Taylor Swift Will Never Ever Ever Read Your Fan Mail
ABC News 2 (via Buzzfed) in Nashville brings us this highly important BREAKING NEWS story about a woman who found hundreds upon hundreds of mostly unopened fan letters to Taylor Swift in a recycling dumpster. Kylee Francescan was throwing some newspapers into the recycling dumpster near her house when she noticed a mountain of glitter-covered envelopes in there. Surprisingly, the envelopes weren't stuffed with threatening letters written in cutout magazine text from all the ex-boyfriends she wrote songs about. They were fan letters from all over the world.
Kylee knows how much Taylor cares about her fans (her words, not mine), so she pulled all the letters out of the dumpster, because she wanted to find a way to get them to her. Kylee called up News 2 and asked for their help. They dropped everything to help Kylee get the letters to Taylor. The letters were all addressed to a PO Box in a strip mall in Hendersonville, TN. The owner of the strip mall told News 2 that Taylor gets boxes of fan letters all the time and a member of her management team shows up every now and again to pick up the mail. News 2 took the letters to the offices of Taylor Swift's record company. The record company didn't know why those letters were dumped like trash. Taylor's management company told News 2 that they didn't know about the letters either. They gave News 2 this statement:
"Taylor gets thousands of fan letters everyday and they are delivered to her management office. After the letters are opened and read, they are recycled. The only explanation for any letters being unopened would be that a small batch of mail that was supposed to be delivered to Taylor was accidentally put with letters headed for the recycling center. We sincerely appreciate Channel 2 bringing this to our attention, and we plan to immediately pick up the mail."
Taylor's rep went on to say that they are launching an investigation to find the trick who threw all that unopened fan mail into the dumpster. That trick will be punished. There's a special place in hell for interns who don't help Taylor Swift by opening up her fan letters before dumping them into the dumpster.
I've only sent one handwritten fan letter in my life. (The locks of my own pubic hair I send to Anderson Cooper's office on a monthly basis don't count.) When I was 6 years old, I wrote to Cyndi Lauper and I told her that she was the prettiest girl in the world and I liked her songs. I'm dumb now, but I was really dumb then, because I didn't even put an address on the envelope. I just wrote "To: Cyndi Lauper" and put the envelope on my mailbox for the postman to pick up. It never made it into the postman's bag. My sister's friend, who was the bitchiest girl on the block, got to the letter first. She opened it and wrote a response as Cyndi Lauper.
Like I said before, I was really damn dumb then, because I didn't think it was strange that I got a response from Cyndi Lauper the next day. (It might've even been the same day. I thought life like a cartoon. Everything happens in fast motion.) The fake response from fake Cyndi Lauper wasn't mean or anything. It was nice. It made me really happy and I was really excited about it until the bitchiest girl on the block killed the rainbow around me by telling me that she's the one who wrote the letter. She laughed in my 6-year-old face! That bitch. I'll never forgive her for toying with my emotions.
But you know, she got hers. I went to my mom's house a few weeks ago and saw the bitchiest girl on the block, who now lives in her childhood house, walking down the street. She had UGGs on her feet and an Aeropostale t-shirt on her body. UGGs and an Aeropostale t-shirt! That's punishment enough.
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I used to work for a fan club and loved reading fanmail. One musician had a stock response postcard I'd send out but most other groups didn't care about fan mail and didn't want to read it so i threw it all away. Sure there were sweet letters from 5 year olds but there were a lot of mean, creepy letters that no one would want to read if they were directed towards them. People are seriously crazy with their fandoms sending cheap gifts. Made me feel bad about the fan mail I sent when I was younger
This story is a prank, seemingly right out of The Onion. Her fans can write? What do you take me for?
Her mngt team should outsource letter writing to some 3rd world hell-hole: pay the workers 1-cent per letter to write response back to her fans.
Problem solved.
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She'll probably write a song about this & it'll be #1 or something.
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Submitted by RandéSleepover on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 12:23am.
Submitted by Mani6 on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 12:19am.
MILLIONS are crying! I would at least have them scanned for cash...hey you never know.
