Taylor Swift's Triumph Over Adversity
Taylor Swift reflects on the mental impact of her feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Hear how she overcame career death. #TaylorSwift #KanyeWest #KimKardashian #CelebrityFeud #CareerStruggles
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00:00 Taylor Swift once felt her entire career being taken away.
00:02 Taylor Swift reflected on the mental impact of her beef with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
00:06 Particularly surrounding the 2016 famous phone call and lyric controversy, Taylor described
00:11 the incident and public reaction as feeling like career death, which took a significant
00:15 psychological toll on her.
00:17 She emphasized that she felt like her career was taken away from her due to the incident.
00:20 Taylor recounted how the edited phone call released by Kim Kardashian led the public
00:24 to view her as a liar, deeply affecting her mental state, and the incident led Taylor
00:28 to isolate herself.
00:29 She moved to a foreign country and avoided public interactions and phone calls.
00:33 And the backlash from this feud influenced her revenge-themed album, Reputation, in 2017,
00:38 which had a lot of mixed reactions.
00:39 Taylor Swift learned to focus on her craft as a response to these challenges.
00:43 She also mentioned not actively trying to defeat her enemies, stating that "trash
00:47 takes itself out every single time."
00:49 How do public controversies shape the career of celebrities?
00:51 And what does it take for an artist like Taylor Swift to rise above the turmoil?