Taylor Swift is one of the outstanding names of the world music industry, owning a series of resonant products, sold-out tours and top private brand values. However, to succeed, Swift had to work hard as well as accept the shunning of her friends. Throughout his career, the Shake It Off singer has been involved in scandals many times, harsh criticism from the public, noisy love stories and even rumors coming from colleagues.
In that situation, music is a place where she can vent all her emotions.
Passion for singing since childhood and resilient energy
Since childhood, the female singer Love Story has loved country music. While her peers spend time playing video games and watching cartoons, Swift learns about music with dreams of becoming a famous singer.
Not only is Swift a dreamy girl, but she is also a person with a strong will and energy.
She insisted on asking her parents to move from Pennsylvania to Nashville, where many famous country singers gathered. “When I was 10 years old, I decided I had to move to that city because both of my country music idols, Faith Hill and Shania Twain, were famous from Nashville,” Swift said in an interview with Time magazine.
“I begged, slackened and did all kinds of tricks for my parents to take me there. After that, my mother agreed and she drove me to record stores to give them CDs from her karaoke. At that time, my voice was like a squirrel. I knocked on all the doors and said, “Hello. I’m Taylor. I am 11 years old this year. I want to become a famous singer. Please call me’”, she added.
However, no record company called the 11-year-old girl who liked to sing. However, Swift was not discouraged, she realized that karaoke songs did not clearly show her strength. She is determined to learn the 12-string guitar, learn to compose despite her parents’ interference.
Taylor Swift has always been attached to the guitar since she was a child
To prove her determination to become a singer, Swift performs at all the events and stages that her family allows, from small fairs and food festivals to outdoor music competitions.
At the age of 14, Taylor Swift became the youngest singer to receive a Sony recording contract in Nashville.
In order to create an opportunity for their daughter to realize her dream of becoming a singer, the family of the song Look What You Made Me Do agreed to move to a new city. In 2006, she released her first single at the age of 16 called Tim McGraw.
The song reached the Top 100 on the Billboard chart and ranked in the top 10 of country music. After that, Swift released her first album under her name and received a lot of positive comments from fans and music critics alike.
Use music to comfort yourself when you are shunned by friends
With the successes coming too soon, Swift began to suffer from the alienation and unpleasant attitude of her schoolmates. As a quiet and timid person, the singer is easily targeted by bullies.
In an interview with the Examiner, her mother confided: “The worst thing of the day was when I picked up Taylor from school. I knew things were going very bad for her. At lunchtime, he sits down at the dinner table and you will avoid going elsewhere.”
The Love Story singer also has sad memories of this time: “Many girls think I’m weird. They say I annoy them so no one wants to sit down and eat with me.”
“Middle school was a bad memory because I was bullied by a group of famous female students in the school. They thought I wasn’t pretty and cool enough so they stopped talking to me. The fact that I like country music is also used as a joke by many people,” she said angrily.
And this is the reason Taylor Swift wrote the music: “I sat in school alone, no one talked to me or asked me out, so I thought I’d write a song about it.”
Taylor Swift was shunned and bullied by her friends while in middle school
Later, when the singer released her first album, she met her classmates who had bullied her at her old school. “They wore shirts with my picture on them and asked for my autograph on the record. I realized that they didn’t remember how badly they treated me, and I needed to forget about it to live better.”
“If I hadn’t been miserable and sad every time I got out of school, I probably wouldn’t have had the energy to write good music like I do today. I should thank them.”, the Blank Space singer shared.
Later, when she became famous, the singer always comforted her fans when they were abused in school because she was the one who understood this better than anyone else.
“Many people will torture and stigmatize others for any reason. They treated me badly because I had fun and lived my life to the fullest. They don’t understand you, and they don’t understand me. But don’t let them change you and say you can’t sing or dance,” Swift sent a message to fans.
Perfect Girl Gets Worse Because of Scandal
Since childhood, Swift has been a good child, always doing her homework, getting good grades in school and never smoking or drinking. She was also aware that she would be in trouble if she lied to her parents.
When pursuing her path as an artist, Swift also determined that everything needed to be perfected as much as possible. Not allowing a single mistake to happen, therefore, she participates in many stages every time she has a new project from composing to directing her MVs. She also spends hours reading fans’ messages and staying to socialize with them after shows.
Everything seems to come to the Love Story singer perfectly: rich and beautiful, successful in her singing path and always loved by fans.
However, Swift has suffered a lot of scandals in her career, including a scandal between her and Kanye West, a long-standing feud with Katy Perry, a list of short-term love affairs with many male artists, and a lawsuit over physical abuse in 2017.
According to Quatzy, many articles have written about Swift, criticizing her use of broken relationships to slander her ex-lover in songs, or her use of her name to stigmatize other artists. According to CNN, Kim Kadarshian once called her a “poisonous snake” because she always proved to be a good girl and a victim of everything.
Talking about this, the Blank Space singer said: “A few years ago, someone called me a poisonous snake. After that, a lot of people called me by other ugly names. I had a long time very sad because I didn’t know what to do.
“However, if someone is saying bad things about you online, the only way to get over it is to ignore what they say,” she added.
Similar to how she used to write music about school bullies, the singer released an album about her scandals in her new album Reputation.
Taylor Swift used snakes for the show to promote the album Reputation
She even used snakes as the main theme for many of her shows as a way to respond to public opinion.
In her latest album Reputation, the singer born in 1989 affirmed that “Taylor’s old self is dead” and instead is a gloomy and cold new Taylor with rumors around him through the lyrics Look What You Made Me Do.
Similarly, the song Delicate is also about her new self. Swift sings, “My reputation has never been this bad. You have to really like who I really am.” Perhaps, the current Taylor Swift no longer accepts being looked down upon or ostracized by others. In its current position, Swift is stronger than ever.
