Graph out Taylor Swift's adolescence and there's a very steep curve there. The end part was notable for huge fame and an unimaginable bank account. The entry level, not so good.
Coming into high school she was tall and gawky with the legs of a foal and was dutifully rejected by the cool faction.
They would talk about upcoming parties and whatnot without inviting or including her.
She calls this bullying. I'd say it's as regular a high-school experience as gym socks, not to mention excellent training for this jungle world out here, but whatever.
The important - the crucial - thing is, it all sent her home every afternoon to the cooing embrace of her 12-string guitar, with which she poured out her soul to the sound of a C-F-G chord progression. Every day.
And to say the songs were autobiographical is an understatement. The girl was taking names here.
This would become her M.O. Her relationships, now mostly of the celebrity sort, are the bricks and mortar of her songs.
Put on a Taylor Swift CD and it's startlingly similar to listening in on a crosslegged, pillow hugging, girl-talk session wherein the subject is invariably guys. She sells millions and millions and millions of those CDs.
Swift came from small town Pennsylvania, surrounded by coal mines and Amish country, and could do quite a creditable take on "Unchained Melody" at two years old. Evidently, singing was the default career choice from the get go.
By age 10 she was getting up and performing at every festival, state fair or karaoke contest within daddy driving range.
She first went down to Nashville when she was 11 and hit all the labels in town, walking in, handing them her demo of karaoke songs and saying ". . . hey, I'm Taylor and I want a record deal".
When that didn't work, she headed home and started writing her own material. She also sang the anthem at that year's U.S. Open tennis tourney, to much acclaim.
At 14 she and the family moved to Nashville permanently when Swift scored an astonishing staff songwriting job with Sony/ATV.
The next year she scored a record deal. Meanwhile, she was like any other kid attending Henderson High School just outside Nashville, except she was constantly jotting down snatches of song ideas on anything she could - when she couldn't she'd leave a voice memo on her phone.
One day in math class she got this killer idea, noted it down and after school went home and wrote it in 15 minutes. It was called "Tim McGraw", a mid-tempo tune that described a summer romance and dancing in the moonlight by the lake to Tim McGraw songs and our heroine's hope that "when you think of Tim McGraw I hope you think of me".
It was a little gem of a song and the leadoff single to her debut album.
She opened for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill promoting that record. Now, three multi-platinum releases in, she has long been headlining her own tours. She's 21.
She's also a prodigious dater, starting with Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, who dumped her in a 27-second phone call. We know this because she told the world on Ellen. She also wrote a song about it ("Forever & Always").
Other TMZ-worthy l'il celebs she's stepped out with include Lucas Till, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal and, most disturbingly, John Mayer when she was 19 and he was 32.
They all got a song. Everybody gets a song. This is Taylor Swift's world and we're just her soundtrack.
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