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Me when Taylor sings “I’m doing better than I ever was” live to a stadium of thousands

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“So, um, ever since I was about 16 years old I’ve been living my life and my career on a pretty predictable schedule. I would put out an album, go on tour, put out an album, go on tour, put out an album, go on tour. This happened 5 times in a row exactly like that. So, the first time that I ever broke that pattern was with this last album and this last tour, I decided that it was really important to me to figure out who I would be and what my life would be like if I didn’t have a spotlight on me all the time. And it turned out it was really important for me. But I really did miss you guys. Because you know, I think one thing that every single person in this stadium has in common is that every single one of us is pining away for a sense of connection from someone else. Whether its a friendship or you want to fall in love or you just want someone to say to you ‘you feel that way? Oh, I feel that way too, I feel that way all the time.’ There’s something that happens with your brain and your heart when someone just says ‘yes, I understand how you feel, I felt that way too.’ And so, standing here on this stage, when I look out into a crowd and I see that you’re singing along to the words of a song that I wrote when I was in a really low place or a lonely place, that’s that sense of connection its like ‘oh, you felt that way too, okay, that makes me feel a little better about having felt that way.’ And when it comes to connection, I think that reaching out and saying ‘here’s how I feel, how do you feel about that?’ is a really brave thing to do. Because, whether its a friendship or its someone you really, really have a crush on, or someone you want to be with, someone you wish would want to see all your sights with you and walk all of your steps with you. First of all, its brave to want that, and its brave to vocalise that you want that and verbalise it. Because, on one hand, on one hand you have this miraculous, incredible chance that that person will look at you and go ‘yes, I want that too.’ Either, ‘I want to be your friend’, or 'yes, I want to be with you, I want to get to know you better, I want all that with you.’ But there’s also this devastating, heartbreaking possibility that this person will look at you and say 'I’m sorry, I don’t want that, I don’t want to get to know you better, I don’t want those things with you.’ And that’s why I think it’s really brave to put yourself out there and go searching for someone who feels the way you feel because its all really, relationships, it’s just delicate, you know.”

—  Taylor Swift, Delicate speech, Reputation World Tour 

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She is better than she ever was.

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Taylor hearing 60,000 people screaming for her for the first time in 3 years STABS ME RIGHT IN MY HEART LOOK AT THAT SMILE

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delicate, glendale 5.08.18

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“You know, one of the things that I love about being able to keep track of you guys online is that…well, first of all, I had a lot of time to plan this tour. We’ve been planning this tour, including the stage design and everything, for about 14 months. And in that time, I was able to see what you guys were posting online, see what you guys were hoping would happen on the tour, and a lot of those things ended up being ideas on the drawing board when making the actual tour. So I tried to put together a tour that seemed to be a combination of all the things you were saying you wanted on the tour. So if you’re liking something, it’s pretty easy to let us know if we’re on the right track. You just scream. One of my favorite things about you guys over the last 15 years is that a lot of times, people in the music industry would tell me what you wanted, and a few times it would be things like “Oh, you can’t work with that person”, or “You can’t make a pop album because your fans are country fans. They would never understand that; they’d be really confused, and they wouldn’t stick around.” And I said to them: “No, I’m pretty sure that I know them better than you do. I’m pretty sure that they want to be able to connect with a feeling in a song. They wanna be able to relate to lyrics in a song. You guys have stuck around for a lot of musical changes, and you’ve let me play; you’ve let me evolve, and that’s something I’m so grateful for. Thank you for letting me do that. And I still write songs the exact same way. I pick up an instrument, get an idea, and so each song can kind of be broken down into acoustic even if it wasn’t like that on the album.”

— Taylor’s speech before Dancing With Our Hands Tied in Glendale, Arizona (May 8th, 2018)

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so go ahead and light. me. up.

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Taylor Swift © Reputation Tour

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I want your midnights… 4 days til Reputation Stadium Tour 💕 taylor.lk/repevents

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❤😭😭

Official SNL Video: Taylor Swift - Call It What You Want (Acoustic)

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DON’T DATE THE PERSON WHO’S THE LIFE OF THE PARTY, DATE THE PERSON WHO HELPS YOU CLEAN UP AFTER

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new year’s day // taylor swift

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I need… I need a moment…

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👏👏👏

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