Taylor Swift: Miss Americana (2020) Movie Script

This is the first one that I started

when I was 13.

And it says,

"My life, my career, my... my dream...

...my reality."

For a while, I wrote with quill and ink.

That was a phase I went through.

Like, I had a glass quill

with, like, an ink jet.

You know, my entire moral code,

as a kid and now,

is a need to be thought of as good.

That's dangerous. That's not...

That's dangerous for you.

It was all I wrote about.

It was all I wanted.

It was the complete and total...

belief system

that I subscribed to as a kid.

Do the right thing.

Do the good thing.

And obviously,

I'm not a perfect person by any stretch,

but overall, the main thing

that I always tried to be was...

um...

like, just...

like, a good girl.

And now,

to perform the national anthem,

a multitalented performing artist

from Reading, Pennsylvania.

Please welcome Taylor Swift!

Hey, everybody.

- Um...

- Hi, Taylor.

You know,

one of my first memories of country music

was when I was six years old,

and my parents took me

to see LeAnn Rimes in concert.

Guitar!

I... am...

happy!

...twelve-year-old Taylor Swift!

Whoo!

Hey, everybody. I'm Taylor.

I'd been trained to be happy

when you get a lot of praise.

Hi, Taylor.

See, that's...

that's Sony Music, right there.

Sony is gonna listen to her CD today.

I had that praise of, "Taylor,

you're doing a good job at your work."

Hey, this is Taylor Swift, and thanks

for listening to Cat Country 98.1.

"You're doing a good job

at being a songwriter.

You're doing a good job

at being a musician."

Like, those pats on the head

were all I lived for.

No one's going to be watching this

'cause it's my home video, but...

right here, look at that.

Look at that. Sixty...

...60

on the Billboard charts right there.

I was so fulfilled by approval...

that...

that was it.

I became the person

who everyone wanted me to be.

♪ In the middle of the night ♪

♪ In my dreams ♪

♪ You should see the things we do, baby ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ In the middle of the night ♪

♪ In my dreams ♪

♪ I know I'm gonna be with you ♪

♪ So I take my time ♪

♪ Baby, let the games begin ♪

♪ Let the games begin

Let the games begin ♪

♪ Oh-oh! ♪

♪ Baby, let the games begin ♪

♪ Let the games begin ♪

♪ Oh-oh! ♪

♪ Are you ready for it? ♪

My God, man.

I'm so...

happy.

Everybody was so happy watching it.

Hey.

- Night.

- Good night.

- Hi.

- Good morning.

I've just been, like,

running up and down stairs,

like, moving things around,

unpacking boxes, like...

...trying not to think about you calling me

with Grammy nominations.

I know.

Well, I'm trying to get the full...

the full list.

Because right now, um, in the main...

the big categories of album,

record, song...

um, you are not nominated.

- And...

- Uh, okay, it's... it's, um...

- This is good. This is fine.

- Yeah.

And it's very similar.

Everything is like this cr...

You know, it's so weird, I said...

If... This is...

You know what? Like, this is fine.

- This is...

- Yeah.

I just need to make a better record.

Well,

Reputation is a great record.

No, I'm making...

I'm making a better record.

Well, and I should...

I'm still waiting for the pop...

you know, the pop categories.

Those should be hitting any second.

So, do you want me to call you right back

when those hit?

Sure.

- Okay, I'll call you right back.

- Okay, thanks.

- Bye, now. Bye!

- Bye.

♪ So you say

That you'll never find another... ♪

♪ I'm the only one of me ♪

It sounds different

than I thought it would on the piano.

- Almost sounds sadder.

- Mm-hmm.

And I guess it's, like...

The only thing I have...

I really have minimal stuff,

but it's like...

♪ So you say that... ♪

And, like...

♪ And then you say ♪

♪ That you'll never find another

Like me-ee-ee ♪

♪ Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪

♪ Baby, that's the fun of me ♪

♪ Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh ♪

- I don't know. I have no idea.

- It's cool.

- You like it?

- Yeah.

I think this is the first single.

First verse, and, like,

maybe a lower volume so you can hear

- what lyrics I'm trying to say.

- Yeah.

♪ I know I said some bullshit ♪

♪ On the phone ♪

♪ I never leave well enough alone ♪

♪ And trouble's gonna follow where I go ♪

♪ And there's a lot of cool chicks

Out there ♪

♪ One of these things

Is not like the others ♪

♪ Like a rainbow with all of the colors ♪

♪ Baby doll, when it comes to a lover ♪

♪ I tell you

That you'll never find another ♪

♪ Like me-ee-ee! ♪

- Yes!

- ♪ Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh! ♪

- Yeah.

- ♪ I'm the only one of me ♪

Yeah, so good.

♪ Baby, there's just one of me ♪

♪ Ooh-hoo-hoo! ♪

- Damn.

- Holy shit!

Oh, my God, did we just do,

like, this whole verse and chorus?

Yeah.

Holy shit.

Everything

up to that point is good.

Yep.

You look like you might need a rest.

I don't need a rest. I'm fine.

This means it's working.

Honey! How are you? Oh, honey!

Aw, hi, honey.

There's so much pressure

going into putting new music out.

If I don't beat

everything I've done prior,

it'll be deemed as, like,

a colossal failure.

Maybe first I could talk to you

about, um, kind of new album stuff.

There's gonna be from...

from 16 to 20 songs on it...

is what I'm guessing

it's gonna end up at.

- It's a lot.

- Let's get it done.

That's what...

that's what I was hoping for.

Everybody in music

has their own sort of...

niche specialty thing that they do...

that, you know,

sets them apart from everybody else.

And...

my storytelling is what it is for me.

I-I... I know that,

without me writing my own songs,

I wouldn't... be here.

♪ We can... ♪

♪ We can leave the Christmas... ♪

Uh.

♪ We can leave the Christmas lights up

Till January... ♪

There is an element

to my fan base

where we feel like we grew up together.

I'll... I'll be going through something,

write the album about it,

and then it'll come out, and...

sometimes it'll just coincide

with what they're going through.

Kind of...

Kind of like they're reading my diary.

♪...Close forever and ever? ♪

♪ And, ah, take me out ♪

♪ And take me home ♪

♪ You're my, my, my, my ♪

♪ Lover ♪

Okay.

This is a song I wrote yesterday,

and... it's about a girl

who's just different.

And I really like it

because it's just s-so happy.

So, this is called "Lucky You."

♪ There's a little girl

In this little town ♪

♪ With a little too much heart

To go around ♪

♪ "Live forever ♪

♪ Never say never ♪

♪ You can do better"

That's what she says ♪

I have to be honest with you,

this song was seriously finished

five minutes ago.

So, you know,

I usually have these things memorized,

but... I just finished it

five minutes ago, so...

♪ Let's watch the tide chase the waves ♪

♪ Onto the sand ♪

♪ I wonder if a sad heart ♪

♪ Can feel the warmth of my hand ♪

I started playing guitar

and wrote a couple songs,

and I've written 150 songs

and written every song

on this album, so...

You were a freshman

when you wrote this?

I actually came up with the concept for it

in math class my freshman year.

