Taylor Swift | Mario Testino | Vogue US February 2012
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Taylor Swift confesses that she always felt like an outsider as a young woman. “I think who you are in school really sticks with you,” Swift tells Jonathan Van Meter in the February issue of American Vogue. “I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.”
Swift finally stopped caring about being cool.
“I think that happened as soon as I left school, when I was sixteen, because then all that mattered was music and this dream that I’d had my whole life. It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it—though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.”
Mario Testino captures Taylor Swift styled by Tonne Goodman in ‘The Single Life’. She likes it. And yet, Taylor agrees that she gets freaked out.
“This is what I’ve wanted to do my whole life,” she says. “It never freaks me out. Never. Ever.” She pauses for a moment. “But you know what does freak me out? When is the other shoe going to drop? I am so happy right now. So I am always living in fear. This can’t be real, right? This can’t really be my life.”
