Wednesday, 31 January 2018

95 FACTS OF THE GORGEOUS TAYLOR SWIFT

1. Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Scott Kingsley Swift and Andrea Gardner (Finlay) Swift. The exact time she was born is 5.17 a.m. She was named after James Taylor, a famous singer and performer in his own right.

2. Swift is crazy paranoid about being secretly recorded. She revealed in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview: “The janitor who’s being paid by TMZ [could record me]. This is gonna sound like I’m a crazy person--but we don’t even know. I have to stop myself from thinking about how many aspects of technology I don’t understand.”

3. After learning from a visiting computer repairman how to play three guitar chords, Swift wrote her first song, "Lucky You," at the age of 12. Today, she can play guitar, banjo, piano, ukulele, and electric guitar.

4. After attending a traditional high school during her freshman and sophomore years, Swift transferred to Aaron Academy to be homeschooled. This worked best with her busy tour schedule.

5. Swift is obsessed with Perrier (the drink), and at any given time has a variety of different flavors in her refrigerator, including black cherry, pomegranate, blueberry, strawberry, key lime, and tangerine lime.

6. Swift is the first country singer to win an MTV Video Music Award, and at the age of 11 won a talent contest by covering "Big Deal," a song made popular by LeAnn Rimes.

7. Talk about a strange sense of style: Swift has a fish tank filled with vintage baseballs in her living room.

8. A lot of people don't realize that singing isn't Swift's only gig--she has many television and movie credits to her name.

9. Swift has received more than 200 awards from nearly 600 nominations. Some of the most prestigious include seven Grammy Awards, 22 Billboard Music Awards, and 16 American Music Awards.

10. Swift keeps a bedroom in her house for her BFF Karlie Kloss, complete with Karlie’s favorite snacks and tons of photos of her on the wall.



11. You may know her as Taylor Swift, but friends have many nicknames for her, such as Tay, T-Swift, Swifty, and T-Swizzle.

12. In 2014, Swift told Rolling Stone she was distancing herself from the country scene, making her transition to pop complete. She announced at that time that she would no longer go to country music award shows or promote her albums on country radio stations.

13. She is terrified of snakes and spiders.

14. Her favorite food is cheesecake.

15. Swift is more than just a pretty face with a killer voice. She is also a history buff, noting on her website that she knows American history "like the back of my hand."

16. Swift enjoys writing many of her own songs, with some of the most popular including "Bad Blood," "Our Song," and "Back to December." "Our Song" was written for her high school talent show, but eventually ended up on her debut album. It later became a No. 1 single that won her many awards. In fact, she's such a prolific writer that she's credited as one on every song she’s ever released and is the sole writer on more than half of them.

17. Swift is so over the dating scene--and she blames you! "And most of all, I don't like how all these factors add up to build the pressure so high in a new relationship that it gets snuffed out before it even has a chance to start. And so," she told Rolling Stone, "I just don’t date."

18. Swift's hit "Change" was one of the official theme songs used during the 2008 Summer Olympic games.

19. Swift is obsessed with "Disney everything." She even appeared in the Disney feature movie Hannah Montana.

20. Her first hobby was English horse riding and she competed in horse shows.

21. Taylor is the first country singer to win an MTV Video Music Award. Her video “You Belong with Me” won the Best Female Video award in 2009.

22. Swift is such a force of nature in the music industry that it took her less than 24 hours to get Apple to back down from its decision not to pay royalties to artists for songs played during trials of its new music-streaming service. In a letter posted to Tumblr, she had threatened to withhold her top-charted album 1989 from the service.

23.. Swift has an estimated net worth of $200 million, generated primarily from music, touring, and endorsements. In 2015, she will earn approximately $80 million. In addition to her music royalties and touring, she has a variety of endorsement deals, including Keds and Coca-Cola.

24. Swift clearly has a great sense of humor and also isn't afraid to throw a bit of shade when it's warranted. She has a framed photograph of the infamous onstage Kanye West encounter hanging in her Nashville home, captioned, “Life is full of little interruptions.”

25. She regularly shares her good fortune (and fortune) with others, such as by funding the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.

26.Swift was at an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005 when she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records.

