Taylor Swift Shares the Lessons She’s Learned at 30, Shades Kim Kardashian as a “Bully” in ‘Elle’ Cover Story

Elle USA gave Taylor Swift a platform to share her views when it asked her to write an essay for her cover issue revealing 30 life lessons that she had learned on turning 30 years old. Thankfully, Taylor used that platform to re-energize at least one old feud … and provide some very interesting insights into how she now sees the world.

Below we have Taylor’s Elle cover and some of the images from her pictorial.

Taylor has never been someone to easily forget a slight, and Kim Kardashian’s takedown of the pop singer by secretly recording her over-the-phone, semi-approval of being name-checked by Kim’s husband Kanye in the song “Famous” has clearly never faded. But more than the secret recording, itself, Taylor’s comments in Elle suggest that Kim’s playing up Taylor as a dishonest “snake” on social media may have left the deepest scars.

Even though Taylor never calls out Kim by name in the article …

“In my experience, I’ve come to see that bullies want to be feared and taken seriously,” Taylor writes in the cover story. “A few years ago, someone started an online hate campaign by calling me a snake on the internet. The fact that so many people jumped on board with it led me to feeling lower than I’ve ever felt in my life.”

Taylor’s solution to the situation? Well, she basically says her solution was to laugh it off. “I can’t tell you,” Taylor adds, “how hard I had to keep from laughing every time my 63-foot inflatable cobra named Karyn appeared onstage in front of 60,000 screaming fans. It’s the Stadium Tour equivalent of responding to a troll’s hateful Instagram comment with ‘lol.’”

But, for someone claiming the solution was to laugh off attacks, Taylor’s next shot at Kim suggests that there might still be a bit more bitterness beneath the ‘lol.’ “It would be nice if we could get an apology from people who bully us,” Taylor says. “but maybe all I’ll ever get is the satisfaction of knowing I could survive it, and thrive in spite of it.”

In the article, Taylor also writes about how her fears about random violence almost prevented her from touring.

After the Manchester Arena bombing and the Vegas concert shooting, I was completely terrified to go on tour this time because I didn’t know how we were going to keep 3 million fans safe over seven months. There was a tremendous amount of planning, expense, and effort put into keeping my fans safe. My fear of violence has continued into my personal life. I carry QuikClot army grade bandage dressing, which is for gunshot or stab wounds.”

Taylor shares her fears about not just touring, but also of stalkers. “Websites and tabloids have taken it upon themselves to post every home address I’ve ever had online,” the “Delicate” singer reveals. “You get enough stalkers trying to break into your house and you kind of start prepping for bad things.”

And Taylor talks about, at 30, finally finding her own voice in terms of politics. About her new-found confidence speaking out, Taylor says –

I took a lot of time educating myself on the political system and the branches of government that are signing off on bills that affect our day-to-day life. I saw so many issues that put our most vulnerable citizens at risk, and felt like I had to speak up to try and help make a change. Only as someone approaching 30 did I feel informed enough to speak about it to my 114 million followers. Invoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and I realized that it actually is my responsibility to use my influence against that disgusting rhetoric.”

“I’m going to do more to help,” Taylor promises, “We have a big race coming up next year.”

You can read Taylor’s full Elle article here.

(Image source: Taylor Swift Instagram account, Elle USA and Taylor Swift FOTP Twitter accounts)

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