Platinum Underdog: Why Taylor Swift Is the Biggest Pop Star in the World
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Taylor Swift worries a lot about security. It’s an understandable concern.
This spring, a man was arrested in the wee hours of the morning near her estate
in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Police reportedly spotted him walking out of the
ocean; he told the arresting officers he had swum two miles to meet Taylor
Swift. The singer has two other homes—a modest house, which she calls a
“cottage,” in Beverly Hills, and her main residence, a
penthouse apartment near downtown Nashville—and her team makes every
effort to keep the addresses hush-hush. But fans have a way of sniffing these
things out. On a Sunday morning in late September, a 12-year-old girl and her
mother, who had flown to Nashville from Connecticut to see Swift’s concert
at the Bridgestone Arena the night before, walked into the lobby of her
building. This was celebrity stalking at its most benign: The mom and daughter
had a gift for Swift, a big container of homemade chicken soup,
which they left with her doorman.
in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Police reportedly spotted him walking out of the
ocean; he told the arresting officers he had swum two miles to meet Taylor
Swift. The singer has two other homes—a modest house, which she calls a
“cottage,” in Beverly Hills, and her main residence, a
penthouse apartment near downtown Nashville—and her team makes every
effort to keep the addresses hush-hush. But fans have a way of sniffing these
things out. On a Sunday morning in late September, a 12-year-old girl and her
mother, who had flown to Nashville from Connecticut to see Swift’s concert
at the Bridgestone Arena the night before, walked into the lobby of her
building. This was celebrity stalking at its most benign: The mom and daughter
had a gift for Swift, a big container of homemade chicken soup,
which they left with her doorman.