You know, I've had a single out now

for about a month.

Yeah!

There's this radio station called KZLA.

I want each and every one of you

to call 'em up...

and tell 'em you wanna hear a song

called "Tim McGraw"

by this girl named Taylor Swift.

Please.

♪ You said the way my blue eyes shined ♪

♪ Put those Georgia stars to shame

That night ♪

♪ I said, "That's a lie..." ♪

A 16-year-old girl released

her debut country music album

and dreamed of making it big.

Well, today that girl

is as big as it gets.

In the past year, she has taken Nashville

and country music

on an unforgettable trip around the world.

She went on

to sell more than any artist this year.

That made her

the youngest person

to write and perform

a number one country song.

I give myself, like, five seconds a day

to be like, "Yes, this is happening!"

And then the rest of the day,

I'm trying to figure out

how I'm gonna make it last.

And the Horizon Award goes to...

Taylor Swift!

♪ The moon

Like a spotlight on the lake ♪

- ♪ When you think happiness... ♪

- I wanna thank God...

and my family for moving to Nashville

so that I could do this.

And the fans...

you have changed my life!

Thank you so much.

♪ I was ridin' shotgun

With my hair undone ♪

♪ In the front seat of his car ♪

♪ He's got a one-hand feel

On the steering wheel ♪

♪ The other on my heart... ♪

I was in country music,

and I was doing, like,

a very spectacle-type live show,

and I remember thinking,

"This feels like a dream.

This feels like a dream.

This feels like a dream."

♪...Have a song ♪

♪ Our song is a slamming screen door ♪

♪ Sneaking out late... ♪

But when you're living

for the approval of strangers...

and that is where you derive

all of your joy and fulfillment,

one bad thing

can cause everything to crumble.

There's only one lady

that can actually make an arrival

as angelic and as beautiful as this.

Ladies and gentlemen,

give it up for Taylor Swift.

And the Moonman

for Best Female Video goes to...

Taylor Swift.

♪ If you could see that I'm the one ♪

♪ Who understands you ♪

♪ Been here all along ♪

♪ So why can't you see ♪

Thank you so much!

I always dreamed

about what it would be like

to maybe win one of these someday,

but I never actually thought

that would happen.

Uh, I sing country music,

so thank you so much

for giving me a chance

to win a VMA Award, I...

Yo, Taylor...

I-I'm really happy for you.

I'mma let you finish,

but Beyoncé had one of the best videos

of all time!

One of the best videos of all time!

I was standing onstage,

and I was really excited

because I had just won the award,

and then I was really excited

because Kanye West was on the stage.

And then I, um...

then I wasn't so excited anymore.

Hey, Taylor,

are there any hard feelings towards him?

I-I don't know him,

and I-I've never met him, so...

- So, were you a fan before?

- Um...

- ...yeah.

- Oh.

- He's Kanye West.

- Mm-hmm.

Are you still a fan? I take it no?

You know, I just... I don't know him,

and I don't wanna start anything

'cause I just, you know,

I had a great night tonight.

Everyone is talking

about this Kanye West thing, aren't they?

In case you're lucky enough

to have missed it,

Kanye West interrupted a young singer

named Taylor Swift while she...

President Obama

calling Kanye West a "jackass."

I can name you ten or 15 people

that he wouldn't have gone up

and taken that mic away from.

But he did it with a 17-year-old girl

because he could.

It was so echoey in there.

At the time, I didn't know

they were booing him doing that.

I thought that they were booing me.

For someone who's built

their whole belief system

on getting people to clap for you,

the whole crowd booing...

is a pretty...

formative experience.

♪ I walked through the door

With you ♪

♪ The air was cold ♪

♪ But something 'bout it felt

Like home somehow ♪

♪ And I left my scarf there ♪

♪ At your sister's house ♪

♪ And you've still got it in your drawer

Even now... ♪

That was, like,

sort of a catalyst

for a lot of psychological...

paths that I went down.

♪ We're singin' in the car

Gettin' lost... ♪

And not all of them were... beneficial.

♪ Autumn leaves fallin' down

Like pieces into place ♪

♪ And I can picture it... ♪

It was all fueled

by not feeling like I belonged there.

I'm only here because I work hard

and I'm nice to people.

♪ That magic's not here no more... ♪

That work ethic, like...

- Thank God I had that work ethic.

- ♪ But I'm not fine at all... ♪

Like, I can't change

what's gonna happen to me,

but I can control what I write.

♪ Looking at it now ♪

♪ It all seems so simple ♪

♪ We were lying on your couch ♪

♪ I remember ♪

- ♪ You took a Polaroid of us... ♪

- I really just went to this place

where I was like,

"I'm gonna prove myself.

I'm gonna make sure people know

I deserve to be here."

♪ Then discovered... ♪

The New York Times said,

"By making pop

with almost no contemporary references,

Miss Swift is aiming

somewhere even higher,

a mode of timelessness few pop stars

even bother aspiring to."

Taylor Swift has done something

only The Beatles have done:

an album at number one for six weeks

for four consecutive albums.

One magazine headline said it best:

"Taylor Swift is the music industry."

♪ In the clear yet, good ♪

♪ Are we out of the woods? ♪

♪ Remember

When you hit the brakes too soon? ♪

♪ Twenty stitches in a hospital room ♪

♪ When you started crying

Baby, I did too ♪

♪ But when the sun came up

I was lookin' at you ♪

♪ Remember when

You couldn't take the heat? ♪

♪ I walked out

I said, "I'm settin' you free" ♪

♪ But the monsters turned out

To be just trees ♪

♪ When the sun came up

I was lookin' at you ♪

♪ I remember ♪

♪ Oh! ♪

♪ Are we out of the woods yet?

Are we out of the woods yet? ♪

♪ Are we out of the woods? ♪

♪ Yet? ♪

♪ In the clear yet, good! ♪

That was... that was it.

My life had never been better.

Taylor Swift.

I had won Album of the Year

at the Grammys for a second time,

which I never thought was a possibility.

And I remembered thinking afterward...

"Oh, my God, that was all you wanted.

Oh, God, that was all you wanted.

That was all you focused on."

You get to the mountaintop

and you look around,

and you're like, "Oh, God. W-What now?"

I want to thank the fans

for the last ten years...

and the Recording Academy...

I-I didn't have a partner

that I climbed it with

that I could, like, high-five.

I-I didn't have anyone I could talk to

who could relate to what I was...

what... what I... you know?

I had my mom,

but... I just wondered...

"Shouldn't... shouldn't I...

shouldn't I have someone

that I could call right now?"

- Do you eat burritos?

- Yes.

- Do you?

- Of course I eat burritos.

- Some people don't.

- Who doesn't eat burritos?

Um, I didn't ever eat burritos

until, like, two years ago.

Oh, wow...

I had never tri...

I just had never tried one.

- That's the weirdest niche thing.

- Yeah.

Mm-mm.

You ever do this?

Oh.

- For crunch?

- No.

That's spicy.

- Okay.

- Oh, my God.

I'm about to be 29.

Twenty-nine? I remember those days.

How do you feel about that?

