当地时间5月18日,纽约大学举行2022年毕业典礼,泰勒斯威夫特作为荣誉博士学位获得者代表发表了演讲。她通过分享自己的成长经历,进而鼓励了疫情下的大学生。
I said to you earlier that I don't ever offer advice unless someone asks me for it, and now I'll tell you why.
As a person who started my very public career at the age of 15, it came with a price.
And that price was years of unsolicited advice.
Being the youngest person in every room for over a decade meant that I was constantly being issued warnings from older members of the music industry, the media, interviewers, executives.
This advice often presented itself as thinly veiled warnings.
See, I was a teenager at a time when our society was absolutely obsessed with the idea of having perfect young female role models.
It felt like every interview I did included slight barbs by the interviewer about me one day 'running off the rails.'
And that meant a different thing to everyone person who said it me.
So I became a young adult while being fed the message that if I didn't make any mistakes, all the children of America would grow up to be perfect angels.
However, if I did slip up, the entire earth would fall off its axis and it would be entirely my fault and I would go to pop star jail forever and ever.
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