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källaIt is a truth universally acknowledged that Taylor Swift loves dresses. She's loved them since she was a teenager, when she tore out a picture of Gwyneth Paltrow's pink Ralph Lauren Oscar gown from a magazine and walked around the stores at a local mall asking if they had anything like it. "I was 15 and going to prom for the first time, and I saw that picture of Gwyneth in the pink gown," she recalls. "I went all over the mall and showed it to all the store owners and said, 'Do you have anything that looks like this?' And no one did." She guffaws."So there's that. That's a sad story for you."So while Taylor failed in her quest to look like the 1999 Oscar winner, when it comes to dresses she is unwavering. "There's just something so feminine about a dress," she says, currently sporting a bathrobe in a Nashville photo studio. "Whether it's a summertime dress that makes me feel carefree, an evening cocktail dress that makes me feel fancy, or a vintage dress that makes me feel like a '50s housewife—which I enjoy feeling like, for some reason—I just really like dresses." How many does she own? "Hundreds. Because I'm in a predicament where I can't wear a dress twice or else it's pointed out in magazines, so"—she starts laughing—"unfortunately I have to shop for dresses all the time."Today, though, it's all about pants. Taylor hardly ever wears them, consenting to jeans in the winter only for survival reasons. That said, "I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important," she says of posing for Bazaar in les pantalons. "Personal growth, let's call it that."Pants are not only supremely in style, but they are also a metaphor for Taylor. There are few young women who wear the pants more than she does. At 22, she is the highest-paid entertainer under 30; in the past year she earned $57 million, according to Forbes. She has more awards than she can count (including the MTV? Video Music Award that Kanye West wanted to re-gift), she is her own manager, and, as we know, she writes all of her songs. Taylor is so astute that she walked away from an unbeneficial development deal at 14."When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me," she explains. "I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control."
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During her performance at the iHeart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas this weekend, Taylor Swift wasn't quite ready to showcase material from her forthcoming album, Red, due out October 22nd. But she is getting close.
"I want to unveil the songs one by one," Swift told Rolling Stone before her set. "Starting this week I’m gonna start unveiling new music." On Monday, the singer/songwriter will reveal a 30-second snippet of a new track on Good Morning America; the song will be available on iTunes the next day.But Swift is not giving away the whole album prior to release. "I really want there to be so many surprises left on the record for when it comes out eventually, some collaborations that haven’t been talked about and some songs that are definitely what make the album so unique," she said.The singer performed her new "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" at the Vegas show, where she shared a stage with the likes of Aerosmith, Mary J. Blige, Pitbull, Linkin Park and Deadmau5. Swift was a big fan of the diverse bill."When I go watch side-stage, it’s gonna be hit after hit and after hit, watching other artists play," she said. "I want to see Mary J. Blige and I want to definitely get out there to see Pink and Brad Paisley and Aerosmith."Perhaps she'll also get some ideas for next year's tour for Red, which she is already planning. "When I write a song, the first thing I think about is, 'Okay, this is a message to a person, what are they gonna think when they hear it?'" she said. "The second thing I think of is, 'Ooh, how are we gonna play this in concert? What’s the lighting gonna be like? What costumes are we gonna have?' So the visual part of the story comes to me pretty quickly after I write the song."There are a few songs on the new album that stand out to Swift when she thinks of their potential visual components. "There’s a song called 'Holy Ground' I’m really excited about, Jeff Bhasker produced it. There’s a song called 'I Knew You Were Trouble' that I wrote with Max Martin and Shellback that I’m stoked about."Swift contributed music earlier this year to The Hunger Games. As a visual songwriter, what other movies would she have liked to write music for? "I think (500) Days Of Summer was a really inspiring movie for just seeing a visual and trying to write music for that love story," she said.
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For her fourth album, Red, country-pop superstar Taylor Swift makes a decided move into straight-ahead pop. Nowhere is this shift clearer than on the album's first single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," a song co-written and produced by pop powerhouse Max Martin, who is hardly the only big-name collaborator here. Dan Wilson, who co-wrote a chunk of Adele's 21, works with Swift here, as does L.A. staple Butch Walker, Mark Foster of Foster the People, and singer/songwriter Lori McKenna, each musician guaranteeing that Red will be Swift's most unpredictable record yet.textkälla