Taylor Swift Updates 🦋✓

🎥| Beabadoobee recalls attending Taylor Swift’s wedding with her boyfriend on BBC Radio 1 She says they had “such a good time”, but her boyfriend lost her phone on their way back to the hotel. 😭 “We got a bit too loose.”

💬| In a newly published interview with Variety from January 2008, an 18-year-old Taylor Swift spoke about taking control of her own career and future, and here are some stand-out quotes: “At the end of the day, I want to be here for the next 20 years.”🥹 “If I want to be in charge of my own future, I have to be in charge of my career.” 💪🏼 “I know nothing compared to what I’m gonna know a year from now.” “We haven’t tapped into half the people we’re gonna tap into.” “I think you can be grateful for every single thing that happens.” 🫶🏻 “If those people are willing to stand that long, I am too.” This was about fans waiting through her four-and-a-half-hour autograph sessions. “But I’m gonna continue to do it as long as I can.” Also about meeting fans after shows. “When I find someone who fascinates me as much as my career, I’m gonna go for it.” 🥰 “Songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens to you in your life productive.” ✍🏼 “I don’t look at it as crossover as much as I look at it as spillover.” On her music beginning to reach pop radio. 🙂‍↕️ Nearly 20 years later, she has become one of the defining artists of her generation!

Taylor also revealed several songwriting details in the newly published 2008 interview (tidbits we already know by now of course): • “Tim McGraw” and “Our Song” were written about the same guy • “Should’ve Said No” was written immediately after she was cheated on • “Breathe,” her collaboration with Colbie Caillat, was actually inspired by losing a friend rather than a romantic breakup

📸 | Mikey Piff of the Morning Mash Up show via IG stories 🏆:

RT @taylornation13: Have we known her 20 seconds or 20 years? 🥹 Today we celebrate #20YearsOfTaylorSwift and the music, memories, and eras we grew up with. 💚💛💜♥️🩵🖤🩷🩶🤎💙🤍❤️‍🔥

🎥| Amy Adams reveals that she’s done karaoke with Taylor Swift while discussing if good singers should be doing karaoke with Jenna Ortega😄

🎧| Promotional banner for the 20th anniversary of Debut is featured on Apple Music "A ferocious and prodigious debut that was wise beyond her years"

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📲| The 20 Years Of Taylor Swift banner appears when you search for Taylor Swift on TikTok! 💚

🦋| 20 years ago today, 16-year-old Taylor Swift released her self-titled debut album and began a career that would go on to reshape music history. Since then, she has become the first artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year four times, earned 15 #1 albums on the Billboard 200, been named IFPI’s Global Recording Artist of the Year a record six times and created the highest-grossing tour of all time with the Eras Tour. She became TIME’s Person of the Year, reclaimed ownership of her work, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and, fittingly, will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame just days after marking 20 years since her debut. From “Tim McGraw” to stadiums around the world, 20 years of songs, stories, reinvention and memories. Happy 20 years of Taylor Swift. 🤍

🏟️| AMC CEO Adam Smith recalls sitting in a stadium conference room until 2am after a Kansas City show with Scott, Andrea, and Taylor's business manager to finalize the deal for AMC to distribute The Eras Tour film! Though the process started in May 2023, Smith felt motivated to finalize the deal after seeing the show himself.

🎥| Prince William jokes on The Graham Norton show that he tried to move Travis Kelce out of the photo when he and his children posed for a picture with Taylor Swift after attending her concert in 2024😄

🏆 | “The Life of a Showgirl” is nominated for “Best Album”, while “The Fate of Ophelia” has earned a nomination for “Best Song” at the LOS40 Music Awards! 🇪🇸

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🎥| As we celebrate #20YearsOfTaylorSwift, it’s wonderful to see the media bringing out these interviews from the archives which so many new fans have yet to see. Taylor’s always been wise beyond her years and her work ethic and ambition are 2nd to none!

✍🏼| Maya Hawke praises Taylor Swift’s songwriting on ‘Hot Ones,’ naming “But Daddy I Love Him” and “betty” as the songs she would include in an “American anthology of poetry”: “They tell a full story like an epic poetry. They do it without using clichés. They tell an original story that plays on themes and historical ideas.” She adds that the songs are “extremely complete, kind of epic journeys” and describes Taylor’s ability to tell those stories in just a few minutes as “concentrated humanity.”

"When you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think of me..." 🎶 We're thinking of 16-year-old Taylor Swift before she released her self-titled debut album! 🦋 #20YearsofTaylorSwift 🔗 Full interview:

🎵| Taylor Swift’s “Lover” is featured in the new season of “Nobody Wants This”! Joanne Williams (played by Kristen Bell): “Also, obsessed that they’re playing Taylor Swift. This is the best song on the album.”

📲| Charlie Puth shared a TikTok of Taylor Swift giving the 22 hat to beautiful Scarlett - may her soul rest in peace🫂 "Actual tears😭... this is what it's all about"

🔙| 14 years ago, Taylor Swift released her fourth studio album, ‘RED.’ ❤️ The career-defining record debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with over 1.2 million copies sold in its first week, spent 7 weeks atop the chart and gave Taylor her first-ever #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Blending country and pop while exploring love and heartbreak in all their extremes, ‘RED’ marked one of the biggest turning points in Taylor’s career which many still believe is her magnum opus.

🥹| The “Taylor Swift Archive” on Taylor’s website has been updated in celebration 20 years of Taylor Swift!

🎥| Thank you so much to the legend who filmed the full first performance of “The Fate of Ophelia”!