Taylor Swift

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.

Taylor Swift received an honorary doctorate from New York University, making her commencement speaker debut to the school's graduating class.

The people who want it most are the people I now hire to work for my company.” And I wouldn’t know because I have been a lot of things but I’ve never been an expert on ‘chic.’ But I’m the one who’s up here so you have to listen to me when I say this: Never be ashamed of trying. “Being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful but it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute by minute, ever fluctuating social relevance and likability. “These mistakes will cause you to lose things. It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of ‘unbothered ambivalence.’ This outlook perpetuates the idea that it’s not cool to ‘want it.’” “No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep, and what things to release. It was all centred around the idea that mistakes equal failure and ultimately, the loss of any chance at a happy or rewarding life.” You get to pick what your life has time and room for. “Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go. “This has not been my experience,” she declared. “Not a single one of us here today has done it alone,” she said.

Eleven-time Grammy winner Taylor swift has received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from New York University, earning herself a new title: "doctor".

She then went on to share “life hacks” with the graduates, telling them to “live alongside cringe”. This outfit is much more comfortable,” she joked. “As a kid, I always thought I would go away to college, imaging the posters I would hang on the wall of my freshman dorm.”

From Fifty Shades to New Girl, we're singing along to the best movie and TV moments featuring Swift's music.

Her roommate Nick came in and started wackily dancing to “22” as she cried with wine in hand. Although it only played during the credits, if you were a fan, you remember how memorable this release was to the movie and Swift’s growth as an artist. Along with soundtracking a lot of primarily sweet moments in movies and television, a Taylor Swift song also notably came on in 2015 disaster movie San Andreas right before a woman nearly fell to her death. More recently, Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” made a surprise appearance on the opening credits of Killing Eve, which Swift had been vocal about being a huge fan of previously. In an adorable moment that wraps up the movie, her original song “Today Was A Fairytale” plays. From her roots in country with her debut single “Tim McGraw,” to expanding to pop with 1989 almost a decade later, to her recent work that leans towards indie-folk, the singer has amassed a huge collection of songs.

Taylor Swift has received an honorary doctorate from New York University and told graduates to 'never be ashamed of trying'.

Swift shared advice with the class of 2022 but warned that “I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do. “I never got to have a normal college experience per se. “As long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep and breathe out.

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.

"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.

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.

Taylor Swift has Grammys galore and now she has a new title: "doctor". The superstar received an honorary...

I am a doctor now so I know how breathing works." Swift shared advice with the class of 2022 but warned that "I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do. "I never got to have a normal college experience per se.

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.