Taylor Swift says she felt 'completely washed-up' at 22 after being hailed as a teen phenom Taylor Swift, age 22, performs during the Speak Now World Tour in Auckland, New Zealand. Sandra Mu/Getty Images Taylor Swift recently spoke to The New York Times about her songwriting process and career. Swift said she worried people would grow tired of her after she found success as a teenager. "The entertainment industry love-bombs women," Swift added. When Taylor Swift was 22, she wasn't feeling 22. At least not in the way her iconic song describes. In reality, she sat alone in a hotel room and doom-spiraled about her career trajectory . "It sounds ridiculous, but at 22 years old, I felt completely washed up," Swift recently told The New York Times . "I felt like maybe the only thing that made me special was that I was this, like, 'teen phenom,' whatever I was looked at as." As is her custom, Swift wrote a song about these feelings.…