Taylor Swift has dated some of Hollywood’s hottest stars like Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Joe Jonas, but although those relationships ended in heartbreak, the 22-year-old reveals in the new issue of Vogue that those relationship have taught her to look out for a few red flags.
Swift says the first thing that she looks out for is someone who thinks he already knows everything about her and doesn’t really want to get to know her.
“If someone doesn’t seem to want to get to know me as a person but instead seems to have kind of bought into the whole idea of me and he approves of my Wikipedia page? And falls in love based on zero hours spent with me? That’s maybe something to be aware of,” she tells Vogue. “That will fade fast. You can’t be in love with a Google search.”
Swift says she also needs someone who understands why she has a security team.
“If a dude is threatened by the fact that I need security, if they make me feel like I am some sort of princessy diva—that’s a bad sign,” she adds. “I don’t have security to make myself look cool, or like I have an entourage. I have security because there’s a file of stalkers who want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement.”
Swift, who says she also doesn’t want a boyfriend to “put me down a lot in order to level the playing field” adds that after having high profile relationships, she doesn’t want to date someone who isn’t very open.
"I can’t deal with someone who’s obsessed with privacy,” she said. “People kind of care if there are two famous people dating, but no one cares that much. If you care about privacy to the point where we need to dig a tunnel under this restaurant so that we can leave? I can’t do that.”
For now, Swift is single.
“I really have this great life right now, and I’m not sad and I’m not crying,” she said, adding that when she’s in love she is “ridiculously stupid.”
She has, however, turned her failed relationships into songs for her next album, which is due out this year. She says it helps her heal her broken heart.
“There’s just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak,” she says, “And that will turn out to be what the next album is about. The only way that I can feel better about myself—pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone—is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity.”