I was looking at this crowd, and Iâm knowing that we probably have a lot of people here tonight who live in or around Boston Massachusetts. But I know we probably also have a lot of people who traveled from other states to be here. I um, I look out at this crowd and the crazy thing is, I can see every single person. Like with this tour. The thing about this tour that is so over whelming for me and um, you know, Iâve been lucky to get to play stadiums before, but this tour, I can see every single person, and if you think that I canât, thatâs not true. I can see every person, youâre all illuminated, and highlighted. You know a crowd of 60,000 people is a magical thing no matter what, but itâs absolutely breath taking for me being able to look out and see just how many individuals that is, and when Iâm looking at you, and I see that it makes me think about my crowd not as a kind of, um, a loud, dark entity. Itâs a group of individuals, and when I start thinking about that is when I really start thinking, and I start thinking about how every single person here is going through your own set of circumstances in your life. Things that scare you, things you regret, things that youâre so excited about, things that have happened to you in the past, things that youâre scared of happening in the future. Um, you know, every single person here has lost somebody, and maybe even very recently. Um. maybe, maybe there are so many people here tonight who have gotten their heart broken, or felt betrayed, by a friend. Or lost someone they never thought they would have to say goodbye to. Maybe we have people here tonight, who fell in love with a habit that was bad for them, and they had the hardest time in the world quitting, and every single day is a struggle not to go back, to that bad relationship, or that bad habit, or that bad addiction. Whatever it is, every single person here tonight, has something that they overcame and overlooked, and did not dwell on in order to get out of bed, put on clothes, and be at this concert tonight. Keep that in mind when you are next to someone in line, keep that in mind if youâre dancing next to someone who is here by themselves. Keep that in mind if you are out in the world, and for one second that you forget that everyone is struggling with something. I think that we need to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt more, and we need to give other people the benefit of the doubt more, and I just wanted to say that if you are going through something right now, or have in the past, and you listened to my music in that moment, I look at that as the highest honor in the world, and I will never be able to thank you. I think a lot of the time, we are so hard on ourselves because we look at our lives and we compare our lives to other peoples lives. We look at every mistake weâve ever made in our life, and we hold it against ourselves. We look at it like itâs a mark against our record, well guess what? There is no record. Thatâs not how it works. Making mistakes is part of your life, and youâre going to do it over and over and over again. Be kind to yourself, please. You have been there for every single lesson I have ever learned. Publicly or privately, in the last 10 years of my life, and one thing I can tell you is that the mistakes that you will make, do not make you damaged. They make you wiser, if you take something from them, and I just want you to know that. That if you feel like life is raining down on you over and over and over again, I need you to know that, that does not make you tarnished. Walking through a bunch of rainstorms and continuing to go on with your life, that makes you the opposite of damaged or tarnished, that makes you stronger, wiser, smarter, and ultimately, I think it makes you clean. Please sing this one with me, Boston.
Taylor Swiftâs Clean speech, Foxborough MA, Night 2, July 25th 2015
This speech was one of the biggest eye openers for me and I will never be able to thank Taylor enough. So I wanted to type it out and post it on here so it can help other people like it helped me, also so I can read it whenever Iâm feeling down on myself. Thank you again Taylor.
