Taylor Swift covers her very first issue of GQ this month, prompting us to ask the question we’re sure is on everyone’s mind as a result:
WHAT THE HECK TOOK YOU SO LONG, GQ?!?!?
The superstar “Rules the World,” according to the headline above, as Swift poses here in a more sultry manner than usual.
GQ is yet to release any excerpts from its interview with Taylor, but writer/author Chuck Klosterman penned the cover piece and says of Swift in it:
If you don’t take Swift seriously, you don’t take contemporary music seriously…
There’s simply no antecedent for this kind of career: a cross-genre, youth-oriented, critically acclaimed colossus based entirely on the intuitive songwriting merits of a single female artist. It’s as if mid-period Garth Brooks was also early Liz Phair, minus the hat and the swearing.
As a phenomenon, it’s absolutely new.
Swift, of course, has spent a bulk of 2015 going on tour, inviting pretty much every celebrity alive to join her on stage.
She also covers the latest issue of NME and the latest issue of OK! Weekly, though she didn’t purposely pose for the latter.
