bar Trollop. 😀
I want her to date Sparkles. It would be awesome and I bet she’d make him shower
That’s actually not a bad idea. She can knit him a sweater made out of collected cat fur too. This whole list business sounds so 5th grade slumber party and yet the outfit in the top pic looks like granny is going on a weekly trip to pick up her meds at Rite Aid. Don’t forget the Werther’s Swifty.
I was going to comment on this until I saw the source. In other Swiftie news though, she surprised a fan by coming to her wedding shower, I thought that was really sweet.
I agree. I’m surprised Kaiser didn’t include it in this post. It was a very sweet gesture. She does really nice things for her fans. My problem with her has always been her seemingly constant need to be in a relationship. For the last few months, it seems she is just having fun being single, which is nice.
Yeah, I’ve met her three times and she’s always the sweetest. I’m probably one of her two fans on Celebitchy lol but that’s okay 🙂
So glad there’s a fellow Swifty fan on here. She’s a really kind soul.
I like her too. Now we’re three!
If even Taylor Swift can’t pull off those grey jeans in the bottom pic, it’s official that they are unwearable. Please, style gods, let’s all move on from jeggings/skinny jeans. Nobody looks good in them and the longer this style lasts the more pictures we’ll all be cringing over in ten years.
I think she pulls it off just fine, it’s the shirt in the first picture that confuses me. And I’ve seen a lot of people that look good in skinny jeans/jeggings and 95% of my jeans are skinny jeans so I want them to stay lol.
ME TOO DANI!! they are comfy too! LOL Im here for leggings and Jeggings as legitimate pants!
@QQ yes, girl! What other kind of jeans am I supposed to wear? Bootcut? Mum jeans? Nothing else makes me look decent lol
I feel like the problem is that they’re a little too short? You can see a lot of ankle there…
No way, man. It’s taken me a good three years to get used to skinny jeans. You can’t just switch it up on me now.
I have skinny jeans and I hate them. HATE. I hate them everywhere. I wish they would DIE. DIE skinny jeans, DIE.
Is that too dramatic?
I say not dramatic enough, actually. I would beat your pair of skinny jeans with a sledge hammer if I could.
Have you tried wearing them with boots?
My skinny jeans hate ME. They wish I would Die, die, Die. When I come for them, they cower in the drawer, trying to hide behind the straight cut jeans and leggings, whimpering softly, “our seams…the strain…God help us….”
Nope, I hate skinny jeans too. The sizing in the UK also annoys me. They don’t seem to cater for anyone with a slimmer waist than average. Skinnies being held up by the virtue that they are tight, rather than at the waist, is a horrible nightmare I wish would end.
Your skinny jeans have a bad attitude, Goodnames.
Give ’em to me-I’ll whip ’em into shape.
*grabs sledge hammer*
Even if skinny jeans die, I’m still going to need them to fit into my knee high boots.
thank you! only people who have thighs like a baby giraffe look good in skinny jeans. and as 99% don’t….
Yeah. I’m a size 6 but with a guitar shaped figure, and I just happened on a pair of Donna Karan skinny jeans that I could actually get my leg through and that looked nice in December. After what now, 12 years of the trend? Taylor’s lumberjack shirt granny shoe outfit it terrible. I think she might be trying to look edgier after moving to the city. FAIL.
I’m a UK size 10 with thighs from my Nigerian grandma’s side of the family and I love skinny jeans, I just think you need to be really selective about where you buy them. I honestly believe they can suit most people and you don’t need to be super skinny 🙂
I love her jeans.
But we have to have the leggings and skinny jeans because we’re all still in a boots craze! Tucking bootcuts and flares into our boots is a fashion fail, so I have to stay on the leggings & skinny jean train. I’m just glad the highwaisted Erkel pants didn’t last but a minute. Eeewww!
I’m on board for the first outfit, but why the grandma booties and 80s preppy shirt? All that said, would love to have a huge downtown loft.
