Taylor Swift goes old Hollywood glam on the September issue of Vanity Fair magazine which was shot by famed photographer Mario Testino.
Now, we’ve all seen how close Taylor Swift and her group of BFF’s are (Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Karlie Kloss and that’s just naming a few). But who knew they were so close that they could date the same guys and be completely ok with it. I always thought it was girl code for you to not date the same guy as one of your girlfriends, but I guess they’re not worried about that.
In the new issue Taylor opens up about her group of BFF’s dating the same guys, becoming friends with Kanye West and making history with Apple music.
On her relationship with Kanye West: “I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with him until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn’t ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me—so it was the same issue, and we both reached the same place at the same time. I became friends with Jay Z, and I think it was important, for Jay Z, for Kanye and I to get along. It started with both of us really liking Jay and wanting him to be happy. And then Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I’ve accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid’s doing.”
On her letter to Apple Music: “I wrote the letter at around four a.m. The contracts had just gone out to my friends, and one of them sent me a screenshot of one of them. I read the term ‘zero percent compensation to rights holders.’ Sometimes I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and I’ll write a song and I can’t sleep until I finish it, and it was like that with the letter. I read it to my mom. She’s always going to be the one. I just said, ‘I’m really scared of this letter, but I had to write it. I might not post it, but I had to say it.’”
On her group of BFFs: “That doesn’t happen. We even have girls in our group who have dated the same people. It’s almost like the sisterhood has such a higher place on the list of priorities for us. It’s so much more important than some guy that it didn’t work out with. When you’ve got this group of girls who need each other as much as we need each other, in this climate, when it’s so hard for women to be understood and portrayed the right way in the media … now more than ever we need to be good and kind to each other and not judge each other—and just because you have the same taste in men, we don’t hold that against each other.”
