Taylor Swift: ‘No one will ever be able to say I went psycho on them’

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As we’ve been discussing all week, Taylor Swift covers the new issue of Rolling Stone. The interview has been providing entertainment and eye-rolls for all of the blogs and entertainment media outlets and it’s one of the best Swifty interviews in a while. The piece is also really, really long. And as it turns out, it could have been even longer because Taylor literally would not shut up and she kept providing Rolling Stone with more quotes than they could fit into one standard-issue interview. So RS published an addendum with some of the quotes that didn’t fit in the cover story – you can read the piece here. Some highlights:

When she started drinking, she would cry listening to Joni Mitchell: “When I first started drinking — when I was like 21 — I used to cry about Joni Mitchell all the time after a few glasses of wine,” Swift says. “All my friends would know, once I started crying about Joni Mitchell, it was time for me to go to bed.”

What she did with one walk-in closet in her $20 million Tribeca apartment: “Now it’s my greeting-card writing room!”

Her idea of fun: Swift’s idea of a big Saturday night is watching Titanic at home with her cats.

She’s fine with Selena Gomez: “People think they have my relationships all mapped out. There were all these blogs, like, ‘Are they feuding? Are they fighting?’ Meanwhile Selena and I would be on the phone that night, laughing about it. We let them have that one.”

Her classic look: “I like a more classic look. I always go back to Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Red lipstick and a winged eyeliner — I think that looks nice.”

Her gift-giving: “The amount of baked goods and needlepoints I’ve gotten from Taylor cannot be counted,” reports Jack Antonoff. She’s baked him multiple batches of cookies (including pumpkin and oatmeal raisin), and she’s made Lena Dunham a button collage and a cross-stitch of a cat. She was also the first person to give the couple a housewarming present when they moved into their new apartment. It was a taxidermied moth.

She thinks she’s good at breaking up with people: “Once you’ve established that someone doesn’t belong in your life, I don’t understand what more there is to talk about. I walk away from things when they’re bad. I don’t stick around to watch them burn to the ground.” She says when she decides a relationship has “become toxic,” “I’ll just check out. Stop communication. I don’t want to scream and yell at someone and give them the opportunity to say I’m crazy, or that I went psycho. No one will ever be able to say I went psycho on them.”

She’s never been in love: “Looking back? Not real love. Not the kind that lasts. I think that’s still ahead of me — which is really exciting.”

[From Rolling Stone]

Again, there’s tons more in that article that I couldn’t even get to because it’s just SO MUCH SWIFTY. Here’s what I enjoyed: the image of a drunk Swifty crying about Joni Mitchell, the image of Swifty needle-pointing cat-themed pieces for Lena Dunham, the image of Swifty deciding to just convert a walk-in closet into a room dedicated to writing thank-you notes. All of that is really sweet/funny/cute.

Here’s what I didn’t enjoy: the fact that Swifty is still so full of it when it comes to anything romantic. By my count, she’s only broken up with ONE guy in her life and that was Conor Kennedy, the high school kid that she used to check out of school so they could have sex in quaint New England bed-and-breakfast inns in between antiquing. The rest of her boyfriends have dumped her, usually over the phone. “No one will ever be able to say I went psycho on them.” Jake Gyllenhaal would beg to differ, since she stalked him at the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar party and cornered him by the bathrooms. I’m guessing Harry Styles would have some similar stories too.

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  1. LadyMTL says:

    A taxidermied moth?? Ohhhhkay. I wouldn’t say no to a batch (or several batches) of home-made cookies but no thanks to the dead things, Taylor.

    • Snazzy says:

      I know right? Nothing says psycho like a dead moth given as a gift …

      • Algernon says:

        I’m actually really into taxidermy/scientific specimens. When I bought my first home, some friends got me a beautiful antique collection of pinned butterflies. It’s one of the best presents I’ve ever gotten. Different strokes for different folks. I’d be down for a taxidermy moth.

      • Steph says:

        I can see a new movie about Taylor Swift’s dating life where former boyfriends are taxidermy specimens pinned to a wall…..this girl is just odd.

      • mia girl says:

        “It puts the lotion in the basket”

      • Green_Eyes says:

        Lol – the moth man prophecies!

    • Bob Loblaw says:

      I have a taxidermy butterfly, I love it, it’s beautiful and the price helped support a breeding program for them in Central America, where we saw them on vacation. I have no shame over it. One of my favorite mementos.

