Taylor Swift is breaking her silence about everything from her feuds with Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry to the reason she never endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in the new issue of Vogue.
The singer, 29, spoke about the extreme ‘isolation’ she felt and attacks she endured in the weeks after Kardashian likened her to a ‘snake’ in response to Swift attacking the reality star’s husband Kanye West over a line in his song Famous.
‘A mass public shaming, with millions of people saying you are quote-unquote cancelled, is a very isolating experience,’ said Swift.
‘I don’t think there are that many people who can actually understand what it’s like to have millions of people hate you very loudly.’
She went on to state: ‘When you say someone is canceled, it’s not a TV show. It’s a human being. You’re sending mass amounts of messaging to this person to either shut up, disappear, or it could also be perceived as, kill yourself.’
The singer was trolled when Kim took to Twitter in July 2016 to note that it was ‘National Snake Day’ – before releasing footage which appeared to show Taylor consenting to the song lyrics while on speaker phone with Kanye.
Taylor took offense at the rapper’s lyric: ‘For all my South Side n****s that know me best / I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous.’
Kanye defended the line, claiming he had a conversation with Taylor about the lyrics in question, and after the singer accused him of lying, Kim released a partial recording of the conversation in question.
‘I’m really glad you had the respect to call me that and tell me that as a friend, about the song. It’s just a really cool thing to do, and a really good show of friendship’ Taylor is heard saying.
In the wake of her feud with Kardashian, the singer said that she was forced to reevaluate her priorities and outlook.
‘I realized I needed to restructure my life because it felt completely out of control,’ explained Swift.
‘I knew immediately I needed to make music about it because I knew it was the only way I could survive it. It was the only way I could preserve my mental health and also tell the story of what it’s like to go through something so humiliating.’
