Taylor Swift has been named Time\u2019s Person of the Year for her achievements in music, touring, film, and even football throughout 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the proudest and happiest I\u2019ve ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I\u2019ve ever been,\u201d the 33-year-old told the publication.<\/p>\n
In an extensive profile for the magazine, charting Swift\u2019s almost two-decade-long career, the Grammy winner recounts some of her biggest triumphs, including her internet-breaking Eras Tour this year and her eagerly embraced album re-releases. She also looks back on her public fallout with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in 2016, known as \u201cSnake-gate.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the first time, she goes on the record about her highly publicized relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight ends Travis Kelce and the hysteria she\u2019s created in the media. (She even pokes fun at the male football fans who are sick of seeing her at games.) Here are some of the cover story\u2019s biggest takeaways.<\/p>\n
She says her feud with Kim and Kanye was a \u201ccareer death.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not lost on me that the two great catalysts for this happening were two horrendous things that happened to me,\u201d Swift says about her current global domination. \u201cThe first was getting canceled within an inch of my life and sanity. The second was having my life\u2019s work taken away from me by someone who hates me.\u201d<\/p>\n Swift doesn\u2019t mince words about her 2016-2017 scandal involving Kanye West and, later, his now-ex-wife Kim Kardashian over his song \u201cFamous.\u201d Although, her claims that she was \u201ccanceled\u201d over the incident are a bit dubious, if not easily disputable.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,\u201d Swift tells Time. \u201cThat took me down psychologically to a place I\u2019ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn\u2019t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn\u2019t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n She says Reputation (Taylor\u2019s Version) will be \u201cfire.\u201d It\u2019s a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by an entire social structure,\u201d she says about the upcoming album. \u201cI think a lot of people see it and they\u2019re just like, \u2018sick snakes and strobe lights.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n She and Travis Kelce were officially a couple when she attended her first Chiefs game. \u201cI\u2019m just there to support Travis,\u201d she continues. \u201cI have no awareness of if I\u2019m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.\u201d<\/p>\n She isn\u2019t stressed about all the attention she\u2019s receiving. \u201cLife is short,\u201d she continues. \u201cHave adventures. Me locking myself away in my house for a lot of years\u2014I\u2019ll never get that time back. I\u2019m more trusting now than I was six years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n She doesn\u2019t like being pitted against Beyonc\u00e9 The musicians lit up social media when they attended each other\u2019s concert film premieres this year and posed for photos together. According to the profile, it seems like that supportive gesture may have come out of frustration.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were so many stadium tours this summer, but the only ones that were compared were me and Beyonc\u00e9,\u201d she adds. \u201cClearly it\u2019s very lucrative for the media and stan culture to pit two women against each other, even when those two artists in question refuse to participate in that discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taylor Swift has been named Time\u2019s Person of the Year for her achievements in music, touring, film, and even football throughout 2023. \u201cThis is the proudest and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taylor-swifts"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nSpeaking of which, Swifties have been anticipating the re-recording of Swift\u2019s most polarizing album Reputation, inspired by her fallout with Kim and Kanye. The singer has yet to announce a release date, but she promises the vault tracks will be \u201cfire.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,\u201d Swift reveals. \u201cWe started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I\u2019m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard-launch a first date.\u201d
\nShe says she doesn\u2019t control the amount of camera time she receives during games.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a camera, like, a half-mile away,\u201d the musician says. \u201cAnd you don\u2019t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m being shown 17 times or once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve learned I don\u2019t have the time or bandwidth to get pressed about things that don\u2019t matter,\u201d she says. \u201cYes, if I go out to dinner, there\u2019s going to be a whole chaotic situation outside the restaurant. But I still want to go to dinner with my friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cShe\u2019s the most precious gem of a person\u2014warm and open and funny,\u201d Swift says about the 32-time Grammy winner. \u201cAnd she\u2019s such a great disrupter of music-industry norms. She taught every artist how to flip the table and challenge archaic business practices.\u201d<\/p>\n