8 things we learnt about Taylor Swift from her GQ Interview

Chuck Klosterman took on Taylor Swift’s interview for her first ever GQ cover shoot and he did a very good job. Insightful, critical and incredibly interesting – we learnt a lot about Taylor from this interview.

Here’s our favourite eight facts:

Justin Timberlake calls her for advice on sleeping

“Oh my god, it’s Justin Timberlake,” Taylor tells Chuck.

They talk for 15 minutes, with Justin asking Swift for advice about sleeping – those restless nights with baby Silas must be tough. He ends the conversation asking to perform Mirrors on stage with her. Tay is obviously over the moon.

She can spot a pap in an instant

Chuck reveals that as they leave the restaurant, Taylor spots a grey car, “[it] looks like the floor model in an auto dealership specializing in anonymous gray cars…”

She’s right and it trails them for at least five miles.

Taylor’s phone is FULL of photographs

As if we’d expect anything else from the queen of social media (her Instagram now has 50 million followers). “She has more photos on her phone than any person I’ve ever met,” Chuck writes. Including a video of a giraffe licking her face.

She wrote a novel aged 14

It’s called A Girl Named Girl and Tay explains: “It’s about a mother who wants a son but instead has a girl.” It doesn’t sound gripping, but Chuck notes it would most probably become a bestseller. And we agree.

She meets around 230 fans every day

On tour, Taylor is a woman in demand and she explains to Chuck that those numbers are craaaazy. “I do a meet-and-greet every night on the tour, and it’s 150 people,” Taylor says. “Before that, it’s a radio meet-and-greet with 40 people. After the show, it’s 30 or 40 more people.”

Taylor has two ways of speaking

“The first is the way she talks when she’s actively shaping the interview—optimistic, animated, and seemingly rehearsed,” writes Chuck. “The second is the way she talks when she cares less about the way the words are presented and more about the message itself (chin slightly down, brow slightly furrowed, timbre slightly deeper).”

Bad Blood isn’t aimed at just one person

Calling her out about Bad Blood, Taylor clarifies the song but Chuck doesn’t let her get away lightly. “I never said anything that would point a finger in the specific direction of one specific person, and I can sleep at night knowing that,” she said.Interesting.

To read all of Chuck’s brilliant interview with Taylor for GQ, click here!