Whatever you have to add to the conversation about Rolling Stone magazine, and I think their reviews are crap and where favors to and from rock stars go to die, one this is undoubted. They get as close to the stars as humanly possible. Nobody does it better, baby they're the best at the window into WHO BONO REALLY REALLY IS WHEN PICKS UP ITALIAN HITCHHIKERS IN IRELAND and not WHO BONO IS WHEN HE CLOSES DOWN 5 BLOCKS IN SAO PAOLO SO HE CAN HANG AT A BAR WITH HIS BODYGUARDS.But, you know even if you are reading what bands want you to know, what they want you to know is not much. But Brian Hiatt, an absolute pro at the tough question without having the star clam up, can't tackle Taylor Swift at all in the current issue of Rolling Stone. With complete access, hanging out at her condo, meeting her parents, having (count em) two car accidents with her, Swift comes across as completely inaccessible.
Brian can't get her to discuss her Kennedy boyfriend, can't get her to discuss her private life at all, is completely and totally useless when it comes to the upcoming album Red. And despite a couple of paragraphs where you glimpse the bitch she doesn't reveal to the world, all she gets is the old soft soap.
Like I said, Brian can do this, so it is Swift who just won't give him a damn thing to work with. It starts with the least revealing car accident in the history of the world (the big quote: "OHGODOHGOD…" repeated for a paragraph) and goes down hill from there. the big get? Swift reveals she had her first drink when she was 21 years but won't say if she has ever been drunk. Eh? That's it?
The Taylor Swift interview is a perfect example as to how not to give people what they want. There is one tough quote, maybe two. The second one is when Taylor doesn't appreciate being asked twice about whether "Dear John" is about John Mayer, and the first , to a business associate, is a thing of beauty: "I resent the idea that you can just start a sentence with 'respectfully' and then you can say whatever you want". Wow, hot stuff,eh?
But one sentence does not an interview make and Rolling Stone got schooled on how big pop stars can play em. Even young, tall ones