Meh. She’s still young and doesn’t know her a$$ from get elbow. And prob has read way took my romance novels.
Men are intimidated by success.
way to generalize. makes it easy to just shift the blame. read some articles about that phenomenon. or better not, it could show you how many women have huge struggles respecting a men that earns less. lots of female breadwinners nowadays moan about that position and wish for a guy that would earn more. from all the accounts i have heard its more of a female problem than a male problem. who do you think most women find sexier? the stay at home dad or the Wall Street Broker? is that because women are intimidated by modern guys? i dont think so.
a good start would be the New York Times article “Does a more equal marriage mean less sex”
I read that article, and didn’t find that it stated this was a “female problem” at all. It said that men who stayed home while their wives worked at successful careers felt emasculated and unappreciated, and their wives didn’t find them more attractive just because they did an equal amount of household chores. It was clear from the article that both sexes were challenged by this type of arrangement.
It also addressed marriages where both parties worked and divided chores and child care evenly. The expectation was that the more equal a division of labor was in the marriage, the happier the couple, and that was often true, but it didn’t lead to better sex.
No women don’t like men lower on the social ladder than them. Most men don’t care if a woman makes more money than him.
Some do, though. My niece made more than her husband and he had a real problem with it.
Um, maybe Taylor should give a copy of the list to Khloe Kardashian?
Don’t forget, has to have a sizable age gap.
I feel like those are pretty shallow qualifications. She needs an older guy that’s in the business but not in the spotlight. Like an agent or something. I think her dating celebrities only increases the drama. So if she keeps wanting to use her horrible love life for writing songs then yes, use this list. If she wants a stable relationship, date outside the biz girl!
On another note, I am soooo jealous that she gets to live in a huge loft in NYC. I wish I could just spend my days shopping and going out to eat there.
But do you honestly think she wants a guy who is serious minded and has his own thing going on in life? For all her fantasies about sugardrops and plum fairies, this chick totally wants to be in control. She wants a guy who has enough going on to interest her, but not so much that she feels she comes in second place. She wants the dude to surprise her romantically, but be rather predictable overall. Basically she wants to be top dog but she doesn’t want the dynamic that comes along with it. You can’t always have your cake and eat it too.
I agree with you about NYC. I’ve visited there twice and it was so much fun, but I could never afford to live there.
Ha, I thought of Jake Gyllenhaal too.
There is nothing wrong with having the list as long as she realizes no one is perfect and people are more than check-marks.
I want her shoes in the last photo.
I have a pair almost exactly like them. I got mine at Aldo.
thank you!
Born makes a pair too. I love them.
I always dislike those lists,they are so demeaning ,also I usually like to ask to the person who has a list,what about you? what do you have to offer? What are you bringing to the table? But I can see her having one,bc you know she is so perfect!
I don’t think there is anything demeaning about using your past experiences to learn about what you want and need in a relationship. I think it’s foolish not to.
I had a list too, some of the qualifications were necessary and some a bonus. It wasn’t so much trying to make a guy go through hoops to date me, I was just sick of not-very-nice guys. A friend and I wrote a list of dream qualities not expecting anyone to make the entire list. We just wanted a visual of our standards so we would stop wasting time with filler guys. It was more of a self-esteem thing for us than a test for the guy. It just reminds you to quit overlooking red flags and just date nice guys. Nothing on the list was stupid like hair or eye color, it was mostly character. I wouldn’t be surprised if Swifty had a list and I wouldn’t condemn her for it. What she has been doing up to now hasn’t worked so maybe she’s trying something different. (And yes, lists are fine. It didn’t condemn me to a life Of loneliness . I’ve been with my husband seven years and be still blows me away.)
It depends on what’s on your list. If it’s shallow BS that indicates that you haven’t learned what’s important in life, then it’s like a security blanket that keeps you attached to your previous behavioral patterns and keeps you stuck in the same spot. If you’ve thought deeply and honestly about the characteristics that make someone compatible with you, and about what is truly and essentially important to you, then it can be a very good thing.
