When Taylor Swift entered this decade as a 20-year-old, curly-haired and fresh-eyed country singer, little did she know the monumental accomplishments she would achieve by the time she was 30.
In ten years, the country-singer-turned-pop-artist has spearheaded the feminist movement within the male-dominated music industry. So it’s no surprise that Swift was awarded Billboard’s Woman of the Decade Award.
On Thursday night (U.S. time), on the eve of her 30th birthday, Swift accepted the award by giving a 15-minute speech, in which she chronicled her experience as a successful woman in the music industry.
Here are the three best moments.
The double standards applied to female artists.
Swift said that in the last ten years, she has “seen a lot”.
“I saw that as a female in this industry, some people will always have slight reservations about you. Whether you deserve to be there, whether your male producer or co-writer is the reason for your success, or whether it was a savvy record label. It wasn’t.
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What a whinger. I watched the doco about Linda Rondstadt the other night - what a an awe inspiring artist she was and still is. She now has Parkinson's Disease (or some other even more shocking palsy disorder), but at no time did she complain about the hard road to her success. The dignity (when interviewed) she displayed when it was pretty obvious the disease is taking a terrrible toll, was both awe inspiring and heart breaking.
But Taylor is a victim of everything! Nothing is ever her fault!