She became the main character of the world. To discuss her movements felt like discussing politics or the weather-a language spoken so widely it needed no context. “She doesn’t need it.”) But this year, something shifted. (“I don’t give Taylor advice about being famous,” Stevie Nicks tells me. And as a celebrity-who by dint of being a woman is scrutinized for everything from whom she dates to what she wears-she has long commanded constant attention and knows how to use it. As a businesswoman, she has built an empire worth, by some estimates, over $1 billion. As a pop star, she sits in rarefied company, alongside Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna as a songwriter, she has been compared to Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Joni Mitchell. Swift’s accomplishments as an artist-culturally, critically, and commercially-are so legion that to recount them seems almost beside the point. “And for the first time in my life, I was mentally tough enough to take what comes with that.” This is her story-even if she’s now so high that it’s hard to believe she was ever low. “It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33,” she says. After all, while she’s long been one of the biggest entertainers in the world, this year is different. “I’ve been given a tiara, then had it taken away.” She is seemingly unguarded in conversation, reflective about both where she’s been and where she finds herself now. “I’ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times in the last 20 years,” she says as we tuck into a cozy den off the kitchen to talk, and she kicks off her shoes and curls up onto the sofa. Swift, as we’ll discuss, took a few hits to get here. Her anecdote about Chesney symbolizes a larger narrative in Swift’s life, one about redemption-where our protagonist discovers new happiness not despite challenges, but because of them. Swift has a preternatural skill for finding the story. Buy the Taylor Swift Person of the Year issue here
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