Shadowing-Übung: Taylor Swift Accepts Woman of the Decade Award | Women In Music - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube
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absolutely love this one right This is sort of a,
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it's not a short speech, Um, So just, I don't want this to slip.
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and break, because it's very important to me.
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Thank you so much.
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She's so supportive.
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We all need someone like that.
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I'm Taylor, good evening.
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I want to first thank Billboard from the bottom of my heart for this honor for, whoa, this is going great so far.
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Excellent.
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Okay.
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I want to say thank you so much to Billboard for giving me this honor.
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for naming me as their woman.
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of the decade.
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So what does it mean to be the woman of this decade.
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Well, Thank you.
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It means I've seen a lot.
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When this decade began, I was 20 years old.
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And I had put out my self -titled debut album when i was 16.
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and than the album that would become my breakthrough album, which was called Fearless.
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and I saw that there was a world of music and experience beyond country music that I was really curious about.
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I saw "Pop stations send my songs love story,
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"and you belong with me to number one for the first time." And I saw that as a female in this industry,
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some people will always have slight reservations about you.
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whether you deserve to be there.
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whether your male producer or co -writer is the reason for your success.
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or whether it was a savvy record label.
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It wasn't.
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I saw that people love to explain away a woman's success in the music industry.
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and I saw something in me change due to this realization.
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This was the decade when I became a mirror from my detractors.
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whatever they decided I couldn't do, is exactly what I did.
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Oh, I'll take it.
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Thanks.
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Whatever they criticized about me became material for musical satires or inspirational anthems.
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And the best lyrical examples I can think of are songs like Mean shake it off and blank space.
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Basically if people had something to say about me, I usually said something back in my own way.
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And this reflex dictated more than just my lyrics.
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when fearless did win Album of the Year at the Grammys.
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and I did become the youngest solo artist to ever win the award.
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with that win came
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criticism in backlash in 2010
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that i'd never experienced before as a young new artist all of a sudden people had doubts about my singing voice, Was it strong enough?
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was I-- a little bit pitchy, all of a sudden they weren't sure if I was the one writing the songs because
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Sometimes in the past I had had co -writers in the room Um...
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At that time, I couldn't understand why this wave of harsh criticism had hit me so hard.
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Um, I believe a popular headline.
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back then was a swift backlash.
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which is clever, you gotta give it to them.
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And now I realize that
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This is just what happens to a woman in music if she achieves success or power beyond people's comfort level.
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I now have come to expect that with good news, comes some sort of pushback.
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But, I didn't know that then.
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So then I decided that I would be the only songwriter on my third album, Speak Now.
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I was a little bit older than I was work on my vocals every day, and perfect my stamina in a live show.
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"I decided I would be what they said I couldn't be.
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I didn't know then that soon enough people would decide on something else I wasn't quite doing right, and then the circle would keep going on and on and rolling along,
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and I would keep accommodating.
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overcorrecting in an effort to appease my critics.
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They're saying I'm dating too much in my 20s.
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Okay, I'll stop.
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I'll just be single. for years.
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Now they're saying my album Red is filled with too many breakup songs?
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Okay, um, okay, I'll make one about moving to New York
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and deciding that really my life is more fun with just my friends.
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Oh, they're saying my music is changing too much for me to stay in country music.
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All right.
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Okay, here's an entire genre shift and a pop album called 1989.
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You heard it?
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Sick.
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Now it's that I'm showing you too many pictures of me with my friends.
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Okay.
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I can stop doing that too.
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Now I'm actually a calculated manipulator rather than a smart businesswoman?
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"Okay, I'll disappear from public view." for years.
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Now I'm being cast as a villain to you.
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Okay, here's an album called reputation and there are lots of snakes everywhere.
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I Thank you.
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In the last 10 years, I have watched as women in this industry are criticized, and measured up to each other and picked at for their bodies, their romantic lives, their fashion.
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Or have you ever heard someone say about a male artist, I really like his songs, but I don't know what it is.
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There's just something about him I don't like.
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No. That criticism is reserved for us.
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But you know, I've learned that the difference between those who can continue to create in that climate, usually comes down to this.
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Who lets that scrutiny break them?
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and who just keeps making art.
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I've watched as one of my favorite artists of this decade, Lana Del Rey.
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was Ruthly criticized.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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We have similar tastes.
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I like it.
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Thank you.
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She was ruthlessly criticized in her early career, and then slowly but surely she turned into in my opinion, the most influential artist in pop.
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Her vocal stylings, her lyrics, her aesthetics, they've been echoed and repurposed in every corner of music.
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And this year, her incredible album, is nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys because she just kept making art.
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And that example should inspire all of us.
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that the only way forward is forward motion.
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that we shouldn't let obstacles like criticism slow down the creative forces that drive us.
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"and I see that fire in the newer faces "in our music industry.
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"whose work I absolutely love." I see it in Lizzo.
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Rosalia, Tayla Parks, Hailey Kiyoko, King Princess.
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"Camila Cabello, Halsey, Megan Thee Stallion,
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Princess Nokia, Nina Nesbitt, Sigrid, Normani, her, Maggie Rogers.
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Becky G.
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Dua Lipa, Ella Mai.
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Billie Eilish, and so many other amazing women who are making music right now.
