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Taylor Swift not talking about Katy Perry, which is why no one ever mentions them in the same sentence

By | Published on Tuesday 3 March 2015

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is never going to talk about Katy Perry, who is rumoured to be the subject of her song ‘Bad Blood’, in order to ensure that journalists have no excuse to write about the subject. Well, bad luck, because it’s all anyone’s writing about at the moment.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Swift said: “I’m not giving them anything to write about. I’m not walking up the street with boys, I’m not stumbling out of clubs drunk. [And] I’m never going to talk about her in my interview. It’s not going to happen”.

In a Rolling Stone interview last year, Swift admitted that the song was about a fellow musician, without naming names, saying: “She did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies’. And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it”.

Perry was rumoured to be writing a special song in retaliation to ‘Bad Blood’ with plans to perform it during the Super Bowl Half Time show, but she didn’t and then everyone just talked about that stupid shark instead.

But still, once the shark thing died down, everyone turned their attention back to Swift v Perry. Largely, I imagine, because this was a rare occurrence of a feud between two female popstars that the media didn’t have to invent. Swift didn’t think it was much of a story though. And another thing she didn’t think was much of a story was her decision to remove all of her music from Spotify. Which shows you why she’s not a journalist.

“I didn’t think it was going to be international news or affect a public offering”, she said. “If I have an opinion on something, I act accordingly – and I believe music is valuable. There were so many doomsday theories about the music industry. For the last two albums I’d sold one million copies in a week, and I knew people were waiting to see me not hit that number and then diagnose the music industry as dying or dead. Which is a lot of pressure to put on one artist and one album”.

Asked if she thought that current trends in music consumption could be reversed and album sales returned to their former heights she said: “It’s possible. We all have to step up and make albums that are good, top to bottom, if selling albums is still important. It is to me, but a lot of artists have already given up on that. I have friends who just think it’s not attainable, which I feel is a very defeatist way to look at life”.



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