I mean...

yeah, there's a part of me

that feels like I'm 57,

but there's a part of me that's like...

definitely not ready to have kids,

definitely not ready

for all this grown-up stuff.

- Yeah.

- So...

I don't think anybody's ever ready

for that stuff.

You just figure it out

when it happens.

I kind of don't really have

the luxury of...

...figuring stuff out

because my life is planned, like, in...

- like, two years ahead of time.

- Mm.

Like, literally, in two months,

they'll come to me with the dates

for the next tour.

- Right.

- They'll be like, "So...

you'll be at Foxborough Stadium,

this date, 2020,"

or whatever year, you know?

- Like, it's...

- Wow. Yeah.

So, yeah.

Ooh! You scared the shit out of me!

Here we go.

- Incoming.

- Yup.

I got it.

- Whoa. Oh.

- Oh, no!

No!

Not the steak!

No, no, not on your forehead!

Yeah, well, I don't know. I...

Either that or the lap. I don't know.

- Oh, shit.

- This is a Rihanna shirt.

Oh, my God, it's all over me.

Want a bite? Want a bite?

She goes, "What is the panic?"

She did a better job of bracing herself

for takeoff than we did.

It is like traveling

with a pony.

But I love her.

- Oh, I know.

- But I love her.

She's... Okay, so what you're...

what you're seeing here... is...

...is exactly what Mom decided to do

when both of her kids were out

of the house.

She decided to get a third child,

like, a human-sized dog.

She's actually my cancer dog.

After I... found that out, I...

I decided to, um...

to do something I'd always wanted to do,

which was...

get a-a really big dog.

- That's good, Mom.

- Yeah. Well, that's what it is.

I'm happy that worked out for you.

I'm sor... sorry you had cancer.

I'm sorry.

That's really what it is.

She got cancer several years ago.

That has been really hard for me

because she's my favorite person.

On the third song,

where I hadn't gotten it started yet,

she goes, "Come on, Mom."

Like, into the microphone.

It woke me up from this...

this life where I used to sweat

all these things.

- Hi, Dad.

- How you doing, babe?

But, like, do you really care

if the Internet doesn't like you today

if your mom's sick from her chemo?

Cheers!

- She looks like you.

- Oh, she's just like you, Kitty!

You gotta be able to really prioritize

what matters to you.

For me, it's my family and my friends.

This is looking good, right now.

Would you like a glass of red wine

or white wine?

Can I get some white wine?

Oh, you got the red wine?

- Does that make me a difficult guest?

- It's for the recipe.

I'm happy to switch.

It's too adult for me,

- let's be honest.

- Yeah.

Oh.

And... ah, yes.

Okay, that's dinner.

I'm gonna get some ice

for my wine. You want any?

Yeah.

Oh, that's fine.

That's honestly just what I wanted.

- Yeah.

- You're like... "Uh..."

Eh.

- You know, Claire just had a baby.

- Mm-hmm.

And, like, I went over to see her, and...

How's she doing...

- She was just...

- ...with motherhood?

Well, she's the best 'cause she's like,

"Just so you know, this is what it is.

- You feed 'em, change 'em, they sleep.

- Yeah.

- You feed 'em, change 'em, they sleep.

- You do it all over. Yeah.

- You feed 'em." Like...

- It's just...

She's... And I was like,

"So, it's like a Tamagotchi?"

- Oh, my God.

- Like...

- Like, exactly, so...

- Yeah.

- You'd be an excellent mother.

- Thanks.

No questions.

Mmm. Mmm. This is so good.

- I'm gone for a month after this.

- Mm.

- We got three.

- Okay.

Huh?

Three paps.

- Three?

- Three paps now.

Three of 'em, you say?

Well, good luck sellin' this picture.

Oh, my God!

Taylor!

I love you!

Well...

So, this is my front yard...

...and...

I'm highly aware of the fact that

that is not normal.

I've learned over the years...

...it's not good for me

to see pictures of myself every day

'cause I have a tendency,

and it's only happened...

a few times,

and I'm not in any way proud of it,

but I get...

I tend to get triggered by something,

whether it's a picture of me

where I feel like I looked like my tummy

was too big

or... or, like, someone said

that I looked pregnant or something,

and that'll just trigger me to just...

s-starve a little bit, just stop eating.

I thought that I was just, like,

supposed to feel like I was gonna pass out

at the end of a show

or in the middle of it.

I thought that was how it was,

and now I realize:

no, if you eat food, have energy,

get stronger,

you can do all these shows

and not feel it.

Which is...

...a really good revelation...

because I'm a lot happier with who I am,

and I'm happier with, like...

I don't...

I don't care as much if, like...

somebody points out

that I have gained weight.

It's just something

that makes my life better,

the fact that I'm, you know...

I'm a size six

instead of a size double zero.

I mean, that... that wasn't...

how my body was supposed to be.

I just didn't really...

understand that a-at the time.

I really don't think I knew it.

I would've defended it to anyone

who said, "I'm concerned about you."

I was like, "What are you talking about?

Of course I eat.

It's perfectly normal.

I just exercise a lot."

And I did exercise a lot,

but I wasn't eating.

And...

you can't...

I just...

I don't think you know you're doing that

when you're doing it gradually.

There's always some standard of beauty

that you're not meeting.

'Cause if you're thin enough

then you don't have that ass

that everybody wants.

But if you have enough weight on you

to have an ass,

then your stomach isn't flat enough.

It's all just...

fucking impossible.

You don't ever say to yourself,

"Look, I've got an eating disorder,"

but you know you're, like,

making a list of everything you put

in your mouth that day,

and you know that's probably not right,

but then again, there's so many diet blogs

that tell you that that...

that that's what you should do.

This would cause me to go into, like,

a real shame...

like, hate spiral.

This.

And, like, I caught myself yesterday

starting to do it, and I was like,

"Nope, we don't do that anymore.

We do not do that anymore,

because it's better to look...

to think you look fat

than to look sick.

And we don't do that anymore,

and you just...

We're just...

We're changing the channel in our brain,

and we're not...

we're not doin' that anymore.

That didn't end us up in a good place."

As your career goes like this,

the magnifying glass goes like that.

Taylor Swift could not take herself

more seriously.

I think

that there's plenty of annoying women.

I-I think that Taylor Swift,

she is annoying.

She's too good.

She's too skinny. It bothers me.

All of her model friends.

And it's just like, come on!

Lock and load, boys.

Yo, Taylor!

You fucked him, Taylor?

We've got a roundup

of the guys that Miss Swifty has

at one point been romantic with,

and there are a lot of hotties

on this list.

Holy date life.

...meet the parents?

She's going through guys like a train.

- Can we get a pan down?

- It's beautiful.

I wanted to show the legs,

'cause as I was telling you,

you're gonna walk home with more

than maybe just a trophy tonight.

I think lots of men.

I'm not gonna walk home

with any men tonight.

Watch... watch out, guys!

We give you the latest

can't-look-away twist

in one of America's

favorite celebrity feuds.

Kanye West

recently dissed Taylor

in his new song, "Famous."

