If I played that song for my old auntie who barely knows english, she’d say, “Eso es Katy Perry.” The only reason why she called it “Bad Blood” is because her label thought that the title “Fuck That Cunt Katy Perry” was just a teensy bit off-brand for the album. Taylor Swift basically said it was about Katy Perry. She also says that, because all everyone seemingly wants to write about is her is her love life, she banned herself from the internet in 2013 despite telling her interviewer minutes later that she closely monitors what people say about her. “Am I shooting from the hip?” she asks rhetorically. She really, really hates the word calculating. “Would any of this have happened if I was? In that sense, I do think about things before they happen. But here was someone taking a positive thing - the fact that I think about things and that I care about my work - and trying to make that into an insinuation about my personal life. She frightens me genuinely — Edward Droste (@edwarddroste) July 26, 2015 
 
 Now, speaking to GQ, Swift has described the accusations - though the piece doesn't name Droste, it merely cites his accusations - as "highly offensive." You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work.” 
 
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 Here we see Swift’s circuitous dilemma: Any attempt to appear less calculating scans as even more calculated. I really hope that Taylor tracked down those girls who rejected her and went to their house one by one with her Victoria’s Secret model friends to say, “Big mistake!  In GQ’s annual Eye Roll Issue, the human version of Nermal from Garfield talks about all sorts of shit including how “Bad Blood” isn’t about Katy Perry and how she hates when people think she’s calculating. On outing who “Bad Blood” is about… 
 
 You’re in a Rolling Stone interview, and the writer says, “Who is that song about? “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. According to her, her policy is to never say who her songs are about, but she said that, because she didn’t want anyone to think it’s about an ex-boyfriend. It was not a song about heartbreak. It was about the loss of friendship.” 
 
 Chuck called her out and let her know that nobody thought it was about a dude: 
 
 “But they would have. Listen to the song. (I’m going to take a wild guess and say that former acquaintance was Ed Droste of Grizzy Bear.) “Massive amounts of people. I do a meet-and-greet every night on the tour, and it’s 150 people. Before that, it’s a radio meet-and-greet with 40 people. After the show, it’s 30 or 40 more people. "So then when I go home and turn on the TV, and I’ve got Monica and Chandler and Ross and Rachel and Phoebe and Joey on a Friends marathon, I don’t feel lonely. I’ve just been onstage for two hours, talking to 60,000 people about my feelings. That’s so much social stimulation. When I get home, there is not one part of me that wishes I was around other people.” 
 
 This is understandable.
– During an extensive cover interview with Chuck Klosterman for GQ, the only time Taylor Swift "appears remotely flustered," Klosterman writes, is when he relays a story to her about meeting a former acquaintance of Swift's a few years back who called her "calculating." Swift "really, really hates the word calculating," Klosterman writes. "She despises how it has become tethered to her iconography and believes the person I met has been the singular voice regurgitating this categorization." Swift's defense: "Am I shooting from the hip? Would any of this have happened if I was? In that sense, I do think about things before they happen. But here was someone taking a positive thing—the fact that I think about things and that I care about my work—and trying to make that into an insinuation about my personal life. Highly offensive. You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work." So who are Swift and Klosterman talking about? Dlisted, Celebuzz, and Gigwise think it's likely Edward Droste, member of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear, who earlier this year called Swift not only calculating but frightening, mean, rude, and arrogant (though he at first wouldn't say who he was talking about). As for the rest of the GQ interview, Swift also discusses the rumor that her song "Bad Blood" is about Katy Perry (she basically fueled the rumor because she didn't want anyone to think the song was about one of her exes) and the VMAs moment when Kanye West stormed the stage and interrupted her acceptance speech. "That was the most happenstance thing to ever happen in my career," she says. "And to now be in a place where Kanye and I respect each other—that's one of my favorite things that has happened in my career." Click for the full piece.