Politics, Cats, Burritos: Director Lana Wilson Talks Taylor Swift's 'Miss Americana'

Taylor Swift has opened up on the anxiety she experiences as a songwriter, revealing she often fears her songs aren’t “good enough”.

Taylor Swift's new Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, gives fans the most candid look into her life and career yet--and even dives into the songwriting process that has produced some of the most relatable, poetic lyrics in the pop music world.In a new clip shared to YouTube, Swift and director Lana Wilson chat about having camera crews in the studio, something the songstress had never experienced before, but noted wasn't "intrusive" at all."The ideas are my favorite part of everything I do,"

Taylor Swift doesn't care about your approval. Not anymore.That's the narrative that takes shape in the new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, in which director Lana Wilson follows Swift over the course of the pop star's personal and professional redefinition of her own career.

Nikki Glaser has issued an apology to Taylor Swift.

is the latest pop star to get personal in a documentary. Her new Netflix film, Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, offers an unprecedented look into the pop icon's life—her career, her personal life, and everything in between.

Taylor Swift is Miss Americana.

The new Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana, is officially streaming on Netflix. And if you think you know everything there is to know about the singer, well, you're probably wrong.

Lana Wilson was taking a risk — albeit a pretty good bet — when she set out to make what turned out to be “Miss Americana,” her new Netflix documentary. As Taylor Swift told Variety: “When I began thinking about maybe possibly having a documentary-type thing happen, it was really just because I felt like I would want to have footage of what was happening in my life, just to have later on in my life, even if we never put it out, or even if we put it out decades down the line.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Fly-on-the-wall portraits of pop-music stars used to be dominated by, you know, pop music. The life and personality and woe-is-me-I’m-caught-in-the-media-fishbowl spectacle of the star herself was part of the equation, yet all that stuff had a way of dancing around the edges.

Miss Americana starts with a 13-year-old Taylor Swift’s first diary, which has the words “my life … my career … my dream … my reality” inscribed along the edges of its cover. Like the pages of a journal, director Lana Wilson’s documentary flashes through Swift’s life from the age she began writing songs to the release of her seventh album, Lover, last year.

1. Taylor Swift: Miss AmericanaDocumentary Fans will see a new side of the pop star in Taylor Swift’s revealing new documentary. The film will follow her life over the past few years as she comes into her own as a songwriter, performer and woman standing up for LGBTQ+ and artists’ rights through her public platform.When: Friday on Netflix

Taylor Swift's father Scott Kingsley Swift feared for the singer's life when she openly spoke out against Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn during the 2018 mid-term elections.

Taylor Swift’s dad feared for the singer’s life when she openly spoke out against Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn during the 2018 mid-term elections.

Taylor Swift's Miss Americana documentary premiere is tonight in Sundance, and the lady of the hour came to Park City dressed for own her moment. The singer wore an all plaid outfit: a plaid jumpsuit and matching trench and heels. She arrived at the premiere with just her team. She wore her hair down and opted for her signature red lip. This is Taylor Swift, after all.

"You have to twist yourself into a pretzel on an hourly basis." So says Taylor Swift in the thought-provoking but ultimately unsatisfying documentary Miss Americana, which debuted on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival prior to its wide release Friday, Jan. 31 on Netflix.

“When I get sad or humiliated or angry or mad, I feel that people are trying to lean in. You never did that.”Taylor Swift spoke those words to her director Lana Wilson on stage in the minutes following the January 23 premiere of her documentary Miss Americana on the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival.

Fly-on-the-wall portraits of pop-music stars used to be dominated by, you know, pop music. The life and personality and woe-is-me-I’m-caught-in-the-media-fishbowl spectacle of the star herself was part of the equation, yet all that stuff had a way of dancing around the edges.

Brendon Urie was excited to see "ME!" -- or himself, rather -- in the trailer for Taylor Swift's Netflix documentary Miss Americana, which came out Wednesday (Jan. 22).