Coming off her successful and swift(y) campaign to change Apple’s music streaming policy, Taylor Swift is riding high. She’s about to kick off the European leg of her tour in England, so she sat down with ITV for an exclusive interview. She ended up chatting about where she sees herself ten years from now, when she’s 35 years old. Apparently, she wants to be like Angelina Jolie when she grows up! Tay-Tay, I feel you.
Taylor tells ITV News that she hopes to have a family by then, but also admits she does worry about protecting her children due to her fame. Swift also said that she’s long admired Angelina Jolie, who is definitely one who knows what it’s like to raise a large brood under the spotlight.
But her admiration stems more for Angelina’s ability to live “her life not just for the purpose of making money or coming up with the most lucrative business deals,” but for what she can give back.
Swift had a slightly different idea in her mind when it came to her future and kids while talking to InStyle last year.
“I don’t know if I’ll have kids,” she told the magazine at the time. “It’s impossible not to picture certain scenarios and how you would try to convince them that they have a normal life when, inevitably, there will be strange men pointing giant cameras at them from the time they are babies.”
[From E! News]
It’s true, Angelina Jolie isn’t playing the game at this point for the money, if it ever was about the money for Angelina. Even when Angelina has taken big modeling contracts (like Louis Vuitton), the money goes to charity. Taylor is pretty charitable too and she gives back in major ways, more than many of her pop star contemporaries, although she’s got a ways to go before she reaches Jolie-like proportions. So… what do you think? Do you like Taylor more because she’s becoming a Brangeloonie? Or is that a dealbreaker?
Meanwhile, following the Apple Music streaming thing, Taylor got blasted by a photographer who claims that Taylor is such a control freak that she demands the rights to all photos taken by tour photographers on her tours. Taylor’s rep responded to those accusations, basically saying that Taylor – like Beyonce! – just wants approval over which photos are used/sold. As in, she’s very controlling about her image, but the photographer still has the copyright. I think that whole debate – whether it’s Beyonce or Swifty or anyone else – is stupid on so many levels. For one, if you’re a photographer signing on to be a tour photographer, of course you’re going to have to work with the artists, for better or for worse. Secondly, some of these artists are too control-freaky for their own good.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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