Wonderland April / May 2013 : Taylor Swift by Tung Walsh

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&% #@! You heard: Wonderland is a little hot around the collar, and we ain’t exactly whispering about it. Neither’s the bold, brash beautiful talent that pepper our Outspoken issue this summer. It’s all about having an opinion and not being afraid to holla it, and the top of your lungs.
Take it from cover girl Taylor Swift, who talks candidly about her gripes with the press, her global, chart-topping run as country pop girl to be, and, well, how relationships are like traffic lights.
Then there’s the furious, formidable R&B talent JoJo, who explains – in her own terms, of course – how to stay strong, despite everything. Fluoro-haired rap queen Gita gets real with us about bass-poppin’ collaborations with the likes of Mark Ronson and Venus X, Kanye protégé Big Sean advises on how to freestyle your way into a major record contract, and outer limits, grenade-wielding indie overlord Wayne Coyne takes us through Flaming Lips’ newest existentialist masterpiece, The Terror.
And if this doesn’t fill your swear jar, feast your eyes on a champagne-soaked karaoke session with the best new bands going, and a Brit Encounter of the Thespian Kind: we pin down a horde of edgy, talented newcomers to the British acting scene. We chat to cinema’s truest enfant terrible Harmony Korine about his newest nightmare, Spring Breakers, and curtain-haired alt. country strummer Kurt Vile explains why he no longer has anything to prove.
We may be feeling a li’l rough and ready this summer, but it doesn’t mean we’re not as generous as ever. For a chance to win a pair of tickets* to taste-making Croatian music festivals Outlook (August 29) or Dimensions (September 5), post a photo of yourself throwing the Taylor “hearts” pose, as seen on our cover. Send photos to [email protected] (or tweet @wonderlandmag) by April 22, stating which festival you’d like to attend in the subject header. Make ‘em good – the best photos will go up on our Facebook page and the ones with the most number of likes will win. Good luck!
The Outspoken issue comes out on Tuesday 9th April at WH Smith and all good newsstands. Subscribe here.

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[Tinsley V]

Fully expected to dislike the cover but I LOVE this. The colours are great, looks like Teller?

 

[YoninahAliza]

I'm actually kinda surprised that no other magazine has shot Taylor making her 'hearts' sign for a cover before. It's quite clever of Wonderland to do so. The 'hearts' sign gives the cover an interesting depth of perception and makes it more interesting to look at then if she was just posing like the way magazines normally shoot cover-stars.

 

[honeycombchild]

I really like this, she looks like herself.

 

[honeycombchild]

Metro.co.uk

Shot by Tung Walsh.

 

[LagerfeldBoy]

Oooh, that's such a cute over! Definitely looks like something by Juergen.

 

[ad041715]

I love the simple hair and light makeup. She looks radiant and her own age.

 

[MulletProof]

She's covering with her thumbs the part that kills most of her pictures for me, so nice one, Tung.. love this.

 

[saann]

^haha, I agree

I'm loving this way more than I thought I would. She's been on way too many magazine covers lately but at least this is at least a very appealing one.

 

[honeycombchild]

The Sun.co.uk

 

[loladonna]

What could she possibly have to say in this interview that she hasn't said in the other zillion cover stories she's done in the past few months?

 

[Hchloe]

As if she couldn't get more overexposed....

It's cute but she always looks like this.

 

[HeatherAnne]

We've seen enough of her. We've seen enough of that heart pose. And we've really seen enough of her doing that heart pose.

 

[penny609]

I can't recall using google as much as when looking at who's on magazines these days. I might be the last ignorant living in his ivory tower (or on a beautifully cursed island) but had no idea who was Taylor Swift even if her name was bloody familiar. So, okay, she sings but from what I read, I'm not as much in a rush to type her name on youtube's searching engine. The thing is, when I put my impressions next to the cover itself and realise the main character doesn't matter much at all in such cases, I'm a bit lost with mixed feelings. I do like the colors, composition, atmosphere despite there is nothing literally teasing and squeezing my brain about pastel colors and "Taylor in the sky with a plastic giraffe". But it lacks something essential, it just could be any late teenager it would feel the same (at least, MulletProof can enjoy it much more since Miss Swift uses her thumbs right and I had to compensate this terrible loss for my eyes with a second round of google images to have a closer look at this area of her face that usually carries enough magic to destroy an entire image ).

 

[honeycombchild]

I'm sorry but seriously, here in the UK, she has not be anywhere near as exposed as in the US.

Wonderland is a British magazine and if I'm not mistaken it marks only her third UK cover? Pop, InStyle and now Wonderland?

 

[YoninahAliza]

^Taylor was also on Marie Claire UK in November. But still, I'm kinda surprised she hasn't had more covers in the UK. But maybe that's because she's on pretty much everything here in the states so I expected it to be the same elsewhere.

 

[MulletProof]

(at least, MulletProof can enjoy it much more since Miss Swift uses her thumbs right and I had to compensate this terrible loss for my eyes with a second round of google images to have a closer look at this area of her face that usually carries enough magic to destroy an entire image ).

not to overscrutinize but after being bombarded with her image (bless your life in France, I have a feeling you guys can still lead a dignified, Disney-free life), I get super anxious with the distance between her nostrils and lips and how it looks overstretched all the way to the eyebrows and down to her teeth, like she got botox.. to the point you get the impression she looks like a model at first glance, let your guard down (being shallow like I am), and then bam, the lemon effect. I sound ridiculous but it's one of those few public figure bodies I have a problem with.

Please don't waste your time on youtube, her music.. doesn't exist. Something about some boy and some guitar chords. I think the only reason the fashion world has embraced her is because it's almost politically incorrect to be this corny, so there's ~rebellion~ happening.

 

[gossiping]

bored of seeing her and this magazine isnt much better either

 

[Deleted member 1957]

nice cover and ed..she looks like a model thre

 

[penny609]

not to overscrutinize but after being bombarded with her image (bless your life in France, I have a feeling you guys can still lead a dignified, Disney-free life), I get super anxious with the distance between her nostrils and lips and how it looks overstretched all the way to the eyebrows and down to her teeth, like she got botox.. to the point you get the impression she looks like a model at first glance, let your guard down (being shallow like I am), and then bam, the lemon effect. I sound ridiculous but it's one of those few public figure bodies I have a problem with.

Weird right? But it happens to me a lot of times, actually. It's not rare a certain combination of features, a mole, the shape of an eyebrow can be very disturbing... though, in most cases, it's in a very positive way. I often talk about this as charm but now I think you've just theorized the "uncharm" or "anticharm" (grabbing my phone to call Mariemaud who absolutely needs to hear of this).

Please don't waste your time on youtube, her music.. doesn't exist. Something about some boy and some guitar chords. I think the only reason the fashion world has embraced her is because it's almost politically incorrect to be this corny, so there's ~rebellion~ happening.

You don't have to worry, I'm not going to waste more time than I already do. Especially after reading this in the first post:

how relationships are like traffic lights

A few years ago, I would have given that sentence a very personal meaning but I guess Taylor's is very far from mine ninja:). And, the cheesemakers, supermarket minstrels and other soup retailers from the Old World are still delightfully superannuated enough to compare love to rainbows and violins in their songs instead of traffic lights (traffic jam might be a better option in some cases...).

So, after gracing the cover of Wonderland, is Miss Swift slowly preparing the next step in her career as the face of Chevrolet?