I'm not sure if anyone has shared this yet, but it's phenomenal, and such a transcendent, emotional journey through her music.
the video is also spectacularly gorgeous, I'm in awe of the impressive talent, dedication, and time that must've gone into creating this and capturing the highs, lows, and connective tissue of these (230!!!) songs. it's like a magic distillation of why so many of us are impacted by and love her art the way we do:
the implications of a should’ve said no/you’re not sorry mashup on the same night as new year’s day/peace… wanting forever with your partner and your anxiety about what in your life might cause you to not have vs the other person doing something unimaginable, and taking you for granted and not even fully actually apologizing when you hold them so dear… good LORD
“Had a sort of crazy day yesterday, umm, because I started off my morning by getting the extraordinary news that because of you and because of the way you have supported my album midnights, it just got nominated for 6 Grammys!”
(insert cute dance).
“You’re the best, you continue to be the best, you’re the only reason anything like that ever happens in my life and, um, so I was like-“
(Argentina starts chanting olay, olay, olay)
(Taylor smiles)
“Wow guys. I love it- I love it when you olay, olay, olay.”
(indicipherable/crowd cheers)
(Taylor laughs)
“Umm, so that was how my morning started off, right, so like we get great news in the morning and then, and I’m like, okay I’m about to go out and play the craziest, best show ever because I was like, we’re celebrating tonight, right? This was for last night. I was like, “we are celebrating tonight!” I’m like, so excited to get on that stage and then I get a call from my management and they were- they had to explain to me that it was not- you know, we’d been expecting a rain show but they said it’s way worse than we thought. The weather is out of control, it is absolutely unsafe, it’s torrential rains, it’s lightning, it’s thunderstorms, and we absolutely could not physically, um, put on a show, and we couldn’t put you in that position. We just- we had to postpone the show to Sunday so if any of you have any friends that were going to come to the show last night, just tell him how heartbroken I was to not be able to play for them, and I’m so excited to see them Sunday, and I really hope that they can can- they can make it that night. Cause that’s just tomorrow, you know? I get to see everybody that I was gonna see last night, tomorrow, and I’m really really excited about that cause’ I just live to play these shows for you. It’s just- it’s my whole personality is getting to write songs and then get on a stage and sing them with you, and- and it really blows my mind that maybe we grew up in different parts of the world, but, I think if we’re all here tonight singing the same words and dancing together, feeling the way that we’re all feeling, umm.. that maybe that we probably all went through similar things and learnt similar lessons, and that makes me so happy, to be in Argentina, feeling this sense of connection.“
- Taylor Swift, champagne problems speech, Buenos Aires Night 2 - 11 November, 2023
In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their 25th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At this show, "SmiLe With YOUR EYES" was written on the drums. (🖤)
being a swiftie is so funny like for once we ALL collectively agreed that the rep tv announcement was happening tonight because we had been given all the clues to believe so and then taylor comes on stage like: guess what? a new album’s coming up, have a good night
EFFORTLESSNESS IS A MYTH ! ….. and the sad part is you’re on your own kid , but the good news is that now YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN NOW 😉 so…. BREATHE IN , BREATHE THROUGH, BREATHE DEEP; BREATHE OUT! 💜
At a point we all will figure it out!
Dr Taylor Alison Swift ( Doctor of fine arts, 2022)