TAYLOR SWIFT THE ERAS TOUR dir. Sam Wrench (2023)

"So being in the public eye since I was a young teenager, there's a lot that that does to your perception of the world, your perception of yourself—the idea that the world has this sense of ownership, and not just a right, but they feel they have a responsibility to judge you, and to critique you, and to weigh in. And that can really toy with you. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? was a song I wrote alone, sitting at hte piano, in one of those moments where I felt sort of bitter about just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture. There's a lot about this particular concept on The Tortured Poets Department. What do we do to our writers and our artists and our creatives? We put them through hell, we watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes as a society, we provoke that pain, and we just watch what happens. So there's lines about feeling like I've been in the circus, those kinds of metaphors, or feeling like I'm sort of like a witch in a haunted house. Those are some ways that I feel sometimes when I'm not able to kind of right the ship and cope with my normal coping mechanisms. So this song was just a very, very true way that I feel sometimes, and it's always good when you can be honest about those things."

Is it cool that I said all that?

Is it too soon to do this yet?

'Cause I know that it's delicate

“I used to sit in record labels trying to get a record deal when I was a little kid. And they’d say, ‘you know, you remind us of’ and then they’d name an artist, and then they’d kind of say something disparaging about her, ‘but you’re this, you’re so much better in this way or that way.’ And that’s how we teach women to see themselves, as like you could be the new replacement for this woman who’s done something great before you. I picked women who have done great things in the past and have been these archetypes of greatness in the entertainment industry. Clara Bow was the first ‘it girl.’ Stevie Nicks is an icon and an incredible example for anyone who wants to write songs and make music.”

My husband is cheating, I wanna kill him

Your wife waters flowers, I wanna kill her

I wish I could unrecall how we almost had it all

And you're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith / This ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we're two idiots

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All’s fair in love and poetry.”

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TAYLOR SWIFT // Coachella 2024

I have gotten comfortable with myself and letting people know that I’m awkward sometimes and I’m not that cool or edgy. The more you just be yourself and lead by example, the more fans are cool with not being something they’re not–because I’m not either.

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They paint me out to be bad So it's okay that I'm mad

I’d been thinking about addiction and I’d been thinking about people who, if they’re either suffering through mental illness, addiction or they have an everyday struggle. No one pats them on the back every day but every day they’re actively fighting something. There are so many days that nobody gives them credit for that, so how often somebody who is going through that kind of struggle must wanna say to everyone in the room, “you have no idea how close I am to going back to a dark place.

So much of my imagination was spent on ‘Game of Thrones.’ At the time, I was making 'reputation’ and I didn’t talk about it in interviews, so I didn’t reveal that a lot of the songs were influenced by the show.

You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work