Taylor Swift Wants to Perform with Iggy Azalea, HAIM

By Marissa G. Muller

Taylor Swift has scored another magazine cover she can add to her ever-expanding stack, with this week’s TIME, and her interview is full of revelations.

In particular, Swift was asked about who she would most like to collaborate with live, and her answer might not be what you’d expect.

“I love Iggy Azalea, I love HAIM,” she said. Why those choices? “The things that I try to really focus on when bringing out people as surprise guests is what do my fans really want to see, what would they lose their minds over?”

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Azalea came up another time in the interview when Swift spoke on the “feminist issue” of people not taking female songwriters seriously, assuming that they’re not entirely responsible for their work.

“In the beginning, I liked to think that we were all on the same playing field,” she said. “And then it became pretty obvious to me that when you have people sort of questioning the validity of a female songwriter, or making it seem like it’s somehow unacceptable to write songs about your real emotions—that it somehow makes you irrational and overemotional—seeing that over the years changed my view.

“It’s a little discouraging that females have to work so much harder to prove that they do their own things. I see Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea having to prove that they write their own raps or their own lyrics, and it makes me sad, because they shouldn’t have to justify it.”

Swift has had to justify every step of her new album, 1989. “Every single element of this album has been called into question, and I’ve had to say, ‘No, this is how we’re doing it.’” she said. “And the fact that we came out and did the kind of numbers we did in the first week—you have no idea how relieved I was, because it was all on me if this didn’t work.”

You can read the rest of Swift’s fascinating interview here.

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