Taylor Swift Says It’s ‘Highly Offensive’ When Critics Call Her ‘Calculating’

Taylor Swift has spoken out about how she feels it's in bad taste when critics describe her as "calculating."

The 25-year-old singer recalled during a recent interview with GQ magazine the time a "former acquaintance" labeled her career as "calculating." Swift maintains the comment was "highly offensive," and she doesn't think it's a bad thing she thinks sensibly before making important decisions, especially tied to her profession.

"Am I shooting from the hip?" she said.

"Would any of this have happened if I was? In that sense, I do think about things before they happen. But here was someone taking a positive thing -- the fact that I think about things and that I care about my work - and trying to make that into an insinuation about my personal life. Highly offensive. You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work."

Another common occurrence that gets under Swift's skin is when interviewers assume all her songs are about her ex-boyfriends, and then they proceed to interrogate for more information.

"You're in a Rolling Stone interview, and the writer says, 'Who is that song about? That sounds like a really intense moment from your life.' And you sit there, and you know you're on good terms with your ex-boyfriend, and you don't want him -- or his family -- to think you're firing shots at him," she said.

Instead of spilling all the details of her intimate life and break-ups in interviews, she takes the high road and says, "That was about losing a friend," and refrains from elaborating further.

Swift is currently on the North American leg of her 1989 world tour. She will next be traveling to Asia and Australia for dates into December. She released her "1989" album on Oct. 27, 2014. The album has produced the singles "Shake It Off," "Blank Space," "Style," "Bad Blood" and "Wildest Dreams."