Nashville Scene: The People Issue 09
Taylor is featured in the Nashville Scene: The People Issue ’09.
The Music City Star
By Steve Haruch
Published on February 25, 2009 at 2:21pmIf our experience is the norm, reporters who talk to Taylor Swift get two interviews in the bargain. You get a professional entertainer, poised and practiced, who’s already been the music guest on SNL and a featured performer on the Grammys before her 20th birthday. And sometimes, even in the same breath, you get a guest appearance by the not-atypical Tennessee teen you probably passed on Second Avenue without a second look.
Take the oft-raised question of whether she is really country or pop. “I don’t sit down, start writing a song and freak out, and say, ‘not country enough,’ or ‘not pop enough,’ or, ‘I’m going for this demographic or that demographic,’ ” Swift says, now rehearsing for her imminent summer tour. “I just write music. And I try not to overcomplicate things with how people might perceive it.”
That’s Taylor Swift the multiplatinum hit machine, who just last night was singing her anthem “Fifteen” before the music world’s glitterati and a global audience. Then Taylor Swift the teenager adds an emoticon: “Y’know, it’s all good.”
Read the complete article HERE
She’s also featured in the ‘bites’ section and it’s pretty interesting.
When I talked to Taylor Swift for the Scene’s People Issue, I mentioned that I had read somewhere that she and Miley Cyrus had eaten an entire pizza while rehearsing for the Grammys. “Yeah, we were talking 100 miles a minute,” she said, “and so we didn’t even realize that we were just completely eating an entire box of pizza.” (I told her there’s a Nashville band, Those Darlins, who have a song called “Whole Damn Thing,” but that song’s about a chicken, not a pizza. “I’ll have to look that up!” she said.) Teenager, pizza: Makes sense.
Then I asked Swift to name some of her favorite Nashville restaurants, and she said, “I like Bricktop’s a lot…. Bricktop’s is cool. I went to Flyte once, have you ever been there?” I said I had been there, once. “It seemed really good,” she replied. Seemed really good? But I think I know what she meant: Everything about the atmosphere of the place–the way the wait staff carry themselves and brush the crumbs off your table–makes the place seem good. But maybe that’s another post. Anyway, pop star, fancy restaurant: Again, makes sense.
More HERE. She talked about sushi, getting to know her brother, hang-out with Abigail, and some other things.