Where Does Taylor Swift Make All Her Money

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Taylor Swifthas got a ton of musical mileage out of the romantic relationships that have come up and gone in her life, simply those guys haven't been the truly essential players in her journey to the superlative of the pop star pyramid.

It's Scott and Andrea Swift, Taylor's parents, who have championed their girl since twenty-four hour period one, assertive in her and so much that they left their deluxe house in Reading, Penn., for Nashville, where a determined fourteen-twelvemonth-onetime Taylor felt she had to exist to brand her dream a reality.

Talking to CMT, she said her parents weren't just indulging her for the sake of being supportive. "My parents actually believed information technology," she said.

Before her Reputation Tour touched downwardly in Philadelphia, she took a few friends to visit her childhood abode, a Christmas tree subcontract in Wyomissing, where the new owners were apparently happy to let the famous one-time resident in to accept a look at her old room.

"I went to the house I grew upwardly in. I got emotional when I went into my bedroom, and in that location'due south another little girl'southward things in in that location," Swift told the sold-out oversupply one dark at Lincoln Financial Field. "Information technology's non my family subcontract anymore. We sold it when we went to Nashville. I've been thinking about how cool it is to be back where I started writing songs."

She told CMT that, back in the day, her parents never pushed her, but "I would not leave them alone."

Taylor was barely out of class schoolhouse when Andrea Swift (née Gardner Finlay) first took her to Nashville to drib off the CDs she had fabricated of her singing karaoke with record labels, having seen in documentaries about Shania Twain and LeAnn Rimes that Music City, U.s.a.A., was where she needed to be.

"My mom waited in the machine with my little blood brother while I knocked on doors up and downward Music Row," Swift recalled to Entertainment Weeklyin 2008. "I would say, 'How-do-you-do, I'thou Taylor. I'm eleven; I want a tape deal. Call me."'

Well, the world wasn't prepare for it just yet.

"She came back from that trip to Nashville and realized she needed to exist different, and part of that would be to learn the guitar," Andrea told EW. "Now, at 12, she saw a 12-string guitar and thought it was the coolest thing. And of course we immediately said, 'Oh no, admittedly not, your fingers are too small—non till you're much older will you exist able to play the 12-cord guitar.'

"Well, that was all it took. Don't ever say never or tin can't practice to Taylor. She started playing it four hours a day—six on the weekends. She would get calluses on her fingers and they would crack and bleed, and we would tape them up and she'd just proceed on playing. That'south all she played, till a couple of years later, which was the first time she ever picked upward a vi-cord guitar. And when she did, it was like, 'wow, this is really easy!'"

Swift performed in venues all over Pennsylvania, wherever she could get a gig, and wrote her footling centre out. She went back to Nashville at 13 and got a development deal at RCA Records, which she declined to re-upward later a year, wanting to record merely songs that she had a hand in writing. At 14 she became the youngest person in the roster at Sony/ATV Publishing.

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And then, the whole family—Scott, Andrea, Taylor and her blood brother, Austin Swift—eventually relocated to Hendersonville, virtually twenty miles exterior Nashville, in 2003. But they didn't explicitly put it that way at the time.

"I knew I was the reason they were moving," Taylor later toldSelf. "Simply they tried to put no pressure on me. They were like, 'Well, nosotros demand a change of scenery anyhow,' and 'I love how friendly the people in Tennessee are.'"

"I never wanted to brand that motility most her 'making it,"' Andrea explained toEW. "Considering what a horrible thing if it hadn't happened, for her to comport that kind of guilt or force per unit area around. And we moved far enough exterior Nashville to where she didn't have to exist going to schoolhouse with producers' kids and label presidents' kids and be reminded constantly that she was struggling to brand it. Nosotros've e'er told her that this is not most putting food on our table or making our dreams come true.

"At that place would always exist an escape hatch into normal life if she decided this wasn't something she had to pursue. And of course that's similar saying to her, 'If y'all want to stop animate, that's cool.'"

