The YEAR of Taylor Swift _ 2023
The YEAR of Taylor Swift _ 2023
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00:00 ♪ Are you ready for it? ♪
00:01 ♪ I'm drunk and people wrecking cars ♪
00:03 ♪ And I'm crying like a baby ♪
00:05 ♪ Filling up my car ♪
00:06 ♪ I'm losing my mind but it wasn't true ♪
00:09 ♪ Love you ain't the worst thing you could do ♪
00:13 - Reaching billionaire status,
00:15 landing Times Person of the Year,
00:16 dropping two albums,
00:18 releasing the highest grossing concert movie of all time,
00:21 setting the all-time record for most listeners
00:23 of any artist,
00:24 and embarking on a 150-stop tour and counting,
00:28 it's not hard to see why 2023 was the year of Taylor Swift.
00:32 - Really?
00:33 How'd I do that?
00:34 (crowd cheering)
00:36 - Welcome to the Aries Tour.
00:39 - Miss Americana embarked on the legendary
00:41 and ongoing Aries Tour in March, 2023.
00:44 - People would come up to me and they'd be like,
00:46 "You're gonna just like do a show
00:47 with like all the albums in it?"
00:49 And I was like, "Yeah, it's gonna be called the Aries Tour.
00:53 See you there."
00:54 - It's reported North American ticket sales alone
00:56 broke $2.2 billion.
00:58 - It's just unbelievable.
01:00 - Her impact is seismic, literally.
01:02 - There's so many moving parts to this.
01:05 - During her Seattle stop,
01:06 Swifties caused seismic activity equivalent
01:08 to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake,
01:11 attributed to a booming sound system
01:13 and jumping, dancing, and cheering fans.
01:16 ♪ Best believe I'm still bejeweled ♪
01:18 ♪ When I walk in the room ♪
01:19 ♪ I can still make the whole place shimmer ♪
01:22 - It's true, just ask the bead section of any craft store.
01:25 - From local businesses, hospitality, clothing sales,
01:28 friendship bracelets, and transportation,
01:30 the Aries Tour is predicted to boost the economy
01:33 by $4.6 billion.
01:34 - I've just never been this happy in my life
01:38 in all aspects of my life, ever before.
01:41 (audience cheering)
01:44 And I just wanna thank you for being a part of that.
01:51 Like, you know,
01:55 I don't know.
01:56 It's not just the tour, it's like, I don't know.
01:59 I just sort of feel like my life
02:01 finally feels like it makes sense.
02:03 - And little did we know, a blossoming relationship
02:06 with Travis Kelce was about to take the stage.
02:08 - You made her a bracelet?
02:09 - Yeah.
02:10 - Out of what?
02:11 - If you're up on Taylor Swift concerts,
02:13 there are friendship bracelets,
02:14 and I received a bunch of them being there,
02:17 but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one
02:19 with my number on it.
02:20 - The NFL pro shot his shot,
02:21 and the two became an item soon after.
02:24 ♪ It's me, high ♪
02:26 - And when Taylor started attending
02:28 Kansas City Chiefs games to support her other half,
02:31 viewership spiked too.
02:33 NBC reported an approximate increase
02:35 of more than two million female viewers.
02:37 - It's just a lot of a lot.
02:39 - If we really wanna talk numbers,
02:41 let's discuss the highest grossing concert film ever.
02:45 - Hi.
02:46 You're stuck with me,
02:48 'cause I'm gonna, like, sit with you and watch this thing.
02:51 (audience cheering)
02:54 But I just, before we do that,
02:56 I wanted to say thank you
02:59 for wanting to spend your evening with us.
03:01 Like, this is,
03:03 this is honestly, let's say,
03:05 this is a core memory for me.
03:08 And this tour,
03:10 let me just preface by saying
03:13 I've always had fun doing this.
03:15 I can't believe music is my career.
03:18 That's crazy to me.
03:20 Like, I've always loved it.
03:23 I've never had a fraction of the amount of fun
03:27 I had on the Aries Tour before ever.
03:31 - Taylor announced her accompanying
03:32 Aries Tour concert film in August,
03:35 which, side note, caused eight studio movies
03:37 to shift their release dates
03:38 to avoid competing with her at the box office.
