Swiftly surprised.

It's Saturday afternoon and I finally made time to read my March Elle magazine that came to me in the mail weeks ago.

I must admit that I was a little disappointed when I saw Taylor Swift on the cover. It's no secret that I'm a fan, but I like to think of Elle as more high fashion rather than pop culture inspired and as of late I view Swift as growing less and less relevant so I was curious as to what they were going to talk to her about.

As I began my venture into the 510 page edition (quite the upgrade from last months 272 pages), ogling at Hermes, Versace and Givenchy's spring ads I quietly prepared myself for the eye rolling that was sure to come upon reading Swift's article. Visions of her many acceptance speeches danced round and round in my head ("Oh my gosh, thank you so much! I am so surprise!"...yeah, yeah, yeah).

Well it turns out that despite her relevancy to teens and 20-something-year-olds, I found myself just as enthralled with her as I was when I first listened to her Speak Now album.

You know when something is really trendy, like The Hunger Games and peplum tops, and you just really don't want to like them because EVERYONE likes them, but no matter how hard you fight, you just friggin love 'em? Yeah. That's how this article was for me. And just about every article/song/thing associated with Taylor Swift...

What can I say? The girl knows how to capture a moment. (And any girl who can write a song like Revenge and has the kahunas to write and release Dear John is someone I can hang with.) 

But in all seriousness, I often feel like certain celebrities are misunderstood because of how the media portrays things and I think Taylor Swift falls into this category a lot.

Yes her personality is a little off beat, yes I'm sure she is sickeningly positive sometimes and what is her deal with cats? But despite all of that, there is something very intriguing about her and I decided after this article that what intrigues me about her is her normalcy.

She's goofy and super awkward and sometimes obnoxious, but aren't we all?

The article says "Swift has benefited creatively from the tunnel vision that comes with being a teenager. Not even fame can save you from the trials of early adulthood: figuring out who you are, falling in love, going out in the world on your own, having your heart broken, inflicting heartbreak, forgetting who you are and having to discover it all over again. When you're really young, you are blessed and cursed with the certainty that nothing in the world is more important than your feelings. Swift writes songs from that place."

Despite her fame, private planes, world tours and celebrity boyfriends, she's living life as a typical 23-year-old girl and instead of writing in a diary, blog or eating a pint of ice cream (which hey, she might do that too) she writes a song about it. And more power to her. Many people pin her as being dramatic or just "too much" and yes...I can see that. But don't you dare try and tell me that you haven't listened to at least one of her songs and thought "damn...preach sister."

That's what I thought.

Xx,
-Lo.