Swift concluded up fatefully signing with Big Machine Records, run past Scott Borchetta, who had just left Universal Music Group to first his own characterization.

"They only had 10 employees at the record label to beginning out with, so when they were releasing my first unmarried, my mom and I came in to assistance stuff the CD singles into envelopes to transport to radio," Taylor recalled to EW. "We sat out on the flooring and did it considering in that location wasn't furniture at the label yet."

Meanwhile, Scott and Andrea—formerly a marketing manager at an advertising agency—had already fix up Taylor's website and MySpace page (with Taylor writing her bio, updates and responses to fans herself, of form).

"The mom and dad both take great marketing minds," Rick Barker, Swift's manager at the fourth dimension, told EW. "I don't want to say imitation it until you brand it, but when y'all looked at her stuff, it was very professional fifty-fifty earlier she got her deal."

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Andrea said that her daughter relished the recognition, the selfie requests and the otherwise positive attention from fans of her music, "merely she never in her life ever said, 'I want to be famous' or 'I want to exist rich' or 'I want to be a star.' Those words absolutely never came out of her rima oris. If they had, I would have said, 'Dear, perhaps you're doing information technology kind of for the wrong reasons.'

"For her, the happiest I ever see her is simply after she'due south written a killer song. As a parent, I felt really good near that. If that'southward where she draws happiness from, she'll take that the rest of her life. She's not e'er gonna have the awards, or the attention, or the celebrity, but she volition e'er have the ability to write a song."

Swift has credited her female parent for instilling in her the importance of maintaining her independence, financial and otherwise, saying, "She raised me to be logical and applied. I was brought upward with such a strong adult female in my life and I think that had a lot to do with me not wanting to do annihilation halfway."

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Andrea's mother, Marjorie Finlay, was a professional person opera singer and a magnetic presence in every room—a quality Taylor shared with her grandma, Scott Swift once said. "The 2 of them had some sort of magic where they could walk into a room and remember everyone'due south name," he said. "Taylor has the same grace and physique of Andrea's mother."

Taylor described her dad, meanwhile, equally "merely a large teddy bear who tells me everything I practise is perfect." That being said, she added, "business organization-wise, he'southward brilliant."

Once Taylor'due south career started to take off, Scott, who had relocated his business to Nashville, stayed in town with Austin while Andrea accompanied their daughter on bout, helping her terminate high schoolhouse on the road.

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"She was ever singing music when she was 3, 5, 6, 7 years old," Scott, an investment banker with Merill Lynch who ran The Swift Group under the company'due south umbrella, told the University of Delaware'southUDaily in 2009. "It'southward Taylor doing what she likes to practise." (When she was quite piffling, Taylor recalled, she would tell people she was going to be a financial counselor, fifty-fifty though she didn't know what that meant.)

"We had a kid that was really passionate almost it," he said. Getting that first deal at 13 "was the confirmation that maybe she wasn't crazy, because her writing is why she got it."

Swift was xvi when her self-titled debut anthology came out in Oct 2006. Less than a yr after, she opened for Brad Paisley at the Allentown Fair, a big-ticket gig in her domicile state.

While "Tim McGraw," her start-ever unmarried, eventually drew the most attention, her second single, "Teardrops on My Guitar," was her first top-fifteen unmarried (peaking at xiii) and the next, "Our Vocal," became her biggest striking on land radio to date, her first No. one on the Hot Country Songs nautical chart.

Scott Swift hasn't had to do much lately when information technology comes to Taylor's ridiculously successful career, but he helped out where he could early on on (not including the unconfirmed reports that he advised Harry Styles to not rush things when the Ane Direction singer and Taylor started dating). He told UDaily that he helped arrange Taylor'due south prime number-time gig singing the national canticle during Game 3 of the 2008 World Series, a abode game for the Philadelphia Phillies (who went on to beat out the Tampa Bay Rays in five games), having gone to higher with the Phillies' facilities managing director.