+1
When I read the list, my first thought was: “Ok, that’s Jake Gyllenhall” – and then you wrote it in the next sentence, haha!
I’m not sure I believe that she actually made a list, but I do believe she has incredibly high expectations and yes, does measure every guy against Jakie G..
My goodness, that is oddly specific. When I was her age I did have a list but it was short and sweet: non smoker, taller than me, has to love animals and movies and books. And that list still hasn’t changed, lol.
Random aside: I misread “cuddlefesting” as “cuddlefisting” and…yeah. That was not a good image.
That sounds like a great list. For me it would be pretty much the same, except I’d also add not too big an age gap as well.
Or she wants to date Bradley Cooper!
We know he likes them young. He has a good acting career right now, he has become a leading man, and he is oscar nominated. (And his career is hotter than Jake, right now). He was people’s sexiest man, several years ago, so he is seen as an handsome guy (I don’t find him hot but whatever).
He speaks another language: French. He could take her to Paris, and talks to her in French. Then, they could buy a big loft in the city of love, just in front of the Eiffel tower. And he could read “Lolita” to her in a park (like he did with his ex girlfriend), after a picnic on the grass or apple picking.
He seems to be close to his mother (but he looks like a mama’s boy so maybe not). I don’t know if he has sister, and I’m too lazy to google. But he is friend with Jennifer Lawrence, they seem to have a brother-sister’s relationship. So, she could be bestie with J-Law ! And she already said she likes her.
He is friend with Leonardo Dicaprio and Swift likes to hang out with models in New York, so they could double date with Leo and Toni. And Swifty already performed at a Victoria’s Secret show, they could exchange stories and gossip about the others girls, like that Bitch Jessica Hart, who thinks Swifty can’t be a model! And Can you imagine the break-up songs? That should be awesome.
Plus, there were rumors that Swifty asked J-Law to introduce her to Bradley at an oscar party, last year. Yeah, it’s perfect, it should be fun. But, I don’t think Bradley would be into it. Come on Rocket Raccoon! Make it happen.
Now I like this idea.
Cooper does like them young. She has her own money and apartment in the City. So she would not get too underfoot. It is much easier to date the young girls, when they have their own home base near by.
And good grief…. it would have all the weekly gossip magazine, in a weekly, fight over pictures of the perfect couple.
I think she tried and Coops wasn’t interested.
That was Jennifer Aniston who tried–I don’t think Cooper and Swifty have ever met, not to my knowledge anyway.
Oh my God, I really hope this happens. Cooper and Swifty would be so frikkin awesome as a couple!
I don’t know why it’s not obvious to everyone that this chick is a closeted ultra-femme lesbian. She pings to high heaven.
Sure it’s not just wishful thinking on your part? 😉
I’d hit it. 🙂
I highly doubt she’s closeted, but there was this photo of her and Karlie Kloss cuddling up to one another on their roadtrip (I think one had their arms wrapped around the other from behind) and they totally looked like an attractive lipstick lesbian couple that walked out of an Anthropologie or Martha Stewart Living catalog. That would be ironic if after all those songs about boys she turned out to love the ladies instead.
Haha, really?? I’ve thought about it before but it never seemed to fit. If so – she’s GREAT at playing boy-crazy. Like, really really good.
There was a recent blind about a 20 yr old singer who’s a lesbian, all the clues are pointing to her.
Obviously I wouldn’t know whether she is or she is isn’t, but the fact remains that things are not always – or hardly ever – what they look.
My best friend is a lesbian (not closeted at all), and you would see us walking in arm in arm or even semi-embraced all the time. Yet there is not a single “lesbian” bone in my body. For sex, I love men and men only.
But I am a tactile person, and I just love my friend (and in continental Europe physical contact between people of the same sex does seem to be a little more usual than in the USA).
