Taylor Swift says it's 'highly offensive' when people call her calculating

Taylor Swift says she finds it "highly offensive" when people label her as calculating.

The 25-year-old star told GQ Magazine that caring passionately about her work is a positive thing, but people imply it isn't.

"I do think about things before they happen... and care about my work," she says.

"Trying to make that into an insinuation about my personal life [is] highly offensive."

Appearing on the front cover of this month's magazine, Taylor reveals that she grafts hard to maintain her career - and that does take a certain amount of calculation.

"You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work," she says.

The singer, who's on her 1989 world tour, revealed she doesn't mind people speculating about her private life.

Her tracks are full of her personal experiences, she says, so it would be wrong to complain when people dig deeper.

"I don't feel there is any injustice when people expand beyond my music and speculate on who certain songs might be about," she explains.

"I've never named names, so I feel like I still have a sense of power over what people say - even if that isn't true, and even if I don't have any power over what people say about me.

"The fact that I've never confirmed who those songs are about makes me feel like there is still one card I'm holding."

And she's still holding on to one particular card - refusing to confirm the speculation that her track Bad Blood is about singer, Katy Perry.

"I never said anything that would point a finger in the specific direction of one specific person, and I can sleep at night knowing that," she says.

"I knew the song would be assigned to a person, and the easiest mark was someone who I didn't want to be labelled with this song.

"It was not a song about heartbreak. It was about the loss of friendship."

So, no clues there then. But she does make a rare reference to Kanye West storming the stage during her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

It's one of the standout moments of Taylor's career.

"When the crowd started booing, I thought they were booing because they also believed I didn't deserve the award," she says.

"That's where the hurt came from. I went backstage and cried, and then I had to stop crying and perform five minutes later."

The pair are now friends again and are even contemplating standing in the US presidential race together. She says she couldn't be happier.

"That was the most happenstance thing to ever happen in my career," she explains.

"And to now be in a place where Kanye and I respect each other - that's one of my favourite things that has happened in my career."

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