The song contains a lyric

calling Taylor Swift the b-word.

♪ I feel like me and Taylor

Might still have sex ♪

♪ Why? I made that bitch famous ♪

Kanye had said all along

that he got permission. Taylor denied it.

Kim Kardashian released video

of Kanye West

secretly recording his conversation.

I mean, thanks for being,

like, so cool about it.

- Oh, thanks.

- Yeah.

Um, yeah, I really appreciate it.

Like, the heads-up is so nice.

She posted on Instagram,

"Where in the video is Kanye telling me

he was gonna call me 'that...

- biatch' in his song?"

- Yeah.

Swift writing,

"I would very much like to be excluded

from this narrative,

one that I have never asked

to be a part of, since 2009."

I don't buy the story

that she was so insulted by that one line.

I think she saw an opportunity

to be victimized here,

and she thought

everybody was gonna get on her side.

♪ I feel like me and Taylor

Might still have sex, why? ♪

♪ I made that bitch famous ♪

- ♪ God damn! ♪

- ♪ I made that bitch famous ♪

Hold on.

Fuck Taylor Swift!

Fuck Taylor Swift! Fuck Taylor Swift!

When people decided I was...

wicked and evil and conniving

and not... a good person,

that was the one

that I couldn't really bounce back from

'cause my whole life was centered

around it.

#TaylorSwiftIsOverParty

was the number one trend

on Twitter worldwide.

Know how many people have to be tweeting

that they hate you for that to happen?

We're people who got

into this line of work

because we wanted people to like us,

'cause we were intrinsically insecure,

because we liked the sound

of people clapping

'cause it made us forget how much

we feel like we're not good enough.

And I've been doing this for 15 years,

and it's just, I'm tired of it.

I'm just tired of the...

...just...

...it just feels like it's

more than music now at this point.

And, just, most days, I'm like, "Okay."

But then sometimes, I'm just like...

...it just gets loud sometimes.

When people fall out of love with you,

there's nothing you can do

to make them change their mind.

They just don't love you anymore.

I just wanted to disappear.

Nobody physically saw me for a year.

And that was what I thought they wanted.

♪ The world moves on

Another day, another drama, drama ♪

♪ But not for me, not for me

All I think about is karma ♪

♪ And then the world moves on

But one thing's for sure ♪

♪ Maybe I got mine

But you'll all get yours ♪

The reason

why that backlash hurt so much

was because that used to be all I had.

♪ I never trust a narcissist

But they love me ♪

♪ So I play 'em like a violin

And I make it look oh so easy ♪

♪ If you've been on my case

For a long time ♪

I felt really alone.

I felt really bitter.

I felt, you know,

sort of like a wounded animal lashing out.

♪ Is this the end of all the endings? ♪

♪ My broken bones are mending ♪

♪ With all these nights we're spending

Up on the roof ♪

I figured I had to reset everything.

♪ My castle crumbled overnight ♪

♪ Brought a knife to a gunfight ♪

♪ They took the crown

But it's all right ♪

♪ All the liars are calling me one ♪

♪ Nobody's heard from me for months ♪

♪ Doin' better than I ever was... ♪

I had to deconstruct

an entire belief system

for my own personal sanity.

I also was falling in love with someone

who had a really wonderfully normal,

balanced, grounded life.

And we decided together

that we wanted our relationship

to be private.

♪ Like I'm brand-new ♪

♪ Call it what you want ♪

♪ Yeah, call it what you want to ♪

♪ All my flowers grew back as thorns ♪

♪ Windows boarded up after the storm ♪

♪ He built a fire just to keep me warm ♪

♪ And I know I make the same mistakes

Every time ♪

♪ Bridges burn, I never learn ♪

♪ At least I did one thing right ♪

♪ I did one thing right ♪

♪ I'm laughing with my lover

Making forts under covers ♪

♪ Trust him like a brother

Yeah, you know I did one thing right ♪

♪ Starry eyes sparkin' up

My darkest nights ♪

♪ Call it what you want

Yeah, call it what you want to ♪

♪ My baby's fit like a daydream ♪

I love you.

♪ To ♪

♪ Call it what you want

Yeah, call it what you want ♪

...to.

Even though it was really horrible,

I was happy.

But I wasn't happy in the way

that I'd been trained to be happy.

It was happiness without...

anyone else's input.

It was just... we were happy.

♪ You should take it

As a compliment ♪

♪ That I got drunk

And made fun of the way you talk ♪

♪ You should think about the consequence ♪

♪ Of your magnetic field

Being a little too strong ♪

♪ This ain't for the best ♪

♪ My reputation's never been worse

So... ♪

♪ You must like me for me ♪

I'm gonna go back

to doing my job,

and I'm gonna make a record I'm proud of.

♪ We can't make any promises now

Can we, babe? ♪

♪ But you can make me a drink ♪

♪ Me for me ♪

- Perfect.

- It's really cool.

♪ This ain't for the best ♪

♪ But my reputation's

Never been worse, so ♪

♪ You must like me for me ♪

- Can I have it again?

- Um, yeah.

- ♪ In the middle of the night ♪

- ♪ Night ♪

- ♪ In my dreams ♪

- ♪ My dreams ♪

♪ That's when I get to be with you ♪

♪ You're so sweet ♪

Time to do vocals.

What are you doing?

- I'm turning on my party shoes for vocals.

- Good.

We've never really gotten a good take

without them, have we?

No.

♪ We were jet-set ♪

♪ Bonnie and Clyde, oh, oh ♪

♪ Till I switched to the other side... ♪

Like a Dylan-y kind of thing.

♪ No surprise I turned you in, oh, oh ♪

♪ 'Cause us traitors never win ♪

♪ I'm in a getaway car ♪

Ah!

♪ And I'm losin' my... ♪

Something.

- ♪ Think about the... ♪

- It's uh...

♪ I'm in a getaway car ♪

♪ And... and you're ♪

- ♪ You're in the motel bar ♪

- ♪ Where is it? ♪

- Or, like...

- Yeah, "I'm in the getaway car.

Left you in the motel bar,

took the money..."

- "Took the money in the bag..."

- "Took the money."

"Put the money in the bag,

I stole the keys.

That was the last time you ever saw me!"

♪ That was the last time you ever saw me ♪

♪ Drivin' the getaway car ♪

♪ We were flyin', but we'd never get far ♪

- ♪ Don't pretend ♪

- ♪ Don't pretend it's such a mystery ♪

♪ Think about the place

Where you first met me ♪

♪ We were ridin' in a getaway car ♪

♪ There were sirens

In the beat of your heart ♪

♪ Should've known

I'd be the first to leave ♪

♪ Think about the place

Where you first met me ♪

♪ Drivin' in a getaway car ♪

♪ I was cryin' in a getaway car ♪

♪ I was dyin' in a getaway car ♪

♪ Said goodbye in a getaway car ♪

- That was awesome.

- Thank you.

- Awesome, awesome.

- Oh, my gosh.

- That was so fun!

- So much fun. So much fun.

Oh, my God.

Hey.

- That was amazing.

- Yeah.

- Hi, guys!

- Yeah!

