Taylor Swift Bursts Out Laughing After Singing About Forgiving Kanye West
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00:00 forgiveness is a nice thing to do.
00:05 [laughter]
00:09 Taylor Swift can't help but laugh about her feud with Kanye West.
00:13 During the Saturday night Seattle stop of her Aeros tour over the weekend,
00:18 the 33-year-old singer surprised the audience and performed her song "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things"
00:24 from her Reputation album, which is widely believed to be about her beef with the rapper
00:30 and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
00:32 After singing the line "Here's to you, 'cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do,"
00:37 Taylor let out a huge chuckle and the crowd cheered along.
00:40 Here's to you, 'cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do.
00:49 [laughter]
00:53 The Karma songstress then paused to recover and said one last thing alluding to how the song
00:59 and the situation still gets to her and makes her laugh.
01:02 [cheering]
01:14 I'm gonna say it with a straight face.
01:17 This is why we can't have nice things.
01:21 Taylor's laugh and poignant line are both featured on the original recording of the song
01:25 from her 2017 album, which came on the heels of a fresh dust-up in her feud with Kanye.
01:32 In 2016, the 46-year-old rapper released his song "Famous," where he says he made the "Love Song"
01:37 singer quote "famous" and referred to her as a quote "that b*tch" in the lyrics.
01:43 Kanye claimed at the time that he had Taylor's permission to mention her in the song,
01:47 which she denied.
01:48 Then the Skim's founder, who was married to Ye at the time, released a recording of the
01:52 conversation, in which Taylor apparently does say the lyrics are okay, and called the singer
01:57 a quote "snake" on social media, tweeting on July 17, 2016, "Wait, it's legit national snake day?
02:05 They have holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days."
02:09 With a million snake emojis.
02:11 Taylor then embraced the snake label and used snakes in her tour and promotional imagery
02:16 for her Reputation release and tour.
02:19 Nothing and no one can stop the "Bad Blood" singer though, as she kicked off her heiress
02:22 tour back in March, and has been delivering an epic three-hour concert, stop after stop,
02:28 ever since.
02:29 Taylor has always put a lot of thought into her work as a way to give back to her fans.
02:33 Access Hollywood's Scott Evans spoke to her back in November 2021 at the premiere of her
02:38 short film "All Too Well," and she explained why she loves planning things secretly for her fans.
02:45 "And you woke up and chose violence today with this suit. I see you lady, I see you. Come on now.
02:50 I mean you have to, listen, violent velvet, right? Violence. But then when you hear the fans
02:58 singing the song, it's really got my heart expanding. Right? It's insane. I love them so
03:04 much and this, that's what all this is about. Like, I'm just so glad they're having fun. I just
03:09 want them to have fun this week. Yes. Because they filled my life with a lot of fun. Joy and
03:14 everything. Tell me, singing these songs this time around, right? I've heard you say that you
03:20 cried through a lot of the press the first time you were promoting "Red," right? Like it was tough.
03:26 Yeah.
03:26 And now, right? And now I wonder when you were back in the studio singing the songs this time,
03:32 did you have that same feeling or were you kind of in a different headspace?
03:35 I think recording it, really it was going back and trying to create as authentic a replica of
03:44 the originals as I possibly could. With songs on the original album, I wanted them to sound
03:50 exactly alike. Then with the vault tracks, I wanted to be as creative as I possibly could.
03:56 So these are songs that no one's heard before, so I wanted them to be the best version.
03:59 These are the first impressions of these songs. So they're singing so loud. I love them so much.
04:04 It's so good, right?
04:05 It's beautiful.
04:06 Okay, so this song is one of, like everybody talks about it being one of their favorites.
04:11 You did a 10-minute short film. It's like written and directed by... Okay. How did it feel
04:18 to be on that set knowing that this was a story that you were going to tell,
04:23 mainly to be a gift to all of these people who've made it something so special?
04:27 Oh, it really just was wonderful because when you have a secret,
04:30 like I love planning things secretly for them because they're so rewarding. They do this.
04:36 Right. They show up.
04:37 They do this. And like it's so rewarding to surprise. I can't believe they care that much
04:41 honestly still.
04:42 Okay, listen, they care a whole lot. I've been online looking at some of the Easter egg and
04:46 the connections that they've made. The one that killed me was Dylan and Sadie's age difference.
04:51 They were like, "Okay, no, there's a secret somewhere in there. There's a secret somewhere
04:55 in there." Are they reading too much into?
04:57 They are. They're the best detectives in the world. I love watching their theories too.
05:02 I love looking at... I like scroll TikTok, like watching their theories so often all the time.
05:08 Oh, I love that.
05:09 So I love to just watch what they come up with because they're brilliant.
05:13 And also sometimes I'm very into numerology.
05:15 Sometimes they find things I didn't even plan.
05:20 Really?
05:20 Math.
05:20 Okay.
05:22 95% of the time I'm planning it, but there are some times when they're like,
05:26 "The math." And I'm like, "Oh my God, the math."
05:30 I did.
05:30 [Music]