Taylor Swift
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Podcast Appearances
I've really begun to realize that you are a mirror.
Like, you are a mirror for your fans, for the media, for people on the internet, for just random, just people who don't even really care about your music, but they know who you are.
However they feel about themselves and their life will be projected onto how they perceive you.
A public person who makes art is a mirror ball.
And that's part of why I've been able to keep my wits about me through all this.
I have to know that like there's certain things that we have as a tradition between me and my fans.
They love for an emotional song to be track five.
There's like special things like that.
But at the same time, there's sort of so many of them now, which is great.
But there's corners of my fan base who are going to take things to a really extreme place.
There's nothing I can do about that.
There's people who are going to try to like...
do detective work, figure out the details.
Who is that about?
What is this?
When it gets a little bit weird for me is when people act like it's sort of like a paternity test.
Like this song's about that person because I'm like, that dude didn't write the song I did.
We were rehearsing for the Speak Now tour.