SINGER Taylor Swift will be the next celebrity to have a statue on display at the Madrid Waxworks Museum – a tourist attraction that has always tried hard to be the next Madame Tussaud's.
Pictures have been released of the life-sized figure under construction, showing that it is not far off completion.
This announcement has proven very timely, given that Swift, 29, netted three MTV Awards just days ago – including the top prize, for Video of the Year with You Need to Calm Down, which also scooped her up the charity and humanitarian awareness prize, Video for Good.
The videoclip for her latest single, Me!, featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! At the Disco, won Best Visual Effects.
She has recently been named as the highest-paid female on earth, and last November at the end of her six-month Reputation Stadium Tour, she broke all records for the highest-grossing national tour by a woman, netting US$345.7 million, and beating The Rolling Stones' two-year A Bigger Bang Tour which concluded in 2007 and grossed US$245m.
Swift, who was born in Reading, Pennsylvania but has lived in Nashville, Tennessee since her early teens, has just released her seventh studio album, Lover.
Madrid's Waxworks Museum has had its fair share of controversy over the years, with statues being unveiled that are not exactly true likenesses of their subjects.
They included a full set of the Royal family, in which Queen Letizia and her daughter Princess Leonor were described as 'zombies'.
Despite – or possibly because of – this, Madrid's Waxworks Museum continues to see thousands of visitors every year from all over the world.
