Taylor Swift Covers Vogue Magazine February 2012: Love It Or Leave It?
January 17, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Taylor Swift is on Vogue February 2012, in a cover so angular and buried under its own styling the singer is barely-recognisable.
She’s kind of being a mouth-breather on the cover, the slack of the jaw looks accidental and inelegant. But she looks amazing in the rest of the shoot, which is also buried under the belaboured styling. It’s all retro, giant accessories, clutter as props, drastic lighting, unexpected poses etc. It’s another Mario Testino, so, of course, the photos are beautiful if inconsistent to the point it almost looks like different editorials stitched together (skimming through, the images feel a little incongruous?)
Well, she gave an interview as well, as part of a longer profile that spans at least six-pages on Vogue.com (skimmed, because quotes would only fill about one of those pages). It’s still an interesting read, not least because she demonstrates self-awareness, humility, and introspection/ growth following a storied relationship history.
On the industry’s surprise that she didn’t become music’s Lindsay Lohan: “Ever since I was sixteen, the question that I get in every single interview is ‘So, all the pop stars right now who are stumbling out of clubs and going crazy, are you going to do that?’ When I was younger, I had to be more insistent with people because they would say, ‘Yeah, they all say that when they’re sixteen, honey. Just wait till you’re nineteen or 20. That’s when it all goes off the tracks!’ But you know, as time has gone by, I’ve gotten that question less and less.”
On how she stayed out of trouble: “I think, for me, the bigger pitfall is losing your self-awareness. Even though I am at a place where my dresses are really pretty and the red carpets have a lot of bright lights and I get to play to thousands of people… you have to take that with a grain of salt. The stakes are really high if you mess up, if you slack off and don’t make a good record, if you make mistakes based on the idea that you are larger than life and you can just coast. If you start thinking you’ve got it down, that’s when you run into trouble; either by getting complacent or becoming mouthy. And nobody likes that.”
On how it’s not hard being thin, when you’re young, one supposes: “I don’t ever want to be that person whose self-image overtakes who they are. I am not a fan of working out that much. There’s no regimen. There’s no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it’s an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don’t necessarily like being at the gym.”
On her bad relationship history: “I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid. [Right now] I got nothing going on! I just don’t really feel like dating. I really have this great life right now, and I’m not sad and I’m not crying this Christmas, so I am really stoked about that.”
On her dating red-flags: “If someone doesn’t seem to want to get to know me as a person but, instead, seems to have kind of bought into the whole idea of me and he approves of my Wikipedia page? And falls in love based on zero hours spent with me? That’s maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can’t be in love with a Google search… If a dude is threatened by the fact that I need security, if they make me feel like I am some sort of princessy diva, that’s a bad sign. I don’t have security to make myself look cool, or like I have an entourage. I have security because there’s a file of stalkers who want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement… If you need to put me down a lot in order to level the playing field or something? If you are threatened by some part of what I do and want to cut me down to size in order to make it even? That won’t work either… Also, I can’t deal with someone who’s obsessed with privacy. People kind of care if there are two famous people dating. But no one cares that much. If you care about privacy to the point where we need to dig a tunnel under this restaurant so that we can leave? I can’t do that.” – via Vogue Magazine.
PHOTO CREDIT – VOGUE MAGAZINE