How's it goin'?

- Thank you so much for coming!

- Oh, my God!

Say hi.

Hi!

- You want to... You want a hug?

- Yes.

- Yes?

- Yes!

- Aw, so nice to meet you.

- I-I can't breathe. Yeah.

You're the cutest.

Guys! Oh, my gosh.

How cute!

And I love these.

- Want to make the heart.

- Like this?

Here we go. One, two, three.

♪ Big reputation ♪

- ♪ Big reputation ♪

- Yes!

♪ You and me, we got... ♪

- Hug, please?

- You look like a Barbie.

Of course. Oh, thanks.

I'd just like you to be a witness

for something special,

- Miss Taylor Swift.

- Oh, my God.

Uh, I'm gonna ask Miss Maybelle Marciano,

uh, to be my wife.

And I got this special token

of my love and appreciation for you.

- Love you.

- I-I love you.

Wow! Oh, my God.

Did you know that was gonna ha...?

No.

I didn't know

that was gonna happen at all.

I was, like... you just, like...

High-five.

- Thank you.

- You guys engaged now?

- This is...? This...

- Yes, it's official.

- Oh, my God. That's amazing.

- Yes.

Whoa.

Bye, guys. Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- Whoa!

♪ Never find another ♪

- ♪ 'Nother like me- ee ♪

- Mm!

Yeah. Ooh.

- Boom.

- ♪ Never, never ♪

- ♪ Never find another like me-ee-ee ♪

- ♪ Ee ♪

Oh, my God.

Like, I just want little kids

to be like, "There's no one like me."

- Like... ♪ Whoo-hoo-hoo! ♪

- That's the... exactly.

Do you think that you wanna stay

in LA forever?

- I don't know, actually.

- Yeah.

My wife is from Detroit.

So, we talked about getting a place

to test it out.

And then fans found out,

and I had to leave.

Oh, would they...

would they just wait outside?

They would jump the gate

and, like, try to open our front door.

- And I was like, "This is not okay."

- Yeah, let's not do that. Yeah.

There's a difference between

"I connect with your lyrics"

- and "I'm going to break in."

- And "I want your blood."

Yeah. Yeah.

I had a crazy dude break into my apartment

and sleep in my bed a couple months ago.

- Oh, what?

- Didn't like it.

Well, you can have that apartment.

Oh, there it is. There's that middle.

I cannot believe you're even sick.

That's amazing.

The-There are stars

next to your... your lines.

Okay, cool.

♪ Strike the band up, a-one, two, three ♪

Oh, you sound fuckin' great, man.

- You sound amazing!

- Oof.

♪ I know I tend to make it about me ♪

♪ I know you never get just what you see ♪

♪ But I will never bore you, baby ♪

Maybe your intr...

your first line should be, like...

♪ I know I tend to make it about me ♪

- Mm.

- Like... you know what I mean?

♪ About me ♪

- Like... ♪ About me ♪

- Okay, cool.

- Brendon, you're blowin' it!

- You sound amazing.

Like, you're making it come alive.

- ♪ Ee-ee-ee ♪

- ♪ I know I tend to make it about me... ♪

- There it is.

- ♪ Know you never get just what you see ♪

♪ But I will never bore you, baby ♪

♪ And there's a lot of lame guys

Out there ♪

- Yes.

- Sick.

- Oh, my God.

- Thank you so much.

- This is ridiculous.

- That was cool.

- It sounds so fun. Like, it's so fun.

- And you're the pro-est pro of all time

for doing this.

No way.

Thank you, guys. This is so cool.

- This is, like... I mean, I'm...

- Really good track.

...and I'm also really so excited

you're down to do, like, a massive video.

- Oh, yeah. That's gonna be a biggie.

- 'Cause it's not gonna be a small one.

- Well, it's gonna be so fun.

- Um...

My idea that I had in the beginning

is, like, it starts in an apartment.

Like, you and me get in a big fight.

I storm out, and I'm, like...

And then all of a sudden, like,

I have, like, a parade happening below.

Amazing, amazing.

- And, like, whatever makes you you...

- Yeah.

...you know, it's just, like, emo kids,

theater,

dance sequences,

- La La Land, everything.

- Nailed it!

And, like, when it's like, "me-ee-ee,"

it's like, dancers, cats,

gay pride,

people in country western boots.

I start riding a unicorn, like, just...

- everything that makes me me.

- Yes!

Five, six, seven, eight.

If you were to split open my imagination,

what would come out of it?

- Oh, it's so fun.

- I'm sweating now.

- Just like me. Oh, my God.

- I got way too excited.

- Okay, guys. Oh, my God.

- I got something.

Too excited about everything.

I feel like I'm just...

This is so cool.

- Uh, should I just follow you?

- Yes.

Just a curious cat in a...

in a big world.

I really, really care about my home state,

and I know that in this...

at this point in time, like,

my home state is a huge,

hugely important part

of this midterm election.

Tennessee's US senate race

figures to be crucial

in both parties' efforts to try

to control the US Senate after this year.

Marsha Blackburn,

a self-described hard-core conservative,

proclaims her support

for President Trump often.

I know the left calls me "a wingnut"

or "a knuckle-dragging conservative."

And you know what? I say,

"That's all right. Bring it on."

One of the things that, like,

outraged me so much

is that she voted

against the reauthorization

of the Violence Against Women Act,

which tries to protect women

from stalking,

from date rape, from domestic violence.

And then, obviously,

it's a no for gay marriage,

it's a no

for them to have any rights whatsoever.

I think I'll be really upset...

if people think that Tennessee...

stands for those things.

You've been very secretive

about how you vote,

what you're voting for.

Well, I mean,

I just figure, I'm a 22-year-old singer,

and, you know, I don't know

if people really want to hear

my political views.

I think they kind of just want

to hear me sing songs

about breakups and feelings.

Part of the fabric

of being a country artist

is, "Don't force your politics on people.

Let people live their lives."

That is grilled into us.

These three women have been

the reigning queens

of pop and country music.

They're the biggest-selling female artists

of all time,

nearly 30 million records sold

and even more fans

who always used to love

their high-spirited style,

their music, and their moxie.

Well, that racy magazine cover

on the stands today

pretty much sums up

some of the names

the Dixie Chicks are being called

in America these days:

"traitors, the Dixie Sluts,

anti-American,"

all because of one split-second comment

aimed at President Bush

right before the war with Iraq.

Their opinion is so ignorant.

They don't know

what they're talking about.

I think they are the Ditzy Twits.

These are the dumbest, dumbest bimbos,

with due respect, I have seen.

These are callow, foolish women

who deserve to be slapped around.

Absolutely.

Throughout my whole career,

label executives

and publishers would just say,

"Don't be like the Dixie Chicks."

And... I loved the Dixie Chicks.

But a nice girl doesn't force

their opinions on people.

A nice girl smiles and waves

and says thank you.

A nice girl doesn't make people feel

uncomfortable with her views.

It's my right to vote,

but it's not my right

to tell other people what to do.

- Right there, sister.

- Yes, thank you.

- Come on. Come on. Come on!

- All right.

