Even though everyone knows our interviews are forever iconic and designed to make celebrities think long and hard about their own existence (what IS the best jacket potato filling?), old Swifty decided to call people from the Telegraph over to Beverley Hills instead. Fine. They didnât do a bad job, even if they didnât probe the depths of Taylorâs psyche like we would have, letâs pick out the things you (probably) didnât know.
She worries about⊠like, EVERYTHING
âI worry about everything all the time,â she says with a grin. âWe could do our entire interview me telling you how many things Iâve worried about since breakfast. âThe Neuroses of Taylor Swiftâ is probably going to be the article headline.â
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
The numbers
She is the only artist ever to sell more than a million first-week US copies of three separate albums â Speak Now in 2010, Red in 2012, and 1989, released in OctoberâŠÂ Shake It Off, was an iTunes number one in 64 countries. She is the first artist since the Beatles to spend six or more weeks at number one in the United States with three consecutive albums
Thatâs pretty damn good, and weâre actually pretty surprised âSpeak Nowâ did so well in America. It got to number 6 in the album charts in Britain but we only got one charting single from it. She could probably re-release it tomorrow in Blightly and top the album and single charts.
She didnât expect that much of a hoo-hah when she took her music off Spotify
âI didnât think it was going to be international news or affect a public offering,â she claims. âIf I have an opinion on something, I act accordingly â and I believe music is valuable.â
She did a bit though.
People think the music industry will collapse if her next album doesnât do well
âFor the last two albums Iâd sold one million copies in a week, and I knew people were waiting to see me not hit that number and then diagnose the music industry as dying or dead. Which is a lot of pressure to put on one artist and one album.â
Even if Taylor Swiftâs album fails really badly, the music industry will always be carried on. Probably by Pitbull (ugh).
She thinks everyone in the UK loves tea.
Swift has ordered in coffee, apologising for the lack of tea (âYouâre British! I shouldâve known!â)
Yeah, you shouldâve. Because we do.
She loves Wales!!
She has recruited a âsquadâ of high-achieving close girlfriends, and spends what little downtime she gets baking with the supermodel Karlie Kloss, strolling around New York with the Girls actress and writer Lena Dunham or, as her recent Instagram posts indicate, whale-watching in Hawaii with the indie band Haim.
Oh, wrong Wales.
The Grammy museum has an entire floor dedicated to her!!
The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles has an entire floor dedicated to her story. There, footage of her singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star as a toddler, belting out the national anthem at sports events as a child and improvising a song about traffic for a country radio station as a teenager reveal that she has undoubtedly always been talented
We couldâve told you she was talented #stillbitter
She likes being single
âIâm just really excited at an awards show when they donât make some weird joke about my dating life.â
What a cutie-pie.
Her fans keep her down to Earth
âMy fans make fun of me â itâs really cool. They have all these Gifs of me making an idiot of myself or tripping and falling on stage. They bring humour back into it for me. I get too serious sometimes â you can probably tell â and they bring me back to like, âOK, Iâm not really doing anything that difficult. I just need to calm down.â?â
Could be worse, could have done a Madonna.
Taylor responds by stalking their social media⊠and buying them expensive s**t!
âIf I go a week without sending something, I start to feel sad. Iâm getting to know them on a person-by-person basis. When I pick people to send packages to, I go on their social-media sites for the last six months and figure out what they like or what they are going through. Do they like photography? Iâll get them a 1980s Polaroid camera. Do they like vintage stuff? Iâll go to an antiques place and get them 1920s earrings.â
She even paid off someoneâs student loan! Just as an FYI, Team MP! on Twitter are @joeandertweet @verityharris @feedlimmy @helloitsolly @saracerutti @sodthemachine @adamjmcvey @gemlullaby  for a start, weâll get our newbies some Kit Kat Chunkies and say theyâre from you
Sheâs not going to bad mouth Katy Perry
âBut Iâm never going to talk about her in my interview. Itâs not going to happen.â
Stop trying to make #swiftvsperry happen!
She imagines what her 30 year old self will be like, in third person
ââSheâs just surrounded by cats. So many cats, theyâve divided themselves up into armies and she wanders around lint-rolling the couch that no oneâs going to sit on because sheâs afraid to have people overâŠââ
We would come over, Â but weâre allergic to cats (not because weâre #stillbitter)
She doesnât know when she will release another album
âIâm not going to put out an album until Iâve made one thatâs better than this one and thatâs going to be really hard,â
Itâs fine, weâre enjoying this one for now. Just make a super quirky video for âNew Romanticsâ with a shed load of 80s references, okay?
Long live Taylor Swift!