Taylor Swift's Fears and Battles
The fight with Kim Kardashian, the panic to get on stage or the cancer of her mother are some experiences that the singer reflects on when she turns 30
At the end of this year (on December 13) she will turn 30 years old and, as one of the preparations for this round anniversary, Taylor Swift has published one of the most sincere articles of her on what she has learned during her almost three decades. of life. She has done it in the American edition of Elle magazine, where she stars on the April cover, and there the singer confesses the fears and battles she has faced throughout this time.
From how her aesthetic care has changed - she has gone from painting the line of her eye with a permanent marker as a young girl to moisturizing her skin every day and always washing her makeup before going to bed - to how she has learned to give importance to real problems, like her mother's cancer, who is battling this disease for the second time. "Both of my parents have had cancer, and my mother is now fighting it again," she revealed. “They taught me that there are real problems and then there is everything else. […] Now all my worry, stress and prayers are dedicated to real problems, ”she adds.
In the article, titled 30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30, the Shake It Off performer also talks about how she learned to fight her biggest fear: getting on stage after the Manchester bombing, on May 22, 2017 during a concert by his colleague Ariana Grande, and the subsequent shooting in Las Vegas, on October 1 of that same year. Taylor Swift claims that she was "completely terrified" before starting her Reputation tour. “I didn't know how we were going to keep three million fans safe for seven months. There was a lot of planning, expenses and efforts to keep everyone safe ”, she recalls about the safety plan that she has followed on her last tour.
A fear of violence that, the singer influences, has continued in her personal life. “You have enough stalkers trying to break into your house and you keep thinking bad things that can happen to you. Every day I try to remind myself of the good in the world, the love I have lived and the faith I have in humanity, ”she says.
In this sort of 30-reflections list, there's a point also to her eternal battle with Kim Kardashian. Although she at no time does she name the reality star and wife of Kanye West, only with the statement of said section does it discover who she is directed to. "I understood that ending the little bullying that someone can do to you is as simple as learning to laugh," Swift headlines.
Her anger began in 2009, when Kanye West interrupted the singer's speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. Although a few years later it seemed that they had smoothed out rough edges, the situation became untenable in 2016 when the rapper called her "bitch" in the song Famous and later in the video clip West took a nude life-size figure of her along with other celebrities. To this must be added, in addition, the call made public by Kim Kardashian where her husband tells Swift about her new song and this, supposedly, gives her consent, something that the pop diva has always had. denied. Kim attacked Taylor and referred to her as "snake", filling her Instagram with emoticons of this animal, which caused an open war between the two with social networks and the followers of both participants.
It is precisely about this that the singer of hits Look What You Made Me Do or Delicate speaks. “In my experience, I have come to see that bullies want to be feared and taken seriously. A few years ago, someone started an online hate campaign by calling me a snake on the internet. The fact that so many people jumped on board led me to feel lower than I have ever felt in my life, but I can't tell you how hard it was to keep from laughing every time my inflatable cobra named Karyn appeared on stage in front of 60,000 screaming fans, ”she says in reference to a cobra who accompanied her on one of her tours and was part of her show on stage.
"It would be nice if we could get an apology from the people who harass us, but maybe all I'll get is the satisfaction of knowing that I can survive and thrive despite it," she concludes.