I was so obsessed

with not getting in trouble,

that I was like,

"I'm just not gonna do anything

that anyone could say anything about."

I'm just getting... I'm just...

I'm getting to the point where I can't...

listen to people telling me,

"No, stay out of it.

Stay out of it."

- Yeah. Is that right? C to the A minor?

- Yeah.

Let me... just...

Can you not play for one second?

'Cause I'm trying to figure out this...

I like what I was doing,

but I can't figure out what key it was in.

It's like 4:00 a.m.,

in the middle of the night.

♪ I would be complex ♪

♪ I would be cool ♪

♪ I would... ♪

♪ The field

To know I found someone to commit to ♪

- ♪ That would be okay ♪

- ♪ Thing to do ♪

♪ They put a knife in me

Behind my back ♪

♪ And... then they do ♪

Mm-hmm.

♪ All right again ♪

♪ I'm so ♪

♪ I'm so sick of runnin' ♪

- ♪ As fast ♪

- ♪ As fast as I can ♪

Maybe it's like,

"I'm so sick of running as fast as I can,

wondering if I'd get much further

if I were a man."

Is it, "If I was a man"? "If I was a man."

- Fine. "If I was."

- "If I was a man." "If I was a man."

"If I was a man."

♪ If I was a man ♪

♪ Hey, then, I'd be the man ♪

♪ I'd be the man ♪

- I actually really love that.

- Yeah.

I really like that a lot.

Do you wanna start...

Maybe if you start a vibe...

- Yeah.

- ...then this'll just write itself.

It must be so exhausting.

You must have to be thinking

about this shit all the fucking time.

You are kind of doing a constant strategy

in your head

as to how not to be shamed

for something...

- Yeah.

- ...on any given day.

But then you get accused

of being calculated

- for having a strategy.

- Mm.

- So, it's like...

- It's just a lose-lose situation.

Yeah, it's...

I mean, I'm good, but it's been, uh...

You sort of do have to twist yourself

into a pretzel

- on an hourly basis.

- Mm. Mm-hmm.

Do you like this for a second verse?

Lyric: "They'd say I hustled,

put in the work,

instead of shake their heads

and question how much of this I deserve.

And what was I wearing,

or if I was rude.

Could all be separated from...

applauding business I could do..."

"Applauding...

when I'd make a move..."

- That sounds...

- Let's sing a bit.

♪ Could all be separated

From my good ideas and power moves ♪

Yeah, I like "good ideas."

That's it.

Just more movement.

That's really cool.

- Sick.

- This is so fun to write.

♪ We'd drink to the pen and the bottles

To the bitches and models ♪

♪ To the... ♪

Like, do you know what I mean?

♪ To the bitches and models

To the... ♪

D-Do you know how they're like...

"D... We drink and we be poppin' bottles

to the...

We'd be poppin' bottles

to the bitches and models,

to the hoes and the..."

Do you know?

'Cause they get to call us that.

- They get to fuckin' call us that. Like...

- Yeah.

Taylor Swift the singer,

she goes to court today

against a former radio DJ

she says once groped her.

Swift says this picture

shows the moment

Mueller inappropriately grabbed her,

putting his hand up her skirt.

This had happened to me.

We told his boss.

They did an investigation.

He got fired,

then he sued me for millions of dollars,

so I countersued for one dollar.

You walk into a courtroom,

and then there's this person

sitting in a swivel chair,

staring at you

like you did something to him.

The first thing they say to you in court

is, "Why didn't you scream?

Why didn't you react quicker?

Why didn't you stand

further away from him?"

Then he has a lawyer get up

and just lie.

There were seven people

who saw him do this,

and we had a photo of it happening.

And I was so angry.

I was angry that I had to be there.

I was angry that this happens to women.

I was angry that people are paid

to antagonize victims.

I was angry

that all the details had been twisted.

You don't feel a sense of any victory

when you win...

because the process is so dehumanizing.

This is with seven witnesses and a photo.

What happens when you get raped,

and it's your word against his?

So, um, I just wanted to...

Just kind of looking back, um...

this exact day a year ago, um...

...I was, uh...

I was not playing a sold-out stadium

in Tampa,

I was... I was in a courtroom

in Denver, Colorado, um...

Honestly, I-I was there

for a sexual assault case,

and...

t-this day, a year ago,

was the day that, um...

...uh, the day

that the jury decided in my favor

and said that they believed me.

I guess I just think about all the people

that weren't believed,

people who haven't been believed,

or the people who are afraid to s-speak up

because they think they won't be believed.

And...

And I just...

I just wanted to say that, um...

I just wanted to say I'm sorry

to anyone who ever wasn't believed

because I don't know h... what turn

my life would have taken if somebody'd...

if people didn't believe me

when I said

that something had happened to me.

So...

♪ The drought was the very worst ♪

♪ Ah, ah ♪

♪ When the flowers

That we'd grown together ♪

♪ Died of thirst ♪

♪ It was months and months

Of back-and-forth ♪

♪ Ah, ah ♪

♪ You're still all over me

Like a wine-stained dress ♪

♪ I can't wear anymore ♪

♪ Hung my head as I lost the war ♪

♪ And the sky turned black

Like a perfect storm ♪

♪ The rain came pouring down ♪

♪ When I was drownin'

That's when I could finally breathe ♪

♪ And by morning ♪

♪ Gone was any trace of you

I think I am finally clean ♪

♪ I think I am finally clean ♪

- I'm so proud of you...

- Thanks, Mom.

...for taking this shitbag of shit

they gave you.

- And you made it into this.

- Oh, my God.

I'm really proud of you.

It's okay now.

I'm good.

I-I just...

I couldn't really stop thinking about it.

And I just thought to myself,

"Next time there is any opportunity

to change anything,

you had better know what you stand for

and what you wanna say."

We are less than three weeks out

until the midterms,

and Tennessee's senate candidate

Marsha Blackburn is up in the polls.

Congratulations, I know you've got

a little momentum going.

This is the third poll in a row

that has shown you in the lead.

My team's really not happy

with me right now.

All I've talked about for the last couple

of months is the election in Tennessee.

It's not that I want to step into this.

I just...

I can't not at this point. Like...

something is different in my life,

completely and unchangeably different

since the sexual assault trial last year.

Like, and no... no man in my organization

or in my family

will ever understand what that was like.

For 12 years,

we've not got involved

with politics or religion.

Yeah, but this is on the home front.

And also,

back in the presidential election,

I was in such a horrendous place

that I wasn't gonna pop my head

out of the sand for anything.

Why would you?

I mean, does Bob Hope do it?

Did Bing Crosby do it?

- Does... Does Mick Jagger do it?

- Honey, what the hell? Come on!

- What I'm saying is...

- Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?

First of all,

these aren't your dad's celebrities,

and these aren't your dad's Republicans.

Imagine if we came to you

and said, "Hey, we've got this idea

that we could halve the number of people

that come to your next tour."

The other thing,

just from a security standpoint,

"Taylor Swift comes out against Trump."

I don't care if they write that!

I'm sad that I didn't two years ago,

but I can't change that.

