TIME Person of the Year 2023 | Taylor Swift - video Dailymotion

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - She's been this sort of light in the world this year.

00:06 She's brought so many people together.

00:08 - Thank you for writing music that expresses feelings

00:11 nobody else can express.

00:13 - It's more of like a community too.

00:15 It's not even just her.

00:16 - It just made me feel like I wasn't alone

00:18 and I wasn't crazy for feeling the way that I was feeling.

00:22 - We grew up together.

00:23 We all went through the same things together.

00:25 - It's a massive stadium

00:26 and it feels like you're with her one-on-one.

00:30 (upbeat music)

00:32 - Friendship bracelets are a huge part of the Heiress Tour.

00:36 - These bracelets are so important.

00:38 - Exchanging special handmade friendship bracelets.

00:41 - It all goes back to Taylor's song,

00:43 You're on Your Own Kick.

00:45 (upbeat music)

00:48 - So my friends and I got tickets to the Heiress Tour.

00:53 We had about 200 bracelets made.

00:57 We just couldn't stop.

00:58 We really just had a good time doing it.

01:00 You realize 200 bracelet was way too many

01:06 for us to all bring and trade.

01:09 Kim actually came up with the idea

01:10 to put them on Etsy and sell them.

01:11 I went to bed, woke up the next morning

01:14 and we had over 300 bracelets on order.

01:17 - I was just refreshing the Etsy page

01:19 and I could see the sales going up.

01:20 It was like five, six, seven.

01:22 I was like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna have to make

01:24 200 bracelets tomorrow morning.

01:26 And then finally like, okay, we shut it down,

01:28 we shut it down.

01:28 We only have to make like 50.

01:30 And we're like, okay, shh, okay, we can do that.

01:32 - 50 back then was so many.

01:34 We weren't expecting to get much money,

01:36 a couple hundred dollars at the most.

01:38 This morning I ran the numbers

01:39 and we're at $19,000 in sales.

01:43 The Heiress Tour is my Roman empire.

01:45 I think about it all the time, every day.

01:48 I hear a song, that's a great bracelet song.

01:50 That's a good thing to put on a bracelet.

01:52 This business definitely keeps us in touch.

01:54 Two of us live in Massachusetts,

01:55 the other two live in Connecticut.

01:57 Now we have to meet up and trade bracelets,

01:59 drop off, talk almost every single day.

02:02 Keep making more songs, Taylor,

02:03 so we can keep making more bracelets.

02:05 - I went to the Reputation Tour.

02:16 That was right next to a security guard.

02:19 So we struck up a conversation

02:21 and he told me about the gig that he has.

02:24 Couple years later I found some free time,

02:26 so I picked up that job,

02:28 ultimately to try and work a Taylor Swift concert.

02:31 - During a sold out show,

02:33 security guard and self-proclaimed Swifty,

02:35 Calvin Dinker, was working on the floor.

02:37 - I worked kind of right along the edge of her stage.

02:41 After night one, I made little pieces of paper

02:44 that asked the audience if they could take photos of me

02:47 with Taylor Swift in the background and text it to me.

02:51 (upbeat music)

02:53 When she came right behind me,

03:05 there were a ton of fans and I had to look at the fans.

03:08 I saw all of their faces light up when she gets near them.

03:11 And it was just a sight,

03:13 even if I wasn't looking at her on that stage.

03:15 (upbeat music)

03:43 So I think the squeal is mom.

03:46 - They had me kneel up on the stage

03:48 and I see Taylor Swift coming toward me.

03:50 - This has become a special moment

03:52 every night at the Heiress Tour.

03:53 Each night Swift picks a young fan

03:55 to give that hat to during the song 22.

03:59 - Everything I do is handmade

04:01 and it's like a beautiful process

04:02 because it's more intimate, my connection with the hat.

04:06 I was already working with Taylor's wardrobe team

04:11 and they approached me to do the classic fedora

04:14 for the video for 22.

04:16 (upbeat music)

04:19 The connection that she has with her fan in that moment,

04:25 it was so emotional for me to see.

04:28 It was so beautiful.

04:29 Taylor has been empowering so many women with her music

04:34 and to me, I've been a part of that.

04:36 Always I'm trying to empower women with my craftsman

04:39 and be together.

04:40 It's so beautiful to me.

04:42 (upbeat music)

04:44 - I always knew from the moment I wanted to propose,

04:58 I wanted to do it at a Taylor Swift concert.

05:00 I just never thought it would happen.

05:03 You know, I was like, what are the logistics of that?

05:05 How long am I willing to wait?

05:07 - It's a once in a lifetime type of thing.

05:09 I was like, okay, I've got to figure out

05:12 how to go in with the ring.

05:13 One, I need to see where exactly in the lyrics

05:16 I have to nail down to, you know, nail it.

05:19 - All I could think of is what is the line

05:21 I need to go down on one knee on.

05:23 (upbeat music)

05:38 - Two to three weeks before the actual date of the tour.

05:41 Yeah, I never told you this.

05:43 I would play the song whenever I would go to work

05:46 and whenever I would come back just to make sure,

05:49 okay, this is the part that I have to nail down.

05:52 (upbeat music)

05:55 (crowd cheering)

05:58 - You got so many different angles of the proposal.

06:14 I have some of them saved as like Swifty section 326.

06:18 - I mean, I've never seen so much brightness

06:21 and glitter around all in one spot.

06:24 I've never been a part of such a supportive community

06:28 like that.

06:29 - I just knew that when I proposed to Nick,

06:34 I needed Taylor to be a part of it

06:36 because she's been such a momentous,

06:39 impactful person for Nick his whole life.

06:41 And as much as I love her too,

06:45 it just felt like this is something

06:47 I want Nick to remember forever.

06:48 I want everything he loves to be a part of the experience.

06:52 - I love her.

06:53 - She's been there on the hardest days of my life

07:01 and she's been there for the best days of my life.

07:04 (upbeat music)

07:06 - For her to be able to successfully relate

07:15 to so many people in the way that she has, it's amazing.

07:19 (upbeat music)

07:22 [MUSIC]

TIME Person of the Year 2023 | Taylor Swift

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