  2. Abbott says:

    “No one will ever be able to say I went psycho on them.”

    Guuuuurl, that ship has sailed, sunk, and James Cameron made an epic movie about love and loss about it.

  3. HH says:

    I like that Taylor said she started drinking at “like 21″… She either was or she wasn’t.

    Taylor seems like someone I personally wouldn’t like. Something about her. She’s nice enough, but no. I couldn’t do it

  4. Kristen says:

    It’s a testament to how beautiful her face is that she still looks pretty with that terrible haircut.

    • Size Does Matter says:

      Agree about hair and face. From a distance those bangs make her resemble a long skinny walking penis.

    • We Are All Made of Stars says:

      I think the bangs do her a favor by cutting off the top of her eyes and thus making them appear less slitty. Optical illusion and all.

      • Jay says:

        YES pre-bangs I just always thought of a scrunched up little rat face whenever I saw her.. when she was dating taylor lautner I always pictured their future scrunchy rat face kids. The bangs do her a MASSIVE favor. I don’t think she has a beautiful face without them.

    • Dany says:

      total agree with you. Her face is so beautiful it doesn´t matter how horrible her hair looks. Lucky girl.

  5. Detritus says:

    What exactly does she’s fine as ‘psycho’?
    I mean TayTay, you stalked and wrote songs about your exes, just because you didn’t get violent doesn’t mean it isn’t crazy as f@$k.

  6. Michelle says:

    I always get that Alex Forrest from Fatal Atraction vibe from her. She is this kind of person who doesn’t know when to let it go and be quiet.

  7. Easi says:

    I think she’s had so many fake relationships, she’s mixed up narratives.

  8. Coco says:

    Wouldn’t it be hysterical if she was just joking about all this stuff to poke fun at her image.?Seriously, a greeting card room? Too funny!

    But then I remembered it’s Taylor Swift so it’s probably just true.

  9. Observer says:

    She had amazing supercurly locks and I don’t know WHY she insists on straighening her poor hair into submission! Her hair looks damaged! Dry and limp.
    She looked gorgeous with her blond curly ‘fro like hair.

    • Tiffany :) says:

      I agree, I miss the curls. I don’t blame her for trying something different, but this look isn’t growing out well. It doesn’t seem to keep the blow out that this cut requires.

  10. MonicaQ says:

    My question is who signs up for a relationship with someone that you know is going to trash you later in song? Hell, even a friendship as her and Katy Perry have started Mean Girling.

    • We Are All Made of Stars says:

      Okay, can I bring up a point here that I haven’t seen anyone on any of the threads bring up yet? What the heck happened to her big image change and her new and improved girl power grown up album?
      She debuted Shake It Off by saying that this was an album all about her hangin’ and chillin’ with her girls, about how happy and satisfied she was at this stage in her life, and how there were no boy burn songs on it. Then three weeks later, she trashes a fellow female singer for publicity and states that there’s a song called “Styles” on the album. What the F? Was the move to trashing fellow females for publicity supposed to be the big psychological growth spurt?

      • InvaderTak says:

        To answer your last question: yes. This is grown up to her. Cat fights over dancers with a girl singer is, in her mind, an improvement. Because it’s not about a boy!! I don’t think she personally has matured at all; she just heard what all the blogs and gossip sites were saying about her being boy crazy and responded.

  11. BangersandMash says:

    I don’t know, I’ve dated some people who just cut off communication with someone. It’s equally as childish as confronting someone and being “psycho”.

    • Christin says:

      Unless someone has posed some type of threat, I think they deserve a bit more than just stopping communication. I think that is a red flag that someone has emotional maturity issues.

      • Bob Loblaw says:

        Yeah, but there are a lot of people like this. When they’re done with you, they’re done. No big scene but they stop answering your calls, drop you from their life. And you’re left going, what just happened? It’s childish but it’s how some people operate.

      • Lola says:

        I think it would depend on the situation. If the relationship is what Taylor described “toxic” why keep allowing the person to talk to you, be around you, etc. once you tell them that it is done, it is done.
        [Not that I think she (Taylor) knows what she is talking about much tbh].
        Sometimes it is best t o stop communication after the relationship is done, not because of the other person, but for yourself. It allows you, imo, to “move on” in a more organic way. It gives you the space and when you are in a (I don’t want to say right space, but it’s the only phrase that comes to mind) right space, then starting communication with the ex should not have an adverse impact.
        I mean, I think people sometimes lose sight that no matter how “amicable” the breaking up was, there is always hurt and usually one side is more hurt that the other.
        So again, it depends.

