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Taylor Swift has responded to Grizzly Bear's Edward Droste after he described her as "terribly calculated and mean." Unsurprisingly, she strongly disagrees.
Earlier in the year, Droste sent and then deleted a series of tweets which he has since confirmed were about Swift. He wrote, "Met a celebrity I always speculated was terribly calculated and mean, and they exceeded all my expectations of rudeness and arrogance. HATE."
He later added, "If you know please don't @ the person, they see all and have the capacity and desire to destroy , seriously , please just know and lol[...] This is an eternal blind item, bc I'm too petrified of their insane power. No need to speculate, just HAD to voice my disgust."
He subsequently had a change of heart though, tweeting a page from a gossip magazine that accused Swift of giving her friends a list of dos and don'ts prior to joining her on stage.
Obsessed that people are catching on pic.twitter.com/tFe2a1EVAe
— Edward Droste (@edwarddroste) July 26, 2015
@Bethany_Devlin I have a whole other story to tell, still feels unsafe tho. She frightens me genuinely
— Edward Droste (@edwarddroste) July 26, 2015
Now, speaking to GQ, Swift has described the accusations - though the piece doesn't name Droste, it merely cites his accusations - as "highly offensive."
"Am I shooting from the hip?” she asked. "Would any of this have happened if I was? In that sense, I do think about things before they happen. But here was someone taking a positive thing - the fact that I think about things and that I care about my work - and trying to make that into an insinuation about my personal life. Highly offensive. You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work."
When asked, later in the interview, if she ever gets lonely, Swift replied, "I'm around people so much. Massive amounts of people. I do a meet-and-greet every night on the tour, and it’s 150 people. Before that, it’s a radio meet-and-greet with 40 people. After the show, it’s 30 or 40 more people.
"So then when I go home and turn on the TV, and I’ve got Monica and Chandler and Ross and Rachel and Phoebe and Joey on a Friends marathon, I don’t feel lonely. I’ve just been onstage for two hours, talking to 60,000 people about my feelings. That’s so much social stimulation. When I get home, there is not one part of me that wishes I was around other people."
Read Taylor Swift's full GQ cover story here.
