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next is a young woman who moved from Nashville to New York this year and seems bent on global domination her parents named her after James Taylor and her fans are called Swifties if you haven't guessed her name by now you are clearly living under a very large rock one magazine headline set at best Taylor Swift is the music industry [Music] you could say there was one song this year that you just couldn't shake off shake it off Taylor Swift's giant hit single off a giant hit album 1989 1989 sold over a million copies its first week unheard of these days and was the only album to go platinum in 2014 the one time teen country singer became a pop powerhouse this year a one-woman exception to the rules that in the digital age artists cannot make money selling records this is your first album of all pop songs are you at all worried that you will lose some of the country fans I am not worried about that I'm really in touch with my fans and I know what they like what my fans in general were afraid of was that I would make start making pop music and I would stop writing smart lyrics or I would stop writing emotional lyrics and when they heard the new music they realized that that wasn't the case at all Taylor's success is based in her close relationship with her fans they're called Swifty's they see themselves in her and she sees herself in them your fans feel so personal about you I mean you're the only one I know who invites people back into your house you still do that yeah I decided that I wanted to play this entire album for the fans long before it came out I wanted it to be like this little secret society gatherings and living rooms and so I decided to have them in my houses because 89 fans waiting in the entire 1989 records want to come up with as many ways that we can spend time together and bond because it keeps me normal it keeps my life feeling manageable is your life at all normal no no not at all and that's why when I go online and I go on Instagram and I see you know a post from Emma who lives in Philadelphia and she's talking about how her day was at school that day that helps me you still do that it's the only thing that keeps me not feeling overwhelmed by the abnormality of my life what's the most abnormal the most abnormal thing about my life is having sort of crowds theorem everywhere you go and just everywhere so that starts happening and then you have to take security everywhere you go all of a sudden you realize that you have not been alone truly for five years kayla has been a star writing and singing her own songs from the time she was 16 when her first country music album debut [Music] [Applause] this is definitely the highlight of my senior year since then she's won just about every music award there is going up [Music] her autobiographical songs deal with the problems of growing up and having or not having relationships [Music] but while her founds identified critics have accused her of being too autobiographical if a God shares his experience in writing he's brave if a woman shares her experience in writing she's over sharing and she's she's over emotional or she might be crazy or watch out she'll write a song about you yeah well that's joke is there is that that joke is so old and it's it's coming from a place of such sexism [Music] as she has become more famous so have the boyfriends or four hits our chronicle of high-profile relationships that blossom wither die and then get turned into song lyrics but just as so music has changed so has your attitude towards romance and I'll write your name it seems like when I moved to New York love and heartbreak and all the things that used to be main main factors in my music kind of fade it to the background of course love is still very interesting to me as a writer but it's a writer not as a beautiful young woman all right now no I just like I just really happy and I'm really protective of that [Music] don't you want boys and boys and girls and girls [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 6min 16sec (376 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 15 2014