Taylor Swift says the “girl code” doesn’t apply to her and her friends – their exes are not off limits.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Taylor revealed that men stand no chance of creating tension within her gang, which includes Lena Dunham, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne and Selena Gomez.

“We even have girls in our group who have dated the same people,” Taylor said. “It’s almost like the sisterhood has such a higher place on the list of priorities for us. It’s so much more important than some guy that it didn’t work out with.”

In June, the pop star took a boat trip on the Thames in London accompanied by Gigi and her boyfriend Joe Jonas – one of Taylor’s exes – showing just how comfortable she was with the relationship.

She explained that there was no point in falling out over guys “when you’ve got this group of girls who need each other as much as we need each other”, calling for women to be “good and kind” to other women.

“Just because you have the same taste in men, we don’t hold that against each other,” she continued.

The 25-year-old also explained how her attitude to dating had changed in the last few years. The Blank Space star decided to try “not looking for anything, not necessarily being open to anything, and only being open to the idea that, if I found someone who would never try to change me, that would be the only person I could fall in love with. Because, you know, I was in love with my life.”

Taylor is now dating DJ Calvin Harris, who last month told Manchester radio station Key 103 that his girlfriend is more perfect than he could have even imagined: “It’s not even a case of ticking all the boxes, there’s boxes that I didn’t even know existed she ticks.”

The star has even made her peace with Kanye West, who interrupted her 2009 VMA acceptance speech with the immortal line, “Imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time”.

Kanye West and Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMA Awards
Kanye West and Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMA Awards (Jason DeCrow/AP)

“I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [Kanye] until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me,” Taylor revealed, adding: “And he wasn’t ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me – so it was the same issue, and we both reached the same place at the same time.”

Despite the incident, the pair’s mutual friendship with Jay Z ended up bringing them together.

“Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I’ve accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid’s doing.”

The star also spoke about her open letter to Apple, where she called them out for not paying musicians during the trial period of their new music streaming service.

“I wrote the letter at around 4am,” Taylor said. “The contracts had just gone out to my friends, and one of them sent me a screenshot of one of them. I read the term ‘zero per cent compensation to rights holders’. Sometimes I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and I’ll write a song and I can’t sleep until I finish it, and it was like that with the letter.”

Apple backed down and agreed to pay up, which Taylor finds ironic compared to her spat with Spotify when she pulled her music off their streaming service: “The multi-billion-dollar company reacted to criticism with humility, and the start-up with no cash flow reacted to criticism like a corporate machine.”