LOL! If I made $54m last year, from the very people who are writing me love notes, I'd hire 3 recent college grads at $40k per (it's Nashville) and have them send warm, semi-personalized, but still form letters back to everyone who wrote.
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exactly what a great plan.
and release a perfume line, and call it something rebellious but in keeping with her Cuntry wholesome Girl next door image, like,
"Smells boys eeewww - the new fragrance by T. Swift"
which is basically just the smell of sweat from the chinese sweat shop workers who gonna produce the shit.
spritz it on the taylor swift official letter, sign it, stick a few gold stars, lipstick kisses, draw a few love hearts, scribble a generic chinese fortune cookie, a message which is rebellious but sweet and wholesome just like taylor and says something
"Live your life to the full girlfriend, don't give up hope even if the boy you like takes out a restraining order out against you! Remember there is a special place in hell for boys like that... ahahaha peace xoxoxoxo"
cuz you gotta end it in on a positive note.
Submitted by Albatross on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 6:22pm.
No escapin' when I start
Once I'm in, I own your heart.
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I love you!
Submitted by Mani6 on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 12:19am.
MILLIONS are crying! I would at least have them scanned for cash...hey you never know.
LOL! If I made $54m last year, from the very people who are writing me love notes, I'd hire 3 recent college grads at $40k per (it's Nashville) and have them send warm, semi-personalized, but still form letters back to everyone who wrote.
MILLIONS are crying! I would at least have them scanned for cash...hey you never know.
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If anyone is going to pee on him it's going to be me.- Nicole Kidman
This story is hilarious!!!!! Taylor was BUSTED! Yipeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by Ecce Homo on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 9:05pm.
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Hi Ecce! Yeah, hearing Tempokat say this is not anywhere near where she'd receive them, makes me think the handler took them home and thought, 'no one will ever know..." Rest assured, her fans are served the story that this was an accidental accident accident and they'll worry no more about it. Only us (non-fans) are getting a giggle out the incident. Letters of consolation are being written to Swifty as we speak by those kids. ;)
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now that this is out i hope Taylor will receive no more than 5 letters every month so she'll definitely have time to read that lot..
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Submitted by elmo533 on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 5:06pm.
I figured that's what all stars do with their fan mail. What dumb ass hole thinks that with all the touring they do that they have time to read thousands of letters.
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The stars should keep the letters to read when no one cares about them anymore.
Nashville, represent! *chest bump*
Someone made an effort to do this because this school is nowhere near Hendersonville. I mean, at least they didn't go straight from the PO Box to the dumpster. Someone drove them around for a while first.
That said, I have little doubt Swifty has any concept this happened to the fan mail, although it is a black-eye for her ambitious PR team to sort out.
Just goes to show what an axe-wound Swift is..can't stand her..
Does it look like I've given up the meth?
Tevness.
Lets face it, she's a cumdump.
MK you know we're gonna need the address of that bitchiest girl. We Dlisters wanna have a talk with her...
Submitted by WithinReason... on Tue, 03/12/2013 - "...For serious, how careless of her handlers. It's not her fault but is no one overseeing them?"
Hi Within (I keep missing you here lately, and it makes me feel bad).
At the risk of sounding like a Taylor Swift fan (I'm really not)I feel like this fanmail/dumpster item will get hung around her (Taylors) neck, which seems a bit unfair. Does anyone really think these people have time to read thousands of letters?
But yes, definitely, someone on the team was asleep at the wheel!
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Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 7:46pm.
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Not sad at all P.T. It's kind of nice to hear that some celebs still write back or act graciously when fans gush at them in public. Some don't even do that now.
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Lmao, sending the box back because TayTay cares about her fans so much, HAHAHA. For serious, how careless of her handlers. It's not her fault but is no one overseeing them? Poor kids writing her and expecting an answer back.
Awww MK, what a meanie that girl was.
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Submitted by Ecce Homo on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 8:39pm.
"...third, when i made my friend tell him how hot he was, he winked."
That's adorable (I hope you meant he winked at you)!
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yeah i took it that he was winking at me lol
Submitted by Latex Jungle on Tue, 03/12/2013 -"...when i was very young a friend of my moms sent me an anonymous poison pen letter saying she was going to gun me down so she could have my mom to herself."
