Taylor Swift looks pretty, talks writing songs about ex-boyfriends and her fears about ending up alone

Taylor Swift looks pretty, talks writing songs about ex-boyfriends and her fears about ending up alone

My, what pretty eyes you have

Spring is most definitely in the air and, if VB getting her pins out wasn't convincing enough, we have further proof - Taylor Swift looking all big-eyed, fresh-faced and generally Spring-like in her latest magazine shoot.

The country star appears in the new issue of InStyle , looking very pretty indeed.

Taylor wears a host of all-white outfits in the shoot, styled by Natalie Hartley, which features in the magazine's April issue.                       

But it turns out that, behind those big blue peepers and glossy hair is a 20-something trying very hard to figure it all out.

Saying she was thought of as "weird and different" at school, Tayl or explains how she turned to music for solace.

“I first started writing songs because I didn’t really have anyone else to talk to," she tells the magazine, adding: "As sad as that sounds, I was going through this really hard time at school where I didn’t have any friends. Song writing for me just started out as therapy.”

She also said: “When you’re dealing with something like loneliness or confusion or rejection or frustration, those emotions are so jumbled up in your head.

Our mum has a nightie like that

"For me, the only way to condense them down into one thing is to write a three-and-a- half minute song about it."

As Joe Jonas and Taylor Lautner and John Meyer and Harry Styles all know only too well.

Asked if she ever censors herself (ha!), Taylor replies: “No. I don’t see the point,” adding that boyfriends, past or present, are included in that certainty.

And it's totally fine if they write something about her too.

“I can take it,” she insists. “If I’m gonna write songs about my exes they can write songs about me. That’s how it works. I’m not gonna complain about it. I’m not gonna sit there and say, ‘I’m the only one who can write songs about this relationship’. It’s fair ga me.”

In which case, we look forward to songs called New York City Love Affair and We Kissed On NYE (Then Split A Week Later) on the next One Direction album.

Elsewhere in the interview, Taylor confesses that she isn't much of a "keeper-in-toucher" when it comes to ex-boyfriends, and that she's got way more girlfriends that guy friends.

Is it a skirt? Is it a pair of trousers? We just don't know

“I’m a girls’ girl. I have guy friends but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the internet.

"I mean, there’s all kinds of complicated things with having guys as friends. If they have a girlfriend who doesn’t like you or things like that. So I have like two or three guy friends. A select few. But I have like 20-25 really good girlfriends.’

The serial dater also speaks about her fears of ending up alone.

"My fears circle around me making the wrong choices and messing this up for myself," she confesses.

"I don’t wanna end up being awful and intolerable. Alone. Laying in a marble bathtub by myself, like sad, with a glass of wine just complaining that my life ended up alone because I pushed everyone away because I thought I was too good to hang out with anybody. The typical Hollywood sad cliché of the poor lonely starlet with no one because she put up all these walls and didn’t trust anyone.

"That’s my fear. And that’s why I live my life the way I live my life because I’d so much rather feel everything than end up like that.”

April's InStyle, out Thursday!

Having lots of little Taylors would be one way of making sure she doesn't find herself alone and sobbing into her marble bathtub in 50 years time, but Taylor's not sure if that's what she wants.

Asked if she'd like to have a family, she said: "I think so but I’m not sure. Like, I don’t even have a master plan.

"I’ve thought that I did have a dream scenario before but it turns out that I change my mind and that essentially in your 20s all the puzzle pieces of your life are thrown up in the air and they just fall into whatever place and I think that’s healthy."

The more this girl says, the more we love her.

Watch a behind the scenes video of Taylor's InStyle shoot below...

InStyle isn't the only magazine that Taylor graces the cover of this month - she's also the star of Vanity Fair, in which she looks just as pretty.

In that interview, Taylor expressed her disappointment at comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler taking the mick out of her love life when they hosted the Golden Globes earlier this year, saying: "there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

Obviously scared that she'd end up as the title of Taylor's next song, Amy said these nice words to The Hollywood Reporter: "Aw, I feel bad if she was upset. I am a feminist and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff."

Tina Fey on the other hand was less bothered.

She told Entertainment Tonight: "If anyone was going to get mad at us, I thought it would be Jam es Cameron. I did not see that one coming. It was a joke. It was a light-hearted joke."

Brace yourself for a song called something like Satina The She Devil, love.

To read Taylor's interview in full, see the April issue of InStyle, out tomorrow. A digital edition is also available on all tablets.           

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