Taylor Swift is on the cover of US Vogue , rocking a platinum-blonde bob and talking about Calvin Harris and her "squad".
Taylor Swift on the cover of May's US Vogue . Photo: Vogue.com
The Out of the Woods singer was interviewed at her best friend's wedding in her hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania earlier this year (yes, while everyone was remarking on how down-to-earth she was for returning to her hometown to be a maid of honour, Tay was definitely giving a Vogue interview) for the magazine's May issue.
The resulting article follows Swift as she revisits the town she left aged 14 to pursue a career in music, including a drive out to her old house on a Christmas tree farm.
After the nostalgic road trip, Swift, 26, took time out during the wedding's cocktail evening to speak on her own love life.
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"I'm just taking things as they come," Swift told the magazine of her relationship with British DJ Calvin Harris.
"I'm in a magical relationship right now. And of course I want it to be ours, and low-key ... this is the one thing that's been mine about my personal life."
Reflecting on her love life pre-Harris, Swift said there was a period of time in which media coverage of her romantic life could be described as "incredibly sexist Men���of���Taylor Swift slideshows".
"You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it," she said. "And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two-and-a-half years. Should I have had to do that? No."
Swift's former boyfriends are said to include John Mayer, Harry Styles, Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner and Jake Gyllenhaal.
However, nowadays Swift is more likely to be name-checked against her list of famous, platonic, female friends: Karlie Kloss, Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Lorde and Gigi Hadid, just to name a few.
To critics who say their "squad" friendship is little more than an Instagram-like-grabbing ruse, Swift told Vogue there was always an easy way to dispel rumours - by proving they are false.
"If they say you are pregnant, all you have to do is continue to not be pregnant and not have a baby. If the rumour is that you have fake friendships, all you have to do is continue to be there for each other. And when we're all friends in fifteen years and raising our kids together, maybe somebody will look back and go, 'That was kind of ridiculous what we said about Taylor and her friends.'"
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