Taylor Swift NME cover: Singer says she's learned from Nicki Minaj row and thinks people might need a break from her
The star also says she goes out for dinner with Kanye, six years after he gatecrashed her award speech
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Your support makes all the difference.Taylor Swift says she’s learned a lot from Nicki Minaj in an interview with NME after the two singers had a heated Twitter exchange before the MTV Video Music Awards.
When Minaj was tweeting her disapproval about the way MTV was celebrating a certain type of women’s bodies, Swift leapt in, thinking it was a subtle dig, only to feel the extent of Minaj’s wrath.
Appearing on the front cover of the magazine, Swift said knowing how to deal with a fallout was “an important lesson for anyone to learn in 2015”.
Swift’s attempts to try and manage the situation on social media spiralled out of control. She tells the magazine she now has a slightly different approach.
“I don’t want to talk about [the incident],” she said, possibly after seeing the way Miley Cyrus was taken down a peg after criticising Minaj in the New York Times.
“But I send text messages now. If there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding, I go to someone’s management. I get their number and I text them.”
She adds that even though she famously got upstaged by Kanye West at the VMAs in 2009, the two are on good terms, even going for dinner together occasionally.
But it might be good to make the most of the interview, as Swift, whose 1989 tour wraps up in December, considers taking a step back.
“I think I should take some time off,” she said, admitting: “I think people might need a break from me.”
To read the full interview, pick up your free copy of NME magazine this Friday
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