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TIME Person of the Year 2023 | Taylor Swift
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12/6/2023
Since 1927, TIME has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors’ assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.
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- She's been this sort of light in the world this year.
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She's brought so many people together.
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- Thank you for writing music that expresses feelings
00:11
nobody else can express.
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- It's more of like a community too.
00:15
It's not even just her.
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- 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
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and it feels like you're with her one-on-one.
00:30
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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,
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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)
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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.
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- 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)
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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
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