BIG PICTURE
TAYLOR SWIFT It’s been a good couple of months for country pixie turned pop behemoth Taylor Swift. She scooped a mere eight gongs at the Billboard music awards and followed that by being the youngest person to make the Forbes List of 100 Most Powerful Women. This 25-year-old’s reach is so wide that one smitten male teacher in Montana promised his students that if they could somehow convince Swift to give him a call, they wouldn’t have to sit a particular exam. She might be a little busy to ring, what with some gigs to be getting on with during her globetrotting 1989 tour which rolls our way soon. The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Tue 23 Jun. 4 Jun–3 Sep 2015 THE LIST 13