Deeply deeply touched by the whole speech, but her talking about us at the end there? The way we can see ourselves reflected in the songs she writes, we can cope, and grieve, and experience extreme happiness through her words, nothing will ever beat that connection 🥹
El concepto de Steven Spielberg tomándole un video a Taylor Swift con zoom 5x en su cara como un abuelito cualquiera y no como la eminencia de cine que es JAJAJAJA
She is the last living musical monoculture truly. The hits from ages 18-20 being continued to be celebrated as magnum opuses for their impact on society. I fear no one else who comes after will ever achieve it again. The last born in the radio age
🎥| Please do take the time to watch the FULL video of Steven Spielberg inducting Taylor into the Songwriters Hall of Fame! It’s nothing short of magnificent which comes as no surprise since he’s one of the best storytellers in history!
💬| Taylor notes how special it’s been for her to see her music become immortalised globally in the spectacular AND mundane moments of our lives:
“Nothing makes me happier than when someone tells me that they used to listen to my music with their parent, and now, decades later, they listen to it with their own child. [crying] I’m good. Or that they listen to it with their best friend, or when a couple tells me that Love Story is their song, or somebody does a cute little dance to The Fate of Ophelia, or I hear people in different countries singing Opalite in their own accents, or someone tells me that the song Enchanted gets their baby to stop crying. It’s, I’m humbled by the ways that fans have immortalized my songs in their own individual ways, allowing them to be the underscore of some of their real life expeditions on this Earth, the magnificent moments, as important to me as the seemingly mundane.”
💬| Taylor made a firm stance in her speech at the SHOF about how she backs the music she puts out regardless of the feedback she gets, good or bad:
“My favorite art is detailed and singular in its voice, therefore it can’t be digested and metabolized by everyone who experiences it in the same way. I’m very frequently told by people how they feel about my music, that they never really got my music until they got their heart broken, or started driving their daughter to school every day, or until I made an alternative album in the pandemic called folklore, or that they only like the hits, or that they only liked the ones that weren’t hits, or that they don’t like any of it at all. But it doesn’t feel uncomfortable for me to get feedback of all sorts because I know where I stand regarding the work I’ve made. As writers, we can only hope to meet people where they are in their lives, but you can’t ever orchestrate or force the encounter. “