Holy crap! There's some sick puppies out there.
Submitted by loopygorilla on Tue, 03/12/2013 -
"...third, when i made my friend tell him how hot he was, he winked."
That's adorable (I hope you meant he winked at you)!
That MK story is kinda sad.
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I once got a response from Ricky Schroeder!!! I was in hog heaven until i reached the age years later that it hit me the handwritting was too mature for a 12-year-old.
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When I was 10, I wrote and sent a fan letter to Jeremy Miller from, "Growing Pains."i got a (form) letter back and a (printed) autograph pic that i kissed everynight at bedtime for a year. Now HE knows how to treat a fan!
Several of my family members live in Hendersonville. I'd like to think that they were somehow behind FanMailgate.
I think my sister is still waiting to hear back from Leif Garrett.
awww poor MK, don't worry I wrote a letter to Trevor Guthrie of soulDecision (yes bitches im that old) telling him how hot he was.
first dont judge, trevor was like the hottest guy at that time of late 90s okay, he had a hot body before all the guys started working out and having hot bodies like these days, he had ice blond tips, and when he bit his lower lip and nodded his head like a guy driving down the beach on the ho stroll looking to pick up some free sex, I WAS SWOOONING!
second, he visited my local shopping centre and they did an acoustic version of their famous song, and he signed my single cd, $4.99 was all i could afford back then on my pocket money, i couldnt afford a $24.95 album.
third, when i made my friend tell him how hot he was, he winked.
period. the end. the shameeeeee of my gay teen years. omg
From a security standpoint, its never a good idea for celebs to.read their fan mail. A lot of stalkers try to make contact with celebs that way. Im not famous, but when i was very young a friend of my moms sent me an anonymous poison pen letter saying she was going to gun me down so she could have my mom to herself. Scared the living hell out of me--i took it to the cops and developed severe agoraphobia which i still struggle with today. Some of my moms friends recognized the handwriting and identified it as this womans (I didnt even know her name, only saw her in passing--she developed an obsession that quickly) I vowed that if i ever made it as a writer id never even open my fan mail, or id pay someone to handle it (i think thats what Stephen King does). As for my stalker, the cops "lost" the evidence which meant they never filed any charges against her and my friends on the street said she was a snitch and that the cops actually were bankrolling her skeezy ass. So I also learned to become suspicious of cops as well. I havent seen the witch in years, hopefully shes floating in a sewer somewhere. I wouldnt wish a stalker on my worst enemy and not even on the celebs i despise the most.
Well, I'll bet the neighbors are just LOVIN' this!--Mama.
Taylor Swift fan mail in the trash. Where it belongs.
"PMB"= Put Mail in Bag and throw in the fucking trash!
Another one of these "I looooove my faaaaans!they mean soooo much to me" bullshitters! Go have a squint off with Zellweger, you're about equally relevant at this point.
(no relation to Jennifer Lopez, she wishes)
A smart intern would put all this shit in storage so they can either sell it for $ when said star dies young OR it can be used to keep said star happy in middle age when stardom has dried up yet she amazingly still gets fan letters every day! It'll save the butler a job anyway! #SunsetBlvdref ;)
Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 7:46pm.
I can imagine re-gifting the fan gifts. She just supplies the first gift, for the first fan,and that fan's gift can to the one after that and so on.
Seriously, its sad to think of people feeling all that excitement over someone who is completely indifferent to them, but since they are paying for her chicken-chasing, the least she could do with her $57 million a year is to hire a team of don't-have-a-lifers to read and answer those fan letters and be careful where they throw them away.
Yes, I idolized led zeppelin when I was young, and that was sad too.
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To be fair, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are unspeakably awesome. Unlike Taylor Swift.
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A Lannister always pays his debts.
I have no idea! I guess I didn't think he was as cute as Kirk Cameron or Joey from New Kids. Ha!
Submitted by MissJaneTexas on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 7:05pm.
Submitted by Abrowne229 on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 7:00pm.
I don't why but this totally made me giggle. What was wrong with River?
I loved the Bruno and Boots books as a kid. As an adult I wrote Gordon Korman an email and was shocked when he personally responded and exchanged several emails with me. :)
Always awesome when a mini-celebrity is still down to earth and appreciates their fans.
Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.
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@Lucifer_Sam- Thank you ;)
@QueCochina- My Uncle was in Roots and the Gator movies...I was sure I would be moving to Hollywood very soon!
I can imagine re-gifting the fan gifts. She just supplies the first gift, for the first fan,and that fan's gift can to the one after that and so on.
Seriously, its sad to think of people feeling all that excitement over someone who is completely indifferent to them, but since they are paying for her chicken-chasing, the least she could do with her $57 million a year is to hire a team of don't-have-a-lifers to read and answer those fan letters and be careful where they throw them away.
Yes, I idolized led zeppelin when I was young, and that was sad too.
I'm sure they open each envelope because some fans send gifts which also probably get "recycled" but some people want to get the person's attention and send nice things. Probably not anything Taylor Swift would want but to some intern it would be bonus.
I used to listen to Suicidal Tendencies a lot and I bought some stickers from them and included a note saying they are awesome and Mike Muir scribbled some stuff on a paper and drew the ST logo. It was scribbled really quick but that was totally sick. lol ST!
I also wrote to Mike Keneally. He was a guitarist for Frank Zappa and he wrote a column about guitar in Guitar Player magazine. He wrote back every time I wrote and he listened to a tape I sent and gave me his opinion. He said it was good music for playing computer cribbage to. I didn't realize when I started writing to him how busy he is and I stopped writing to him when his column ended.
A million years ago when my older sister was 14 she wrote a fan letter to Donny Osmond (I told you it was a million years ago.) The day afer she mailed it she and our neighbor, Stacy, sat next to the mailbox waiting for the mailman because they were sure Donny would write them back.
I was 7 at the time and remember mocking her for being so naive. I told her the letter didn't even have time to get to him and even when it does get there it will end up in the garbage. Pretty sad when your kid sister knows more about life at age 7 than you do.
He never wrote back and they ended up hating him for 'ignoring' them.
Submitted by Abrowne229 on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 7:00pm.
For some reason, I had serious hatred for River Pheonix in middle school. I got his fan mail address out of a Tiger Beat and sent him hate mail- telling him how ugly and stupid I thought he was. Then I felt really guilty when he died.
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Holy shit, that's brutal. And hilarious!
Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 5:42pm.
Minx ain't he the dead Corey?
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Yep, Haim is the dead Corey. He was too popular to respond to me in 1988 so I thought death might have freed up his schedule. Realistically, he could have written me back around 1994 because I'm sure he wasn't busy around that time. Unless you count smokin' crack as being busy which I think we all do.
I haven't even read this yet and it's the funniest thing I ever read in my life.
Submitted by Abrowne229 on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 7:00pm.
I don't why but this totally made me giggle. What was wrong with River? ;)
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Idiots. What a waste of a stamp.
For some reason, I had serious hatred for River Pheonix in middle school. I got his fan mail address out of a Tiger Beat and sent him hate mail- telling him how ugly and stupid I thought he was. Then I felt really guilty when he died.
Julie Harris and Liza Minnelli have both handwritten replies back to me.
Julie Harris tossed in a pair of tickets for her play.
To a 13 girl going through hell, that sorta saved my life.
Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 5:35pm.
And MKs story made me a little sad.
Right? His childhood neighborhood sounds like it was full of assholes.
That sloshing you just heard was the sound of a thousand eyes rolling.
When I was a kid I wrote a fan letter to President Ronald Reagan. A few weeks later I got one of the pre-written response letters the White House mails kids thanking them for the letter. I about died. My parents didn't have the heart to tell me the President didn't actually write me back. I thought I was the shit for years until I got old enough to know better.
The Who Cares News, indeed.
Although I think I did write a fangirl letter to Devon Sawa when I was a kid. Whatever, HE WAS HOT. Okay?
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Am I alone in thinking that fan mail is totally creepy? If I were famous these would go directly to an incinerator situated at least 100 miles from my place of residence.
I must have written dozens of fan letters when I was a kid/teenager. I remember getting a postcard from Brooke Shields. I also got an autographed picture from Chevy Chase.
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