Miss Americana is a compelling portrait of Taylor Swift. Here are 18 things we learned about her in the documentary
The superstar’s new doc, directed by Lana Wilson, reveals a lot: a previously unmentioned eating disorder, the story behind her political awakening, and a cat backpack. Photo: YouTube This piece originally ran after the Sundance premiere of Miss Americana in Park City, Utah. We are republishing it now that the documentary is streaming on Netflix.
No. 14: She lets her cats eat at her dinner table. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix For most of her life, Swift has been obsessed with the idea of being a “good girl.” “I had a need to be thought of as good,” she admits early on in the documentary, as she flips through old, neurotically moralizing diary entries, explaining that as a child and a young adult, “pats on the head were all I lived for … It was the complete and total belief system I subscribed to as a kid.
Despite her natural affinity for songwriting, she feels an immense internal and external pressure to get better with every record. “If I don’t beat everything I’ve done, it’s seen as a colossal failure,” she says during a meeting with her team in the midst of conceiving Lover. When she hit her professional peak, winning Album of the Year twice in a row, Swift says she realized she’d gotten “everything [she] ever wanted” — but that she had nobody to share it with.
The assault trial was the catalyst for Swift’s political outspokenness. Growing up in the shadow of the Dixie Chicks’ haunting excision from country music after lead singer Natalie Maines made a joke about George Bush, Swift was terrified to speak up about her own politics and risk isolating half of her fanbase.
She lets her cats eat at her dinner table. Swift’s longtime best friend Abigail comes over for a spaghetti dinner and Swift pours cat food directly onto the table so that one of her cats can join them. This is another event at which she drinks iced white wine.
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