I'm saying right now

that this is something

that I know is right,

and, you guys,

I need to be on the right side of history.

And if he doesn't win...

- ...then at least I tried.

- Taylor, here's the problem.

I just want to read you what I wrote,

and I'm gonna try to start...

I just want you to know

that this is important to me. This is...

- I totally agree with the issue,

- Have...

- but let me explain to you...

- Have you heard her?

I've read the entire thing,

and the bottom line right now:

I'm terrified.

I'm the guy that went out

and bought armored cars.

I worry for her safety

as much as anybody does.

Maybe more.

It really is a big deal to me.

She votes against...

against fair pay for women,

she votes against

the reauthorization of the...

of the Violence Against Women Act,

which is just basically protecting us

from domestic abuse

and stalking. Stalking!

She votes... She thinks that...

that if you're a gay couple

or even if you look like a gay couple,

you should be allowed to be kicked out

of a restaurant.

It's really basic human rights,

and it's right and wrong at this point,

and I can't see another commercial...

and see her disguising these policies

behind the words

"Tennessee Christian values."

Those aren't Tennessee Christian values.

I live in Tennessee. I am a Christian.

That's not what we stand for.

I need to do this. I need you to just...

Dad, I just need you to forgive me

for doing it, 'cause I'm doing it.

- Okay, so...

- I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little nervous.

- You should be.

- Ooh.

- I want to do this.

- Okay, so...

I always have to bring up everything

that could go sideways...

- everything we need to expect.

- Yeah.

- One: the president could come after you.

- Fuck that, I don't care.

If I get bad press for saying,

"Don't put a homophobic racist in office,"

then I get bad press for that.

- I really don't care.

- I would stand behind that 1,000 times.

- Me too.

- Yeah.

I think that it is so frilly

and spineless of me

to stand onstage and go,

"Happy Pride Month, you guys,"

and then not say this...

when someone's literally coming

for their neck.

Yeah.

- All right, cheers.

- Cheers, ladies.

- God help us all.

- Cheers to the resistance.

To the resist... Stop it.

It's gonna be okay.

Oh...

Oh, my God.

Oh, it's so scary. This is the picture.

- One...

- ...two, three...

...go.

- Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

- Oh, my goodness.

Taylor Swift broke her silence

on politics over the weekend,

publicly backing two Democrats

in Tennessee.

Taylor Swift is taking

her first political stand,

backing Democrat Phil Bredesen.

The superstar making it clear

to her 112 million followers on Instagram,

and the world, where she stands.

Taylor Swift's jumping

into politics. What do you say?

Let's say that I like Taylor's music

about 25% less now, okay?

The 28-year-old pop star

made her statement on Instagram.

She broke

her longstanding policy

of not talking politics...

...using her voice in a new way.

This is so out of the norm

for Taylor Swift, who...

Republicans for years have thought

that Taylor Swift

was a crypto-conservative, and she just...

It is a risky move for an entertainer

to step into politics at her age,

more registrations in the last day

since Taylor's post than in all of August.

nationwide there have been

51,308 new registrations

- in the past 24 hours.

- Whoa!

Yeah!

- So proud of you.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- Go, Taylor.

Do you think it'll... Do you think...

I think it could, definitely.

It's your first race, so...

I really hope it actually,

actually does something.

But you know what?

Donald Trump likes my music 25% less.

I feel 200 pounds lighter.

I just feel like a... I just feel...

I've been feeling this way for months.

Perez Hilton just posted,

"Note how Republicans are attacking

Taylor Swift's intelligence

instead of her ideas.

They don't respect women enough

to debate them."

Wow.

It's not not true.

- You look gorgeous.

- Thank you.

- Stunning and sexy.

- I look like a melted-down disco ball.

- I love it.

- My God, you look amazing.

- I am...

- Oh my God.

- Gorgeous.

- ...a Pop-Tart wrapper.

- Try this on that ear.

- She's got that...

You know what?

This is gonna sound ridiculous,

- but I can't move past here.

- Ooh, you got it.

You got it.

That's how this dress makes me feel.

- Oh.

- Hmm?

Can you breathe?

- I can brea... I can.

- Yeah.

- Is it easy? No.

- The other one's better.

Don't block her.

- Taylor! Taylor!

- Taylor!

To your right! On your right!

Taylor, look over to your right!

Thank you for this.

And I just wanted to make a mention

of the fact

that this award

and every single award given out tonight

were voted on by the people.

And you know what else is voted on

by the people...

...is the midterm elections

on November 6th.

Get out and vote. I love you.

Pre-chorus.

Six, seven, eight.

One, two,

three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four five,

six, seven, eight. Three!

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Chorus.

Six, seven, eight.

Yeah, I need to work on my face.

I look like I have a mean face sometimes

when I'm not trying to.

Know what I mean?

Um...

I think you might be more sensitive

than me to that.

Yeah, I have a really slappable face.

- Slappable? Ouch!

- Yeah, you just want to be like...

"What are you plotting?

What's she planning?"

I'm not meaning to look like that.

You looked confident and strong.

It's the chorus.

You got it. All right, we'll...

I'm gonna try to be more likable

on the next one.

All right, all right. Perfect.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight. One...

I wish I didn't feel like

there's a better version of me out there.

I feel that way all the time.

You know what we call this?

This is "last rhino of the stampede,"

up here, just...

Everybody else is runnin'. Limping.

First to get eaten.

I keep looking down

because I'm afraid.

Afrai...?

And it shows.

It's a lot to process

because we do exist in this society

where women in entertainment

are discarded in an elephant graveyard

by the time they're 35.

Two, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

Three!

Everyone's a shiny, new toy

for, like, two years.

The female artists that I know of

have reinvented themselves 20 times more

than the male artists.

They have to...

or else you're out of a job.

Constantly having to reinvent,

constantly finding new facets of yourself

that people find to be shiny.

Be new to us, be young to us,

but only in a new way

and only in the way we want.

And reinvent yourself,

but only in a way

that we find to be equally comforting

but also a challenge for you.

Live out a narrative

that we find to be interesting enough

to entertain us,

but not so crazy

that it makes us uncomfortable.

This is probably one

of my last opportunities as an artist

to grasp onto that kind of success.

So...

I don't know, like,

as I'm reaching 30, I'm like...

"I want to work really hard...

um...

while society is still tolerating me

being successful."

We have another result

from the Senate. Marsha Blackburn...

we were just talking about that...

Marsha Blackburn will win the Senate seat.

The Bredesen camp was very much hoping

for the "Swift lift," as they called it,

because young voter turnout spiked here

by sevenfold

from the previous midterm election,

and yet that wasn't enough.

I guess Tay Tay didn't have

that much sway-sway.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it.

I can't believe that she gets to be

the first female senator in Tennessee

and she's... she's Trump in a wig.

She represents no female interests.

She won by being a female applying

to the kind of female

males want us to be

in a horrendous... 1950s world.

So, for the next two years,

we have to build on what started here.

The first verse I want to be all about,

like, hearing the news.

You know, if you were, like,

a kid who, like, loved Beto

and thought that was the future

of Texas,

or you really thought Stacey Abrams

was gonna win

and you went door-to-door,

trying to make it happen,

and then she still gets beat...

