Taylor Swift is covering the May issue of Vogue and she looks like a new woman. Proving she can pull off any look, the 26-year-old is glam-meets-rocker-chic in her spread—and despite her classic red lip, the fresh face and messy bob are totally new.
But it’s not just her photoshoot that’s totally head-turning—she gets real about everything from her relationship with Calvin Harris, her seemingly never-ending beef with Kanye West and of course, her “squad.”
In her interview, she pointed out the unfair way both the media and the general public treat women. “You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it,” she said. “I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.”
She learned to look past the bullying, though. “I’ve had people say really hurtful things about me, and so I’ve kind of learned how to gauge it: ‘This is, like, low-to-medium-level hurtful,’” Taylor explained to the magazine. But as we know, she’s moved on from the hurtful messages—and is in what she calls a “magical relationship” with Calvin Harris.
The pop star also claims that she has “no idea what’s next,” after recently wrapping a world tour for her Grammy award winning-album, 1989.
“This is the first time in ten years that I haven’t known,” she said. “I just decided that after the past year, with all of the unbelievable things that happened, I decided I was going to live my life a little bit without the pressure on myself to create something.”
But, speaking of creating things, while she’s not necessarily working on creating a new album, Taylor admitted that she would like to step her mixed drink game up a bit. “I want to be a well-rounded person who can make a good drink,” she joked.
Ultimately, she’ll never stop pursuing her passion.
“I’m always going to be writing songs,” she said. “The thing is, with me, I could very well come up with three things in the next two weeks and then jump back into the studio, and all of a sudden the next record is started. That’s an option, too.”