Vanity Fair has released their full cover profile with Taylor Swift for their September issue. The released the excerpts last week (I covered the excerpts here) and for sure, Vanity Fair totally gave us the best quotes first. But the full profile is still totally worth a read because OMG. I can hold two somewhat contradictory opinions of Swift at the same time: she’s a brilliant businesswoman/marketer AND she’s a juvenile Mean Girl. I think she’s perfectly capable of being both, and you could even argue that those two halves of Swifty feed each other in certain ways. And in this VF piece, you can see both sides. Remember, this interview was conducted before Swifty lost a beef with Nicki Minaj. At the moment of this interview, Swifty was riding high, drunk on her own Mean Girl power. Here are some additional highlights:

She name drops constantly: She makes wall-to-wall references of Adele, Kate Hudson, “Sienna,” Ellie Goulding, Cara, Gigi, Kendall, Hailee, Jaime, Lena, Karlie, Madonna, Emma Watson (“It’s gonna be a feminist rally” she says about Watson), etc.

She texts her squad every day: “My friends and I text every day. That’s 20 to 25 girls … Some of them are group texts, most of them are single texts. We know when everybody’s in New York, who’s in town, who’s in L.A. Being a huge group of girls who love each other, we know where everyone is. I’ve never had this before.”

Why she doesn’t go to music festivals: “I can never tell when I have food on my face … or when someone’s high. That’s why I can’t go to Coachella or Glastonbury.”

Don’t trust the tabloids: “I do not give an edited version of myself to my friends. [And] anytime I read one of those tabloid articles that says, ‘A source close to Swift says,’ it’s always incorrect. None of my friends are talking, and they know everything.”

She was afraid of a backlash: “I hope it doesn’t turn into something weird, where people have to poke holes in me, which is what’s happened every other time anything good has happened to me. You can’t believe too much of your positive hype, and you can’t believe too much of your negative press—you live somewhere in between.”

Negative press: “For the better part of 2012 and 2013, I did not go online, because I didn’t like what they were saying about me. And it was so overwhelmingly inaccurate that I knew there was nothing I could do to fight. When the media decides that they don’t like you, there’s nothing you can do that doesn’t seem desperate and irritating to everyone when you try to defend yourself. So I just had to go into my little emotional bunker and pretend there weren’t bombs going off outside.”

It’s so important that her boyfriend gets along with the squad: “SO IMPORTANT. Oh, it’s so important. In every friendship group, you’ve got one or two girls where you hear people say, ‘Oh, she’s so different around her boyfriend!’ I never wanted to be that girl. So that was a huge goal of mine: never ever become someone else for the sake of a relationship.”

Being a people pleaser: “If you’re a people pleaser, like most of us are, you try to adapt to what signals that person is giving off. It’s not about changing the fact that you’re a people pleaser; it’s about finding someone [to date] who is not critical. That can be the most painful thing, trying to love someone who is critical in their nature.”

Whether she’s ever dated someone critical of her: “Uh, yes. But usually I don’t make the same mistake twice. I make new ones, but I don’t usually repeat my old ones.”

Swift “avoided the topic” of Katy Perry but says: “I’ve trusted people before in friendships or relationships and have felt betrayed. I judge people based on their moral code; I think someone is nothing without a moral code. I don’t care if you’re talented or celebrated or successful or rich or popular, if you have no moral code. If you will betray your friend, if you will talk about them badly behind their back, if you will try to humiliate them or talk down to them, I have no interest in having a person like that in my life.”

[From Vanity Fair]

There are also some stories about how she’s tight with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian now (she seems to prefer Kim to Yeezy). She also chats about Madonna and how she hates that the press makes everything a competition between women. Of course, she also makes it sound like Madonna went out of her way to be nice to her, so I’m sure we would hear something different coming out of Camp Swifty if Madonna had hissed at her. And therein is The Swifty Dilemma: she wants to be rah-rah-sisterhood and “no one should say anything bad about girls” and then in the next breath she’s throwing pointed shade at former friends (like Katy Perry) for being morally bankrupt or whatever. This whole quote is absolutely mind-boggling in its obliviousness: “If you will betray your friend, if you will talk about them badly behind their back, if you will try to humiliate them or talk down to them, I have no interest in having a person like that in my life.” Dear Taylor Swift: do you even realize you’re talking about yourself?

Photos courtesy of Mario Testino/Vanity Fair.