Known facts about Taylor Swift

This records the known facts about Taylor Swift.

Notable facts

• Taylor was raised on a Christmas Tree farm in Pennsylvania. When she was little she was too weak to haul Christmas trees so it was her job to remove the praying mantis pods off of the trees but one time she forgot to remove one and when a family took the Christmas tree home they ended up spreading all over their house.
• Before she got famous, she wrote a still unpublished 300 page novel called A Girl Named Girl.
• She attended her first concert when she was 8 years old, where she saw LeAnn Rimes.
• Taylor's house has a human sized birdcage.

• She saw a special on TV about Faith Hill, where the singer talked about how she went to Nashville. She then begged her parents everyday nonstop, “We need to go to Nashville. Can we please go to Nashville?” When she was 11, during spring break, they went. Her mom would pull up outside of record companies, and she'd rush in and say to the receptionist, “Hi, I’m Taylor. I’m 11. I want a record deal. Call me.”

• Her grandmother was an opera singer.

Likes

Favorite meal

• Breakfast at Cracker Barrel
• Cheesecake
• Sweet Potato Pancakes
• Buckwheat Crepes

Favorite music

• Justin Timberlake
• Ed Sheeran
• Snow Patrol
• Train
• LeAnn Rimes
• Tom Petty
• Stevie Nicks
• Hanson
• Tim McGraw
• Paramore
• The Fray
• 50 cent
• Nicki Minaj
• TLC
• Faith Hill
• Britney Spears
• Def Leppard
• The 1975
• U2
• Kendrick Lamar
• Dixie Chicks
• James Taylor

Favorite places

• Her Tennessee home (especially her bed)
• Kansas
• Australia
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• London (Which she sometimes refers to as 'Fundon')
• Apartment in NYC
• Rhode Island During The Holidays

Sporting activities

• She likes hockey, mentioning that during an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
• She has been frequently spotted and photographed bowling with Selena Gomez and Cory Monteith.
• She likes volleyball and baseball

Favorite shows

• Grey's Anatomy
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• CSI
• Friends
• Pretty Little Liars
• The Office
• Fuller House

Hobbies

• She loves baking and cooking. Sometimes she opens her cookbook to a random page and tries to master making whatever is on it, or she creates something of her own.
• She loves visiting antique stores and collecting antiques.
• She watches TV frequently with her cats, Meredith Grey, Benjamin Button and Olivia Benson.
• She writes songs about her experiences both as a hobby and as a form of stress relief.
• She regularly calls her friend Abigail (the subject of her hit song "Fifteen") to have some fun.
• She loves playing with and cuddling with her cats, and posts photos of them on her Instagram.
• Making Snow Globes

Commercials and endorsements

• She has been signed to advertise Cover Girl makeup.
• She did a commercial for Sony TX7 Cyber-shot Camera.
• She has been in several Diet Coke commercials.
• She has a deal with American Greetings.
• She has her own line of Keds.
• She has 4 perfumes, Taylor, Incredible Things, Wonderstruck, and Enchanted Wonderstruck.
• She has been in an Eos hand lotion commercial and has done photoshoots for the brand.
• She has a commercial for Capital One that came out in 2019

Social causes

• She helped pass a law to help keep children safe from online predators.
• She performed a song she wrote called "Ronan" (the name of a 4 year old boy who died of cancer,) as part of a "Stand Up to Cancer" fundraiser.
• She has visited sick fans in the hospital many times.
• She sends gifts to fans during Christmas.
• She reportedly hand-paints guitars to give to critically ill children in the hospitals she visits.
• When a young man dying of cancer asked her to his prom via Facebook, she appeared briefly to surprise him. They shared a dance and posed together for a keepsake photo.
• She donated $50,000 to NYC Public Schools from the sales of Welcome to New York.
• Taylor Swift told the Guardian newspaper: “As a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities. What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means. For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite sex, whereas it’s not about that at all. Becoming friends with Lena – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realise that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.”
• Taylor's song "Welcome to New York" from her 1989 album includes a quiet tribute of her support for the LGBTQ community. A lyric in the second verse reads "And you can want who you want/ Boys and boys and girls and girls."
• Taylor Swift released a single in 2019- "You Need To Calm Down" which supports the LGBTQ+ community and promotes to stop online bullying and putting women against each other.

Interesting facts

• During an interview with David Letterman, she stated she learns some phrases in every language of every nation she visits, and then demonstrated her impressive ability to speak Japanese.
• When major clothing company Abercrombie and Fitch released a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "More Boyfriends Than T.S.", her fans banded together in a massive protest against the company and its products via social media. The company later apologized and pulled the merchandise from all its stores.
• Taylor Is friends with a wide array of people including athletes, models, musicians, chefs, actors, activists, producers, designers, dancers, rappers, and authors.
• She's been sawed in half by a magician several times, and also taken part in a number of other magic tricks.
• Taylor was very academically successful, she had a 4.0 gpa and graduated high school a year early.
• Taylor’s father, Scott Kingsley was a stock broker who taught Taylor how to run a business when she was 3 years old. Taylor would often say that she wanted to be a stock broker before knowing what it was

References

• http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Taylor-Swift-Talks-About-Some-of-Her-Favorite-Things-Video