Taylor Swift is one of the most successful singers today, however, to achieve this, she always has to work hard and endure a lot of scandal from the media.

Taylor Swift is one of the most prominent names in the world music industry, owning a series of resonant products, sold-out tours and top brand value. However, to succeed, Swift must work her best and accept being shunned by her friends. Throughout his career, the Shake It Off singer has many times been involved in scandals, harsh criticism from public opinion, noisy love affairs and even rumors originating from colleagues.

In that situation, music is where she can vent all her emotions.

Passionate about singing since childhood and resilient

Since childhood, the Love Story singer has loved country music. While her peers spent time playing video games and watching cartoons, Swift learned about music with the dream of becoming a famous singer.

Not only is she a dreamy girl, Swift is also a person with strong will and determination.

She insisted on asking her parents to move from Pennsylvania to Nashville, where many famous country music singers converge. “When I was 10 years old, I decided I had to move to that city because both of my country music idols, Faith Hill and Shania Twain, were famous from Nashville,” Swift said in a Time magazine interview.

‘I begged, whined and did everything to get my parents to take me there. After that, my mother agreed and she even drove me to record stores to give them my karaoke CDs. At that time my voice sounded like a squirrel. I knocked on all the doors and said, ‘Hello. I’m Taylor. I am 11 years old this year. I want to become a famous singer. Please call me’, she added.

However, no recording company called the 11-year-old girl who loved to sing. However, Swift was not discouraged, she realized that karaoke songs did not clearly show her true ability. She was determined to learn the 12-string guitar and compose music despite her parents’ dissuasion.

Taylor Swift has always been attached to the guitar since childhood

To prove her determination to become a singer, Swift performed at all events and stages that her family allowed, from small fairs, food festivals to outdoor music competitions. God.

The effort paid off, at the age of 14, Taylor Swift became the youngest singer to receive a recording contract with Sony in Nashville.

In order to create an opportunity for their daughter to realize her dream of becoming a singer, the Look What You Made Me Do singer’s family agreed to move to a new city. In 2006, she released her first single at the age of 16 called Tim McGraw.

The song reached the Top 100 on the Billboard chart and ranked in the top 10 of country music. After that, Swift released her first self-titled album and received many positive comments from fans and music critics.

Use music to comfort yourself when your friends shun you

With success coming so early, Swift began to suffer from the alienation and unpleasant attitudes of her schoolmates. As a quiet and timid person, the female singer easily became the target of bullies.

In an interview with the Examiner, her mother confided: ‘The worst part of the day was when I picked Taylor up from school. I know things are very bad for her. At lunchtime, he sits down at the dining table and his friends will avoid going elsewhere.’

The Love Story singer also has sad memories of this time: ‘Many girls thought I was weird. They say I make them angry so no one wants to eat with me.’

‘Middle school is a bad memory because I was bullied by a group of popular female students in school. They thought I wasn’t pretty and cool enough so they stopped talking to me. The fact that I like country music is also made fun of by many people,’ she said angrily.

And this is exactly why Taylor Swift writes music: ‘I sat in school alone, no one talked to me or asked me out so I thought I would write a song about it’.

Taylor Swift was shunned and bullied by her friends when she was in middle school

Later, when the female singer released her first album, she met the friends who bullied her at her old school. ‘They wore shirts with my picture on them and asked for my autograph on the record. I realized that they don’t remember how badly they treated me, and I also need to forget that to live a better life.’

‘If I hadn’t been miserable and sad every time after school, maybe I wouldn’t have had the strength to write good music like today. I should thank them.’, singer Blank Space shared.

Later, when she became famous, the singer always comforted her fans when they suffered violence at school because she understood this better than anyone else.

‘Many people will abuse and stigmatize others for any reason. They treated me poorly because I was happy and lived my life to the fullest. They don’t understand you, and they don’t understand me either. But don’t let them change you or say you can’t sing or dance,’ Swift sent a message to fans.

The perfect girl becomes ugly due to scandal

Since childhood, Swift was a good child, always did all his homework, got good grades in school and never smoked or drank alcohol. She also realized that she would get in trouble if she lied to her parents.

When pursuing the path of being an artist, Swift also determined that everything needed to be perfected as much as possible. No mistakes are allowed to happen, so she participates in many stages every time a new project comes up, from composing to even directing her own MVs. She also spends hours reading messages from fans and stays to interact with them after shows.

Everything seems to come perfect for the Love Story singer: rich and beautiful, successful in her singing career and always loved by her fans.

However, Swift has had many scandals in her career, including the scandal between her and Kanye West, her multi-year ‘feud’ with Katy Perry, a list of short-term relationships with many male artists, and lawsuit about physical harm in 2017.

According to Quatzy, many articles were written about Swift, criticizing her for using broken relationships to defame her ex-lover in songs, or for using her name to defame other artists. According to CNN, Kim Kadarshian once called her a ‘poisonous snake’ because she always appeared to be a good girl and a victim of everything.

Talking about this, singer Blank Space said: ‘A few years ago, someone called me a poisonous snake. After that, a lot of people called me other ugly names. I was very sad for a long time because I didn’t know what to do.

‘However, if someone says bad things about you online, the only way to get over it is to not pay attention to what they say,’ she added.

Similar to how she once wrote music about bullies in school, the female singer released an album about her own scandals in the new album Reputation (Reputation).

Taylor Swift used snakes for the show promoting her album Reputation

She even used snakes as the main theme for many of her shows as a way to respond to public opinion.

In the latest album Reputation, the singer born in 1989 affirmed that ‘the old Taylor is dead’ and replaced by a new Taylor who is gloomy and cold with surrounding rumors through the lyrics Look What You Made Me Due.

Similarly, the song Delicate also talks about her new self. Swift sings: ‘My reputation has never been this bad. You must really like the real me’. Perhaps, the current Taylor Swift no longer accepts being looked down upon or ostracized by others. In its current position, Swift is stronger than ever.