Taylor Swift dropped a teaser for her new Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe, and — as usual — Swift reveals how she really feels. Those genuine feelings and her ability to expose and explore her emotions in her art are what endear Swift to millions of fans.
It’s what makes Swift fans believe they have a friend in Swift, not just someone to admire. And she uses two words you rarely hear from seasoned superstars — “panicking” and “freaking.” You would not think the emotional but still always cool Swift ever really panicked — but there it is.
She also reveals the driven artist beneath, who emerges through the rubble of doubt and distraction to continue to “make art, to make things,” as she says.
“You know there’s a lot of things that I tell myself when I’m kind of panicking and one of the things that I tell myself is ‘this is part of it, this is normal.'” Swift says she shares this mantra, this idea, with other artists.
She continues: “you know, I’m getting my first wave of bad press, I’m freaking out, what do I do?” Swift promises an honest appraisal of how she deals then. What more can fans ask?
And the key, subtly expressed but deeply understood by Swift, is in the words “first wave of bad press.” Because Taylor Swift knows that if you are successful there will be second and third waves — that is “part of the job,” as she explains. Here she is on the much more fun part of the job:
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