27.Taylor spent most of her childhood on an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. When she was nine years old the family moved to Wyomissing, PA, where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.

28.Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) is the seventh-most followed user on Instagram by number of followers (106 million).

29. Her favorite color is purple.

30. "Should've Said No" was a last-minute addition to her debut album. She wrote it two days before mastering was scheduled. 14. Taylor's first single ("Tim McGraw") was inspired by an actual Tim McGraw song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'."


31. Swift's main residence is a duplex penthouse in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. She also spends time at a three-bedroom cottage in Beverly Hills, California, and a duplex penthouse in Nashville, Tennessee. She owns an eight-bedroom summer home in coastal Watch Hill, Rhode Island.

32. According to Forbes, Swift has a net worth of $280 million — the ninth richest of all female entertainers in the U.S. From June 2015 to June 2016, Swift made the most of any other musician with a record $170 million, according to Forbes's 2016 list.

33. One of her best friend's name is Abigail Anderson.

34. 13 is Taylor's favorite number.

35. Taylor is the youngest songwriter to be hired by Sony/ATV Music publishing house.

36. Taylor Swift's height is 5' 10" or 1.77 m.

37. Taylor Swift's weight is 54 kg or 119 pounds.

38. Her hair color is blond, her eyes are blue in color and her measurements are 34-25-35 inches or 75-62-77 cm.

39. Taylor's bra size is 34 B. Taylor's shoe size is 8.5 (US)

40.The six things that are always in her refridgerator are eggs, thinly sliced ham and chicken, orange juice, diet coke, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and binge food like cookie dough or a tube of cinnamon rolls.
During show days she kicks off with a breakfast of eggs, sausage, biscuits and "anything else I can get my hands on".

41. She has won a national poetry contest with her poem titled "Monster in My Closet".

42. Her favorite book is The Hunger Games and To Kill a Mockingbird.

43. She lend her voice in the animated film The Lorax a 2012 film playing the role of Audrey.

44. If she likes a boy, she won't tell him face to face. Instead she will write a song about him.
She has only put one guy's name in the songs she's written about boys. The lucky guy is Lars.

45. She has appeared in the film Valentine's Day (2010) and also in one episode of CSI in 2000.
   She had a cameo in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)

46. She loves mystery books. Her favorites are "Murder on the Orient Express" and "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.

47.Taylor love quotes. Her favorite quote at the moment is "just as things grow in fast movies, I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." The quote is from the Great Gatsby.

48. She loves the subject of history and knows American history like the back of her hand.

49.Taylor can be very moody at times.

50.Taylor is the youngest artist in history to win a Grammy Award for Album of the year in 2010. She was only 20 years old at that time.


51.She contributed two songs to the movie The Hunger Games (2012). The songs are "Safe & Sound" and "Eyes Open".

52.Her brother Austin Swift is a freelance photographer. He help photograph her Fearless Tour.
Her album "Fearless" is the most awarded album in the history of country music. The album is certified six times platinum.

53.Taylor is the top selling digital artist in history.

54.Taylor became the youngest sole writer and singer of a no.1 country song through her single "Our Song".

55. Her lead single "Love Story" released in 2008 became the 2nd best selling country single of all time.

56.She wrote all the songs in her third studio album "Speak Now'.
 She wrote 9 of the 16 songs in her fourth studio album "Red". The other 7 songs in the album she co-wrote it with Max  Martin, Ed Sheeran, Gary Lightbody, Dan Wilson and Liz Rose.

57. Her single "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" released in August 2012 became Swift's first no.1 on the US  Billboard Hot 100 chart.

58.The person she wrote about in her song "Tim McGraw" is named Johnny. 

59. She was in a relationship with Joe Jonas from June 2008 to October 2008.

60.Taylor is best friends with Selena Gomez and Emma Stone. She is good friends with Kellie Pickler, Hayley Williams and  Emma Watson.

61.Taylor loves "The Great Gatsby" as it fascinates her, with all the mystery and symnolism behind this story.

62.Her cousin Kristen is the subject of he song "Never Too Far Away".

63.Taylor admits that she is an extremely clumsy person and jokes that her parents always make fun of her because she spills everything.