  12. Anna says:

    First off she has terrible posture and secondly I feel like she must be joking in her statements about relationships. She’s the exact opposite of what she described.

  13. hutter says:

    Taylor is a year younger than me but I read these quotes and think “How old is she?”. She’s simultanously a little girl and an old woman. Not that everyone of the same age needs to be the same and behave the same but I don’t think I’ve ever been able to relate to anything she’s ever said.

  14. maybeiamcrazy says:

    Conforting someone doesn’t mean you have to go ‘psycho’ on them. And she drank alcohol for the first time when she was 21? How many more times will we reminded that she is the ultimate rolemodel for young girls and parents should be happy at least she is around?

    • Kiddo says:

      I’m not getting the point there. She was of legal age when she drank the wine.

      • maybeiamcrazy says:

        She can stay away from alcohol all she wants. But is would be naive to think that she dropped this knowledge in a Rolling Stone interview without an agenda. Most teens drink alcohol at a young age but not Taylor. Of course not.

    • Allie says:

      Right? She HAD to mention that she was 21.

      Her stating that she never went psycho…the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

  15. Jayna says:

    All I can say is Rolling Stone readers must be having a fit, that this cover story interview is what they’ve been reduced down to reading in a once great music magazine. Cookies and cats and crying to Joni Mitchell while she sips her alcohol. LOL

    And people discuss your and and off friendship with Selena because you both play public games of friending and unfriending each other, or unfollowing, whatever it is.

  16. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    I like her for the same reason I like Rihanna, strange as that may be. She might be delusional about certain things, but she is unrelenting and unapologetic in her vision of who she is.

    • Mia V. says:

      True!

    • Diana B says:

      I don’t think she’s unapologetic otherwise the things said about her would not bother her as much as they do.

    • Tiffany :) says:

      I agree. I tend to like her songs, I don’t buy them but I think they are well written for pop. I don’t like the whole “write clues in the liner notes” gimmick, but other than that I don’t mind her. I kind of love that she has managed to keep her clothes on for so long, even as she is transitioning to a more mature and sexy image.

  17. Silly you says:

    Her definition of psycho is different from mine.

  18. Melibea4ever says:

    So she has a walk in closet that she uses it to write thank u notes… How lame!!! Really?

  19. elo says:

    Yawn…she’s lame and that haircut is god awful.

  20. Mia V. says:

    Poor cats, saturday nights watching Leonardo DiCaprio dying over and over again. I bet they will break up with her too.

  21. INeedANap says:

    That girl does not know how to walk in heels.

    …but I really want pumpkin cookies. Girl, call me, I can be your new bff-of-the-week!

  22. Annemarie says:

    Whoever said that Taylor is a little girl and an old woman at the same time is spot on. Taylor either sounds very mature…or immature lol. I don’t know why she has such black and white thinking when it comes to breaking up. It’s possible that you can communicate your desire to end a relationship without screaming or yelling OR just walking away and not telling the person. Also, her waiting until 21 to drink is a straight up lie. Somewhere on the web there are old Myspace comments made by Taylor where she talks about getting wasted and drinking beer. Her image is so calculated.

  23. Franny Days says:

    The only think that made my eyes roll in this interview is the whole Joni Mitchell. She sounds like one of those girls in college who ALWAYS ends up sobbing after a night of drinking.

  24. red_jane says:

    Am I the only one who is jealous that she has time to do things such as bake multiple batches of cookies for friends?
    Maybe it’s just my sleep deprived brain and the whole having no life due to small children raising, but man I wish I could spend all my time baking and making collages.
    The moth business I don’t quite get.. but if I had money, famous friends and a moth, who knows..

  25. Franny Days says:

    For the present, I think that they might mean one of those butterfly things in a case. My aunt has one and they’re really beautiful.

