Taylor Swift

This morning, 11-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift delivered a different kind of acceptance speech. “Hi, I'm Taylor,” she began. “The last time I was in a ...

“I became a young adult while being fed the message that if I didn’t make any mistakes, all the children of America would grow up to be perfect angels. “Life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once,” she said. “Hi, I’m Taylor,” she began.

Taylor Swift waves at graduating students during New York University's commencement ceremony for the class of 2022. "Hard things will happen to us. We will ...

We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it. We will recover.

Taylor Swift received an honorary doctorate as part of NYU's graduating class of '22.

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Singer Taylor Swift gestures while speaking after receiving her Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts during the New York University (NYU) graduation ceremony at ...

She praised the graduates for taking on the challenge of attending college during a pandemic. "I have some good news: It's totally up to you. "Life can be heavy – especially if you try to carry it all at once...

Shake It Off singer receives an honorary doctorate from New York University. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

It was the first college degree for Swift, who performed in concert tours while in high school. "Life can be heavy - especially if you try to carry it all at once... "I have some good news: It's totally up to you.

The pop star was awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree at NYU, where she also delivered the commencement speech to The Class of '22. By ...

Times when the right thing is to fight, times when the right thing is to turn and run. The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school. Having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which I lose every single game was not a great way to date in my teens and twenties, but it taught me to protect my private life fiercely. What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep, and what things to release. The times I was told no or wasn’t included, wasn’t chosen, didn’t win, didn’t make the cut…looking back, it really feels like those moments were as important, if not more crucial, than the moments I was told “yes.” Not being invited to the parties and sleepovers in my hometown made me feel hopelessly lonely, but because I felt alone, I would sit in my room and write the songs that would get me a ticket somewhere else. I guess I have been officially solicited in this situation, to impart whatever wisdom I might have and tell you the things that helped me in my life so far. Not the type of doctor you would want around in the case of an emergency, unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section. Then I went out on the road on a radio tour, which sounds incredibly glamorous but in reality it consisted of a rental car, motels, and my mom and I pretending to have loud mother-daughter fights with each other during boarding so no one would want the empty seat between us on Southwest. If they are here in this stadium, I hope you’ll find your own way to express your gratitude for all the steps and missteps that have led us to this common destination. We are each a patchwork quilt of those who have loved us, those who have believed in our futures, those who showed us empathy and kindness or told us the truth even when it wasn’t easy to hear. As for me, I’m…90% sure the main reason I’m here is because I have a song called ‘22’. And let me just say, I am elated to be here with you today as we celebrate and graduate New York University’s Class of 2022. I’d like to say a huge thank you to NYU‘s Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Bill Berkeley and all the trustees and members of the board, NYU’s President Andrew Hamilton, Provost Katherine Fleming, and the faculty and alumni here today who have made this day possible.

The superstar receives an honorary doctorate from New York University, blowing kisses as the crowd roared as she walks toward the stage at a packed Yankee ...

I won't tell you what to do because nobody likes that, but I will however give you life hacks for when I was starting out my dreams as a career," she said. "I never got to have a normal college experience per se. Her previous wins came in 2010 for Fearless and 2016 for 1989.

The Grammy-winning artist was awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts from New York University.

She captioned the video, “ getting back up, dusting yourself off and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it: that’s a gift.” – dr. so I brought my rep room pic w Taylor and sat in the 1st row. Swift ended her 20-minute long speech by referring to her super-hit song 22 and said, “I hope you know how proud I am to share this day with you. On Wednesday, the pop superstar imparted several “life hacks” to the fresh graduates of New York University (NYU). “Getting cancelled on the internet and nearly losing my career gave me an excellent knowledge of all the types of wine,” she joked.

The singer-songwriter is now a doctor of fine arts and has told her graduating class to never be afraid of trying.

Swift concluded her speech by telling graduates that making mistakes is inevitable but “when hard things happen to us, we will recover, we will learn from it, we will grow more resilient because of it. Swift shared advice with the class of 2022 but offered the warning that, “I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do. She went on to sell more than 100 million albums and won album of the year at the 2021 Grammys for her album “folkore,” making her the first woman to win the category three times.

"Being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful."

“I was a teenager in the public eye at a time when our society was absolutely obsessed with the idea of having perfect young female role models,” she explained. NYU previously said in a press release: “Taylor Swift is a trailblazing and influential advocate for artists’ rights in the face of exploitation and a forceful global advocate against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” “But it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute-by-minute, ever-fluctuating social relevance and likability.” “I’m trying to tell you that losing things doesn’t just mean losing. Speaking to MTV way back in 2008, the singer said: “College, to me, I always thought I was going to go. Both my parents went to college, so I thought that's what I was going to do, but life took a different turn.

Taylor Swift's music career has been accompanied by plenty of rejection and missteps. Her advice to NYU's class of 2022: Embrace and learn from those ...

Her advice to the class of 2022: Learn to coexist with those cringe-inducing experiences. Working on her music and herself – instead of dwelling on being told "no" – paid off. Swift said those dismal moments – in both her personal and professional life – made her feel "hopelessly lonely" growing up, starting at a very young age.

After receiving an honorary doctorate of fine arts, the celebrity singer-songwriter encouraged students while also reflecting on her career's highs and ...

Please bear in mind that I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do." I went to public high school until 10th grade and then finished my education doing home school work on the floors of airport terminals." Please bear in mind that I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do." I guess I have been officially solicited in this situation to impart whatever wisdom I might have, to tell you things that have helped me so far in my life. I went to public high school until 10th grade and then finished my education doing home school work on the floors of airport terminals." I guess I have been officially solicited in this situation to impart whatever wisdom I might have, to tell you things that have helped me so far in my life.

On Thursday, Taylor Swift became a doctor (the scholarly kind) and delivered a 23-minute commencement speech to NYU's Class of 2022.

Are these rejected Taylor Swift lyrics? And even though I would have accepted a Taylor Swift cover of “Graduation (Friends Forever),” it was nice to hear the sage, sisterly advice she offered the crowd of graduates. Are they promotions for aspirational pillows Taylor is selling on Etsy? Maybe they’re fortune-cookie messages.

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“It’s a combination of William, my great grandfather who I never actually met—was a composer and wrote a lot of classical music and he wrote a lot of film scores. “I did it under the name William Bowery,” he said. This was the first time we had a conversation where I came in and I was like, ‘Hey, this could be really weird and we could hate this, so could we just, because we’re in quarantine and there’s nothing else going on, could we just try to see what it’s like if we write this song together?'”