If you aren’t a Swiftie now, you will be by the end of this list!
1. She's credited as a writer on every song she's ever released and the sole writer on more than half of them.
2. She plays four instruments: guitar, banjo, ukulele and piano.
3. Country music superstar wasn't her first career choice – she had initially wanted to be a financial adviser.
4. She wrote her first song, "Lucky You," at age twelve.
5. Her parents named her after singer-songwriter James Taylor and hoped that by giving her an androgynous name she'd have a leg up in the business world.
6. At fourteen, she was the youngest songwriter ever hired by Sony/ATV music publishing.
7. She wrote her own Saturday Night Live monologue.
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8. When she was a teenager, she spent an entire summer writing a novel about a shark that washed up on the dock of her family's shore house.
9. In high school she had 4.0 grade point average.
10. She wrote "Our Song" for a high school talent show and decided to include it on her first album after she heard classmates singing it in the halls.
11. Her maternal grandmother Marjorie Finlay was an internationally known entertainer and opera singer who hosted a television show in Puerto Rico.
12. Nicki Minaj credits her for the crossover success of "Super Bass." Months before the song was released as a single, Taylor asked a Nashville radio station to play it during an interview and made headlines when she was coaxed into rapping a verse on air.
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