Swift’s anxious dreams
Taylor Swift is determined to live up to her good-girl image.
Taylor Swift is determined to live up to her good-girl image, said Brian Hiatt in Rolling Stone. The country pop star—who had her first hit record at age 16—has conscientiously avoided a rock ’n’ roll lifestyle and abstained from drinking alcohol until her 21st birthday, in 2010. “I knew I couldn’t get away with it until then,” says Swift, 22. “I didn’t care to know what I was missing, and I knew it was illegal, and my luck would be that I’d get caught. And then you think about [what] all the moms and little girls would have thought.” That fear of disappointing her fans has seeped into her dreams. “I’ll be in a room with piles of clothes all over the floor, and I can’t clean it. They keep piling up and I can’t move. It freaks me out!” She knows what the dream is about. “I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people. I don’t want to let people, or myself, down, or have a lot of people that I know I wronged.” Swift has never consulted a therapist about her anxieties. “I just feel very sane,” she says.
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