Okay, I’m gonna hate myself in the morning for saying this, but she’s young and she should take Cameron Diaz’s advice. Did I just say that? I don’t mean that she has to sleep with everybody, but why not play the field? She’s a good looking young woman with a ton of cash and a lot of leisure time, and she doesn’t need to settle down for any one person or current ideal. She can decide by process of elimination what she doesn’t want and what she does want.
and then she will have a huge emotional baggage from every guy. that does not sound like a good plan.
why do people think its smart to date as many people as possible and then suddenly be with one person? how would someone adjust to that when the person is used to something completly different? even if it works the emotional baggage from dating so many people will destroy your marriage anyway.
If you are not taking dating as serious as a heart attack, why would there be ’emotional baggage’ versus plain life experience? Why is dating traumatic? It should be fun and breezy. How does knowing different people destroy a marriage?
Dating IS fun and breezy, but only if you’re doing it right.
By doing it “right” I mean that you should always be dating more than one person, because that takes the pressure off and you should NEVER be getting attached or invested in the beginning.
I’ve dated so much that I’m officially an expert at not giving a sh*t. It also helps that I’m 35..I’m not sure I could care this little at 25 or Swift’s age.
By playing the field, I meant seeing a few at a time. Swift is 25 and she dates high school boys sometimes. I don’t think she is sitting at home with a 1950’s picture in her head of her soon to be husband going to work and providing financial security for her. She doesn’t have to worry about money. She has plenty of time for her biological clock to tick if she desires kids. The only thing that could be a disadvantage for her is running out of material for break-up songs. It’s harder to emote anger and sadness when you just quit seeing someone ’cause no one was interested anymore, instead of achey-breaky-heart-crap, Alanis-Morissette-pissed-off-ness or never-ever-ever-pop-wretchedness. Maybe she could turn to social awareness themes. Ha! Made myself laugh.
Whenever she plays the field she gets branded rude things though.
That’s what i would do.
And I am pretty sure I would NOT hate myself in the morning. :- )
Hollywood Life, so automatic bs. They are worse than Radar. That said I’m kind of loving Swifty’s new life in NYC also….She seems to have transitioned into “adult” mode finally and I love her style. I have a feeling she’s very purposefully not dating a man publicly because she knows how much of a running joke it had become in not just the tabloid media but the real life media, and that she won’t move on with a man for another year at least unless she falls madly in love. She seems to be very aware of her image…
I made this exact list once. Not exact as to what she has on it, but mine was a bored, rainy, Saturday afternoon kind of thing after smoking a lot of weed and I started jotting things down. I got to about 40 points, ranging from “cute butt” to “good at math” to “loves his mom (not too much)/adores his dad”. Just stuff from all the men I’d ever met in life before then that had done things I liked, I figured what the hell, let’s fantasize about what my ideal guy is like. It was fun! I’ve lost that list now –it was about four years ago- but I would love to see it again now that I’ve actually met my guy.
Careers need a trajectory and vision a lot of times, I’m sure hers certainly did; why not use those same resources to another (important) part of your life?
Don’t we stop making those kind of lists when we hit 19? Girlfriend needs to figure out who she is first and what she wants out of her life and career before going after a man. In my opinion.
So true. I have no problem with knowing what you want from a man, but the most important thing is that you have a strong, uncompromising sense of who YOU are and what you want and need to have a fulfilling life, with or without a man. That’s when, in my opinion, if you meet a man, he is attracted to who you truly are, and falls in love with the strong you, and things are much better and simpler. Or if you don’t meet a man, you still have a good life on your own, and you’re not just sitting around waiting.
OMG! She’s so immature! Just freaking date and enjoy yourself, have sex, etc. WOW! What an annoying little girl.
She clearly lives in a fantasy land. I almost feel badly for her. Almost.
Every time she talks about boyfriends, the image of the alien from Liquid Sky comes to mind.
You are cracking me up lately.
I’m here all week 😉
You forgot, “tip your waitstaff”. Shame.
