Taylor Swift opens up about her unconventional childhood on a Christmas tree farm

Taylor Swift credited growing up on a Christmas tree farm as why she loves the festive time of the year so much as the 35-year-old popstar reflects on her youth in her home state of Pennsylvania.

The Anti-Hero singer shared how her childhood was "weird" but has given her an "unnatural" excitement for both the fall season and the Christmas period, to the point where she even annoys her friends with enthusiasm.

"It was such a weird place to grow up, but it has cemented in me this unnatural level of excitement about fall and then the holiday season," Swift told Esquire in 2014. "My friends are so sick of me talking about autumn coming. They're like, 'What are you, an elf?'"

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"We all had jobs. Mine was picking the praying-mantis pods off of the trees, [and] collecting them so that the bugs wouldn't hatch inside people's houses."

And her joy at the Xmas time didn't slow down either as she went on to release Christmas Tree Farm in 2019, where she sang about the associations of warmth, love and forgiveness through the season and how it gives her the same feeling as when she's in love with someone.

What was Swift's Christmas Tree Farm?

Swift grew up on the farm in the formative years of her life after her father, who worked as a stock broker, bought it from one of her parents as a hobby but it became important to the entire family.

Taylor would be assigned the job of praying-mantis pods off of the trees and bringing them back to their home so that they wouldn't be passed on to customers and hatch in their houses, thus creating an infestation problem.

The rest of the family worked on lifting the trees and other things directly related to the trees themselves, but because the aspiring singer was no older than 10 when she was on the farm, she was too little to help with that task.