Taylor Swift Bursts Out Laughing After Singing About Forgiving Kanye West

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00:00 forgiveness is a nice thing to do.

00:05 [laughter]

00:09 Taylor Swift can't help but laugh about her feud with Kanye West.

00:13 During the Saturday night Seattle stop of her Aeros tour over the weekend,

00:18 the 33-year-old singer surprised the audience and performed her song "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things"

00:24 from her Reputation album, which is widely believed to be about her beef with the rapper

00:30 and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

00:32 After singing the line "Here's to you, 'cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do,"

00:37 Taylor let out a huge chuckle and the crowd cheered along.

00:40 Here's to you, 'cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do.

00:49 [laughter]

00:53 The Karma songstress then paused to recover and said one last thing alluding to how the song

00:59 and the situation still gets to her and makes her laugh.

01:02 [cheering]

01:14 I'm gonna say it with a straight face.

01:17 This is why we can't have nice things.

01:21 Taylor's laugh and poignant line are both featured on the original recording of the song

01:25 from her 2017 album, which came on the heels of a fresh dust-up in her feud with Kanye.

01:32 In 2016, the 46-year-old rapper released his song "Famous," where he says he made the "Love Song"

01:37 singer quote "famous" and referred to her as a quote "that b*tch" in the lyrics.

01:43 Kanye claimed at the time that he had Taylor's permission to mention her in the song,

01:47 which she denied.

01:48 Then the Skim's founder, who was married to Ye at the time, released a recording of the

01:52 conversation, in which Taylor apparently does say the lyrics are okay, and called the singer

01:57 a quote "snake" on social media, tweeting on July 17, 2016, "Wait, it's legit national snake day?

02:05 They have holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days."

02:09 With a million snake emojis.

02:11 Taylor then embraced the snake label and used snakes in her tour and promotional imagery

02:16 for her Reputation release and tour.

02:19 Nothing and no one can stop the "Bad Blood" singer though, as she kicked off her heiress

02:22 tour back in March, and has been delivering an epic three-hour concert, stop after stop,

02:28 ever since.

02:29 Taylor has always put a lot of thought into her work as a way to give back to her fans.

02:33 Access Hollywood's Scott Evans spoke to her back in November 2021 at the premiere of her

02:38 short film "All Too Well," and she explained why she loves planning things secretly for her fans.

02:45 "And you woke up and chose violence today with this suit. I see you lady, I see you. Come on now.

02:50 I mean you have to, listen, violent velvet, right? Violence. But then when you hear the fans

02:58 singing the song, it's really got my heart expanding. Right? It's insane. I love them so

03:04 much and this, that's what all this is about. Like, I'm just so glad they're having fun. I just

03:09 want them to have fun this week. Yes. Because they filled my life with a lot of fun. Joy and

03:14 everything. Tell me, singing these songs this time around, right? I've heard you say that you

03:20 cried through a lot of the press the first time you were promoting "Red," right? Like it was tough.

03:26 Yeah.

03:26 And now, right? And now I wonder when you were back in the studio singing the songs this time,

03:32 did you have that same feeling or were you kind of in a different headspace?

03:35 I think recording it, really it was going back and trying to create as authentic a replica of

03:44 the originals as I possibly could. With songs on the original album, I wanted them to sound

03:50 exactly alike. Then with the vault tracks, I wanted to be as creative as I possibly could.

03:56 So these are songs that no one's heard before, so I wanted them to be the best version.

03:59 These are the first impressions of these songs. So they're singing so loud. I love them so much.

04:04 It's so good, right?

04:05 It's beautiful.

04:06 Okay, so this song is one of, like everybody talks about it being one of their favorites.

04:11 You did a 10-minute short film. It's like written and directed by... Okay. How did it feel

04:18 to be on that set knowing that this was a story that you were going to tell,

04:23 mainly to be a gift to all of these people who've made it something so special?

04:27 Oh, it really just was wonderful because when you have a secret,

04:30 like I love planning things secretly for them because they're so rewarding. They do this.

04:36 Right. They show up.

04:37 They do this. And like it's so rewarding to surprise. I can't believe they care that much

04:41 honestly still.

04:42 Okay, listen, they care a whole lot. I've been online looking at some of the Easter egg and

04:46 the connections that they've made. The one that killed me was Dylan and Sadie's age difference.

04:51 They were like, "Okay, no, there's a secret somewhere in there. There's a secret somewhere

04:55 in there." Are they reading too much into?

04:57 They are. They're the best detectives in the world. I love watching their theories too.

05:02 I love looking at... I like scroll TikTok, like watching their theories so often all the time.

05:08 Oh, I love that.

05:09 So I love to just watch what they come up with because they're brilliant.

05:13 And also sometimes I'm very into numerology.

05:15 Sometimes they find things I didn't even plan.

05:20 Really?

05:20 Math.

05:20 Okay.

05:22 95% of the time I'm planning it, but there are some times when they're like,

05:26 "The math." And I'm like, "Oh my God, the math."

05:30 I did.

05:30 [Music]

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