That would be cruel. Having one leg shorter than the other is no reason to go around toppling food service industry workers. 😀
Taylor sure loves those pap cameras. She gets photographed more than the Kardashians. Plus she always looks so smug. And I’m not loving her style lately – looks like a mid-aged soccer mom, not a mid-twenty star.
All the recent pictures of her are when she’s leaving her apartment. So basically the paparazzi just wait outside every day until she leaves.
I’d buy that if she didn’t also get papped every time she goes out to eat, or to the grocery store – in full make up and carefully chosen outfit. But Taylor gets photographed on a daily basis, sometimes in multiple different outfits. Even the most famous celebs can avoid the paps to a certain extent. I’m just calling a spade a spade.
Even if this fictional man existed I highly doubt he would fall for her and make tons of babies with her in the apple orchard.
will someone please take her by the hand and teach her about makeup?
teach her she does not have to apply award show levels for casual daily activities. it should not be applied like plaster.
someone help her for the love of god.
Nothing wrong with successful and powerful women (and as much as people hate her she is rich and powerful) having high standards in men.
Does having a shallow sorority girl list really qualify as having standards? Having standards involves knowing who you are so you can understand what it is that you need and want from another person.
How does having a list mean she doesn’t know who she is?
In reality, the list is probably more like this….
1. must have last name I can doodle and sounds good with taylor
2. must be famous or famous-adjacent
3. must be attractive white guy
4. has to be 30+ or junior in HS with good SAT scores
5. has to sleep over at least twice a week at my place
6. Will introduce me to family right away.
7. has to love somewhere i’m interested in owning property.
Lol
For someone with her bankroll, you would think she would have a better handbag collection. I have not sported bags like think since I was 14.
Eh. I kind of like that we’ve gone 6 months (maybe even 12?) without hearing about whoever Taylor is dating. And I’m sure she’s been on a few dates in that period. I think she may have just learned not to get quite so carried away with things after 3 really great weeks of dating, which is a good lesson to learn if you’re a celebrity whose relationship status will be reported far and wide.
As for any supposed requirements, I suspect that if she’s ready to date and meets someone she really likes, a few of those will seem less important. It maybe doesn’t hurt her to be a little more cautious and thoughtful about who she dates after John Mayer and Harry Styles and the high school Kennedy (even though this isn’t really the list I’d make for her), and it’s not like there’s some huge rush to find someone at 23.
Swift is using female celebs the same way she used the male ones: to get press. Oh, she is definitely calling the paps when she walks out the door.
I have to admit I think Taylor may have the best casual dress sense out of all the other celebrities. She consistently looks amazing.
She’s a sagitarius. Girl will be unlucky in love ~ See Britney, Xtina, Miley and Katie Holmes……….etc etc.etc.
I wish I had her long legs. That’s all.
Taylor Swift and the comments on this thread explain exactly why I only like to have men as friends. I just can’t.
@Chicagogurl – LMAOOOOOOOOO! Good one. 😀
A country bumpkin in the big city, with her stiff feathered bangs and ugly high-heeled oxford shoes and grandma purses, carrying them on her arm like she’s royalty. Just compare her look when she’s out with Karlie or any other model friend; they always look relaxed in flat shoes, barely any makeup and effortlessly stylish. Taylor screams “try-hard.”
Sorry, but that’s all I see when I see Swifty in NYC.
Gee, I wonder what she’ll actually settle for once she find no one can live up to the “list” ? I never knew why it was that Jake G. split with her? Why was it? Something happens with Taylor and men, right? Or is this just youthfulness trying everyone out for just a little while? She’s definitely a smart girl, and she’s got her own huge income, so both of those must appeal to a guy….she’s talented and has class, too. However, hasn’t she been mostly picking very “young” men, even younger than her? Men that young don’t know anything yet, especially when it comes to relationships, and then there was John Mayer, c’mon!! Bad choices, all of them, except for Jake G., who was old enough, experienced enough, but….