"The reason she sang the anthem is because ii University of Delaware alumni kept in touch over the years," Scott told the paper. But as fourth dimension went on, Taylor's reputation preceded her. "I've heard from a lot of great alumni, and I'm convinced they alive in every city, because whenever Taylor's rolling into wherever she is, we'll hear from them," her dad said. "It's really powerful."

Scott and Andrea are inappreciably the unsung heroes of Taylor'south life, though—quite the opposite, in fact.

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You lot'd have been forgiven for assuming that "The Best Day," off of 2008'sFearless, centers on the male parent-daughter bond (going by the line "I have an first-class male parent / His strength is making me stronger"), but it's really a sweeping ode to Andrea, the one who waited in the car while tween Taylor knocked on doors.

"'The Best Twenty-four hour period' is a song that I wrote without telling my mom," Swift shared in 2011. "I wrote it in the summer, and I recorded it secretly, too. I had this idea that I wanted to play information technology for her for Christmas. And so, when I got the track I synced up all of these home videos from when I was a fiddling kid to become forth with the vocal like a music video, and played information technology for her on Christmas Eve and she was crying her eyes out."

She eventually had to stop playing it live because Andrea was e'er dissolving into tears backstage.

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Taylor continued, "Remembering all the times that we had when she was my simply friend when I was 13 and I couldn't empathize why my friends were existence so mean to me. She would just take me on these adventures and we would drive around and go to towns nosotros'd never seen before.

"Those adventures and those days of just running away from my issues—y'all're not supposed to run away from your problems, but when you lot're xiii and your friends won't talk to you and they movement when you sit downward at the lunch table, and your mom lets you run from those problems, I call back it'due south a adept thing... My mom was my escape in a lot of ways."

Andrea recalled the days when Taylor's friends seemed to be turning on her, tellingElle Girl she'd have to "selection [Taylor] up off the flooring," she was hurting so badly.

When she was 21 she bought her parents a $1.4 million house in Nashville, effectually the same time she bought her starting time house in Los Angeles.

By 2011, the Taylor road testify ran like a well-oiled automobile, in no small part because of Andrea'south watchful eye.

"Well, you know, she'southward just been doing this for then long that, to me, this is simply like soccer practise," Swift'south mom shrugged to theNew Yorker in a 2011 profile.

Later which Scott quipped, "I'm not taking her money, if that's what y'all're saying."

The writer noted that at least either her mom or dad was at every show that she attended, simply Taylor said that they were "staying home more" than they used to.

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Through the years, Andrea has get a familiar face up to anybody who follows Taylor'south career, from the Swifties to the paparazzi, but neither mother nor girl has fabricated a habit of sharing too much personal information nigh their family unit—and they, unlike some celebrities' parents, Andrea and Scott haven't been clamoring to share the spotlight.

Then it was only under the greatest of emotional strains that Swift shared in 2015 that Andrea was contesting cancer.

"Usually when things happen to me, I process them and and then write music about how I experience, and you hear it much later on," Swift wrote on Tumblr. "This is something my family unit and I thought yous should know about now." She explained how she had encouraged her mom to go to the doctor, "merely to ease some worries of mine. She agreed, and went in to get checked. In that location were no red flags and she felt perfectly fine, but she did it but to go me and my blood brother off her case nigh it. The results came in, and I'm saddened to tell you that my mom has been diagnosed with cancer."

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Part of the message was to explain why Andrea wouldn't exist at as many shows as usual, so enmeshed she was in the Taylor tour fabric.

"I'd like to keep the details of her status and treatment plans private, but she wanted you to know," Swift explained. "She wanted you to know because your parents may exist too busy juggling everything they've got going on to go to the doctor, and maybe you reminding them to go become checked for cancer could peradventure lead to an early on diagnosis and an easier battle."

A little over a week subsequently, Andrea introduced her girl at the Academy of Land Music Awards, where Taylor was one of seven being honored with the Milestone Award.

"I've watched this milestone creative person from the fourth dimension she was a tangled-pilus fiddling girl...Full of imagination and inventiveness until right at present when she prepares for her next globe tour," Mama Swift said. Tears starting to build, she concluded, "I'yard a very proud mom."

