Taylor Swift Is ‘Moved Beyond Words’ After Receiving Songwriter-Artist Of The Decade Award
21.09.2022 - 19:47
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Taylor Swift is the Songwriter of the Decade!
The “Red” singer was granted the honorary Songwriter-Artist of the Decade Award by the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) during Tuesday night’s annual NSAI Songwriter Awards.
In true Swift fashion, her speech was exactly 13 minutes long. She touched upon her songwriting approach, re-recording her first six albums and the extended 10-minute version of “All Too Well” — the track that caused a frenzy among Swifties ever since it was released last year.
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“I’m up here receiving this beautiful award for a decade of work, and I can’t possibly explain how nice that feels. Because the way I see it, this is an award that celebrates a culmination of moments,” Swift said during her speech, according to Pitchfork.
“Challenges. Gauntlets laid down. Albums I’m proud of. Triumphs. Strokes of luck or misfortune. Loud, embarrassing errors and the subsequent recovery from those mistakes, and the lessons learned from all of it,” she continued.
“This award celebrates my family and my co-writers and my team. My friends and my fiercest fans and my harshest detractors and everyone who entered my life or left it. Because when it comes to my songwriting and my life, they are one and the same.”
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Part of Swift’s songwriting process involves categorizing her lyrics into three distinct genres — “quill”, “fountain pen” and “glitter gel” — based “on what writing tool I imagine having in my hand when I scribbled it down,” she revealed.
Swift explained: “Quill” lyrics are