Is Bad Blood REALLY about Katy Perry?!
Welp, it seems that Taylor Swift is ready to clear the air MONTHS after her controversial video premiered!
In case you forgot, when the blonde beauty first dropped the track many were trying to pin point who exactly the revenge hit was about. It was hard not to assume the song was about Katy Kat — especially after Tay Tay threw some shade by bringing Left Shark out onstage with her during her 1989 tour.
Still, in a recent interview with GQ, the Grammy winner attempted to bury the beef with her fellow pop star, clarifying the inspiration behind her music.
Ch-ch-check out that, and 4 other best quotes from her tell-all sit down (below)!
5. Calvin Harris' lady love clarifies the truth behind BB:
"You're in a[n] interview, and the writer says, ‘Who is that song about? That sounds like a really intense moment from your life.' And you sit there, and you know you're on good terms with your ex-boyfriend, and you don't want him—or his family—to think you're firing shots at him. So you say, ‘That was about losing a friend.' And that's basically all you say. But then people cryptically tweet about what you meant. I never said anything that would point a finger in the specific direction of one specific person, and I can sleep at night knowing that. I knew the song would be assigned to a person, and the easiest mark was someone who I didn't want to be labeled with this song. It was not a song about heartbreak. It was about the loss of friendship."
4. TS notes that the media labels who her many songs are about… not HER:
"I don't feel there is any injustice when people expand beyond my music and speculate on who certain songs might be about. I've never named names, so I feel like I still have a sense of power over what people say—even if that isn't true, and even if I don't have any power over what people say about me. The fact that I've never confirmed who those songs are about makes me feel like there is still one card I'm holding. So if you're going to look at your life and say, 'I get to play sold-out football stadiums all over the world. I get to call up my favorite artists and ask them to perform with me, and most of the time they say yes. I get to be on the cover of this magazine' —this is all because I write songs about my own life. So I would feel a little strange complaining about how it's covered."
3. Miz Swift shares whether or not she's afraid that the public will misinterpret her songs:
"No. Some of the things I write about on a song like Blank Space are satire. You take your creative license and create things that are larger than life. You can write things like I get drunk on jealousy but you'll come back each time you leave, ’cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream. That is not my approach to relationships. But is it cool to write the narrative of a girl who's crazy but seductive but glamorous but nuts but manipulative? That was the character I felt the media had written for me, and for a long time I felt hurt by it. I took it personally. But as time went by, I realized it was kind of hilarious."
2. On how she's never lonely even when alone:
"I'm around people so much. Massive amounts of people… So then when I go home and turn on the TV, and I've got Monica and Chandler and Ross and Rachel and Phoebe and Joey on a Friends marathon, I don't feel lonely. You know, during the first few years of your career, the only thing anyone says to you is ‘Enjoy this. Just enjoy this.' That's all they ever tell you. And I finally know how to do that."
1. About being confident in her career choices:
"But to me, the safest thing I could do was take the biggest risk. I know how to write a song. I'm not confident about a lot of other aspects of my life, but I know how to write a song."
[Image via GQ.]
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