64.Taylor likes to watch Brain Games aired on National Geographic. She also love Pretty Little Liars and Twisted and also Whodunnit.

65.Taylor is an extrovert and a spontaneous person. She is an extremely caring person. 
 She believes that one can be a shy extrovert.

66.Her song "This is Us" is about her best friend.

67.Taylor connect songs, scents, and movies to specific times and places.

68.She loves YouTube videos.
Taylor is friends with PewDiePie and she texts him on the phone.
Her favorite YouTubers are catrific, missglamorazzi, macbarbie07, meghanrosette, Kingsley, Jack and Finn, Smosh, and TheFineBros.

69.She loves to watch movies. While watching movies, she likes to observe everything in the movie from the acting to the soundtrack. Taylor doesn't have a favorite movie but she LOVES every single Disney movie.

70.Taylor is one of those singers who love to write her own songs. To date she has written more than 40 songs and the number is growing every year. The songs that she write is a reflection of her life, her daydreams and nothing else.
Her songs are extremely catchy and captures the heart of teenagers and young adults. Being able to connect to the high and lows of this generation. (no wonder she's so popular)


71.Which one do you think Taylor love more? Silver Jewelry or Gold? Answer : Silver Jewelry.

72.Cleaning her room while listening to "Taylor" is one of her favorite things in life.

73.She is always fascinated with Psychology and personality types and how her brain works.
She considers herself an optimist. But her optimism also depends on the situation.
However, she is not a realist. She pretty much likes to be a dreamer.

74.She is obsessed with iPhone cases especially the vintage, handmade ones that can be found on Etsy.

75.She act in plays and have found lots of friends in the plays.

76.Taylor's favorite place is the ocean. She loves Long Beach Island and plans to buy a house there when she old.

77.She is afraid of beetles.

78.Taylor admits that she has trouble accepting changes. Taylor is an introvert and rarely tell others what is in her mind.
She spends a lot of time thinking of herself and life and theories and metaphors.

79.She likes to DIY. Taylor buys things for herself and like to finish it herself.

80.Summer to her is like the 1940s style. She imagines herself spending time with friends and family in a lake house.
She hates medical school. 

81.Her ultimate dream is to be a singer and songwriter. Our Taylor is definitely living her dream right now.
If she is not a singer she would probably be an interior designer, detective, neurologist or psychologist.

82.She loves to travel long distance in a car enjoying long rides of more than 4 hours plus.
She has an attachment to places that have a profound effect in her life. School would be one of them.

83.She is more like her dad. Both of them like to make decisions rationally based on the mind and not the heart.
Taylor and her dad love English and they read the same books. Both father and daughter are like best friends.
Her favorite series is The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth.

84.She likes to put on sunscreen.

85.Taylor is obsessed with everything regarding Disney.

86.Her mums side family reunion has more than 50 people.

87.One of her dreams was to be on the Ellen show.

88.Kanye West once rob Taylor's mic during the VMA award show.

89."The Martian" is a movie that moved Taylor.

90.The first song she learned to play on the guitar is "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer.


91.Her favorite scented candle is Byredo Treehouse. 

92.In June 21 2015, Taylor Swift wrote an open letter to Apple withholding her album from Apple music.She single handedly brought down the billion dollar company by making it change its decision with regards to royalty payments to artist during the 3 month trial period of Apple Music. Apple responded within 24 hours agreeing to pay the royalties within the trial period. No other singer in history had such an immediate effect on the tech giant, Apple.

93.Taylor won the Album of The Year at the 2016 Grammy Awards for her album 1989. This is her second Album of The Year. The first being Fearless in 2010. She is the first woman in history to win album of the year twice!

94.Taylor is one of the most followed celebrities on Twitter with 77 Million followers and growing!
Taylor is also one of the most followed celebrities on Instagram with 77.1 Million followers (almost the same like Twitter) and growing!

95.Taylor Swift has 3 music videos that has more than 1 Billion views on YouTube. They are Blank Space (currently about 2.2 Billion) ,Shake It Off (currently about 2.4 Billion) and Bad Blood (currently about 1.1 Billion).

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