- It didn't happen.

- And it didn't happen.

But it's like, statistically,

you know, we have, what?

Three to four million people turning 18

in the next two years before the next one?

So, it's like...

it's basically saying, like,

"Don't lose hope. Don't get..."

Yeah, your time will come

if you just hang in there.

- Yeah.

♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Can run ♪

What?

I have this idea...

...called "Only the Young."

Play it again.

♪ And I know tonight ♪

♪ Oh, but only the young ♪

♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Can run ♪

- Oh, nice.

- ♪ Only the young ♪

That's basically saying, like, "Resist."

If you can just shift the power

in your direction by being bold enough,

then it won't be like this forever.

- Run. Break away from this.

- Yeah, yeah.

Like, you can run from fascism.

Mmkay, I have a partial verse.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

♪ It keeps me awake

The look on your face ♪

♪ The moment you heard the news ♪

♪ Frozen in time and screaming inside ♪

♪ You did all that you could do ♪

♪ The game was rigged

The ref got tricked ♪

♪ The wrong ones think they're right ♪

♪ And you were outnumbered ♪

- Ooh.

- ♪ This time ♪

- Oh.

- ♪ But only the young ♪

- Yes.

- ♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Can run ♪

Like this, you know.

♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Can run ♪

♪ So, every day now

You brace for the sound ♪

♪ You've only heard on TV ♪

♪ You go to class scared

Wondering where ♪

♪ The best hiding spot would be ♪

♪ And the big bad man

And his big bad clan ♪

♪ Their hands are stained with red ♪

♪ Oh, how quickly you forget ♪

♪ That only the young ♪

♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Can run ♪

♪ So run ♪

♪ And run ♪

I just... I feel really good

about not feeling...

muzzled anymore.

And it was my own doing.

I needed to learn a lot

before I spoke to 200 million people.

But... I've educated myself now,

and it's time to take the masking tape

off of my mouth...

like, forever.

You were really major

at midterms, honey.

Thank you.

If you have anything I can help with,

just let me know.

I think we just need to,

like, really keep talking about it

because we really do need people

to put the pressure on those senators

to pass the Equality Act.

If they are forced to vote on it

and they do vote against it publicly,

then it's really...

then we have their numbers,

you know, for next year.

Literally,

just call me for anything,

'cause you do so many good things

for people.

All right, here we go. And... roll camera.

- Rolling!

- And playback!

I want to love glitter

and also stand up

for the double standards

that exist in our society.

I want to wear pink

and tell you how I feel about politics.

And I don't think that those things

have to cancel each other out.

How long have you been doing this?

About a year.

When I realized

that I really like having cute nails,

but I really can't go in public.

I will die if I get a VMA.

Well, if we win something,

you're definitely first on the list.

I will lose my shit.

You don't understand.

This is one of my favorite manis

I've ever gotten.

I appreciate it.

Give me a good review on Yelp.

I will.

- Swift Nails is the place to go.

- Yeah.

- It looks so good.

- Fuck, yeah.

And the VMA goes to...

Taylor Swift, "You Need to Calm Down."

At the end of this video,

there was a petition,

and there still is a petition...

Whoo!

...for the Equality Act,

which basically just says

we all deserve equal rights

under the law.

And...

I want to thank everyone

who signed that petition

because it now has

half a million signatures, which...

...which is five times the amount

that it would need to warrant a response

from the White House.

♪ Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh ♪

♪ Uh-oh! ♪

♪ You need to calm down ♪

♪ You're being too loud ♪

♪ Like, can you just not step

On our gowns? ♪

♪ You need to calm down ♪

I'm trying to be as educated as possible

on how to respect people,

on how to...

deprogram the misogyny

in my own brain.

Toss it out, reject it, and resist it.

Like, there is no such thing as a slut.

There is no such thing as a bitch.

There is no such thing as someone

who's bossy, there's just a boss.

We don't want to be condemned

for being multifaceted.

- Sorry, that was a real soapbox.

- No.

- Oh, my God, it...

- Why did I say sorry?

- You're just...

- No, it's...

because we're trained to say sorry.

Yeah, we legitimately are. We're, like...

"Sorry, was I loud...

in my own house that I bought

with the songs that I wrote...

about my own life?"

♪ Combat ♪

♪ I'm ready for combat ♪

♪ I say I don't want that ♪

♪ What if I do? ♪

There's nothing that feels better

than this moment.

It's out. It's out on iTunes.

It's out on iTunes.

Oh, my God.

It's out. It's out. It's out.

We're listening to it right now.

This is so cool. Toast to Taylor.

No one is this good and works harder.

If you're that good,

usually you don't work that hard.

- I love you guys all so much.

- We love you.

Yay!

After 13 years of constantly feeling

like I was misunderstood,

knowing that everything that happened

was all gonna turn into this moment is...

fucking awesome.

♪ I ride off all alone ♪

♪ I never grew up ♪

♪ It's getting so old ♪

♪ Let me hold on to you ♪

There's this thing

people say about celebrities,

that they're frozen

at the age they got famous,

and that's kind of what happened to me.

I had a lot of growing up to do,

just trying to catch up to 29.

Just gonna go have fun.

No one out there that I know of

in the audience actively hates me.

Not get dead-faced.

- Have fun the whole time.

- Yeah.

Ready to do this?

- Ready... Totally ready.

- Ready.

May 19th, 2003.

"Oh, I tried to practice my songs,

but I completely psyched myself out

and broke down crying.

I don't know if I can do this.

I want it so bad,

but I get so scared of what might happen.

Relax, I can handle it.

I'm young. I'm talented.

They'll see it in me.

I've got to hang on."

♪ All the king's horses ♪

♪ All the king's men ♪

♪ Couldn't put me together again ♪

♪ 'Cause all of my enemies

Started out friends ♪

♪ Help me hold on to you ♪

♪ I've been the archer ♪

♪ I've been the prey ♪

♪ Who could ever leave me, darling? ♪

♪ But who could stay? ♪

♪ Who could stay? ♪

I wanna still have a sharp pen

and a thin skin

and an open heart.

♪ Combat ♪

♪ I'm ready for combat ♪

♪ It keeps me awake ♪

♪ The look on your face ♪

♪ The moment you heard the news ♪

♪ You're screamin' inside ♪

♪ And frozen in time ♪

♪ You did all that you could do ♪

♪ The game was rigged ♪

♪ The ref got tricked ♪

♪ The wrong ones think they're right ♪

♪ You were outnumbered ♪

♪ This time ♪

♪ But only the young ♪

♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Can run ♪

♪ So run ♪

♪ And run and run ♪

♪ They aren't gonna help us ♪

♪ Too busy helpin' themselves ♪

♪ They aren't gonna change this ♪

♪ We gotta do it ourselves ♪

♪ They think that it's over ♪

♪ But it's just begun ♪

♪ Only one thing can save us ♪

♪ Only the young ♪

- ♪ Only the young ♪

♪ Only the young ♪

Taylor Swift: Miss Americana (2020) - full transcript