  26. Keiley says:

    I agree with Taylor. She never “went” psycho. She’s BEEN psycho. She bought psycho, lived in psycho, rented psycho out to one of her ex boyfriends, bought the property right across the street, and has been writing greeting cards in the closet ever since. #taylorswiftmustbestopped

  27. FLORC says:

    It’s my understanding Conor ended things with Taylor. Maybe she officially got to say she did it, but he pulled away, never fully commited, and was at numerous parties making out with random girls his own age. He was never exclusive to her past those few weeks in the start.
    It became too much for him when she wouldn’t stop texting and calling him asking who he’s with and where he’s at. I hate that I know this stuff, but CT teen preppy drama is easy to come by.

    In short, Taylor went a little possessive/psycho on Conor and he walked away from her.

    • Christin says:

      I thought he backed away, too. His dad was also rumored to be unhappy with the distraction from his studies she was creating by jetting him around.

      She was supposedly a ‘friend’ of several in the RFK clan, but those friendships appear to have cooled.

    • joe says:

      I thought that was a fake relation

      • FLORC says:

        Joe
        I can only speak from 2nd hand knowledge. I happen to know a well off same aged person that frequented the same parties as Conor and that young, elitist, prep school crowd.
        Occasion #1. Conor was seen leaving a party to have some kind of bickering match over the phone after many text messages went ignored by conor. It was common knowledge Taylor was likely the one texting him non-stop.
        Occasion #2. He (allegedly) told Swifty over the phone to move on during the party.

        Considering these party goers saw a very convincing Conor complaining about his needed summer fling and relating/comparing that behavior to Taylor’s other relationships I think it’s not absurd to think this was very real or at least not manufactured.

  28. Alex says:

    Everytime Taylor gives an interview I wonder if she has ever MET herself. Seriously. Because she gives the most ridiculous answers to everything.
    I’m around the same age as her and she acts so much younger. Very juvenile trying to play “pretend adult” basically. I agree with everyone who said she has a specially crafted image. She does. It’s hard to know what’s real with her ever. And I don’t take her seriously at all.

  29. JessSaysNo says:

    Little Girl/Old Woman 100% That being said, I do like the idea of not “going psycho” on someone. I take that to mean she has never been the type of girl to, in a breakup, scream and cry and throw things and beg and text 300 times in one day.

    I have to admit, I have acted like that before but only once or twice. In college, my across the hall neighbor had a drag out breakup with his girlfriend. We could hear everything from our apartment. She was sobbing, begging, pleading, hyperventilating and even tried to push her way back into the apartment then she got it and did something crazy and got kicked out again. She was just FLIPPING OUT and he was just telling her over and over to go away. I felt so creeped out by how she was acting that I resolved to never act in that way ever again.

    Looking back, if I was as mature as I am now, I would have gone out to her and tried to help her because she was losing her shit 100% and having an anxiety attack but I didn’t know what to do at the time, being 20. If someone kicks you out of their life, dont try to claw your way back in. Have dignity and walk away proud and calm.

  30. Bread and Circuses says:

    I suspect she does walk away cleanly from relationships she considers to be toxic.

    I just think her decision to walk away probably comes a few months after the guy breaks up with her. In the meanwhile, stalky-stalky…

  31. missionintherain says:

    Wow! The mean and nasty comments on here are unbelievable. I have no strong feelings on Taylor Swift in either direction, good or bad, but this level of cattiness is uncalled for. She seems like a nice person, she’s talented, she’s pretty, she dresses beautifully AND with class, she likes to hang out at home with her cats and make homemade gifts for friends. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?! She’s a really nice role model for any young girls who may feel the need to look to a celebrity for that sort of thing. We are all in this together. Compassion, kindness and open hearts. I can see this kind of barrage on certain celebrities who regularly display vicious, vulgar and narcissistic behaviors, but in this case? The whole world would be better off if each of us tried to put out more light and love instead of scratching our claws on anyone and everyone. What’s the point of this gang-up? Super Soul Sunday, people – give it a try.

    • Moffa says:

      Um, this site is called CeleBITCHY. You might be in the wrong place if you’re looking for warm hugs and comments that lift and inspire.

  32. Jg says:

    Well, it suits almost all of you, then. It’s like a 6th grade recess on here. Congratulations.

  33. Abby says:

    This whole TS interview was fascinating to me. One the one hand, she sounds high strung, but on the other hand, the celebrity side of her life is just crazy. I’m totally entertained by the stories about needlepoint, baking, moth presents, greeting card closets and the CATS. I love her cats and the way she owns loving cats in general.

  34. racer says:

    Cat lovers of the world unite! She seems harmless. When I saw the pic my first reaction was osteoporosis.