03:41 - I love it.
03:42 - It released on October 13th,
03:44 grossed over $1 billion,
03:46 and landed her a Golden Globe nomination
03:48 for cinematic and box office achievement.
03:51 My fellow performers on the stage,
03:53 the dancers, the band, my backing vocalists,
03:57 they would go out on stage every single night
04:00 in sickness or in health,
04:04 in any weather conditions we would face,
04:07 regardless of what was going on in our lives.
04:11 We pranced on that stage grinning
04:14 because of what met us on the other side,
04:17 and that was you.
04:18 It's how much you cared about it.
04:20 Like, that was absolutely everything.
04:25 So I think you'll see that you absolutely
04:29 are our main characters in this film
04:31 because that's what made the tour magical.
04:34 That's what made it different
04:35 than anything I've ever done in my life
04:36 is your attention to detail,
04:39 your preparation, your passion, your intensity.
04:42 Like, you cared so much about these shows
04:47 and that made all the difference for us.
04:51 It made us wanna add even more shows
04:53 and just keep doing the tour.
04:55 And I think that I just have never felt this way
05:00 about anything, the way that I feel about this experience
05:06 that we have had and continue to have.
05:08 So I am so proud of, I wanna say,
05:11 like, my management team, 13 Management,
05:14 are the most amazing people that,
05:16 (audience cheering)
05:18 I'm so lucky to get to work alongside
05:21 such incredible, innovative,
05:23 and just such efficient, wonderful, passionate people.
05:28 And they care about you guys just as much as I do.
05:31 So I am so proud of this film.
05:36 Sam Wrench is our amazing director.
05:39 He's absolutely incredible.
05:40 (audience cheering)
05:42 We had an amazing team of just camera operators
05:47 and editors and everyone in post-production.
05:49 And I am so honored by all of their work
05:53 and their dedication to this.
05:54 And I think I'll just watch it with you now.
05:58 (audience cheering)
05:59 So let's have a blast, guys.
06:02 Thank you for coming.
06:03 All the while, the mastermind was working behind the scenes
06:06 to reclaim her music catalog,
06:08 releasing two more re-recorded albums.
06:11 ♪ I can see you, love, you got so low key ♪
06:15 ♪ What would you do, baby, if you only knew ♪
06:20 ♪ Yeah, I can see you, love, you jackin' on the floor ♪
06:25 Speak Now, Taylor's version, released on July 7th,
06:30 and 1989, Taylor's version, dropped on October 27th,
06:34 the latter becoming the best-selling album of 2023.
06:38 I just have a great time with these things.
06:40 I wouldn't wanna do this
06:42 if I didn't have 100% control over what I wear,
06:45 what my message is, what my lyrics are,
06:49 what songs I sing on stage, the set list,
06:51 the flow of the show.
06:52 I wouldn't wanna do this
06:54 if it was up to somebody else to decide that,
06:56 because if we succeeded and we had an amazing tour,
07:00 it would be somebody else's vision that got us there.
07:02 And if it failed, I'd be really mad.
07:03 I'd be like, "Why didn't you let me make those choices?"
07:06 With new vault tracks, re-releases,
07:08 and a one, two, three, let's go to rehearse,
07:11 Swifties boosted Taylor's all-time record
07:13 for the most listeners for any artist in a year.
07:16 She was the year-end top artist of 2023
07:18 on the Billboard charts,
07:20 and most-streamed artist on Apple Music and Spotify.
07:23 This is a special message from me to you,
07:26 basically a thank-you note.
07:28 Honestly, it looks like you listened
07:29 to a lot of my music this year.
07:31 Doesn't matter which era you were listening to,
07:33 I'm very, very grateful to be on your Spotify raft.
07:36 It's all the fans, you know?
07:38 I just put the song out.
07:40 They're the ones who broke the record.
07:41 So that's what's amazing.
07:43 It's easy to see how all of this made 2023
07:46 the year of Taylor Allison Swift.
07:49 ♪ He looks so pretty like he never is ♪
07:51 ♪ You shake me up when he's blue ♪
07:55 ♪ Feel it, I'm coming in through ♪
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