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Female artists and music have dominated this decade in growth, streaming, record and ticket sales, and critical acclaim.
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So why are we doing so well?
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because we have to grow fast.
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We have to work this hard.
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We have to prove that we deserve this.
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and we have to top our last achievements.
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Women in Music, on stage, or behind the scenes are not allowed to coast.
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We are held at a higher, sometimes impossible feeling standard.
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And it seems that my fellow female artists have taken this challenge and they have accepted it.
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It seems like the pressure that could have crushed us.
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made us into diamonds instead.
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And what didn't kill us actually did make us stronger.
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But we need to keep advocating for women in the recording studios,
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behind the mixing board, in A &R meetings because rather than fighting to be taken seriously in their fields, these women are still struggling to even have a chance to be in the room.
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We now find ourselves fully immersed in a vast frontier that wasn't around last decade.
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And that is the streaming world.
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In music, we're always walking hand in hand with technology.
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And sometimes that is so awesome, like how now we're able to just drop a song that we made yesterday.
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I've spoken out in the past about the future of revenue flow for creators
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and the songwriters and producers who are being left behind due to these rapid shifts and changes.
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I still don't think that record contracts or producers agreements have fully caught up.
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And I hope that in the next decade, we can keep searching for the right solution for producers, songwriters, and creators.
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Don't you?
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Lately, there's been a new shift that has affected me personally.
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and that I feel is a potentially harmful force in our industry.
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And as your resident loud person, I feel the need to bring it up.
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And that is the unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying up our music as if it is real estate.
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as if it's an app.
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or a shoe line.
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"This just happened to me without my approval,
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"consultation, or consent." "after I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog.
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was sold to Scooter Bronze Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I'm told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital, and the Carlisle group. yet.
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To this day, None of these investors have ever bothered to contact me or my team directly.
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to perform their due diligence on their investment.
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on their investment in me.
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to ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art.
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the music I wrote.
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the videos I created.
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photos of me.
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my handwriting.
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my album designs.
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And of course, Scooter never contacted me or my team to discuss it, prior to the sale or even when it was announced.
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I'm fairly certain he knew exactly how I would feel about it though.
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"and let me just say that the definition of the toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying, but he's always been nice to me.
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I'm not going to be a part of my life.
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I'm not going to be a part of my life And of course he's nice to you.
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If you're in this room, you have something he needs.
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The fact is that private equity is what enabled this man to think, according to his own social media post,
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that he could by me. But I'm...
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Obviously not going willingly.
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Thank you.
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Yet the most amazing thing was to discover that it would be the women in our industry who would have my back.
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and show me the most vocal support at one of the most difficult times.
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And I will never, ever forget it.
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Like, ever.
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But to conclude, I will say that in 10 years, I've seen forward steps in our industry.
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in our awareness.
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our inclusion, our ability to start calling out on fairness.
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misconduct.
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I've seen the advent of social media, the way it can boost the breakthrough of emerging artists.
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And I've seen fans become more engaged and supportive than ever before.
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I've leaned on that support.
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And it has kept me in a place where, no matter what, I always wanted to keep making music for them.
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"I was up on a stage in New York City in 2014, "accepting Billboard Woman of the Year, And I was talking about the future of streaming.
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how we needed to make sure that the female artists, writers and producers of the next generation were protected and compensated fairly.
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This was before my record deal with Universal last year
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that would contractually guarantee that the artists on their roster be paid upon any sale of their Spotify shares.
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unrecoupable.
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So thank you for that.
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The speech I'm referring to was on my 25th birthday.
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I'm about to turn 30 tonight.
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Woo!
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But my exact quote during this speech was:
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I really just feel like we need to continue to try to offer something to a younger generation of musicians.
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because somewhere right now, your future woman of the years, probably sitting in a piano lesson or in a girls choir.
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And today, right now, We need to take care of her.
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I've since learned that at that exact moment,
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an 11 -year -old girl in California really was taking piano lessons and really was in a girls' choir.
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And this year she has been named Woman of the Year at the age of 17 Her name is Billie.
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Thank you.
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Those are the stories we need to think about every day
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as we do our jobs within this industry the ones where people's dreams come true
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and they get to create music and play it for people
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and the ones where fans feel a connection to music that makes their day easier "makes their night more fun, "makes their love feel more sacred,
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or their heartache, feel less isolating.
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the ones where all of you in this room
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stand as an example for someone else in the next generation who loves the same thing that we love.
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Music.
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And no matter what else enters the conversation, we will always bring it back. to music.
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And as for me, lately I've been focusing less on doing what they say I can't do.
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and more on doing whatever the hell I want.
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Thank you for a magnificent, happy, free, confused, sometimes lonely, but mostly golden decade I'm honored to be here tonight.
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I feel very lucky to be with you.
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Thank you so much.
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Wichtiger Wortschatz & Phrasen
- Worthy of being there – es wert, da zu sein
- Backlash – Rückschlag, negative Reaktion
- Self-titled Debut Album – selbstbetiteltes Debütalbum
- Criticism – Kritik
- Stamina in a live show – Ausdauer bei Live-Auftritten
- Mirror for my detractors – Spiegel für meine Kritiker
- Calculated manipulator – kalkulierter Manipulator
- Breakup songs – Trennungslieder
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