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Taylor Swift Talks Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, and Potentially Taking a Break From Music

It's not an exaggeration to say that Taylor Swift has been dominating the music industry lately. Her first pop album, 1989 (which debuted last October) has gotten so big, it's inspired its own cover album by Ryan Adams. Her 1989 tour stage has become the place to be for celebs and musical artists. And she smashed the Vevo record for most views in a 24-hour period (20.1 million) with her kick-ass video for "Bad Blood." So it's especially shocking to hear, given Taylor Swift's very comfortable spot on top of the music world, that she's considering taking a break from it all. Try not to freak out, but Swift told NME magazine in a recent interview that she might take some time out of the spotlight post-1989. "I think I should take some time off," 25-year-old Swift told NME. "I think people might need a break from me." (We obviously disagree). Swift continued on to reveal that the time off might include time off from music—entirely. "I'm going to...I don't know. Hang out with my friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don't know," she said to the mag. But don't interpret her potential hiatus as motivated

It's not an exaggeration to say that Taylor Swift has been dominating the music industry lately. Her first pop album, 1989 (which debuted last October) has gotten so big, it's inspired its own cover album by Ryan Adams. Her 1989 tour stage has become the place to be for celebs and musical artists. And she smashed the Vevo record for most views in a 24-hour period (20.1 million) with her kick-ass video for "Bad Blood." So it's especially shocking to hear, given Taylor Swift's very comfortable spot on top of the music world, that she's considering taking a break from it all.

Try not to freak out, but Swift told NME magazine in a recent interview that she might take some time out of the spotlight post-1989. "I think I should take some time off," 25-year-old Swift told NME. "I think people might need a break from me." (We obviously disagree). Swift continued on to reveal that the time off might include time off from music—entirely. "I'm going to...I don't know. Hang out with my friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don't know," she said to the mag. But don't interpret her potential hiatus as motivated by fear of trying to follow up the massive success of 1989. "Nooooooo. How could the next one be as big?" she said to NME. "Maybe the next album will be a bridge to somewhere else. Or maybe I'll just go ahead and change everything."

Before you take time to mourn Swift's potential temporary absence from the music world, she also opened up about her gracious image, her brief Twitter feud with Nicki Minaj (which led to this killer VMAs performance), and her ever-interesting relationship with Kanye West to the magazine. Here's what she had to say:

On her image: "It's not about trying to be perfect. Not to try and sound like the good witch in The Wizard of Oz or something, but I really do want to do good things with what I have, and that's it. I don't think my brain could cook up very shocking things for the sake of being shocking."

On Nicki Minaj: "I don't want to talk about it, but I send text messages now. If there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding, I go to someone's management, I get their number and I text them. It's an important lesson for anyone to learn in 2015."

On Kanye West: "Me and Kanye are on such good terms now, six years later. It took a while...but I had to tell Beck this story earlier. I was at dinner with Kanye a week after the Grammys, he stops what he's saying and he goes, 'What is this song? I need to listen to this every day.' I said, 'It's Beck, it's on an album called Morning Phase, I think you've heard of it...' We just burst out laughing. And he says, 'Hey, sometimes I'm wrong.'"

We'd obviously miss T.Swift desperately, but understand that everyone—even music superstars—need a break now and then. Until that time comes, we'll just be over here soaking up every bit of Swift news that we can.