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With over 250 songs, fourteen Grammys, eleven solo studio albums, and an unending carousel of awards, Taylor Swift is one of the most iconic musicians of this generation. The 34-year-old's stardom extends across the globe, and she is one of the most followed celebrities on social media.
Naturally, millions of fans (Swifties) crave to learn tidbits about her childhood and rise to fame. Although Taylor Swift's past story is quite fascinating, a controversy developed when a computer repairman from Taylor's childhood claimed to be her earliest guitar teacher.
As a child, Taylor Swift received guitar lessons from her computer repairman, Ronnie Cremer. According to Taylor Swift, he introduced her to chords when he had come to fix her computer. However, Ronnie claims he gave Taylor guitar lessons for almost two years.
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This discrepancy has caused a lot of trouble in the past, especially when Cremer started two websites called ITaughtTaylorSwift.com and ITaughtTaylor.com in February 2015 and received a message from Taylor Swift's legal team demanding it be shut down.
Taylor Swift threatened to sue her first guitar teacher over trademarked domain name
Taylor Swift's legal team became active when Ronnie Cremer opened two websites, ITaughtTaylorSwift.com and ITaughtTaylor.com, in 2015 with the desire to post unknown stories about the songwriter.
Ronnie Cremer is a computer repairman and a local musician who reportedly taught Taylor Swift how to play guitar when she was a child. In January 2015, Cremer gave an interview to the New York Daily News in which he splurged the details of his connection with the Look What You Made Me Do singer.
Cremer revealed that he started teaching Taylor guitar lessons long before he repaired her computer. According to Cremer, Taylor's family approached him to teach her guitar after he recorded a demo for her at his own studio. Cremer claimed that he had taught Taylor for almost two years.
However, Taylor's version of this story says something completely different. In a 2009 promotional DVD, Taylor described the entire Ronnie Cremer incident, and it went something like this:
"When I was about 12 this magical twist of fate (happened). I was doing my homework [when the tech fixing my computer] looked over and saw the guitar in the corner. And he said, ‘Do you play guitar?’ I said, ‘Oh. No. I tried, but ….’ He said ‘Do you want me to teach you a few chords?’ and I said, ‘Uh, yeah. YES!"
On February 6, 2015, TAS Rights Management, LLC sent Ronnie Cremer a legal notice claiming that the domain names incorporated the 'famous Taylor Swift trademark' and that his use would likely 'tarnish' and 'dilute' Taylor's reputation.
In an interview with the New York Daily News, Cremer said he didn't plan to return the domain name he had brought from Go Daddy. He also claimed that Taylor and her legal team were bullying him.
Additionally, Cremer claimed to have gotten a ton of hate from Swifties online.
"I got a lot of hate mail from Swift fans who just do not want to believe under any circumstances that Taylor lied to them,” he explained. “That’s she’s just not capable. That her story, that she called a ‘magical twist of fate’ story, could ever not be the truth."
Finally, Ronnie Cremer said that he didn't want to earn money using the websites. All he wanted to do was let people know what actually happened, and he revealed that he would develop them as a non-profit endeavor.
Taylor Swift uses these guitars in her concerts
Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is breaking records with almost every other concert nowadays. The singer/songwriter takes a walk down memory lane and relives all the ten eras of her musical career with her fans.
A change in era is accompanied by multiple changes in costumes and stage decoration to provide audiences with a holistic experience. In addition to these, the singer also switches between a wide variety of guitars, from limited-edition models to custom versions of standard models and many more.
Some of Taylor Swift's most iconic guitars include the custom red Taylor 614ce from her Red Tour and the diamante-clad GS6 used during her Fearless Tour.
Gibson acoustic guitars have been her daily driver during the Eras Tour. Taylor has changed the color and design of these guitars according to the era and the song being performed. Some of the most common ones seen in her Eras Tour include the Gibson J-180 and the Gibson Hummingbird.
Although Taylor rarely uses an electric guitar, she was spotted playing it on the opening night of her Eras Tour. At that time, she was playing the Les Paul Standard covered in red sparkles.
However, Taylor's most special guitar is a custom model made just for the 14-time Grammy winner. The guitar is called the Taylor Presentation PS-24ce Grand Auditorium model and features a beautiful inlay of 'Taylor' on the fingerboard.
