Taylor Swift’s new album 1989 hasn’t come out yet but when it does, you'll find a lot more on it than just songs about ex-boyfriends. Yeah, she’s been known to dish the dirt on her exes via songs in the past but all that is behind her now, because she’s actually not dating. At all.
‘I feel like watching my dating life has become a bit of a national pastime,' she says in the new issue of Rolling Stone. ‘And I'm just not comfortable providing that kind of entertainment anymore. I don't like seeing slide shows of guys I've apparently dated. I don't like giving comedians the opportunity to make jokes about me at awards shows. I don't like it when headlines read: 'Careful, Bro, She'll Write a Song About You,' because it trivialises my work. And most of all, I don't like how all these factors add up to build the pressure so high in a new relationship that it gets snuffed out before it even has a chance to start. I just don't date.’
It’s not that she’s not getting asked out, though. She is. In fact, she gets messages from movie stars asking her out all the time. Usually, they get her number from her manager and email her to see if she’d like to get together, but she’s not feeling it right now; ‘Seventy percent of the time, when a guy asks me out, it'll just be a random email.’ And she’s not really DTF with randoms either, FYI: ‘I just think it's pointless if you're not in love.’
She hasn’t like, given up though. She sings about love, she believes in love – it’s just not in the stars at this very moment. ‘My life is just not conducive to bringing other people into it right now. I'm very childlike and romantic about lots of things, but I'm realistic about this,’ she told the magazine.
Actually, Taylor has a pretty healthy outlook on the whole ‘living single’ situation. It’s other people that have an issue with it. ‘Have you heard of the Loneliest Whale? There's this whale – I think Adrian Grenier is making a documentary about it. It swims through the ocean, and it has a call unlike any other whale's. So it doesn't have anyone to swim with. And everybody feels so sorry for this whale – but what if this whale is having a great time? Because it's not bad that I'm not hopelessly in love with someone. It's not a tragedy, and it's not me giving up and being a spinster.’
So like, no need to feel sorry for her. She doesn’t want that. ‘Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatising heartbreak. And in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it's not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn't been boycentric. Like, [I] have not gone on a date. People are going to feel sorry for me when you write that. But it's true.’
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.