The whole family gathered a calendar month later to cheer Austin'due south graduation from Notre Dame.

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On Mother's Day in 2015, Taylor personally responded to a message from a fan who had lost her own mom and was understandably having a rough twenty-four hour period. The singer wrote dorsum on Tumblr, "I dearest you so much and can't imagine what you must be feeling today. Y'all've lived through my worst fearfulness. I'm so sorry you can't spend today with her. It'southward not fair, and there's no reason why you should feel okay about information technology. No ane should ever expect you to experience normal today."

Andrea sightings did become less frequent, but when she was spotted (having dinner with Taylor and Tom Hiddleston in Fifty.A. in the summer of 2016, for instance), she looked like her usual self. And in 2017 she was by Taylor's side in Colorado when her daughter's dueling lawsuits with a D.J. she had accused of groping her went to trial.

Andrea testified that Taylor had told her right abroad that the D.J.—who sued Swift for $3 million afterwards he was fired over the incident, subsequently which she countersued, alleging sexual assail—had grabbed her barrel while they were taking a photograph during a come across-and-greet in 2013.

Explaining why they didn't immediately report him to police, Andrea said, "I did not want her to have to live through the endless memes and GIFs and anything else that tabloid media or trolls would be able to come upward with...making her relive this atrocious moment over and again."

"I was upset to the betoken where I wanted to vomit and cry at the aforementioned time," she added. "We felt information technology was imperative to permit his employers know what happened."

The jury decided in Swift'southward favor, awarding her the symbolic $one in damages she had asked for.

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Andrea'due south treatment was considered a success at first, but Swift revealed in March 2018 in her "30 Things I Learned Earlier Turning 30" essay forElle that the cancer had returned. She as well shared for the first time that her dad had been treated for cancer as well.

"Both of my parents have had cancer, and my mom is now fighting her boxing with it again," she wrote. "It'south taught me that in that location are real problems and then there's everything else. My mom's cancer is a real problem. I used to be so anxious virtually daily ups and downs. I requite all of my worry, stress, and prayers to real bug now."

Years later "All-time Solar day" celebrated the skilful times, "Soon Y'all'll Become Better," off of her latest album, Lover, is a heartbreaking ode to the most important people in her life.

"It was a family decision to even put on the album, and I think songs like that that are really hard for you to write emotionally, perhaps they're hard to write and hard to sing considering they're really truthful," Swift revealed on YouTube Live in August. "We as a family decided to put this on the anthology. Information technology'south something I'chiliad and then proud of. I can't sing information technology. It's hard to emotionally deal with that song."

The at present xxx-year-quondam artist—winner of 10 Grammys, seller of millions of albums—isn't ane to go into too much item when information technology comes to her parents' personal lives, only the subtle details in the song—"Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you," "Y'all like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad bargain"—pigment a vivid picture.

"Everyone loves their mom, everyone's got an important mom," Swift recently told Variety. "Simply for me, she's really the guiding strength. Almost every conclusion I make, I talk to her about information technology first. Then plainly it was a actually big bargain to ever speak about her affliction."

Sadly, she besides revealed that Andrea was diagnosed with a brain tumor—which doctors found while she was undergoing treatment again for breast cancer, and which comes with a whole different set of challenges. Her mom's precarious wellness is a big function of why Swift decided to limit her touring in the U.S. this year to four stadium dates before she heads to Europe in the summer for the festival excursion.

"I feel like I haven't washed festivals, really, since early in my career—they're fun and bring people together in a really cool way," Swift said. "Only I likewise wanted to be able to work as much as I can handle right at present, with everything that's going on at dwelling. And I wanted to effigy out a way that I could practise both those things."

Ultimately, though, the reason is that she doesn't want to be abroad from her mom for also long. "I mean, we don't know what is going to happen," Swift told Variety. "We don't know what treatment we're going to cull. It but was the decision to make at the fourth dimension, for correct at present, for what's going on."

(Originally published Aug. 13, 2019, at 11:fifteen a.m. PT)

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