Taylor Swift taking time off from music to learn how to be a normal person
There's more to life than touring, awards shows and dominating Instagram, apparently.
In a new, revealing profile in Vanity Fair -- in which she returns to her native Pennsylvania to serve as maid of honor for her childhood friend -- Swift lets slip that she's not planning to focus much on her music career for the foreseeable future.
"This is the first time in ten years that I haven't known [what I'm doing next]. I just decided that after the past year, with all of the unbelievable things that happened . . . I decided I was going to live my life a little bit without the pressure on myself to create something," she told the magazine.
So what is Swift going to be doing instead? "I would really like to take a little time to learn things," Swift explained. "I have lots of short-term goals."
Those goals apparently include checking a few mundane abilities off her list. "I want to be a well-rounded person who can make a good drink," she said. "To be able to save somebody if they're drowning. So CPR, all the various kinds of chest compressions. People tell you little tips, but that's different from actually taking a class and getting certified."
Her friends, however, don't see the new resolve lasting very long. "Tay is a big fan of taking time off until about month two," pal Lorde warned. "And then she gets this look in her eyes, and I know all the 'Dateline' and frozen yogurt and mooching around is about to go out the window."