Taylor Swift's Rolling Stone Interview Was Her Best And Only Therapy Session Ever

Taylor Swift has never been to therapy. Like, ever. Yet despite never having spilled her guts to a trained professional, the pop star opened up about everything — and we mean everything — in a brand new interview with Rolling Stone. And a sunny, watercolor-inspired cover that appeared online this morning (September 18), Swift rehashed 13 years of her muddled public persona, from her rather publicized feuds to all of the misconceptions about where she stands politically.


While in the tell-all interview, Swift discussed about learning to cope with the public's ever-changing perception of her. If she made a mistake, she was crucified for it. And while she did something positive, she was endlessly criticized. The constant switch from being loved to being loathed definitely took its toll, plus it made Swift, on a few occasions, wonder if she should quit music altogether. "I certainly thought about that a lot," she mentioned. "I thought about how words are my only way of making sense of the world and expressing myself — and right now any words I mention or write are being twisted against me."


This constant manipulation of Swift's words only got more challenging to navigate any time other celebrities were involved, like Katy Perry and Kanye West. The "You Need To Calm Down" singer recounted both of these rather publicized feuds. And yet she and Perry managed to set their contradictions aside and become companions again, Swift made it clear that her years-long drama with West, who she called "two-faced," still makes her blood boil.


Still, Swift made it clear that no betrayal hurt more than any time the president of her formal label, Scott Borchetta, sold the master recordings from her first six albums to music manager Scooter Braun as piece of a $300 million deal. "These are two very wealthy, very powerful males, using $300 million of other people's cash to buy, like, the most feminine body of work," she mentioned. "And then they're standing in a wood-panel bar doing a tacky photo shoot, raising a glass of scotch to themselves. Because they pulled one over on me and got this done so sneakily that I didn’t even visualize it coming."


While the interview definitely addressed much of the disaster Swift's been entangled in during her career — including not just her several feuds, nevertheless her political silence and, naturally, her controversial "squad" — it wasn't merely a retelling all of the times the pop star's been burned and bruised. Swift got real about career plan of action as a woman in the music industry, her relationship with boyfriend Joe Alwyn, and her new album, Lover, which, according to her, is totally just a cabin wood floor and then some ripped curtains flowing in the breeze, and fields of ferns and, you know, velvet." Hm, sounds about right.


For more, check out Taylor Swift's complete Rolling Stone interview here.